True Detective (here be SPOILERS)

[RainDog]

14. ep 7 guesses/maybe spoilers

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Maybe others have mentioned it, but I haven't seen it yet. However, the architecture of the Tuttle school - in that big skylight box... those are like antlers turned toward each other, rather than away. Just remarking.

Okay, so, next episode - Hart and Coehle meet up in the present day to talk about the case. Rust presents Hart with evidence from his year of investigating the case.

I sure hope to hell this isn't the way the show plays out - but if Marty is part of the cover up of the Yellow King cult's murders...maybe he'll be crowned as the King in the last ep... he and Coehle would be seen as the embodiments of evil and good - and the outcome would be Coehle actually figuring out the case but having the blame placed on him - he would be the scapegoat, like the killers before him with the other murders, only he didn't actually kill for that reason - but he has killed.

The ultimate "good cop/bad cop."

Rust never quite explains his daughter's death - but I assume he ran over her when he was coming home from work, and so he already sees himself as a killer of a young girl - a very particular one close to his heart. His guilt is the force that drives him on this case - his is the flip side to Marty's reactions toward women and his own daughter. I think Rust's wife couldn't get over the accidental death - I'm not assuming he was drunk or something - but of course he could have been.

But his situation with his daughter makes me wonder if Audrey, Hart's daughter, will also be a victim.

If you compare the two sex scenes and Maggie in relation to the two men - Coehle doesn't just go along with the "bros before hos" locker room mentality with his partner - the first time he knows Hart stepped out, or the second time. C. is hurt that Maggie used him - for him, that moment was about a long-controlled desire - that he thought she shared - and she did, but only to a point, and the point was that she could use C. to make it impossible for Hart to want to remain in his marriage.

It's in the context of this division between C. and H. that C. tells Hart he doesn't exist without Rust. Of course he's talking about their relationship as partners, but he's also talking about that idea that "good and evil" exist in contrast to one another in our moral universe, but not in the abstracted nihilism Rust finds comfort in.

Maggie talks about Hart's problem - never knowing what he wanted. maybe he wanted to be that evil power.
eta the quote: “Marty didn’t know who he was so he never knew what he wanted.”
Maybe he didn't know he was the (a) yellow king.

Coehle doesn't think the rituals, etc. are "real." When he calls the Dora crime scene "meta psychotic" - this would mean someone acting as if they are psychotic, and creating a scenario (the death scene) that portrays the same. If the staging of the discovery of bodies does serve the purpose to maintain power over the place and its people - such staging would make sense.

But there may be some internal logic for the group that does this. Dora was found with her hands bound like she was praying in front of that tree, and the 2012 victim was in a crucified pose hanging off a bridge. I would just assume these positions are ways for the power cult to scare with poses that mimic religious postures that are familiar to the local populace.

And the story, ultimately, would be that the culture of white male religious supremacy is the great evil.