Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
"Ya high yella bytch!" Wayne was hard-on-hoes personified.
Y'all notice the horror music at strange parts in the finale? Kept us thinking something fukked up was on the way. I interpreted it to mean that within Wayne's mind those moments were a horror story. The finale didn't show, it told, which is number 1 worst thing you can do. I feel like we will have to rewatch the show in order to really get the story. Ultimately this episode was about reconciliation: reconciliation with Roland, the case, Julie, Amelia and really his family (Henry and Becca). Now the case is solved and he can live the rest of his life as a granddad. I think what's haunting about the episode is we realize that Wayne himself was responsible for not stopping the bad things that happened, by being complicit in being reassigned. In essence, Wayne has to atone for walking away from the story--his sin and eventual salvation. In the end his wife had truly solved it but he was so bitter towards her and angry about himself that he missed it all. Roland told him in the episode that his pride was getting to him. The very last scene the end goes back to the beginning. Time is a loop. The eerie feeling that he was being watched was he himself re-living the story. And so it ends up being a story (his memories) that he must both remember and live at the same time.
Man the scenes were so powerful man in this episode. A couple of times I almost cracked
That scene with Roland sitting in the dirt with only the dog to console him was truly heartbreaking. Of course the dog is a stand in for Tom, and him crying was kind of his inability to say sorry. Essentially the dogs were projections of Tom in Roland's mind. He lived the rest of his life in pain, regret and sorrow for a man he tried to save and couldn't...and so what becomes important is caring for these stray dogs because they are the only way he can keep Tom's spirit alive, as well as love Tom from afar. Very sad, the case fukked up the rest of his life so that he never got married, had kids and little to no friends...and his best friend took 25 years to come back and say sorry. Him begging Wayne to say sorry during that scene on the porch was him expressing his pain over the break up. It really did come off like it would with an old ex girlfriend who cheated on you. I pointed out episodes ago that the writers were trying to depict their partnership as a deeper companionship between two friends. It's possible the scene at the very beginning with Roland trying to kill the fox really did foreshadow Roland's wish that Amelia hadn't come between him.
In the end this show was about a case that affected many people's lives for the better and worse. They gave us the answers about the Purcell case early on because though the case was important, reconciling with the way the case changed their lives is more important.
That's how I see it anyway
Y'all notice the horror music at strange parts in the finale? Kept us thinking something fukked up was on the way. I interpreted it to mean that within Wayne's mind those moments were a horror story. The finale didn't show, it told, which is number 1 worst thing you can do. I feel like we will have to rewatch the show in order to really get the story. Ultimately this episode was about reconciliation: reconciliation with Roland, the case, Julie, Amelia and really his family (Henry and Becca). Now the case is solved and he can live the rest of his life as a granddad. I think what's haunting about the episode is we realize that Wayne himself was responsible for not stopping the bad things that happened, by being complicit in being reassigned. In essence, Wayne has to atone for walking away from the story--his sin and eventual salvation. In the end his wife had truly solved it but he was so bitter towards her and angry about himself that he missed it all. Roland told him in the episode that his pride was getting to him. The very last scene the end goes back to the beginning. Time is a loop. The eerie feeling that he was being watched was he himself re-living the story. And so it ends up being a story (his memories) that he must both remember and live at the same time.
Man the scenes were so powerful man in this episode. A couple of times I almost cracked
That scene with Roland sitting in the dirt with only the dog to console him was truly heartbreaking. Of course the dog is a stand in for Tom, and him crying was kind of his inability to say sorry. Essentially the dogs were projections of Tom in Roland's mind. He lived the rest of his life in pain, regret and sorrow for a man he tried to save and couldn't...and so what becomes important is caring for these stray dogs because they are the only way he can keep Tom's spirit alive, as well as love Tom from afar. Very sad, the case fukked up the rest of his life so that he never got married, had kids and little to no friends...and his best friend took 25 years to come back and say sorry. Him begging Wayne to say sorry during that scene on the porch was him expressing his pain over the break up. It really did come off like it would with an old ex girlfriend who cheated on you. I pointed out episodes ago that the writers were trying to depict their partnership as a deeper companionship between two friends. It's possible the scene at the very beginning with Roland trying to kill the fox really did foreshadow Roland's wish that Amelia hadn't come between him.
In the end this show was about a case that affected many people's lives for the better and worse. They gave us the answers about the Purcell case early on because though the case was important, reconciling with the way the case changed their lives is more important.
That's how I see it anyway