[quote]Brett620 wrote:
I’m pretty sure Cohle is not the killer, BUT his present-day character should be a inspiration for a writer/director to cast MM in an epic villain role. A kind of Texas-style White-Trash Hanibal Lecter.
I think he would be absolutely brilliant as a get in your head type of villain. [/quote]
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
Kubrik-level[/quote]
mind=blown
A phenomenal series. MM deserves the Emmy (for that last scene alone).
I honestly think that Woody Harrelson is criminally underrated. The last 3 episodes he really took control of the show.
Oscar and an Emmy in the same year. Alriight, alriight, alriight
McConaughey really matured as an actor in the past few years. Hot damn I used to hate him, now he’s a pleasure to watch (maybe homo).
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
McConaughey really matured as an actor in the past few years. Hot damn I used to hate him, now he’s a pleasure to watch (maybe homo).[/quote]
I think he started out pretty good then went down hill for quite a few years.PB or anybody else ever see him in the movie “Frailty” that was directed by Bill paxton.I thought he did a good job in that film as well.
I just finally saw the last 2 episodes last night. I feel like I didn’t really pick up on a lot of the things people were questioning:
-Was there any connection to Hart’s girls? Why did she setup the dolls as she did?
-Who were the 5 horseman- was that determined?
-So the Yellow King was the enforcer or something?
I’ve been so out of my head lately I haven’t been able to piece this stuff together so if someone could just spell it out for me that would be great hahaha.
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
I just finally saw the last 2 episodes last night. I feel like I didn’t really pick up on a lot of the things people were questioning:
-Was there any connection to Hart’s girls? Why did she setup the dolls as she did?
-Who were the 5 horseman- was that determined?
-So the Yellow King was the enforcer or something?
I’ve been so out of my head lately I haven’t been able to piece this stuff together so if someone could just spell it out for me that would be great hahaha.[/quote]
I was hoping for a little more closure on a few things myself. I have to go back and watch it again.
Rob
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
-So the Yellow King was the enforcer or something?
[/quote]
That’s the Yellow King.
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
-So the Yellow King was the enforcer or something?
[/quote]
That’s the Yellow King.[/quote]
I was just reading that. It’s basically a deity or some such that is a driving force for all of this. I for some reason placed the spaghetti monster as the YK.
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
-So the Yellow King was the enforcer or something?
[/quote]
That’s the Yellow King.[/quote]
I was just reading that. It’s basically a deity or some such that is a driving force for all of this. I for some reason placed the spaghetti monster as the YK.[/quote]
I think the YK was never a person but a deity that the cult worshipped. The “Spaghetti Monster” or Erol was killing and sacrificing the women and children so the YK can show the Erol the same thing Rust eventually ends up seeing.
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
That’s the Yellow King.[/quote]
Great screencap, that certainly makes sense in this story.
Bigger-picture-wise, the Yellow King reference is the writer’s nod to the genre of “weird-fiction and ‘The King in Yellow’ is a fictional play within a collection of short stories – a metafictional dramatic work that brings despair, depravity, and insanity to anyone who reads it or sees it performed.”
Above quote and links from wiki:
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[quote]MrZsasz wrote:
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
Has anybody read the actual “Yellow King” book?[/quote]
Are you talking about “The King in Yellow” by Robert Chambers? Is so, yes, I mentioned it earlier and how “Carcosa” is a place in the play within the book.[/quote]
Alrighty then, looks like u guys covered this already.
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
-So the Yellow King was the enforcer or something?
[/quote]
That’s the Yellow King.[/quote]
That idea, coupled with “The King in Yellow” play kind of takes the lustre off of Rust’s epiphany at the end.
Seeing the yellow king is supposed to make you go insane. Only after walking out of Carcosa does Rust believe humanity has a chance and deserves better than suicide.
Maybe the ending wasn’t so nice after all.