True Detective (here be SPOILERS)

[RainDog]

13. Maggie! (6 spoilers)

Last edited Tue Feb 25, 2014, 09:35 PM - Edit history (3)

okay, so they set it up to let you wonder if she was trying to "distract" Coehle from his investigation - and drive a wedge b/t H and C.

yeah, it was a down payment.

yeah, poleece, religious, political cahoots.

that poor little girl.

Marty had to follow that broken tail light all the way to the bar.

eta: last week, when people were talking about black stars on those threads, above, I had a thought after seeing Coehle lift that devil catcher or whatever at the school house - maybe they create black stars against a wall if a light projects through them. Then I thought...nah, that's too weird. Then I saw C. putting a flashlight through the antlers tonight...

okay, so my guess is the yellow king is a male white conservative religious person who gets elected... that this is sort of like a frat, but with creepy religious stuff... and they do things with the people they abuse as part of this distorted take on religion - or religion that is used purely for evil purposes.

that's why the murders occur.

this would be an echo of that old Franklin case that involved politicians. A grand jury eventually found the claims were baseless but the rumors continue.

oh yeah, and another thing. Coehle contemplating the cross early on because he wants to meditate on what it's like: "I contemplate the moment in the garden, the idea of allowing your own crucifixion." Since he's being set up to take the blame in the story by the sheriff, etc... his contemplation might be another one of those variations on a theme, or stories spirals that vibrate on the same level of consciousness, such as Hart pre-paying the girl he sleeps with in this ep, who resembles and is closer in age to his daughter than to himself...with all the creepiness that implies, but, imo, would be so much better to leave where it is, in terms of storytelling.

But we do, now, have a situation where Marty has a motive to frame Rust in the present day, when Maggie asked Coehle to "mow her lawn."

But I don't think that's how this will play out.