The Official True Detective Scene

[Rich]

No one posted the preview for next week.

[video=youtube;PORrGrQrFtk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PORrGrQrFtk[/video]

We've obviously got someone new here. The voice is not one we've heard so either it's a brand new player or some guy we've known all along has been disguising himself.

 

[MD13]

Another thing to note about the final scene of episode 7 is that the two detectives first meeting with the lawnmower man mirrors the time 17 years earlier where Rust and Marty met him. Both had the main suspect in their sights and were even asking him some questions but they were pulled away chasing another lead in the case. Another instance of the "time is a flat circle" motif.

 

[Soda]

No one posted the preview for next week.

[video=youtube;PORrGrQrFtk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PORrGrQrFtk[/video]

We've obviously got someone new here. The voice is not one we've heard so either it's a brand new player or some guy we've known all along has been disguising himself.

Personally, I'm with you. It sounds like there is a real mastermind and the lawnmower, while definitely part of the cult, isn't the main culprit in this. I think that he's the only one without a mask, which would mean he's the only human figure who can be associated with the bad memories the children hold.

I just don't see this thick, slow seeming individual being the mastermind behind a cult encapsulating the richest families in Louisiana. A lemming in the practices, sure, but not near the actual villain.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Now this is really creepy. I was at my friend's house over the weekend and saw this on his kid's wall:

Check out the swirl patterns all around.

Yes, Scooby Doo is the Yellow King.

And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those dang kids.

 

[AZ_]

[video=youtube;pqy18zRDNBc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqy18zRDNBc[/video]

 

[Jack Brickman]

:chuckles:

 

[Jack Brickman]

Via Grantland, the Sacramento Kings shot chart:

 

[theSTEREO.]

Re watching the season right now.

Anyone ever notice that Danny Fontineaux (the little Fontineaux girl's uncle who was her guardian) was near catatonic years after her disappearance. His wife/sister said best they can tell it was a series of strokes.

Then when they interview Dora Lange's mom, just weeks after she's been murdered, she's getting blinding headaches.

Wonder if there is a connection...

 

[Rich]

My body is ready.

 

[Adam]

I can't help but get a sinking feeling they wont be able to resolve the story in the time. i really want to know about marty's daughter, what the weird wooden pyramids are for.

I hope its just not too disappointing, it has been so good, but they need to stick the landing

 

[QuadrupleDouble]

What a great show. I hope that it doesn't stop.

It'll be hard to follow up such a great season next time with a new set of characters and storyline.

 

[Jack Brickman]

What a great show. I hope that it doesn't stop.

It'll be hard to follow up such a great season next time with a new set of characters and storyline.

It will be hard to follow up, but I also think it's nice that the writer has no incentive to drag this story out over multiple seasons.

The real question is whether the ending can live up to the hype created by the first seven episodes.

 

[AZ_]

So...thoughts?

Spoiler

I honestly thought more would be answered in regards to the rest of the cult, and the episode offered no explanation of the potential involvement of Maggie's family.

First impression, I was pretty underwhelmed.

 

[Jack Brickman]

So...thoughts?

Spoiler

I honestly thought more would be answered in regards to the rest of the cult, and the episode offered no explanation of the potential involvement of Maggie's family.

First impression, I was pretty underwhelmed.

I'm not spoiler-tagging anything because, let's be real here, anyone who isn't caught up shouldn't be reading a thread discussing the show.

Yeah, I found it disappointing too. The conclusion with the lawnmower man in Carcosa was pretty awesome, but I just hated how they answered almost no question about the nature of the cult itself. Who were these people?

It kind of reminded me of Lost in that the show raised a shitload of questions and then answered almost none of them. I hate when shows do that, and this show particularly has no excuse because it was only ever planned to be an eight episode arc, meaning everything should have been planned out from the start and most, if not all, of the big questions should have been answered.

I will say I didn't mind the Tuttles getting away with it. That felt very real to life, where the bad guys often get to walk because they're the ones in power. I just didn't like that we found out almost nothing about the cult and Carcosa and why it seemed to be driving all of these people, even ones who weren't raped, batshit insane.

 

[QuadrupleDouble]

Him walking through that ruin was intense.

Like Woody said, it's not a perfect world, but they got their guy. Thought it was a great show overall.

Maybe, as this show isn't linear and won't have Woody and MMC on the next season, they might be other detectives going after the rest of the guys in the Tuttle clan that were involved.

I can't wait until next weekend so I can watch the whole thing again and get a better grasp of all the nuances that I might have missed.

I'm extremely interested in how the rest of this show pans out. What can they do to follow this up? How do they keep it going? Now that it's been a hit, they shouldn't have trouble recruiting some really solid actors that want to be involved in the project. I just hope they keep it going and it doesn't die here.