TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[go birds]

I'm beginning to think that this case in true detective won't even be wrapped up with this last episode. I think the cliffhanger will be the death of Marty and rust since they aren't returning. But idk there just seems like there is a lot to cover in one episode.

[ghostrunner]

Should we be fishing for clues in the soundtrack?

Yes, I know it's ridiculous, Vidor. And 33.

It is, but the song choice for a scene isn't random either.

This angle on TD is a little overplayed. Almost nothing is random on most tv shows, dramas in particular. Good dramas even more so. People just seem to be picking things over with a fine toothed comb on TD. The whole thing about the flower painting at Marty's house being the same as the wall at the asylum - it seems almost impossible that's any sort of clue regarding the mystery. More likely it's a production designer either trying to carry over something thematically from one scene to another (hard to see what that might be), or it could be as simple as re-using as unloaded an image as possible for scene decoration. The busted taillight is another, though to be fair the show did draw attention to it.

Speaking of hints, I keep hearing this idea that a supernatural influence may be involved with the murders, and supposedly this has been hinted at. I'm aware of the literary influences, but I haven't seen any evidence or reason to think such a thing might be the case.

Edit - not saying you're overplaying it lipp, and not trying to be a killjoy. I just I think people go overboard with the praise for this show, and that brought it to mind. Though as you say, that's part of the fun for some people.

[33anda3rd]

HBO is airing a 36 hour Deadwood marathon this weekend.

HBO Signature is playing one a night for a while.

If you've never seen Deadwood, then seriously.

[Cole Burns]

Almost nothing is random on most tv shows, dramas in particular. Good dramas even more so. People just seem to be picking things over with a fine toothed comb on TD.

I was trying to figure out what the "Big Hug Mug" meant and decided it meant nothing. Then I learned the word "Hugger Mugger" which means confusion or secret. Made me say "Ah-ha!" So I googled it and and found out that the mug was just one of several that a production guy had laying around and was chosen sort of at random.

Speaking of hints, I keep hearing this idea that a supernatural influence may be involved with the murders, and supposedly this has been hinted at.

It's very odd that we had one episode where Cohle has visions...and then nothing is said of it after that. Nothing. Were we supposed to chalk it up to his past drug use? Or will it make a quick comeback in the finale? So many plot threads left dangling and I'm sure they won't tie all of them up.

[ghostrunner]

Almost nothing is random on most tv shows, dramas in particular. Good dramas even more so. People just seem to be picking things over with a fine toothed comb on TD.

I was trying to figure out what the "Big Hug Mug" meant and decided it meant nothing. Then I learned the word "Hugger Mugger" which means confusion or secret. Made me say "Ah-ha!" So I googled it and and found out that the mug was just one of several that a production guy had laying around and was chosen sort of at random.

Speaking of hints, I keep hearing this idea that a supernatural influence may be involved with the murders, and supposedly this has been hinted at.

It's very odd that we had one episode where Cohle has visions...and then nothing is said of it after that. Nothing. Were we supposed to chalk it up to his past drug use? Or will it make a quick comeback in the finale? So many plot threads left dangling and I'm sure they won't tie all of them up.

Yeah, I don't think that spiral of birds for instance was anything more than him hallucinating and/or imagining.

Funny you bring up that mug. Someone posted a screenshot on reddit of that same mug in Arrested Development, which is a comedy that dropped all kinds of hints about stuff that was going to happen later. Iirc, there are about 4-5 subliminal hints in preceding episodes that one character was going to lose a body part in the future.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

thanks, luke.

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[go birds]

pretty funny

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[33anda3rd]

It's very odd that we had one episode where Cohle has visions...and then nothing is said of it after that. Nothing. Were we supposed to chalk it up to his past drug use? Or will it make a quick comeback in the finale? So many plot threads left dangling and I'm sure they won't tie all of them up.

There was a visual note last week, when he is recalling what he's been up to to Marty, says he thought he was losing his mind, they show him breaking into Tuttle's house and then there are three Rusts in the house, kinda trippy, then he finds his moment of clarity so to speak when his flashlight hits the safe.

[Vidor]

The new "Cosmos" debuts on Sunday. Nat Geo is rerunning the 1980 original and I'm recording every episode.

[Arthur Dent]

The new "Cosmos" debuts on Sunday. Nat Geo is rerunning the 1980 original and I'm recording every episode.

Somebody seems to have monkeyed with it. In the Persistence of Memory episode, the bit on computers has been updated with images from the mid nineties and a comment about the quantity of neurons in the brain has been clumsily edited to correct the number. Lame.