[quote]thehebrewhero wrote:
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
I ventured out of PWI specifically to find out whether people were talking about True Detective. I’m not a big TV guy, but of the series I’ve seen and liked, it’s already taken the undisputed top spot.
I think tomorrow night’s episode will put the “Marty/Rust is the killer” theories in the ground (though I’ve suspected Marty from time to time), and I think we’ll finally have an unambiguous idea as to where the story is actually going.
Even more than the narrative-plot and emotional resolutions, I’m looking forward to seeing where Rust ends up philosophically. He’s been as much a hypocrite as Marty in many ways–he talks a big atheist, anti-natalist, existential-nihilist, everybody-is-nobody game, but just about everything he does is in service of a strict, obvious morality. (Why, for example, put the kid in the bathtub during that balls-out single shot raid scene, if that kid is nobody? Why did Ledoux deserve to die, if he, too, was nobody?) Say Rust dies in the final conflict, doesn’t that mean Marty’s idea about community and the common good win out, in the end?[/quote]
I think the reason Rust puts kids in the bathtub or looks down on Marty for cheating on his wife has nothing to do with religion. Rust is a “true detective” or true cop. His sense of right and wrong is what drives him. Athiesist tend to value life more as they see it as you get one shot. Neumerous times in the show it points out organized religion is a sham and can easily lead sheep to slaughter. Hence how the show will most likely end up.
Remember Tutle was the conected to the Governor somehow and wanted a task force to sweep away the murders. Also the original captain is not there anymore but the white haired prick that reemed Rust is still ranked above LeRoy(the new cap) Someohow this turd shows up everytime he rubs up on something in the case. Im pretty sure its a conspiracy with Tutle, some high ranking cops, and maybe the governor. I dont think the gardner is the yellow king thats pretty lame, at best hes a underling. Once the show is over it will show Rust as a hero of non religiouse orgins uncovering a hypocracy of ultra christian child molesting murderers in high level positions.[/quote]
Rust’s disdain for Marty fucking things up has more to do with that part of Rusts life being taken away from him. It’s pretty obvious the loss of his daughter is a huge reason for this. It’s evident with the dinner scene where he gets so nervous he gets drunk before going but then settles in and gets comfortable and enjoys himself. Also I think it has more to do with Rust’s nihilistic mindset than atheism. Rust isn’t a character driven by right or wrong at all and I don’t even acknowledges it truly as a nihilist. He simply acknowledges the wrong that is human consciousness, that we are capable of terrible things, nihilist don’t see right or wrong in a black and white manner. He even considers himself a bad man and all people as bad in one way or another. (except for kids, who are more or less innocent which may also drive him) you see nihilism sort of laughs at people with moral constraints and everyone is a moral hypocrite in the show, he’s constantly surrounded by moral hypocrisy, at work, with all the church goers etc… It drives his character insane by the time he leaves in 2002, probably also why he broke up with his lady
