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Re: True Detective

#226 Post by Pure Method » Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:28 pm

watching true detective and liking it

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Re: True Detective

#227 Post by Jasper » Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:17 pm

So, how many episodes until the overwrought bar songstress picks up a revolver and blows her brains out onstage? Someone should request "Shiny Happy People". :lol:

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#228 Post by Artemis » Wed Jul 01, 2015 5:02 pm

Jasper wrote:So, how many episodes until the overwrought bar songstress picks up a revolver and blows her brains out onstage? Someone should request "Shiny Happy People". :lol:
:lol: I thought this week's song was uplifting compared to the first episode.


A few questions and comments for anybody here...

Paul: I gather from this episode that he's gay but in the closet? Looks like there's a weird thing with the mother too.

The recurring shot of the freeway...the arterial roads criss-crossing, constantly moving, flowing in and out and around Vinci. What is the metaphor? :dunce:

In the depressing bar, I'm curious about the scar-faced waitress. Is she connected to any of this??

I found the opening scene with Vince Vaughn in bed kind of long winded.

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#229 Post by Jasper » Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:52 pm

I didn't really get that Chris Pratt's character is gay. Maybe he is. I thought he was mostly fucked up from something horrible that happened with whatever name they're using for Blackwater. I think they were calling it Black Mountain.

As for the freeway and such, I don't know what the metaphor is besides perhaps twisted, intersecting paths of lives, the twisted route to solving mysterious crimes, or some other crap like that. Caspar, the dead guy, was driven around in a car (with a stuffed bird) during most of the first episode. Way back when the first season had just ended Nic Pizzolatto said something about the occult history of the U.S. transportation system, but apparently he dropped that idea. In any case, it looks kind of neat.

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Re: True Detective

#230 Post by creep » Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:01 pm

Jasper wrote:I didn't really get that Chris Pratt's character is gay. Maybe he is. I thought he was mostly fucked up from something horrible that happened with whatever name they're using for Blackwater. I think they were calling it Black Mountain.
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taylor kitsch...by the way i read that he is now dating rachel mcadams

i got a gay vibe too. didn't he say something like "some fag tried to pick up on me". seems like a pretty good setup for him actually being gay....plus he had to take the viagra and wait 30 minutes to have sex with his gf.

chris pratt is star lord

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taylor is john carter

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Re: True Detective

#231 Post by Artemis » Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:27 pm

creep wrote:
i got a gay vibe too. didn't he say something like "some fag tried to pick up on me". seems like a pretty good setup for him actually being gay....plus he had to take the viagra and wait 30 minutes to have sex with his gf.

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:nod: Also the way he lustily eyed up that male prostitute across the street from his apartment. That was the point when I thought he was gay.

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#232 Post by chaos » Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:37 pm

Yeah, I think Paul is gay. The viagra, his hostility toward being hit on, and the ending scene in SF all seem to point in that direction.

I think it will be revealed that Detective Antigone was raped during her time in the commune.

Regarding Frank's opening scene in the last episode, I guess they had to find a way to get some of Frank's backstory out there. Btw - I think Frank's wife is plotting something behind his back.

I also think Frank may have had something to do with the rape of Ray's wife.

I came across someone speculating on reddit that Ray may not have been shot with bullets, but rather with rock salt. The shooting was meant as a warning to keep him in line. :noclue:

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#233 Post by Artemis » Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:48 pm

chaos wrote:
Regarding Frank's opening scene in the last episode, I guess they had to find a way to get some of Frank's backstory out there. Btw - I think Frank's wife is plotting something behind his back.
I got the feeling that the wife was shifty from the first episode. Good point about the backstory, hadn't thought of that.

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#234 Post by Jasper » Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:07 pm

Ohhhhhh, I didn't see that he was looking at a male prostitute. I remember he was looking out the window, but I had to get some work done so I was looking away a little bit. I thought the Viagra thing was just him being mentally fucked up, because as I understand it Viagra doesn't give you a hard on, it keeps it hard once it's achieved. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my understanding. Either way, it sounds more like he's gay and I wasn't paying attention. I've been meaning to rewatch the second episode, but I haven't had time yet.

As for getting the actors confused, this is probably the first time I've seen either one in anything, so to me they're just actor names I picked up from the ether, which must be how I mixed them up. :noclue:

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#235 Post by Jasper » Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:11 pm

chaos wrote:I came across someone speculating on reddit that Ray may not have been shot with bullets, but rather with rock salt. The shooting was meant as a warning to keep him in line. :noclue:
That was the first thing I thought of, but the first blast made him fly back against the wall. :hs:

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#236 Post by chaos » Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:05 pm

You would think it would have been a bloody scene. No blood, probably no bullets.

