True Detective || HBO
+43
Vlad the Impaler
Amar
Art Morte
ManU20
Glory
mr-r34
Tomwin Lannister
elitedam
TalkingReckless
Valkyrja
Peccadillo
urbaNRoots
Dante
juventus101
RED
dmize
Nishankly
Robespierre
ExtremistEnigma
matpol
Abramovich
Hapless_Hans
Andrew
Swanhends
McLewis
Adit
Pedram
SUPERCARTTS
Le Samourai
Mamad
MaraVilla
EarlyPrototype
the xcx
El Gunner
RealGunner
RebaƱo Sagrado
Freeza
Great Leader Sprucenuce
Onyx
M99
Raptorgunner
Firenze
McAgger
47 posters
Page 26 of 31
Page 26 of 31 • 1 ... 14 ... 25, 26, 27 ... 31
Re: True Detective || HBO
He's been such a GOAT all the way through this season
Tomwin Lannister- Ballon d'Or Contender
- Posts : 26892
Join date : 2011-06-05
Re: True Detective || HBO
gotta wonder exactly how Frank's gonna launch an assault on this money drop, all of that stuff he had on the list seems to hint that he'll have a bunch of guys but we know he doesn't have any except that awkward mofo that's his driver, could see him using the Mexicans which would be stupid and getting killed by them at the end, they had a few important scenes and if they don't feature again it will be weird plotline.
Firenze- the Bloody-Nine
- Club Supported :
Posts : 34219
Join date : 2012-04-25
Re: True Detective || HBO
M99 wrote:This is a great recap, recommend it to everyone. Finally I know what the hell is actually happening.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/08/03/true_detective_season_two_a_guide_to_the_plot_of_this_confusing_season.html
I don't think even binging like elitedam said would help you remember all these minor (who are actually major to the plot) character's names. For the longest time I thought Blake was the Ethan Hawke half anaconda half great white shark guy until I saw the real Blake (tall guy looks like a creep) on the party and found out last episode that Ethan Hawke's name is Nails. Had no idea that the 70s disco cop (Holloway) is Chief of Police.
So it looks like the ones who killed Caspere are probably the siblings who were orphaned in the jewelry store robbery. Caspere's assistant and her probable brother the photographer in the movie set (who probably was the one in the bird costume who shot Velcoro in episode 2).
I don't understand the Ethan Hawke reference?
El Gunner- An Oakland City Warrior
- Club Supported :
Posts : 22637
Join date : 2011-06-05
Age : 27
Re: True Detective || HBO
Nails looks like Ethan Hawke
M99- Forum Legend
- Club Supported :
Posts : 30391
Join date : 2011-06-06
Age : 101
Re: True Detective || HBO
Holy shit I just watched episode 7, can't wait for the finale now
Abramovich- Fan Favorite
- Club Supported :
Posts : 6544
Join date : 2011-06-06
Re: True Detective || HBO
Can't help but think Ray's dad was involved in the diamond robbery. He vouches for Burris and Holloway saying they are good men but it's obvious they are anything but that. I think he was the getaway driver
M99- Forum Legend
- Club Supported :
Posts : 30391
Join date : 2011-06-06
Age : 101
Re: True Detective || HBO
Well... damn.
- Spoiler:
mfw Ray's message fails..
Frank had some great lines all episode
"are you fn dense?!"
"I was wrong, it was today" earlier tells Osip he only needed 1 bullet *unloads full clip*
Re: True Detective || HBO
too lazy to type up anything detailed so I'll just say that I enjoyed the finale and the season as a whole.
Firenze- the Bloody-Nine
- Club Supported :
Posts : 34219
Join date : 2012-04-25
Re: True Detective || HBO
- Spoiler:
Thought that ending was utter crap myself imo.
Asif everyone dies and the bad guys get away with it all, well I suppose you never know if they truly do or not but still fail.
Abramovich- Fan Favorite
- Club Supported :
Posts : 6544
Join date : 2011-06-06
Re: True Detective || HBO
read quite few hated the ending and thought the plot made no sense throughout the season.
Read a joke that season 3 will be marty and Rust trying to make sense of season 2
Read a joke that season 3 will be marty and Rust trying to make sense of season 2
RealGunner- Admin
- Club Supported :
Posts : 89513
Join date : 2011-06-05
Re: True Detective || HBO
People just expect a happy ending all the time like it's a Marvel movie. Definitely a lot wrong with this season but there was a lot to like too. Finale played out sort of how I expected tbh, enjoyed most of the major events.
One of the major flaws with the season though is that they often had very important (to the story) characters appear for like two minutes and then nonchalantly namedrop them like we should remember who they were 6 episodes later
One of the major flaws with the season though is that they often had very important (to the story) characters appear for like two minutes and then nonchalantly namedrop them like we should remember who they were 6 episodes later
Firenze- the Bloody-Nine
- Club Supported :
Posts : 34219
Join date : 2012-04-25
Re: True Detective || HBO
Meh . Awful. So I have followed all this .... for it ?
