TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[The Third Man]

"L'chaim, fatass."

[IMADreamer]

Who watched Episode one of Cosmos? I'm ready for the next one.

[ghostrunner]

Apparently TD finale crashed HBOGO. This sucks.

[33anda3rd]

Don't read this if you haven't seed the TD finale yet, you'll be mad maybe....

[SHOW]

And in the end, Marty says "Last thing I remember was saying my friend's name", and then we get a scene where they have a moment where the nihilist doubts his nihilism. So much more satisfying than if Maggie's dad was the Yellow King or whatever. We've known for a couple weeks who the killer is. Act 3 was just the friendship.

So [expletive] great. So satisfying on a gut emotional level.

[Vidor]

Apparently TD finale crashed HBOGO. This sucks.

Message: get cable.

[Vidor]

Who watched Episode one of Cosmos? I'm ready for the next one.

I have to cut through the whole Sagan show before I move on to Tyson, so I'll probably be a couple of weeks.

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.

Episode 3 starts with a picture from Mars that I am pretty sure is from one of the rovers, either Spirit or Opportunity.

[Cole Burns]

True Detective. So great! So creepy and so satisfying in the end. That was a perfect ending.

Here's Luke Oneil waxing poetically for the final time about the show. He ends up being a hollow voice shouting into an empty well now that the show is done. To answer him, yes we were trolled. But we wanted to be. And Nic gave us so many side roads and clues to have fun with. It was a meta-adventure is what it was. With a True Detective story at the center from start to finish. The story was Rust and Marty and if you chased too hard after the Yellow King you totally missed it.

[ghostrunner]

Apparently TD finale crashed HBOGO. This sucks.

Message: get cable.

The cons outweigh the pros too heavily. Anyway, it's one show.

[Arthur Dent]

Who watched Episode one of Cosmos? I'm ready for the next one.

I have to cut through the whole Sagan show before I move on to Tyson, so I'll probably be a couple of weeks.

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.

Episode 3 starts with a picture from Mars that I am pretty sure is from one of the rovers, either Spirit or Opportunity.

In the last episode polemic on nuclear weapons, a news clip about 9/11 was cut in, and I noticed several other "updates" besides. I don't get this at all. To me, it's completely destructive.

[33anda3rd]

[SHOW]

Regarding the investigation, the whodunit, this show could not possibly have been more direct. Tuttles, Spaghetti face, dishonest cops, Reginald LeDoux. They did not once steer the audience away from anything, and more often than not named those responsible far earlier in the narrative than another show would.

Regarding trolling, the Maggie's Dad thing is a good example. He disapproved of Marty. When Maggie left, and her dad was on the phone with Marty he got to say to Marty what he'd wanted to say the whole time he was married to his daughter: "you're no good, Marty, don't call here again." Maggie's dad existed in the show for like 120 seconds so that very small bit of the story could be set up and delivered. It's not trolling the audience to put that in there, because it's such a big piece of the pie for the character of Marty. What people wanted to read in to it (basically: he's rich, he must be involved) is just them trolling themselves. NP gave us no reason to suspect Maggie's dad. The side roads were fun for people who wanted to pore over the show as much as possible, but I hope those people did have the real story lost on them while they were trying to rationalize crazy theories.

This show is about how hard it is to be both a cop and a human. It's about a guy who wrecks his personal life because he's out of control. And in the center of it all it's about a guy with pure atheistic narcissism as a guiding ethos who begins to doubt his lack of faith. He's just unreliable enough as a narrator because of all the hallucinating that we could argue that what Rust had at the end was just another hallucination. There's the 100-page Reddit thread: did he die and begin to ascend to heaven or another form of religious afterlife, or did he hallucinate it while comatose?