True Detective Season 1 (NO SPOILERS)

[BigSteve]

Nic Pizzolatto is from the South and spent time in Texas and I think Oklahoma. I think you're on to something. This story might be season 2's inspiration.

Lot lizards going missing and getting killed was a big deal. There was a huge backlash by the trucking industry because it made them all look creepy.

 

[jay211]

Lot lizards going missing and getting killed was a big deal. There was a huge backlash by the trucking industry because it made them all look creepy.

Crazy, my nig. I think you stumbled on to something. That shyt would make an incredible season 2 story arc. Since Pizzolatto is from the South, I really think this might be a story he pulls from. Great find.

 

[hex]

Cmon man, cmon. You haven't sonned anybody other than in your own mind. Just because people quit arguing with you doesn't mean you won, it just means they got bored. Your narrative is constantly shifting and it is time consuming to constantly have a back and forth. We all know your reputation for riding hard for shows, so at some point we just have to sit back and let you have the last word so we can move on with our online lives.

It's like the Rust vs. Marty parking lot fight.

Again, you're late to the thread and have no idea what you're talking about.

Half the people dapping each other on some "he changed what he said!" were people that tried to map out what would happen, was wrong, and caught feelings over it. Which I never did. I never sat there like "OMFG Rust fukked Maggie, the character is ruined" because I had it in my mind what the character should do.

Again, this is what I said earlier in the thread:

I dunno what predictions you read but I haven't said much about this show in terms of "I bet this happens!".

And I dunno why you'd look stupid if you said "this might happen", anyway.

Now, if you went into the conversation on some "I guarantee it'll unfold like this" and then broke down wallpapers and what color dress a character was wearing, then that's on you.

So nah, it's not the same thing.

Fred.

 

[Bboystyle]

I just hope they stick to cases like these. shyt they can tie this case up with next season and make it an international case with the catholic church being tied in.


Just plz plz dont steer into your typical crime TV drama show. This did not have that vibe at all.

 

[Bboystyle]

I heard little prince too

it wasnt. Closed Captions said so....


"little priest"

 

[Type Username Here]

Yeah, I've kinda prepared to have this show have a "regular" ending.

I kind of hope that it does. The show doesn't have to be wild, action-packed, and outrageous to me. I like it for the character depth, acting, cinematography and dialogue between characters, and if the ending meets any of those qualities than it would be okay with me.

This was from a month ago.

My Criteria for the finale was met. A little too cliche at parts but I don't think cliche automatically means bad. I think them both surviving was not cliche at all.

Wish we had an episode solely to focus on Errol. The beginning of the finale where they focus on his character was too damn good.

 

[Bboystyle]

Between his crying in the hospital bed with his family

Man u can just see the emotions in his face like "ya'll have no fukking clue what i seen or been through and here i am still alive"



GOAT acting right there.

 

[GoldenGlove]

I thought he came full circle (themes of circles all season) from pessimism to optimism. His last line spoke volumes. Marty said that that the darkness in the sky had most of the territory. Rust said that Marty was looking at it all wrong, and that it used to be all darkness (nothingness before the big bang) but that the light is winning and gaining traction.

Rust's experience in almost dying caused him to feel the energy of his dead loved ones, and even though he was ready to let go and embrace the darkness, I think Rust may see a glimmer of hope for the first time in a long time, and I think he will try to find some meaning in this life.

That may be wrong, but on Pizzolatto echoed similar statements, as have some others here. I think Rust's character arc was completed in death (literal in the near death experience and figurative in feeling the warmth of a possible afterlife). Then Rust was "reborn" so to speak, no longer believing there is nothing to this world, with nothing to live for.

The fukk, the last quote he said was "if you ask me, light's winning", it actually sounds like he is optimistic for once.

I understand that... I was just looking at what he was saying as him now believing that his loved ones were waiting for him in the afterlife and now that he knew that, he didn't mind dying. He actually sounded upset that he lived through what had happened. I don't know, we all interpret things differently I guess.

 

[3Rivers]

Man u can just see the emotions in his face like "ya'll have no fukking clue what i seen or been through and here i am still alive"

EXACTLY

Like he didn't realize how much living and his broken family meant to him until that moment

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Dope show ..too bad its over. The finale was cool..the end in the hospital parking lot was kinda meehhh but doesn't take away from a great series. Nice job again HBO.

 

[hex]

I just hope they stick to cases like these. shyt they can tie this case up with next season and make it an international case with the catholic church being tied in.


Just plz plz dont steer into your typical crime TV drama show. This did not have that vibe at all.

Nah Pizzolatto said they can do any crime based story. It could be a master thief vs a Sherlock Holmes type character, etc. Any era, any kind of characters, etc.

Fred.

 

[ineedsleep212]

As straightforward as the finale was, I still feel like a lot of the theories people had were left still plausible. We got the character-specific realizations and the killer was caught, while still leaving some mystery and supernatural quality to leave us wondering more. We as the audience couldn't help, but play detective ourselves and a lot of what's theorized still has some merit. Giving us an ending and not all at the same time.

Fantastic season. HBO.

 

[Bboystyle]

This is my favorite picture from the entire series. I died laughing when the detectives showed this to Marty. Someone needs to make Rust's expression a smiley. It's almost as good as :rustcohle:

Yo breh, that young dude in the green shirt to the far right looks like a reptilian almost breaking his human form.

 

[Big Mel]

Yeah. Matt is hands down the coolest white man on earth right now. I eve

Now my 2 cents.

No offense to anybody but it seems like 90% of the people that have problems with the finale, didn't understand the type of story they were being told. It's the same shyt with Rust. People misinterpreted the character. That should be blatantly obvious now, given the last scene.

And t's not on some "this story is so deep you don't get it!". More like, I tried to tell cats this was a Lovecraft story 50+ pages ago. I literally said "there will be little to no resolution" and "they will stop the lawnmower cat, but the cult will largely be unaffected by it".

Am I that smart?. No, I just knew what type of story was being told.

In these types of stories the universe is at best indifferent, at worst downright malicious to it's heroes. They aren't owed anything in these types of stories. Least of all resolution or victory.

As much as Pizzolatto name-dropped Liggoti and Lovecraft I'm shocked Marty and Rust are still alive. So the complaint of "well, they didn't resolve the larger cult issue" is

So yeah....I loved the finale. Would it have been if Maggie got real close and whispered "welcome to Carcosa" in Marty's ear in the hospital...of course....but there was no way in hell any kind of off the wall twist was going to happen, given the framework of the story in the last 2-3 episodes. And if you notice, that's when "oh, this show fell off" started. I see critics (and people in this thread) talking about "oh, he decided on a conventional ending" like that's a bad thing.

Fred.

My main issue is how fukking palpable Rust's bleakness was throughout the entire joint, just utterly eviscerating the keep your head up and procreate crowd, only to have him end up on some hopeful, light is winning shyt. Undermined the whole performance to me.

 

[Ciggavelli]

I FINALLLY just got to watch this

brehs


MM better win that fukking award, Breaking Bad be damned...


I think watching this as one long 8 hour movie is the way to go. Those "slow" episodes would be even more poignant. I'm gonna marathon this one weekend. I think it's the way it's meant to be seen.


Great television. HBO