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TKA001 Since: May, 2010
02/14/2012 09:21:27 •••

Hate to say it, but it wasn't worth it.

I watched the entirety of the series as it is on the TJA Projects channel; I haven't seen past that, but I feel no motivation to.

This series looked promising at the beginning. The two protagonists seemed like they would be engaging, especially the sidekick Amy, and it looked like it was going to be something not really seen before; exploring Slendy's hobby of abducting children from the perspective of a mother sounded pretty cool, and the whole "handprint" thing that happened early was sorta creepy. But it just... seemed to fall apart. The story became sluggish, and not only was it not very scary, but I didn't get the impression that there were many points where it even tried to be scary or suspenseful. Most of the instances of physical struggle bored rather than excited me. The blind girl minion ("Sight", I think she's called) pretty much failed to be interesting because she is seen a few times, then we get her "implied" backstory literally read to us by TJ (hint: two reasons Masky, HABIT, Observer, and the other non-Slendy villains from other series worked is that we don't learn a lot about them at once; and that they do things which have lasting consequences in the story).

TJ's kid getting abducted went nowhere, as well: she disappears, then TJ follows some notes that are clues, then she gets her back, and that's basically the end of the arc. The crossover with 5zer02 was slightly interesting, but not in the good way, because it made me want to watch that instead because its characters' hammy acting appeared more entertaining than TJ's sheer sluggishness. I kept watching entries even after it started to get dull, in the hopes that it would pick up again; I think the single video where I knew for sure that it was going to go downhill was the one where they shoehorn in a shower scene. And even then I still kept on to make sure. And, of course, Evan's cameo appearance served only to remind me that unlike EMH, TJA Projects (for all its ambition) just doesn't have it. But at least it failed while trying to do something great - that can't be said for some other ones.


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