What ACTUALLY Happened in Silent Hill || A Full Narrative Analysis

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  @themidnightsnow · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  [CORRECTIONS]<br>- (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=176">2:56</a>) &quot;Exegesis&quot; and &quot;eisegesis&quot; are not concepts exclusive to Christian apologetics, it is just where I am most familiar with them and made the assumption. They are hermeneutical concepts that can be applied to many kinds of texts outside of a religious context.<br>- (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=238">3:58</a>) In reference to TGM’s video, Team Silent was a real developer group within Konami, but many members changed around per game and were not unified under a singular vision.<br>- (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=3827">1:03:47</a>) (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=5200">1:26:40</a>) I dubiously conflated Alessa&apos;s innate power with the manifestation of her nightmare in some places. While Alessa&apos;s innate power amlified her nightmare invading reality, they are separate phenomena. <br> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=5258">1:27:38</a>) The Midwich map is oriented 90 degrees clockwise, so my compass directions are incorrect.<br>- (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=4110">1:08:30</a>) Snow is likely not a manifestation, but the temperature change is. Fog is not a manifestation.<br>- Subtitles are fixed.<br>- (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=6152">1:42:32</a>) It is unclear when Alessa&apos;s nightmare began spilling out in full. Whether the nightmare invaded before or after she merged with Cheryl is unknown, but considering Lisa&apos;s experience (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=4588">1:16:28</a>), it is more likely before, but not by much as Lisa and Kaufmann both claim the nightmare invaded very recently (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=4045">1:07:25</a>). This may account for Cybil&apos;s phone call (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtkfD8hgbc&amp;t=6372">1:46:12</a>) and subsequent abandonment of her motorcycle occurring before Alessa caused Harry&apos;s car to crash.<br>- I forgot to credit the Silent Hill Level Viewer! Fixed in the description.<br>- I am very broke. Maybe help me out on Patreon?<br><a href="https://patreon.com/themidnightsnow">https://patreon.com/themidnightsnow</a>

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  @SaintKuro · 2 years ago

  Babe, wake up, another small channel I don&apos;t know about just uploaded a feature length video about Silent Hill again

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  @Accurately_Kaine · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s always the small content creators that put out the best Silent Hill feature length videos that need far more recognition

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  @dokidash7052 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve been watching essays on Silent Hill for like 15 years, so you bet your ass I&apos;m gonna watch another essay that is over 2 hours long.

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  @shybie2798 · 1 year ago

  You gotta love Harry, such a devoted father who would cross hell itself to get back his daughter and it&apos;s even more impressive knowing hes not biologically related to Cheryll, he just loves her so much. He had his doubts when he was raising Heather, who cpuld blame him tho? He went through something no other human can comprehend or even understand and not even sure if the baby he got from Alessa is even 100% human. But what made him so great is that despite it all. He still loved Heather. He loved his daughter(s). A true and very noble father through and through.

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  @redacted7989 · 2 years ago

  It seems as if the silent hill games really spoke to a specific slice of our generation. <br>We all grieve at some point in life, and have to make sense of events that we don&apos;t understand. These games oddly enough sorta gave us a frame of reference for the absolutely trash world we&apos;d be trying to navigate as adults. <br><br>God love y&apos;all, stay safe out there.

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  @SwedBaben · 1 year ago

  To me Alessa is a saint, she is entirely good, because if she sacrificed herself to stop the ritual from being completed, she gave her life to stop evil from entering this world. Cheryl is half of Alessa, and Cheryl is also entirely good. And even when she is bonded to the evil god, she still protects those she can.

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  @TheArmiece · 1 year ago

  This was really, really good. I just wanted to say I appreciate the last thing you said about Alessa; I have always disliked how she was characterized in the post &apos;Team Silent&apos; works. In the end, she was a child going through things more horrid than anything the adults of the series ever experience. And after all that, she can still show love. It&apos;s a remarkable testament to her true strength.

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  @DoodGitGud · 1 year ago

  I shit you not brother, when I started watching this, my 4 year old daughter started watching too and for some reason she wasn&apos;t afraid and rather intrigued. She even asked me if I played this when I was a kid of which I said yes. A lot of thought and effort went though this so great job!

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  @TheZoobZoobs · 2 years ago (edited)

  That was a magnificent piece man. SH1 and SH3 hold a special place for me among all the titles, especially because to me, Harry is the epitome of a true father. Alessa&apos;s wish all her life was having a parent that would love her, and despite all of her efforts, Dahlia never loved her nor ever saw the error of her ways. Yet, Harry, a slight built man whose only occupation is being a writer fought through hell and back to save his little girl. This willingness to even face a demon god just to save Cheryl, I always thought, is why Alessa decides to reincarnate back into the world as a baby despite knowing nothing but horror and misery; because her other half knew joy and happiness in the embrace of Harry, and she at long last, as you aptly put it at the end, had the one thing Dahlia would not give her: Love.

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  @tysongoudie6158 · 1 year ago

  I’ve seen a lot of these multi-hour silent hill breakdowns but this one really takes the cake imo. I love the black and white flashbacks you show that tie together all the different parts of the story. They show moments of foreshadowing I’ve never noticed before

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  @bertramusb8162 · 1 year ago

  I have watched (and loved) a lot of these deep dives into SH1 - but I think this one takes the cake. &nbsp;<br><br>You avoid repetition aside from when making new points or circling back to ask another question. &nbsp;You really dig deep to ask questions, avoiding spending much time on the obvious or over hashed.<br><br>You are underrated and I&apos;m hooked

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