No. I don't give a shyt about that. It's how it happened.
That shyt was lazy writing in my opinion. It also butchered the character's behavior.
I thoroughly disagree, but this is a point that was argued ad nauseum last week and I don't see anyone's mind's changing as far as that goes. A lot of people put a cape on Rust's back and turned him into a superhero in their ideal image. Unfeeling, unerring, infallible. Rust was supposed to be what they wanted him to be and they weren't going to deal with him not being that. You said this last week as far as what you didn't like/were expecting:
It would have been refreshing to see a purely philosophical approach to life that we haven't been presented with yet. It started as that but now it's approaching "been there, done that" territory.
You got wrapped up, just like a lot of people, into this mythical figure that is Rust.
That slip up exists in a vacuum when you take into consideration the characters behavior outside of that scene. What I have said is that Nic got lazy there in my opinion. It actually seems very obvious that it was plot advancement at the cost of a character's behavior.
This is a man consumed by a case, was able to formulate a plan to escape police/attacks in Episode 4 despite taking an insane amount of drugs, meticulous in decision-making as well as being told repeatedly throughout the show that he was able to read people and their intentions extremely well. So we take all the information provided to us there, and we get to throw it away for 20 seconds under the guise of "he's just human". As soon as he nuts, he goes back to behavior in the same manner for the rest of the years as he did before the sex.
It literally exists in a vacuum when you take into account the character we were presented.
It doesn't exist in a vaccuum. That scene wasn't out of character. The very first episode we see Rust has self control issues when he shows up drunk to dinner at Marty's house. He says, as far as why he ended up drinking so much, "I was sitting there and couldn't think of a good enough reason not to. Usually, I can." We know about his past with addiction. He'd shown an ability to confide in Maggie and they had a repore. All of Rust's superpowers of deduction and insight were always related to the case. He
is damn near perfect when it comes to work. That infallibility quickly starts to be stripped away when real life is staring him in the face. His partner asks him to come over for dinner to meet his family (which includes two daughters). He's completely out of his element and terrified at the prospect of sitting at this kitchen table with these little girls there and gets drunk: lack of control. He's suspended for a month after he ignores orders to stay away from Tuttle. He's off the job. He's drunk. Maggie comes over emotional and seduces him.
A lot of people hear shyt like "I only need to talk to someone for 10 seconds to know if they did it" and just run with it. Even if that's true, he's talking about investigations. We've seen time and time again that Rust is functionally retarded when it comes to relating to others on an emotional level. I don't think it's lazy writing to believe that a guy who has been written as nearly asexual the whole season would be clueless as to the motives of a disgruntled wife until that post nut clarity hit. And he didn't go back to behavior in the same manner for the rest of the years. He was working in a bar and getting drunk everyday, living an all around sedentary life and not consuming himself with a case or anything really.
You're upset and calling it lazy writing because you pictured him as a nihilistic/existential Clark Kent. Instead Pizzalatto gave you a human being. Granted a human being with a strong philosophical ideology that makes him damn near super human as a detective but human nonetheless. No human is going to be able to have a "purely philosophical approach to life".
you did and they still did it son
