This could easily be the final two episodes instead of just the finale. Episode 7 suffered from many of the same problems.
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401 2014-03-13 01:22:45
Re: True Detective ending redux (6 replies, posted in Pitches, Fixes, and Rewrites)
402 2014-03-12 20:48:11
Re: Groundhog Day (26 replies, posted in Episodes)
Here's how I always saw the "time travel" thing:
It seems like the day resetting, but really he's just jumping timelines. Every morning, he jumps to a new timeline, which he can change as he wishes. When the day is over, he disappears from that timeline. Or if he dies, he dies. Eventually he does the right thing, and he gets to stay in that timeline.
403 2014-03-12 17:39:55
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
My buddy and I recorded a podcast with our thoughts on the finale and the season as a whole.
404 2014-03-11 16:30:55
Re: Hannibal (65 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Potential Season 2 Spoilers
Izzard's definitely coming back, but I think it'll probably be a hallucination by Will.
405 2014-03-11 02:58:48
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Yeah, leaving stuff unanswered bothers me a lot. I hate how the show can be like, "LOL fuck you it was never about the answers!" after spending several weeks building up how mysterious and complex the answers were.
406 2014-03-11 01:41:15
Re: Hannibal (65 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Season 2
I don't think it's necessary that we see that Hannibal will be found out soon, but it certainly ups the tension. Every move he makes could be the wrong one, and like I said earlier, he's getting a lot cockier this season. It also signals to people unfamiliar with the story that the Silence of the Lambs status quo is coming soon. Not to mention that it makes his constant evasion of punishment a lot easier to swallow. Unlike another show I could mention.
Seriously though, imagine if this season of House of Cards started with a hint as to Frank's downfall. It would have made his invincibility much more palatable, at least to me.
I agree with you about the procedural stuff in season 1. Around episode 10 they wisely dropped it. I guess it's kind of necessary, though. The network wants to sell the show on these crazy cases, and it's a good framework for setting up the characters. Now that we have that foundation, we can get to the real meat of the story. The show is being planned way ahead of time too, which I appreciate. Bryan Fuller said that he has a good idea of what season 3 will be, and that season 4 will be the show's version of Red Dragon. Assuming they run that long.
407 2014-03-10 23:59:14
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Ooh, disagree. The dual timelines worked so well, and they were a big part of why I loved those episodes.
I will say that, overall, True Detective is a better-than-average miniseries. It's just not as great as it could have been, imo.
408 2014-03-10 21:28:16
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Eddie wrote:
I just find this argument (not just as articulated by you, but by other people who took issue with the finale) really reductive.
The finale, in which the classically pessimistic protagonist (which is rare to begin with) is able to empirically deduce OPTIMISM in the face of only ridding the world of one arm of a vast conspiracy is rare and wholly unique. To claim an ending is a cop out would imply compromise or ease. I see nothing easy about that ending. They nearly died and only kinda won. They didn't survive against all odds, they nearly perished against all odds. They were armed, had the element of surprise, and there were two of them. They made quite a few mistakes along the way, and Cohle had the single worst time to have trippy visuals. They're lucky to be alive, but as Cohle acknowledges...being alive isn't lucky. He's gutted by any sense of being reunited in some fashion with his Dad and Daughter, and yet he's here. That's not going easy on your leads.I dunno...The procedural stuff in episodes 1-5 always were ways to draw definition AROUND these two characters, just like the paper thin other characters were there to add texture and dimension to the world they inhabited. The procedure was always there to service the characters, not the other way around. So it seemed to me at least.
Yeah, but the character stuff is what I'm talking about, and it gets dropped in favor of the procedure in the last 3 episodes. That's what bothered me. The last 3 episodes are like a completely different show.
409 2014-03-10 21:04:00
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
The show insisted on all this quasi-supernatural existential stuff for a while, and it was really interesting. At the end, it turned out that the show was never interested in that to begin with, and it was all about a boring, bland mystery.
