True Detective
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Chukzombi
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Nah, it is still okay but there are some legitimate concerns that it is resting on its laurels and made some lazy and questionable choices.
Like I said the story is still good just some of the dialogue and cinematography is odd and distracting.
They want to copy season 1 without actually copying it. They should have gone the American Horror Story route and used the same exact actors and put them into different roles.
Royal
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I don't think he said that exact line but he did say several things that would fall within that same line of thought. The closest thing I can recall offhand was him saying that the world is just one big gutter in space while he was going back and forth with Marty over the societal merit of religion.
One thing I agree with popsicle on is Velcoro holstering his gun. That scene would have been easy enough to shoot and end up at the exact same place if he'd kept it out just by having Birdman get enough of a drop on him that he shot before Ray could respond once he realized the guy was there and get off a clean enough shot himself. Easy without the cheesy.
DickTrickle
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I don't know that Velcoro's holstering of his gun was so crazy. Some people are saying he should have been on guard because VV sent him there but who is more invested in wanting Velcoro to succeed in finding Caspere's murder than VV? I think after eight years or whatever of being VV's lapdog he's not suddenly going to give him a double shotgun to the chest as a first warning and think it would be productive. Not sure how much time has passed since the killing and him walking in that house but it's at least a couple days. How often do murderers stay watch on the murder scene? Sure, he got a little too engrossed in what he was seeing but it's not like he's had to do ace cop work since he got to Venci. And even if he had his gun out the birdman still had the drop on him (which goes back to him being rusty at doing actual police work). Of all the things to bitch about, I think that's about the least egregious. More likely, it might be VV's #2 guy since I doubt any of the club people will end up mattering.
Overall, this was an improvement from the first episode in my book. The dialogue still felt a little too forced or poorly timed but I was definitely more invested in this episode. VV's monologue could have been a lot better if it focused on the childhood story but its existential bent got a little silly. Still waiting for Taylor Kitsch's character to interest me; he feels like the odd man out so far. I don't know that I care if he's a repressed homosexual.
Overall, this was an improvement from the first episode in my book. The dialogue still felt a little too forced or poorly timed but I was definitely more invested in this episode. VV's monologue could have been a lot better if it focused on the childhood story but its existential bent got a little silly. Still waiting for Taylor Kitsch's character to interest me; he feels like the odd man out so far. I don't know that I care if he's a repressed homosexual.
Royal
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Well there's the whole Black Mountain Security thing and "what happened in the desert" that he doesn't talk about, which I assume is over in Iraq or Afghanistan. Something shadey obviously went down when he was a merc and it's still hanging over his head because his CHiP commander mentioned it as well. That will probably come to light at some point.
And his relationship Mama Herpes-lip was kinda ick. Having a mother who's a Vegas club whore that rubs here tits on you like she'll throw ya a piece if you wanna little incest has gotta put some negative associations in a kid's head with regards to women.
At the end of True Detective season 1 episode 2 "Seeing things" we get a fucking classic line from Rust when they find the church they were looking for.
"Yeah, back then, the visions, yeah most of the time I was convinced... Shit... I'd lost it. But there were other times... I thought I was mainlining the secret truth of the universe."
That type of narrative exposition is painfully absent so far this season.
We would've had an equally great ending to episode 2 this year had Velcoro actually died, but instead we get a cheesy soap opera type ending where he's not really dead because a sociopath who used acid to burn out a man's eyes and then blew his dick off decided to use less lethal against a cop or he'll somehow miraculously wind up surviving two shot gun blasts at point blank range (no fucking way possible). I also think they're really dropping the ball on McAdams character. She seems like she could be way more interesting if they gave her better lines and didn't make it look like she's on 10 Xanax while on camera.
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Chukzombi
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speaking of the shotgun, during the autopsy the ME said specifically that the killer was using a special extra powerful load to blow caspere's entire groin area to bits. of course this may not be "the killer" who did the deed, it may be some other guy and he was more tenderhearted so he used some kind of nerf shotgun to put velcoro down. if indiana jones can survive a nuclear blast by hiding inside an old fridge then anything is possible, but i think its bloody unlikely. that dude should be dead when shot at such a range no matter whether he was wearing a bulletproof vest. since this is TV and apparently they decided to consult the tv/movie tropes handbook, velcoro will definitely be wearing his plot armor plated vest and will get off with at worst some cracked ribs which will be forgotten about not long after.
I feel like there was a spoiler picture on the last page and I'm kind of rustled about it.
Also this thread is absolute shit and needs to be put down.
Also this thread is absolute shit and needs to be put down.
Soygen
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I put that into a spoiler tag.
Despite what a_skeleton_03 is crying about, please use spoiler tags for posting unaired pics or info.
BrutulTM
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This thread is a lot more readable if you skip all the astrocreep and popsicle posts.
We need a +1 widget to show approval for individual posts like this.
Not bitching but sure you put the picture into a spoiler tag but there are probably 20 posts also talking about it. There just isn't that level of spoiler respect in most TV threads.
