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drunken officeparty posted:Who the hell is James Frain My bad for using the actor name. His character name is like almost never used in the show to my own recollection. Ashrik posted:I read a pretty interesting fan theory on Burris the other day: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/07/burris-true-detective-killer/2/ I had only picked up on like 40% of this and I still think it's solid link that he probably has to be bird man.
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Ashrik posted:I read a pretty interesting fan theory on Burris the other day: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/07/burris-true-detective-killer/2/ I thought the sex house was pretty clearly supposed to be the scene of Casper's murder (sex swing with the blood pool below it, soundproofed walls) and if that's the case it makes no sense that Velcoro "led" the killer there. It seems way more likely that he was there to clean up when Velcoro unexpectedly walked in, and Burris showed up bright and early in an official capacity the next morning (whether he's the birdman or not) to make sure nothing had been overlooked before the special task force showed up. I do still think Burris is a good fit for the birdman, though. He fits the physical profile, he has access to the kind of riot ammo used, he has multiple reasons for sparing Velcoro, and he's been an omnipresent figure in the investigation despite not being a part of the task force. That being said, I also think the birdman is just an agent and not a player, and that if it's Burris he's simply doing the same thing Velcoro has done for Frank, he's just working for a bigger fish. Geldof is another weird name, btw, which I haven't seen anyone mention. It's incredibly uncommon, at least in the US; the search results when you Google it are overwhelmingly for Bob and Peaches Geldof, and they're the only people famous enough to be listed under that name on Wikipedia. I was surprised by this, so I searched for it in this PBS database that purports to have frequency info on the 150,000 most common last names in the United States, and it isn't one of them. Apparently I was the first person in millions of searches to even look for it. There are two things to point out about it: "gelding" is a pretty well-known word for castration, and apparently (learned this on that Google expedition) Bob Geldof is an outspoken proponent of paternal rights. Seems like a strange thing to incidentally name a character unless he has a role to play.
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When Velcro was following Frank's goon, Rick Springfield and Chessani's douchebag kid they paid a visit to Russian mini-giraffe thug and dropped some merchandise off..........that's going to pay off. He is the yellow king and Chessanikid is the murder crow. 
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Jul 24, 2015 16:45
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Nice to see this thread treading into tie theory here.
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Has anyone noticed how different characters pronounce Caspere differently? I don't have a theory at the moment but I'm sure there is some potential.
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Jul 24, 2015 17:03
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For a couple episodes I thought they were saying "Caster" or "Castor".
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Jul 24, 2015 17:04
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Ha ha ha I am a little concerned about my mental state that I am dreaming about True Detective, but I had a dream last night that Dixon was in the next episode. "Doctors were able to fix him up. He's a very lucky man."
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I originally thought The Birdman fired a second shot into Velcoro's junk (so I didn't expect him to live), so seeing him with just busted up ribs was a surprise. My friends and I have been joking about seeing Dixon in the next episode with just a bandage on his head, as if it were just a grazing. A fitting twist for the Truest Detective of them all. Dude probably solved the case before episode 3 aired.
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Ashrik posted:I originally thought The Birdman fired a second shot into Velcoro's junk (so I didn't expect him to live), so seeing him with just busted up ribs was a surprise. My friends and I have been joking about seeing Dixon in the next episode with just a bandage on his head, as if it were just a grazing. His second shot was a bit above the waist I think. Looked like he got hit in the kidney area. Argh I pissed myself! Oh hey is this blood?
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Keyser S0ze posted:Russian mini-giraffe thug So that's where I recognize that guy from. That commercial was the best. "I jomp in it." EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkB9OT2XVvA yesss.
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Immortan posted:The only scary part with Ledoux was the very end of episode 3 where he's walking with that gas mask on holding a giant gently caress off machete with the creepy music directly after the lead-in of Cohle talking about monsters at the end of dreams. That really was a truly Well, Ledoux didn't really get much more screen time than that. The only other scene he is in has him ranting about black stars. As far as first impressions go, the gas mask scene is pretty memorable, though. Childress was certainly disgusting. I think he was also supposed to be scary. His spider-like lair, his taunts, and the fact that he is the first guy to truly catch Rust off guard are indicative of this. Additionally, the speech Rust gives isn't actually about Ledoux because Ledoux isn't the guy they were really chasing. The true monster is supposed to be Childress, but he is somehow not nearly as horrifying. Sure, he looks absolutely capable of murdering a bunch of women, but he is also a very stereotypical hillbilly and not a monster. Maybe if he looked more like the spaghetti monster the girl mistook him for it would have been a bit more impressive. 
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moment right there. As for Childress, he was an appropriately grotesque backwards gently caress that looked capable of doing all those grisly murders. I think the intent was for him to simply disgust viewers, not scare them like Ledoux.
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TheBizzness posted:The Carcosa lair was creepy as gently caress and I couldn't stop thinking about that scene the next day. I thought the ending was great as well and I thought it was a more realistic approach they took by having Marty & Rust take down just Childress/Yellow King instead of the whole Tuttle Family/the Cult.