I really wanted this show to be something new and original, but in the end it really wasn't. It's nothing like Zodiac, but I sure wish it was. If that's what they were going for, then the ending was a complete cop-out.
Instead of an ambiguous, deliberately unsatisfying conclusion, they found the Big Bad and had a big fight with him (that they both survived against all odds) and killed him. And the final scene brought back all the really good stuff from the first few episodes, but it was too little too late.
I'm so disappointed with True Detective. Started out strong, but limped across the finish line.
410 2014-03-10 20:13:44
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Eddie wrote:
Doctor Submarine wrote:You want to see a show that commits to the stuff that True Detective had no interest in focussing on? Watch Hannibal. It's so different.
Fixed it for you.
Sure wanted us to think it did for the first five episodes.
411 2014-03-10 19:02:00
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
The more I think about it, the less I like it. You want to see a show that commits to the stuff that True Detective abandoned? Watch Hannibal. It's so much better.
412 2014-03-10 17:35:34
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I'm alright with the finale. It returned the show to the stuff that we were all interested in at the beginning. I think Hulk's wrong about the mystery, though. The show spent two or three of its eight episodes focused on nothing but that, completely forgetting the characters. Can you really blame the audience for getting invested?
413 2014-03-09 06:36:34
Re: Hannibal (65 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Totally agree. This season is shaping up to be a big improvement on season 1. The fact that the characters are actually developing without the show making a point of it is kind of shocking for network television. Hannibal is getting dangerously cocky, and Will is becoming much more sly and manipulative.
The scene where
Bedelia told Will that she believed him
414 2014-03-06 15:42:36
Re: Your Random Creations (670 replies, posted in Creations)
http://moviefail.com/2014/03/06/soren-j … cast-2014/
My friend Soren and I did a podcast with our thoughts on the Oscars this year.
415 2014-03-05 23:49:17
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I assume it was a test screening, then. That's pretty shitty.
416 2014-03-05 19:16:26
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Internet points probably have more regulation than bitcoin.
EDIT:
Guys, this theory makes perfect sense and it's supported by a ton of evidence. I'd put good money on this being correct.
417 2014-03-04 23:48:57
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I laughed harder at this than I probably should have.
418 2014-03-04 20:40:51
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
He's narrowed it down to 3 suspects.
419 2014-03-04 16:27:32
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Someone cut McConaughey's acceptance speech into the tape that infuriated Marty in Sunday's episode.
420 2014-03-04 03:12:14
Re: The Empire Strikes Back (96 replies, posted in Episodes)
mkeithddc wrote:
And it wasn't the same as mine, he did
make his up out of his own imagination. I didn't.
LOLOLOLOLOL are you seriously saying that any interpretation you don't agree with is totally invalid?
421 2014-03-04 03:09:14
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Last night's episode killed a lot of my remaining goodwill, to be honest. When did this turn into such a rote detective drama?
422 2014-03-03 05:35:15
Re: So...how bout dem Oscars? (97 replies, posted in Off Topic)
American Hustle going 0-10 made me very, very happy.
423 2014-03-03 05:32:24
Re: Sunshine (90 replies, posted in Episodes)
Well, I think we should end here, because you're talking about a very basic emotional response to a film and I'm talking about an analysis of it. Not saying your feelings or opinions are any less valid than mine, but we obviously look at movies in different ways, and that's okay.
I will say this, guys. If I ever willingly watch a movie with the line, "If I want your opinion, I'll rape it outta you" in it, just kill me right then and there because something has gone horribly wrong.
424 2014-03-03 05:25:22
Re: So...how bout dem Oscars? (97 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I went 19/24. Better than usual.
425 2014-03-02 23:31:12
Re: Sunshine (90 replies, posted in Episodes)
You don't have to think anything. But by your logic, there's no such thing as a bad movie. And I think we can all agree that there clearly is.
What's a movie that you think is bad? Think about why you consider that movie bad, and whether or not it's as valid a reason as our reason for disliking Sunshine.
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