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Here's the link to the film, subtitled to English:

https://youtu.be/5j6VrTMUiDM?si=qgbv4fOuzlTBUY\_0

It should be clarified that I am fully aware of the film's reputation, not so much because it is bad, but because of how far removed it is from the concept of the original series. However, upon rewatching it, I realize that it maintains some of the narrative philosophies of the series, and I think it is very important to remember some of these because I believe they also apply to MH itself.

1- Operator Symbol.

Anyone who saw the Rant that Night Mind dedicated to the movie will know that one of the things he liked least was how the Operator symbol was handled. More than anything because it suddenly becomes a kind of personal signature of the Assassin instead of being more like something enigmatic. However, I must also remember that in the original series Alex was not the one who invented the Operator symbol; on the contrary, it was already present long before. Alex encountered him several times during the series before he even went crazy, and apart from that, we also saw him in the Rosswood series, which shows Alex without the Operator's influence for most of his life. This shows us that the symbol is much older than it seems; there are no historical levels, but yes, at least before everything that happened in the series, meaning Alex is only interpreting what he is finding. Even on some pages of the comic you can see how the trees form the operator's symbol, so it does seem to be something inherently tied to what could be the ark or the operator, but maybe it belongs to someone else, we don't know.

2- Source.

In the original series, it is mentioned that Alex believed he was the source of the entire infection; however, it is later revealed that Tim is the oldest infected person and that it is thanks to him that most of the series also became infected. While it is also debatable whether Alex was infected beforehand, given the recording of his birthday where the operator can already be seen, it is also important to point out that killing Tim would not have made any difference. No, not only because we know Alex was already insane by that point, but also because, using the reference film, it's shown that killing the Source serves absolutely no purpose. Milo thought that by committing suicide he would save his friends, and anyway, the Operator just possessed him as if nothing had happened, because the way to break free from the Operator's influence and the Ark isn't by destroying the Source, but by destroying an affected area—in this case...

3- Fire.

We know that one of the things that characterizes the ark is that it is wet; it is like a kind of huge lake or pond. Not only can we see Tim, from time to time, being transported to a gigantic body of water in the series, but also Hoodie, in the comics, being taken directly to the ark and having hallucinations inside this pond, but at the same time we are also given to understand that fire is a way of eliminating the influence that the ark put on an area. It's not for nothing that burning things is basically Alex's preferred way of getting rid of things, besides the fact that in the original series in the first season when Jake is in his apartment and it is shown that he has reached the point where he goes through a door and doesn't come out the other side or disappears in the middle of the night, his house is burned down shortly afterwards. We can also see this in the film, as the widow of the family manages to distance herself from the operator's influence, not by murdering her husband, but on the contrary by setting fire to her house, also suffering burn injuries herself, which effectively prevents the operator from having control over her, which is why she is still alive after so much time.

You could continue looking for connections such as the fact that the protagonists work on a news network, which could be connected to the series that the guys from Marble Hornets were making at the time, which is Clear Lakes 44. Or we could also show one of the many reasons why stopping recording Slenderman or the operator is stupid, because if you don't record you don't know what's happening (a thing that the movie portrayes very well with Milo's dog) Or even how several of the symptoms that the operator gives to Alex and Jay in the series also transfer to the film, such as irritability, lack of guilt, or the fact of obsessing compulsively about specific things.

But to make ir clear, I feel that those are the only things I can show that can really be carried over into the series because everything else feels more like tropes or just a form of self-reference.

I personally belive Morley Grove did a great job with it, but it's still only based on a few images, not the entire spectrum, and as a guy that didn't really like this incarnation of Slenderman, how would you use the OG Slenderman?

Note that what I mean by original myths is everything that excludes blogs and series like Marble Hornets or everymanHYBRID onwards.

Photos taken from the Nemesis Bloodryche video: What REALLY is the Slenderman?

I recently saw a chapter on PBS Digital Studios: Monstrum about King Kong, and OMG why is everything related to racism for those people?

I can understand the sexist claims, heck is one of those aspects of the movie that didn't aged well, but asuming the big ape represents people of other color... doesn't that looks WORSE?

Although I really like the third game and the story it tells as a sequel to the first, I have too much affection for the second game not to regret this decision, especially because I think this indirectly affected how the fourth game developed.