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epilogue wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

epilogue wrote:Yes

Then why was there no change in the station or it's staffing? No other companies or scientists research it? Armed guards like at the mine? It's a multi-trillion dollar discovery. Nothing else should have mattered at that point.

There were changes in staffing. I can't speak to the armed guards. The discovery needed to be kept under wraps because of the pollution angle. Bringing armed guards doesn't really seem to make sense on that level. Nor would armed guards have necessarily prevented Annie from finding the secret station via the ice caves.

Maybe none of that is how shit would go down "in real life." But this is a TV show. It's a heightened reality that begins with suspension of disbelief.

Also, it really feels like I'm further and further away from whatever your original point was.

Coach wrote:I am also responsible for how the drums sound on DM.

Coach wrote:I am also responsible for how the drums sound on DM.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Bi_3 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

epilogue wrote:Yes

Then why was there no change in the station or it's staffing? No other companies or scientists research it? Armed guards like at the mine? It's a multi-trillion dollar discovery. Nothing else should have mattered at that point.

There were changes in staffing. I can't speak to the armed guards. The discovery needed to be kept under wraps because of the pollution angle. Bringing armed guards doesn't really seem to make sense on that level. Nor would armed guards have necessarily prevented Annie from finding the secret station via the ice caves.

Maybe none of that is how shit would go down "in real life." But this is a TV show. It's a heightened reality that begins with suspension of disbelief.

Also, it really feels like I'm further and further away from whatever your original point was.

The point was that it used the whole "surprise you've been invested in the wrong elements of the story this whole time" trick as a crutch to create layer after layer of 'member-berry powered but ultimately pointless fluff around a plot that ends up no deeper that the median Law and Order episode because everything interesting about the story (hidden secrets of indigenous cultures, immortality, broader conspiracies and connected lore, etc.) was misdirection. It was almost like a satire of season one in that sense, in that it played on the viewer's expectations of what the spiral and Tuttle ultimately mean to the detectives encountering them as a way to trick the viewer into believing there was more here than there actually was.

tommy wrote:I enjoyed season 1 a lot, but I have this nagging feeling that it was actually an ok detective show elevated by Woody and McConaughey.

Mecca wrote:

tommy wrote:I enjoyed season 1 a lot, but I have this nagging feeling that it was actually an ok detective show elevated by Woody and McConaughey.

And the visuals; the narrative style; the light supernatural elements

The whodunnit of it was just a red herring to tell the story of two men on the wrong side of themselves coming to terms with their past and righting wrongs.

bodysnatcher wrote:By the time I got to the finale I had to google who Annie was to remind myself.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:By the time I got to the finale I had to google who Annie was to remind myself.

But you should have known because of the spirals.

Also, i still don’t quite understand what was going on with the tongue

Spoiler: show

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