True Detective Season 1 (NO SPOILERS)

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I tried to tell people a long ass time ago "The King In Yellow" has no clues regarding this show. That's why I was :russ: about the book suddenly flying up Amazon's best seller's list. Aside from the name itself and referencing Cassila's Song this show has zero ties to the play.

The King In Yellow, Carcosa, "black stars" etc. are great material for a creepy cult but the less we know about it the better. There is only vague references to it in the original fiction, anyway. I don't suspect "True Detective" will give it any kind of connective mythology.

But Pizzolatto needs to stop fronting. Acting like :ohhh:"I had no idea people would over analyze the show and look for clues". Breh you name dropped Bierce, Chambers, Lovecraft and cosmic horror several times in various interviews. Don't sit there and act surprised when people read too much into it.

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I agree with everything you said. It has to be one of the following (or maybe something I'm missing?):

A) He put in all this shyt to deliberately throw everyone off and he's making a point about the "detective's curse" and Marty's monologue in episode one. The audience is the detective.

B) His public comments are meant to purposefully deceive and there will be some connection

C) He's naive and honestly didn't see the reactions coming
 

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its kinda sad but i also like it..its a good length for someone as A.D.D. as me..gives me some hope that they can make a decent boardwalk empire sendoff :ld:
I'm gonna miss Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson characters like crazy, man. Idk if they can fill that soon-to-be void for me in season 2. On the other hand they deserve my trust
 

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She started going hysterical when she looked into Rust's face though, had me feeling some kind of way, I ain't even gonna lie
Yup. I said to my girl that him (Rust) asking her if he ("Giant") had scars on his face, and she said "his face", then it seemed like she was "seeing" Rust for the first time, and she started going crazy. It definitely crossed my mind , but I don't wanna believe that shyt, so I'm like :lupe:
she was reliving the experience because rust brought it back up. she said the guy was a "giant".
Yeah, it can easily be explained by the repressed memory coming back to the top, but the whole "giant" stuff can also be a result of her being drugged up, and hallucinating a bit.
 

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I agree with everything you said. It has to be one of the following (or maybe something I'm missing?):

A) He put in all this shyt to deliberately throw everyone off and he's making a point about the "detective's curse" and Marty's monologue in episode one. The audience is the detective.

B) His public comments are meant to purposefully deceive and there will be some connection

C) He's naive and honestly didn't see the reactions coming

I think B more than anything. Because he said something along the lines of, this is a straight forward story, don't wait for a "twist", but there has been several twists along the way. He spent 4 episodes selling a shoot out that never happened, for example. People expected that scene to be WW3.

Also the wellspring shyt, and the Tuttle Foundation. Marty's daughter possibly being involved somehow. The occult task force. Not corny M. Knight Shyamalan twists but twists nonetheless.

There is D also. He could just think the shyt sounded cool to build a serial killer/cult around. And it does. :manny:

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Yup. I said to my girl that him (Rust) asking her if he ("Giant") had scars on his face, and she said "his face", then it seemed like she was "seeing" Rust for the first time, and she started going crazy. It definitely crossed my mind , but I don't wanna believe that shyt, so I'm like :lupe:

Yeah, it can easily be explained by the repressed memory coming back to the top, but the whole "giant" stuff can also be a result of her being drugged up, and hallucinating a bit.
Didn't someone else refer to the yellow king as a giant too? can't remember.
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Yeah I know, just made me think. I don't think Rust is the "Yellow King" breh.

He might have killed Tuttle, but he's prolly being set up in regards to all of this
He probably did kill Tuttle, given how he reacted when Marty shot that dude in the face, it seems within character
 

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That's not the same thing. I said that in one post as a possible theory on how the season could play out.

The "Marty and Rust working together"shyt went on for multiple pages, with several people swearing that's what was happening. Even going so far as to say :krs: "I'll take a BAN if I'm wrong!".

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You taking shots at me now? I said I would take a ban if Maggie was innocent in this whole mess, Maggie is not that innocent but one thing I am guessing is that if Marty daughter went missing and that she disappeared because Marty got close to the case more than he let on by finding a clue that proved Rust was on the right track after all. Who knows maybe Rust got active after Maggie reached out to him to find her kid. 10 years is a long time not to solve that case and with his smarts and resources Rust should have. I'm thinking he really had been gone and only came back in 2010 to help them out.
 

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Yup. I said to my girl that him (Rust) asking her if he ("Giant") had scars on his face, and she said "his face", then it seemed like she was "seeing" Rust for the first time, and she started going crazy. It definitely crossed my mind , but I don't wanna believe that shyt, so I'm like :lupe:

Yeah, it can easily be explained by the repressed memory coming back to the top, but the whole "giant" stuff can also be a result of her being drugged up, and hallucinating a bit.
If we're going to keep all possibilities open... I'll keep that scene noted just in case. A lot of bullshyt would have to take place with these last 2 episodes for that to be a telling scene though.
 

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Matter of fact, I felt the affair between Rust and Maggie was lazy writing. Very convenient plot-advancing device that was below the standards set forth by the first 5 episodes.

It wasn't the act itself that was lazy, but the character's subsequent unraveling. If he had sex with her because of the nihilistic outlook, and it was an act of rational decision making, it would have been very in-line with the Rust of the previous 5 episodes. Nic took the easy way out on that one, and it was very cliche in my opinion.

I felt that way too.

The whole thing with Marty and Beth as well was simply too convenient.

Good episode, but definitely the weakest so far
 

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I'm gonna miss Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson characters like crazy, man. Idk if they can fill that soon-to-be void for me in season 2. On the other hand they deserve my trust
yeah man. I just don't know. Rust has become one of my favorite TV characters ever. I'm gonna be :sadbron:

I mean, we'll literally never see Rustin Cohle the gawd go on another philosophical diatribe or ever hit a cigarette again :to:
 

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Rust is not the damn yellow king. The girl was looking at rust the whole time until rust asked about the scars then the hell came back to her. She was on drugs then and I know that ward got her on some shyt now. She is catatonic and when rust kept asking all those repressed memories came rushing back......
 
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