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Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:54 am
by Ello Sailor
Anyway, Trag has the right idea. Let us never speak of this again.

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 4:05 am
by spike
middled aged men on the internet hate a show about female empowerment how shocking

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 4:06 am
by tree_
spike wrote:middled aged men on the internet hate a show about female empowerment how shocking
I hope you're not serious!

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 4:25 am
by Strat
Lol the magical hand print picked out amongst all the others led them to the right ending

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 4:36 am
by Mecca
tree_ wrote:
spike wrote:middled aged men on the internet hate a show about female empowerment how shocking
I hope you're not serious!
Spoke has fallen victim to the Matriarchy im afraid

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 4:50 am
by Mickey
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.
All of these things sucked though.

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 4:52 am
by Ello Sailor
The worst part of this season is that Mickey and Burt get to say I told ya so. :cry:

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 5:16 am
by Mecca
Ello Sailor wrote:The worst part of this season is that Mickey and Burt get to say I told ya so. :cry:
They were only like 1/4th right though

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 5:18 am
by Ello Sailor
True, and Burt hates everything, so...

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 5:46 am
by Anders
Looking forward to watching the new season, sometime this year.

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 11:48 am
by VinylGuy
Anders wrote:Looking forward to watching the new season, sometime this year.
Starring Dakota Johnson as a former actress whose career went downhill after a role she did not care about and now she has to find who picked it up for her.

Look for girl empowering 101 and strong hints to S1

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 11:58 am
by Anders
I'll be there for Jodie Foster.

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:14 pm
by Chris_H_2
i still hate the failure to account for all of the supernatural stuff going on (such as the lights going out in successive order when the young cop was riding with the two dead bodies in the back).

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:15 pm
by Chris_H_2
and i also didn't like the indignant jodie foster sounding like she was 80 years old.

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:16 pm
by Chris_H_2
but for the most part, it was fine. i was entertained for 6 hours.

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:32 pm
by epilogue
Chris_H_2 wrote:i still hate the failure to account for all of the supernatural stuff going on (such as the lights going out in successive order when the young cop was riding with the two dead bodies in the back).
I'm not sure that was supernatural. I think that was just the storm knocking out the power, no?

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:44 pm
by Bi_3
epilogue wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:i still hate the failure to account for all of the supernatural stuff going on (such as the lights going out in successive order when the young cop was riding with the two dead bodies in the back).
I'm not sure that was supernatural. I think that was just the storm knocking out the power, no?
It was metaphorically "the darkness chasing him"

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:51 pm
by epilogue
Bi_3 wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:i still hate the failure to account for all of the supernatural stuff going on (such as the lights going out in successive order when the young cop was riding with the two dead bodies in the back).
I'm not sure that was supernatural. I think that was just the storm knocking out the power, no?
It was metaphorically "the darkness chasing him"
Yes, that was the visual metaphor.

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:58 pm
by Chris_H_2
which is stupid

Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective

Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 4:00 pm
by epilogue
It's just one interpretation of a metaphor.