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Lawnmower dude deliberately sent the two black detectives in the wrong direction.
Towards 'PR 1435':
"The king's favor is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causes shame."
Or Synecdoche twice.
Marty and Rust are two dudes telling a dude story. Again Ewing, I meet your point and largely agree with it, but with a huge asterisk. *
* In order to help sympathize with these "ideologically selfish" readings of the show, please remember that nearly all of the film and TV media you interact with is stories of men as told by men. And being a smart, cognizant female subjected to that for an entire lifetime may result in a different set of priorities, demands, and representative expectation than your own.
I mostly agree with your point, but you're tilting a little /mensrights. "BETER WIMIN CHARKTIRS" is an easy critique of, well, almost anything, and in a given case the eloquence and validity of that sentiment will vary from sad-accurate to eye-roll-click-bait.
I'll argue that, until last night, the agency of any of the show's female characters was handled only in the periphery. Like, consider a narrative-influence-Bechdel-Test. Marty's paramour will date, the proprietor of the bunny ranch will drop some agency knowledge, Audrey will sleep around. These actions color the story, but don't drop stage center and function par-level with the decisions of our "heroes" until Maggie acts in face of Marty's bullshit apparent.
HE OWES Y'ALL NOTHlNG
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Was kind of weeping by the end of this episode.
norwegian one, which is an excerpt of a weekly radio show.
What's that mandate thing that there needs to be a certain percentage of Nynorsk and Sami on the radio called?
Yeah it's a given. The first thing the guys did in the series was tell the cops to scan the area, check plates and ID bystanders. Wouldn't be caught by accident.
EDIT: Him being seen to get to the investigating detectives is a given. Storage unit's full of evidence, as it stands by the end of ep 5 it isn't time for anyone to see what's in there.
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Here's a video of the actor that played Charlie Lange playing guitar during his own brain surgery.
But if someone hacking into the matrix is obviously typing in to the .preferences file of a popular text editor, it can and will take a portion of the audience out of the movie.
Because you don't understand is not a license to excuse it.
paulou wrote:Doctor Submarine wrote:I was pretty sure that the show literally said that.
The madam at the ranch had a line to the effect of, "Freaks men like you out when a woman does what she wants with her body because it means you don't own it like you thought you used to did."
That line annoyed me because it didn't address his point about her being underage. At all. It was a weird reply.
Don't think either of us are properly equipped to grasp libertarian-bayou-feminism as-is, so let's see where the show goes with it.
"The irony" being the fact that you're a hair's breadth from going, "What a bunch of neeerrrrddddss."
Ewing wrote:Trey wrote:The computer code website I referenced in the commentary: http://moviecode.tumblr.com/
I cannot fathom how anyone can care that much about coding.
Code at least has a legitimate use and can be examined like that, there are entire blogs chastising and examining FONT choice. That is what blows my mind.
The irony. It burns.
I was pretty sure that the show literally said that.
The madam at the ranch had a line to the effect of, "Freaks men like you out when a woman does what she wants with her body because it means you don't own it like you thought you used to did."
Saw something linking the four sacrificial deaths so far to the four elements.
Implying the Fontenot girl wasn't found because she was burned [fire], the one found bloated in a creek [water], Dora dead tied to a root [earth], and the most recent strung up crucified under a bridge [air]. Blah blah fifth death impending something something pagan nonsense probably Audrey. Supernatural default perceptions aside, found the elemental reading interesting.
Yeah, how could I have missed those.
Macob hadn’t seen the episode when she and I spoke, but the more she explained it, the more I realized that Nic Pizzolatto, the writer of the first episode “The Long Bright Dark,” did his homework. I don’t know whether the prop or marketing department went to an apothecary and put this together or just fashioned it out of what was lying around on the set but Macob says “it would be common that the body mass might possibly contain a variety of items massed together. Herbs, bones, hair, etc... all used in the creation of the fetish. It looks to be quite possible the 'head' and 'hair' are mandrake root which is used in both old European Magick as well as American Hoodoo and Folk Magick.”
I asked Dove what someone would use this kind of thing for? It’s certainly got a more utilitarian function than catching demons. Macob examined the picture of the figure and theorized “this is a binding spell/fetish of some type. Most likely meant to be female-based on 'hair' and form visible in pics. The 'figure' appears from the pictures to have two twig 'legs' bound to the base of the tripod. Twine is present and appears to be binding the twigs representing the arms-at least one. The figure is bound within the tripod and actually seems a part of it. Because of the tripod and the way it's peak becomes part of 'head' and the figures 'legs' are open within, it most likely represents a 'male' energy placing dominance over female. It's quite possible this is a binding to impose a male's Will (possibly sexual) upon a female but that is purely a guess at this point. It might be be part of a spell working for a person or it might represent a more abstract binding of a female spirit/entity. Possibly a protective binding to entrap or repel a malevolent female energy or spirit.”
Also, just wondering aloud if Hurricane Lili will factor at all into the 2002 storyline.
Oh wait, he smashed the sixth can into the flat circle, duh. Nevermind. But still. Five star men.
Five pointed star and a circle. Pentagram.
You really think a motif like that in a show this exacting is by accident?
Fuuuuuuccck. Hold up.
I thought of that photo from episode two, with young Dora standing around the guys in pointy hat costumes on horseback.
Turns out they're Capuchon hats and costumes, a popular Mardi Gras thing. But still staged super creepy. And the camera spent a lot of time one it.
Thought about it for a second. Five guys standing around a woman. Where have we seen that before?
* Five Ken dolls standing around Barbie in Audrey's room.
* Five (black) guys standing around the friend of Dora Lang when she was questioned, who had black star tattoos on her neck.
* Five beer-can-men around another after Cohle dissects his six-pack. Of Lone Star beer.
Any others?
There are five points to a star. Or pentagram. The black stars are five people.
There was some other time (maybe same interview?) where Pizzolatto addressed that, stating he loves genre, and isn't trying to subvert the genre or trick and abuse the audience. It's obfuscated just enough that you can enjoy it either as a juicy noir, or notice all of the hints and accoutrement.
Like how the flat circle speech cuts to Hart's family at a skating rink, just rolling around in circles.
Or how walking out of the woods, Cohle's carrying a dead child with him, while Hart carries an abused one. And since Cohle's daughter is dead, isn't crazy to think that leans on the mounting evidence that Audrey has also been a victim.
Between the scene in the locker room where Cohle calls Hart out for smelling like another woman, ending with him sniffing his fingers after he leaves, and the Kingpin clip I posted earlier, contributes to the characters-stuck-in-media reading of the show. Which is fascinating to think about. Real Tralfamadorian. Or I'm just nuts.
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