Robespierre- World Class Contributor
- Club Supported :
Posts : 17172
Join date : 2013-11-22
Age : 34
Re: True Detective || HBO
IMO True Detective S1 was a 9.5/10 and season 2 was a generous 7/10
I don't regret watching it, still better than most of the stuff I've watched on TV in the last five years
I don't regret watching it, still better than most of the stuff I've watched on TV in the last five years
Firenze- the Bloody-Nine
- Club Supported :
Posts : 34219
Join date : 2012-04-25
Re: True Detective || HBO
This 2nd season was inconsistent, alternated good and bad episodes but the final was hateful for me ...
The worst final I could imagine
TD1 is even 10/10 imo . Simply GOAT.
The worst final I could imagine
TD1 is even 10/10 imo . Simply GOAT.
Robespierre- World Class Contributor
- Club Supported :
Posts : 17172
Join date : 2013-11-22
Age : 34
Re: True Detective || HBO
TD Season 1 was perfect at every level. Only show I'll ever give 10/10 to imo
RealGunner- Admin
- Club Supported :
Posts : 89513
Join date : 2011-06-05
Re: True Detective || HBO
the ending didn't bother me too much. While the season overall definitely wasn't near S1 I still enjoyed it. 8/10 imo
- Spoiler:
I wasn't expecting a happy ending, I kind of had the feeling the cards were too stacked against them. At least they got some of the d-bags like Holloway, Osip, etc. Seems like the bad guys getting away will be a theme because in S1 Tuttle and his friends got away also.
While Frank and Ray were such great characters and their deaths sucked, I thought both scenes were really well done. Ray's death played out literally exactly as his premonition with his dad had said down to the trees "looking like giants"
What sucked was I think he was home free, them staking out Chad was their last ditch effort. But I guess it was worth it for him to see Chad one last time, and with his badge.
Frank's desert walk.. Could've given up his jacket(probably was going to die in the desert regardless), but even if the diamonds weren't in there, I don't think he gives it up, he wasn't gonna be humiliated.
idk why he trusted the Armenians though. After he drove off and they showed their faces, music starts playing and you know he's fvcked.
Re: True Detective || HBO
Disappointed. Like many said still better than most shows on the TV mainly due to the cast quality and shortness of the series (hence the level of quality)....but the plot at no stage was interesting or suspense ridden. Finale wasnt any different either.Hope they find better script next time.
Re: True Detective || HBO
Great decision to binge the last 4. The plot made so much more sense, and I absolutely loved everything else. It was so freaking intense. A 9/10 for me, I was sweating because of the tension. Everything that happened in the ending felt true to the characters despite what you might think of it.
probably also the last season if I'd venture a guess, don't think a third has been announced
probably also the last season if I'd venture a guess, don't think a third has been announced
Freeza- Ballon d'Or Contender
- Club Supported :
Posts : 23446
Join date : 2011-06-06
Age : 30
Re: True Detective || HBO
Hispter is what nowFreeza wrote:A 9/10 for me, I was sweating because of the tension. Everything that happened in the ending felt true to the characters despite what you might think of it.
There are a lot of stuff to criticise imo, in the ending and the whole season. I'm only going to breifly talk about the finale. First of all again 10 mins was wasted with Ani and Ray talking in bed in the morning - plain unnecessary and pointless when you consider that Frank's shootout at Osip's exchange was literally the most excited part we waited for in the finale and that shootout was short and cheap more than anything else tbh, last week someone posted about how he was wondering how Frank was gonna gather a gang because everyone is against me, then he calls Ray and the two of them get rid of 6/7/8 people First of all, thought there was going to be more people at the exchange, and the number of weaponery told us shit was going to be big scale, rather than a quick hit and run. Secondly, I admire how GOAT Frank was with the gun when he seems to be more on the businessman side of the mob world and not the type that get rids of people.
I liked the location of Ray and Frank's deaths though. Think it was brilliant and apt to their characters like Freeze mentioned. Even if it was more on the "fated/everything comes full circle" side. But then some things were also just placed their to evoke sentiment, like for instance, Chad an introverted, kinda-outcast kid that gets bullied brings his dad's most priced possession to him to school - just ain't realistic to the source material - also Chad was pretty much a young and dumb kid, who liked his father but didn't show it much and he was literally always 3/4 reproached to his father throughout the season and then suddenly he gets so sentimnetal about his dad that he takes the badge to school.
I also liked the meeting/shootout between Ray and Holloway, but then again that was just one of the few high-octane moments in a rather slow-paced finale much like the rest of the season.
