The baby birth scene shook me and my wife until he breathed. Had to go check on our newborn make sure he was breathing.
The town is being poisoned. With the natives being hit the hardest likely because they’re more reliant on nature. I think Navarro is in the early stages of what may have happened to scientists. She’s hearing voices, she’s seeing one eyed polar bears and then the scientist telling her that moms is waiting. I’m sure knocking herself out on the ice is also a factor. Nothing she sees I’m taking as real. I think Detective Prior is the man who killed Annie on behalf of the owner of the mine, they clearly have a relationship and one that seems close. He’s taken the original case files, lied about the lead and is doing shit to blurry this current investigation more concerned on what Navarro and Deavers are finding vs wanting to solve the case. I think the scientist ended up going crazy because of the contaminated water thanks to the mine and research they are doing and it led to them dying like we saw the elk do in the first scene of the show.
Why is the one scientist still missing? He seemed to be the craziest of any of them in the opening scene. Why did they all get undressed and who folded their clothes? And then drew symbols on them? That's the only thing that kinda pokes a hole in the poison water theory (or makes it a little lame): if the answer to the great mystery is the scientist, that was obviously infected with the crazy while all the other ones were still acting perfectly normal, did something to make the rest of them take their clothes off, run into the snow and die looking absolutely terrified?, and then he folds their clothes, draws shit on foreheads and then just wanders off into the snowy abyss... that just makes no sense at all from a narrative perspective. And would be incredibly lame tbh. I hope it's not that, but not saying the theory is wrong. Just I would fucking hate that answer
The writer of S1 of TD was heavily influenced by cosmic horror, what is and isn’t real. The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers is a foundational book on cosmic horror, it spawned HP Lovecraft who spawned an impossible amount of writers/directors/creators like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Clive Barker. Ole Pizzo mixed Chambers with some Lovecraft, a bunch of Cormac Macarthy nihilism and a few drops of Nietzsche to get the brilliant first season. Like someone said earlier, this feels way closer to the vibe of S1 than S2 or S3 (although this did have the same nature dolls as S4). I mean shiiiiit Ruste is suffering from the same delusions as the town of Ennis, even though his are from partying too hard.
They have dropped a ton of S1 links and easter eggs through the 3 episodes. Is it possible the Scientist were a cult? The missing guy being the leader, he did have his own private room, he operated outside of the norms of the others. Could he have led them to the ice and given them instructions? I'm likely wrong on this, generally i've had all the True Detective shit wrong... But its my feeling at this time.
That just doesn't add up in the whole theory of the water making people crazy unless he's got some like kind of semi-immunity or he seemingly wouldn't be able to "lead" anything. Like we're all drinking the same stuff at the same rate, I'm not going to develop some leader powers while everyone else + animals are going suicide crazy. why I said it was the big hole in that particular theory. /twocents I was part of the "what are the dolls in the daughter's room telling us" group in Season 1 so yea we're all used to being wrong ITT but I love theory shows. I'm still rolling with the Inuit Mythology theory until we get more info that makes others make more sense.
Anchorage will declare that the groundwater is bad and has caused everyone to go crazy. The townsfolk will know that the real problem is the "spirits" or whatever you want to call the supernatural element. No resolution.
yeah that was pretty bad until like the last 5 minutes, but even then I don’t know if improved or got worse
i think we can safely say the mysterious crackhead we just got introduced to showing up to say the name of the show didnt make things better
Some of the dialogue could be better obviously but I'm still enjoying the show I have also never seen the sixth sense and don't watch a lot of televsion/movies so idk
Spoiler: mythology Think the Ring chick that Navarro and her sister saw this episode is Sedna (or one of her other names in their culture). Constant references to Caribou and her drawing people out to the sea is on brand for that god. So that shifts the original theory from Navarro being Sedna, to her family and presumably the others dying were also influenced by Sedna Ring chick. Would also be the "She" that everyone keeps talking about waking up. Haven't seen anything about how people "woke her up" in their mythology though.
Fact that Denvers is so anti-religion / anti-spiritualism just makes me think the mythology theory has even more legs. Similar to Marty in Season 1 denying everything religious/cult that Rust mentioned until it was so obvious it was in his face.
Still trying to figure out how that could possibly tie into the symbols showing up in season 1 and all that.
Spoiler I’ve send a few different podcast run with this line of thinking. Some are saying Navarro is Sedna (her native name has never been revealed) and she’s the person who killed Anna. That she has a split personality and was the person who killed the guy in the case that eventually split her from the force. But still doesn’t answer who killed the scientist.
I haven't watched any of the prior seasons and am thoroughly entertained. I don't think it's the greatest show of all time or anything, but it's still good. Despite everything, I'd be surprised if there was a supernatural explanation for any of the events.
Are people enjoying this season? Because I’ve found it to be the least-compelling one yet. The best part about it is the setting/scenery.
There’s been a couple pieces of cringey dialogue but I still haven’t seen one person on here/twitter who says they don’t like it give an actual reason why
I don't find the characters or story compelling. Not sure how much more reason I need. Its still better than 90% of the drivel on tv so I'll still finish it. It's not bad, it's just not particularly good either.
It’s going to be tough to have good character development in a 6 episode miniseries, but I’m enjoying the storyline so far and just hoping it will all make sense in the end. Different strokes for different folks I guess
That was something alright. They really just threw the name True Detective on this ghost story and called it a day. I’ll finish it but it’s losing me.
Don't really have an issue with that. It's called acting. I just don't find either character particularly interesting so far.
The shit with the Russian bride is pretty hilarious but I really have no idea if it has any importance whatsoever.