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The shooter was Velcoro's dad. He was ex police so he can feasibly have access to that riot police ammunition. He also threw away his badge after Velcoro got shot. It would also explain why Velcoro wasn't killed on the spot.
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TheBizzness posted:The Carcosa lair was creepy as gently caress and I couldn't stop thinking about that scene the next day. No, the lair itself is great. I just thought that Childress himself was pretty cliché and boring.
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Since there is all this talk of season 1 I just wanna point this out. The scene when Rust shows Marty the tape he found. Woody was just incredible in that scene. Season one rocked.
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I never watched an episode of season one and just binged all of season two today and I thought it was really, really good. Astoundingly good. I thought this season was supposed to be a disappointment? If so, holy poo poo, season one must be mind-blowing.
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And More posted:No, the lair itself is great. I just thought that Childress himself was pretty cliché and boring. I guess to each their own, but I thought his vocal work was absolutely incredible and he was a giant slab of meat with almost superhuman strength.
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Dantu posted:I never watched an episode of season one and just binged all of season two today and I thought it was really, really good. Astoundingly good. I thought this season was supposed to be a disappointment? If so, holy poo poo, season one must be mind-blowing. It's good. Season two is good too I guess but it hasn't "lived up to the promise" of season one yet.
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Dantu posted:I never watched an episode of season one and just binged all of season two today and I thought it was really, really good. Astoundingly good. I thought this season was supposed to be a disappointment? If so, holy poo poo, season one must be mind-blowing. In some key ways the seasons are very different, so comparing them is actually a fool's errand. I do think it's fairly safe to say that if you like season 2, you will at least be interested in season 1 and will almost certainly like it at least a bit. At worst you might think it's a 6 or so but I've seen you curled up at night with shows that were at best 5s man.
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pugnax posted:I guess to each their own, but I thought his vocal work was absolutely incredible and he was a giant slab of meat with almost superhuman strength. Who's the rotting dead guy in the shed outside of Childress' house? Also, my roommate said Childress was a necrophiliac with it as well. 
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Immortan posted:Who's the rotting dead guy in the shed outside of Childress' house? Also, my roommate said Childress was a necrophiliac with it as well. His dad, wasn't it?
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precision posted:His dad, wasn't it? That's how I remember it.
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Immortan posted:Who's the rotting dead guy in the shed outside of Childress' house? Also, my roommate said Childress was a necrophiliac with it as well.
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syscall girl posted:It's good. It's the worst television ever made, actually.
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Season 2 molested me as a child
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John Big Booty posted:It's his father, who he's keeping just on this side of alive. Taking the logical conclusion of Bobby Hill to adulthood sure was unnerving as hell.
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precision posted:Taking the logical conclusion of Bobby Hill to adulthood sure was unnerving as hell.
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John Big Booty posted:Time is a dang old flat circle. I've been saying for a while now that I'd like a YTP with the McConaughey voice overs replacing the dialogue.
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Are we doing 'words that will come out of Vince Vaughns mouth' again this week? Because I call reprobate.
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Are we doing 'words that will come out of Vince Vaughns mouth' again this week? Because I call reprobate. I call "perfidious"! edit: seriously, Frank is hilarious. He wants so much to better than a regular gangster, he probably buys word-of-the-day calendars and reads thesauruses! Gotta sound classy, like Brick-top or El Guapo, pretend I'm not just an impotent thug! Blood Boils fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jul 26, 2015 |
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Are we doing 'words that will come out of Vince Vaughns mouth' again this week? Because I call reprobate. I call verboten.
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Any orgies gonna happen tonight?
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SurgicalOntologist posted:I'm surprised no one has brought this up yet: in reality there is no link between abortion and future fertility (even three abortions, which is actually not that many statistically speaking). I'm giving Pizzy the benefit of the doubt and hoping it will turn out to be Frank's problem all along. It's totally his problem. I dunno if this has been brought up yet but the origin for the word avocado is the Aztec word for testicle. So when Frank asks why he can't seem to grow any avocados, he's asking why he can't grow some balls.
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Jul 26, 2015 19:20
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Skulking. My True Vocabulary word of the week is Skulking
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Charlatan, profligate. rapacious
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Are we doing 'words that will come out of Vince Vaughns mouth' again this week? Because I call reprobate. Insular tabernacle here.
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Lambasted!
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A mellifluous venom of the septentrional welkin, vermillion, glabrous, ensiform; sanguine and incarnadine, in Frank's mind like an immanent killing moon. Also jejune and pilgarlic. What can I say? I like all these words. E: weltanschauung. It will be weltanschauung.
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SurgicalOntologist posted:I'm surprised no one has brought this up yet: in reality there is no link between abortion and future fertility (even three abortions, which is actually not that many statistically speaking). I'm giving Pizzy the benefit of the doubt and hoping it will turn out to be Frank's problem all along. Why? The guy thinks Viagra is an aphrodisiac, of course he would assume a connection between abortions and fertility problems. I doubt he's had problems with his dick or his ability to impregnate his wife, so he's never had a conversation with a doctor about it and it's not the sort of thing he would care about researching and getting right.
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