Don't get me wrong though, I am definitely on the side of the people that enjoyed the finale and the overall season, it was good considering the narrative approach that Nic Pizzo took this season. Like Firenze I would rate it around 7/10.
El Gunner- An Oakland City Warrior
- Club Supported :
Posts : 22637
Join date : 2011-06-05
Age : 27
Re: True Detective || HBO
Also I saw it mentioned elsewhere but you also need to consider that the creator apparently polished up season 1's story over a period of 5 years and had to follow it up with 8 hrs of television a year later. That's a huge challenge.
Firenze- the Bloody-Nine
- Club Supported :
Posts : 34219
Join date : 2012-04-25
Re: True Detective || HBO
I completely agree with Firenze's rating and assessment of the season. I don't regret watching it at all, especially since this was Colin Farell's best performance in years. I don't think it's better than most of the stuff I watched because I am very selective with what I watch. I think the story was too ambitious to be completed in 8 months (though there is no excuse for the terrible writing we suffered through at times), it certainly lacked polish and was all over the place the entire season.
M99- Forum Legend
- Club Supported :
Posts : 30391
Join date : 2011-06-06
Age : 101
Re: True Detective || HBO
dmize wrote:Ray's death played out literally exactly as his premonition with his dad had said down to the trees "looking like giants"
that scene/compared to the premonition:
- Spoiler:
Re: True Detective || HBO
Worth watching E5-E8?
urbaNRoots- First of his name
- Club Supported :
Posts : 17215
Join date : 2011-08-11
Re: True Detective || HBO
I would say so, yes.
El Gunner- An Oakland City Warrior
- Club Supported :
Posts : 22637
Join date : 2011-06-05
Age : 27
Re: True Detective || HBO
Finished watching it
- Spoiler:
- Gutted it ended how it did, wanted at least 1 of the 2 main lads to get out. If it was me getting away from all of that I would not stop unless I absolutely had to. Anything slowed me down i'd instantly become suspicious and *bleep* off.
Season was good. I'd give it a 7.5. It should have had more episodes and despite being such a shady, sometimes confusing story. It was all rather simple and not much changed in the end.
Frank had a squad of men who were following him until like episode 6 or 7. Wtf happened to them lol. I get sending nails who felt like he actually owed frank a life debt, being sent to take care of Jordan. But I think having 4 armed guys in your car would've probably helped a bit
As for Ray, he was a GOAT but he was so self destructive, you just knew he'd be his own downfall. I would've at least liked the survivors to get some sort of pay off. But tbh it was more or less a failed heist worst case scenario ending.
Tomwin Lannister- Ballon d'Or Contender
- Club Supported :
Posts : 26892
Join date : 2011-06-05
Age : 83
Re: True Detective || HBO
IIRC in Episode 7 Frank told Nails that the Russian's had bought everyone that was loyal to him along with his clubs
IMO he ended up actually being the highlight of the season and at least the finale, the desert walk scene was great - had a bunch of great scenes in the last few episodes in fact and his acting was good, not a coincidence that in the final couple of episodes all the stupid dialogue he had been given stopped.
You had to suspend disbelief a lot in the finale though, with Ray's story in particular, there was no need for him to randomly drive into the woods for a last stand
IMO he ended up actually being the highlight of the season and at least the finale, the desert walk scene was great - had a bunch of great scenes in the last few episodes in fact and his acting was good, not a coincidence that in the final couple of episodes all the stupid dialogue he had been given stopped.
You had to suspend disbelief a lot in the finale though, with Ray's story in particular, there was no need for him to randomly drive into the woods for a last stand
Firenze- the Bloody-Nine
- Club Supported :
Posts : 34219
Join date : 2012-04-25
Page 26 of 31 • 1 ... 14 ... 25, 26, 27 ... 31
Page 26 of 31
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
|
|
Yesterday at 10:22 pm by Myesyats
» The Official Real Madrid 23 - 24 Matchday Thread
Yesterday at 4:14 pm by The Madrid One
» The Lionel Messi Appreciation Thread & Fan Club IV
Yesterday at 12:34 pm by Myesyats
» Kobbie Mainoo Watch
Yesterday at 12:07 pm by Glory
» GL NBA fantasy 23-24
Yesterday at 7:02 am by El Gunner
» Transfer Rumours V6
Yesterday at 3:59 am by Myesyats
» The Official Final Fantasy thread
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:41 pm by BarrileteCosmico
» The Official PlayStation 1 Gaming Threads
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:34 pm by Vibe
» La Liga 2023/24
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:34 pm by Nivash
» Lamine Yamal Hype thread
Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:02 pm by El Gunner
» General Games Discussion
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:36 pm by Myesyats
» De Rossi
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:02 pm by rincon
» The Official Dwayne Wade <<<<<< you thread
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:40 am by Vibe