I followed the series up until Entry 43, then dropped it for two years. I've recently caught up on the series, with the last entry being #75 at the time of this writing.
Marble Hornets is an interesting series. The audio glitches are very well done, and the mystery is fascinating. It's also neat to see how the series develops, from a slow paced collection of creepy videos without context to a detective mystery driven by the previously unseen audience surrogate to the main character gaining a companion who can offer insight and physical assistence. But despite the many good things about it, I feel that it's length is starting to harm the series.
There are stretches in the series where it feels like nothing's truly being accomplished. Every answer is met with another question, which was the main reason I dropped the series for so long. A weakness of season 3 is that while the burned out buildings were very neat, it felt like the characters were exploring the same setting over and over again. Watching the videos in succession, I think the Nothing Is Scarier aspect of the Operator starts to backfire, because I realized how little he actually does anything. It got to the point where his appearances didn't frighten me because I didn't feel like the characters were in actual danger. I've come to find Alex the most menacing antagonist of the series, because he's openly psychotic and there's a very real chance he could kill someone.
What makes it hard to judge the series is that it's still ongoing. There's no way to tell how well everything will tie together, and what will end up being important and what will end up feeling like a waste of time. Of course, if you leave nothing about the mystery ambiguous you risk making it less scary, but if you don't answer anything then the story may become boring. Hopefully the ending will be as high quality as most of the series, but getting there is going to require a lot of patience.
Very good, but perhaps has gone on longer than needed
I followed the series up until Entry 43, then dropped it for two years. I've recently caught up on the series, with the last entry being #75 at the time of this writing.
Marble Hornets is an interesting series. The audio glitches are very well done, and the mystery is fascinating. It's also neat to see how the series develops, from a slow paced collection of creepy videos without context to a detective mystery driven by the previously unseen audience surrogate to the main character gaining a companion who can offer insight and physical assistence. But despite the many good things about it, I feel that it's length is starting to harm the series.
There are stretches in the series where it feels like nothing's truly being accomplished. Every answer is met with another question, which was the main reason I dropped the series for so long. A weakness of season 3 is that while the burned out buildings were very neat, it felt like the characters were exploring the same setting over and over again. Watching the videos in succession, I think the Nothing Is Scarier aspect of the Operator starts to backfire, because I realized how little he actually does anything. It got to the point where his appearances didn't frighten me because I didn't feel like the characters were in actual danger. I've come to find Alex the most menacing antagonist of the series, because he's openly psychotic and there's a very real chance he could kill someone.
What makes it hard to judge the series is that it's still ongoing. There's no way to tell how well everything will tie together, and what will end up being important and what will end up feeling like a waste of time. Of course, if you leave nothing about the mystery ambiguous you risk making it less scary, but if you don't answer anything then the story may become boring. Hopefully the ending will be as high quality as most of the series, but getting there is going to require a lot of patience.