I love that this is turning out to be a sneakily Lovecraftian (Chambers, but still) story. It's VERY much in the vein of those kinds of stories, which often take the form of a first person narrative relaying a brush with the supernatural, though they might not realize it at the time. They're often straightforward suspense stories that suddenly take a turn for the eldritch. The Call of Cthulhu, for example, is actually three stories about the Cthulhu cult, one of which is a pure detective story about a detective who disrupts an occult ritual in the bayou -- it's only when put together with the other stories that the supernatural, cosmic import of that event becomes clear.
My guess is that there will be a supernatural incident, but it will be just oblique enough that the audience can choose to accept it or not based on what they prefer -- just as, it would seem, Cohle and Marty chose to accept it or not, respectively. Cohle accepted the truth and pretty much went nuts, devoting his life to drowning the knowledge in alcohol, unwilling to kill himself because of what he now knows waits on the other side; Marty chose to quail away from the cosmic revelation and live a life of "sanity" -- which in weird fiction is basically synonymous with denial of reality's true shape.
$10 says this is the basis of their oft-referenced falling out -- we've seen that they're already fundamentally different people and can barely stand each other as it is, and yet we know as of ep5 that they remained an effective team for 7 years. It seems to me the only thing that could finally force them to part ways would be an irrevocable, concrete split in what they choose to accept as reality.
EDIT: The one bummer is that they only get to play that hand once. From season 2 onward everyone will know that it's a weird tales show, not just a police procedural.
Last edited by Dorkman (2014-02-19 09:47:34)
