spaciegirlreturn wrote:iamcool wrote:spaciegirlreturn wrote:If I weren't so busy hysterically laughing at Daniel's 'hood speak', I might be pissed that Op is being cramed down my throat.
is it that much of a big deal they are bringing op into it?
I don't know..is it? I do seem to recall being told that Op was not going to be required...that we'd be able to understand and follow what's going on without watching/participating in it. Another lie? Everyone seems pretty willing and eager to believe anything they're told around here..regardless of it's authenticity, so I guess it's not a big deal. Par for the course.
Why is it really a big deal, though, spacie? They made a mistake when they came out with that forecast (which itself seemed like a knee-jerk response to all the outrage that emerged when OpAphid was confirmed as canon). That's been apparent for a long time. Tachyon and OpAphid have been nearly required for months now.
Back in November or December, myself and a few other members had a discussion about this in Concerns and Complaints, and we -- somewhat harshly, I admit -- implored the Creators to acknowledge they'd made a mistake and to begin featuring the spy vids more prominently than they had been up to that point (because of how necessary they were becoming to understanding the story). Most fans on YouTube didn't even know about them.
After that, the Creators started making all the YouTube accounts link to one another, then they had Tachyon and Brother hijack Gemma's account. That put the spy vids in the spotlight more. Personally, I'm pleased that they acknowledged their mistake and have tried to make the best of it.
And, quite honestly, what would have been the point of the ARG side of things if it was irrelevant? I can't imagine most LG15 fans paying any attention to it if it had been revealed as entirely pointless.
nobackspacebutton wrote:The fact that he referenced Cassie and said that he did know her, did make me suspicious of him though. If he knew Cassie, why didn't he tell Bree that before? Was Daniel more involved and things than we really thought?
Obviously just another thing they made him say. I don't really see why that line should make us suspicious of him when he was obviously coerced or forced to say so many other off-the-wall things (such as "We have Daniel").
Sami wrote:What if Daniel is not drugged/brainwashed, but showing he's true self. What if the naive, nice and childish Daniel has been an act for all these months
I really don't think that would make any sense, for reasons I mentioned earlier:
I wrote:For one thing, he still refers to the Order like Bree knows it better than him ("I remember I had all these concerns about the religion you were into"). For another, OpAphid is plainly speaking through Daniel a few times ("We have Daniel," "Don't you want all this to be worth something?" and "Listen to your friend Daniel").
Most obvious of all, though, OpAphid is trying to coerce Bree into willingly taking part in the ceremony by using Daniel as leverage. Since Bree was originally going to do it of her own free will and Daniel stopped her, it wouldn't make sense for him to have been working for them.
By the way, he also says he hopes the Order will let him join. If this was Daniel "coming clean" then he would still be saying he isn't a member.
I think it's completely certain that he isn't part of the Order and never was. We'd have an incoherent plot if Daniel was really with them, not to mention a huge debacle that the Order would have been directly responsible for placing themselves in for months now. Heck, there wouldn't have been a need for Gemma at all had Daniel been with the Order.
house wrote:Watch the vid again. Pay particular attention to the "jumps" in editing. When Danial says stuff like "It's all good" or "That thing with your dad...*JUMP IN EDITING- watch his head*...It was just a misunderstanding. *JUMP IN EDITED- again, watch the head*...He wanted it to happen that way."
Daniel does not make one complete point, without EDITING. I think Op put him in front of a camera for a half hour and then EDITED this whole video to say what they wanted.
Another example:
"You know I had all these concerns about your religion, too. *JUMP IN EDITING* You know they're treating me great. *JUMP* They're good people.*JUMP* We have Daniel."
"You were gonna' do the ceremony last summer. *JUMP* It's all good. *JUMP*Just do the ceremony. *Jump* Now. *Jump*..."
I don't think Daniel ever said that whole speech, in that order.
I don't really think it would matter if he hadn't made the speech in that order, house. He's still talking in a way that isn't normal for him, and saying things that show he's brainwashed. Really, they wouldn't need to edit what he said to make it say something different if they already have enough control over him to make him say things like "I have new friends," "Yo girl, when we gonna hit up that ceremony?", "I think you should do the ceremony," "I'm going to try to join the Order," "They treat me better than you do," and "It's just a big misunderstanding. He actually wanted that to happen."
Not to mention that they made him refer to himself in the third-person on two occasions and made him profess love for P. Monkey and Owen. Clearly, Daniel didn't say any of that without being forced to. Especially the part about P. Monkey and Owen.
I think it's just jumpy editing because that's the way these videos usually are. Except for "Adventures in Babysitting" and "The Ends Justify The Means," I'm not sure of any that didn't use that style ("Lose Something?" doesn't really count since it's all CG).