Talk:Squidward's Suicide/@comment-24835069-20140419061200

This is my 1st time rating a pasta. I'm new here and know I may have a different opinion later on after reading more stories, and then may come back and update some of these 1st reviews. This pasta has 2 parts IMO, the story and the video, I'll rate each. The story I'd rate 8/10, I can imagine scarier things, but it is very creepy! The "hyper-realistic" bit annoyed me slightly because 1. the word was overused and 2. It's inaccurate, if the video above is any indication. Those definately are NOT real-looking eyes! If you took away the rest of the pic and saw the "eyes" without context, they'd likely resemble a pair of suns more than anything. As to the "dead children" thing, it does seem a bit random and tacked-on, as if the writer tried to mash 2 unrelated creepy stories into 1. It does make the story scarier though (I'd give it 7/10 without that element). But I'm not sure if the backdrop of Squidward's Suicide (a scary 1 all by itself) helped the "semi-subliminal evidence of child-murder accidently caught on tape of real children's cartoon" story, or if it would've been better to let that pasta have it's own spotlight to shine in, against the (all the more contrasting) backdrop of a normal, happy episode (I have some ideas for that, if we are allowed to write "derivitive works"). The gore factor didn't really bother me, I did actually feel a little nauseated at 1 point, but suspect that had more to do with the fact I'd gone too long without eating. I like fictional gore  though, realize not all do. Overall  this was both scary and sad, more the former than  the latter. As opposed to Dead Bart, which I find more sad than scary, and don't like as much.