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Niche? Please, everyone and ther mom is jizzing their pants over the finale...Originally Posted by screwdriver
I'm thinking it's another reference from the fictional play "The King in Yellow"
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
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I'd like to see your mom jizz her pants
but seriously, I guess it saddens me to see so much hate on the net for the show. I walked away almost in tears from how perfect that ending was. Maybe it was the whole way Rust's transformation sort of mirrored my own feelings and I'm just projecting
Last edited by screwdriver; 03-10-2014 at 08:29 PM.
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Nyx, come on. Even though I would've preferred an ending SPOILers with cohle looking out the hotel window realizing the media, cops and everyone that received his packages didn't do more to prosecute the tuttles the regular ending isn't all that bad. His character didn't just transform completely, it was a banter with hart more so than anything else.
Cohle was a pessimist but with a good heart, we saw this in multiple scenes, why you think it's out of character for him to have a breakdown about his loved ones is ???? Don't understand. I think this is a case of you projecting on to the characters your own bleak perception of reality.
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Because it seems to come out of nowhere? Because Cohle, as we have come to know him, would never utter those things? So he had a near death experience. It wasn't even his first, remember? He had taken three bullets to the stomach many years prior, if nothing else. He was ready to die, ready to be done with this world, yet somehow (for some magical mystical reason) he gets transformed. But I get it, not many American shows can have a bitter pessimist atheist running around being the (anti?)hero without eventually neutering him with some spiritual crap and finding hope in the end. I wouldn't really have minded as much if it was his character gradually developing into that direction, over time. Instead, he just wakes up and boom, the light is winning.
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I don't see it like that at all. He was ready to die and that's why he says multiple times "I'm not supposed to be here". He seemed miffed at the whole situation actually, he was clearly in despaire from surviving. Why does it have to be mystical? He was a broken man and was battling his daughters death throughout, or did you forget him showing up to harts house drunk on his daughters birthday ?
He had some sort of near death "experience", or another way to look at it, a reconciliation with himself over the loss of his loved ones. Like Hart experienced with his own family but in the real world, Colhe experienced it when he was unconscious and now both men have to move on and deal with their lives and what they just went through. It's not like cohle started talking about angels and shit come on .
And at the very end Hart tries to support his partner as he watches him have a complete break down. A final moment of role reversal, as each says something the other would have normally said. A cute moment of bromance
Last edited by Rabbit; 03-10-2014 at 08:56 PM.
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you're making a huge assumption here, which is that his personal philosophy should always overrule his personal experiences
people change; it can be a little bit over time or with sudden trauma
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