Clarification About the Stan Frederick Reboot

Hey guys, so I'm back on this OOG blog -- and much like Stan Frederick I've deleted all the old posts because they're really not relevant anymore. I'll update here whenever I think it's necessary, though not nearly as frequently as I was with the original series.

I'm making this post primarily to address something brought up on the unFiction forums recently; as you probably know, I check the forums regularly now that The Record of Stan Frederick has started back up again, full-swing, and a string of comments left by user Lithp was both curious and questionable about the reasoning behind my rebooting the series in general. Despite the fact that I've been updating on these things constantly on Twitter, I do realize that not everyone watches my stuff past the actual series, so I'll do my best to echo that stuff here because, I do believe that Lithp is right to be a little off-put by the decisions made now -- and before.

Is this like a complete reboot, or is it a continuation of the old series, or what's going on?

This was of course already answered by other users, but it doesn't hurt to embellish a little; Yes, it is both. The Record of Stan Frederick does accept most, if not all of the original series as canon to its existence, but it does not require you have seen the original series to understand it. Matter of fact, and you're hearing this from me personally, I prefer you skip the original series. There were plenty of things I was okay with in StanFrederickBTS, but the most prevalent things were the ones that I would rather do my best to ignore or at least not highlight too much in the reboot. Season 1's lack of writing (Like, I did none. At all.) led to a twist that left me hectically trying to pick up the pieces after Season 2 started. Even now I'm satisfied with how I concluded Season 2 despite the missteps, but those missteps are huge ones to just forget about.

I must admit, the reason why I'm so far behind is that I really didn't like the big retcon of the 2nd season. I didn't see anything wrong with the story prior to the plot twist, and the things that motivated me to follow the series suddenly weren't there anymore. Then the reboot happened, & now I'm wondering if I shouldn't continue OR drop, but instead just skip straight to the new series.

This is insanely important, and it's the reason why this blog post is being made. I want to be clear and front with any and all people that were even remotely enjoying this thing to start with: I was not. There was no writing. No planning. Just idea after idea, all of which made this entire thing less and less cohesive. It wasn't the story I wanted to tell. The second season, despite being given the daunting task of fixing all the problems I started in Season 1, was closer to what I wanted, but was bogged down by all those missteps.

And now, we have the reboot.

While acknowledging the events of the first two seasons sparingly, those events are used mostly as ways of informing Stan as a character; he's been doing the Slenderverse stuff for a long enough time to be considered a veteran of sorts, and most of the trauma and pain from those events do carry over, but are masked by his sarcasm and wit. That's what I want to do with this reboot: make a character-centric story that happens to have monsters in it, sometimes. If that's what you or others want to see, I invite you to stick around. If not, no harm, no foul. I just want to apologize for never fully explaining all of this, because it's insanely important and without it, everything just becomes a confusing mess.

Thanks to everyone for expressing interest at all. Hopefully I've made something here that's worth watching. Time will tell!