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#237 Post by creep » Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:45 pm

i just watched the first episode again. when frank gave ray the pic of the guy that raped his wife was that the same guy that was with the russian dude at that train thing? i assumed ray killed him but that guy looked like him.

i also noticed that there was a bird mask in the car that was driving around the dead guy.

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#238 Post by Jasper » Sat Jul 04, 2015 9:03 pm

creep wrote:i just watched the first episode again. when frank gave ray the pic of the guy that raped his wife was that the same guy that was with the russian dude at that train thing? i assumed ray killed him but that guy looked like him.
I doubt it's the Russian. Ray definitely killed the guy in the picture. Whether the guy in the picture was really the right guy is another question.
creep wrote:i also noticed that there was a bird mask in the car that was driving around the dead guy.
Yeah, I mentioned that a few posts back, but I think it was a stuffed bird, or at least that's what I thought at the time. Either way, they're definitely connected.

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Re: True Detective

#239 Post by Artemis » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:17 am

Tonight's episode will be directed by a different director - Janus Metz. According his IMDB, he directs mainly documentaries.

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#240 Post by creep » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:19 pm

i already knew he lived because i clicked on the link chaos put up last week so that wasn't a surprise. i guess the question is why didn't they kill him? it's way too early to guess who is behind all of this but i'm willing to bet frank's wife is somehow involved. :noclue:

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Re: True Detective

#241 Post by Jasper » Sun Jul 05, 2015 9:23 pm

What's everyone got against Frank's wife? Is she too nice? I'm not saying she's not up to something, I'm just curious why people find her suspect.

This episode was pretty decent.

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#242 Post by perkana » Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:46 am

I like her. I still don't get the show since I missed the two first episodes. This season has a total different feel than the first one, which I thought was more cinematic. This one gives me a Martin Scorsese vibe.

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#243 Post by perkana » Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:49 am

creep wrote:
perkana wrote:I got home on Sunday and catched a bit of The Brink. I'm biased since I like Tim Robbins and Jack Black.
Ratings: 7.7/10 from 1,271 users IMDB
Top U.S. government and military scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.

Creators: Kim Benabib, Roberto Benabib
Stars: Jack Black, Tim Robbins, Pablo Schreiber, Eric Ladin.
it didn't get great reviews but i liked the first two episodes. i can't get myself to watch the other new hbo show ballers. they are on my dvr but it just seems like an entourage (bro) type show.
I tried to watch it, got bored a bit. But I saw there's this guy from the hot tub time machine movie.

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#244 Post by chaos » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:24 am

Out of the three episodes aired thus far, I liked last night's the least. I'm losing patience trying to following the convoluted story.

This season pales in comparison with last season, on all levels.

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#245 Post by Jasper » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:41 pm

perkana wrote:I still don't get the show since I missed the two first episodes.
Check your mailbox.

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Re: True Detective

#246 Post by Jasper » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:53 pm

chaos wrote:This season pales in comparison with last season, on all levels.
While this is true, I still think it's the best thing on right now, and it's worth watching, to me anyway.

I do wish that one day I'd tune in for a new episode and be greeted with "From the dusty mesa, her looming shadow grows..." and a surprise standalone episode featuring an investigation by the Hart & Cohle Investigative Solutions. I'd also be amenable to the idea of a Rust & Marty film.

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Re: True Detective

#247 Post by creep » Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:13 pm

Jasper wrote:
chaos wrote:This season pales in comparison with last season, on all levels.
While this is true, I still think it's the best thing on right now, and it's worth watching, to me anyway.

I do wish that one day I'd tune in for a new episode and be greeted with "From the dusty mesa, her looming shadow grows..." and a surprise standalone episode featuring an investigation by the Hart & Cohle Investigative Solutions. I'd also be amenable to the idea of a Rust & Marty film.
i don't think it's a huge drop off from last season. like jasper said....it's the best series that i am currently watching. :noclue:

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Re: True Detective

#248 Post by blackula » Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:05 pm

Good compared to what else is on TV. Not good compared to last season. I like it in a Law and Order SVU as an HBO show type of way. The Colin Farrell tease was lame though, have the balls to kill him in the second episode, don't tease it!

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Re: True Detective

#249 Post by creep » Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:17 pm

that gunfight was odd. i really didn't think that this was the sort of show to have some silly, unrealistic gunfight where 562 people were killed. if this was real life and that happened it would be the biggest story of the year and anderson cooper and geraldo along with 10000 other media people would be camped out in that town. i bet they are all back on the case the next day like all those innocent people and cops weren't just murdered.

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Re: True Detective

#250 Post by creep » Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:22 pm

oh...just watched the preview and it looks like the story jumps ahead a while because the case was considered closed. spoiler alert...ray loses the mustache.

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