Talk:Slappy's Happy Mirror Maze/@comment-7706473-20131105090847

... I believe I speak for all of us when I say that clowns must be excised, banished, and purged.

More then feeling an innate fear of clowns, however, I've always felt they're absolutely depressing. I wouldn't mind writing a pasta about the life of an old circus performer, but the problem is even when writing one who is sympathetic, let's be honest - there's someting deeply and PRIMALLY unsettling about someone wearing exaggerated human features. It's like caricturatures in newspaper cartoons (something else I rather loathe) - only in human form.

My gut feeling was that Danny had taken the nose from the clown - the actual actor who portrayed Slappy, not some statue. Something had happened to him, and he was dead or incapacitated, and Danny being young and mischievious, he figured what the hell. Whether or not the actor went after him - maybe a little drunk, maybe beating him more then intended... it seemed a logical, human crime.

Then the ending came and I wasn't sure what to think - that uncanny semi-human feeling clowns seem to exude came back in full force. Urgh. Clowns... Erhmn. The weirdest part of this unsettlefest, is what happened to Billy?!.. I have no clue, and I'm not sure I *want* to know. This reminded me a lot of modern-era Weird Tales - there was no one jumping scare, but a lot of deeply unsettling/weird things - and that's how I like it, wahahaha!