re: True Detective S1E08 "Form And Void"

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You're doing the exact same thing.

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no, i'm not. and y'all can go look at my posts

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You were the one with the negative view towards the show and have been biased ever since.

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if the show was veering in a direction i didn't like, why would i be happy with it?

i explained in great detail my issues with the show. those issues were never resolved, so why would i be happy?

you would somewhat have a point if i truly did give up on the show and i stopped watching. but i didn't, and i didn't

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and that if anyone says they actually liked the entire show that they must be lying to themselves.

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i never said that

i clearly stated that all the people who enjoyed the show primarily for the mystery/plot who NOW claim that the mystery/plot were worthless, AFTER they were exposed as being pointless, are lying to themselves

my focus clearly has been on story and not characters. even after i proclaimed episode 1 to be the best premier of any series i've ever seen, i made comments about my reservations with rust. i'm not going to lie and be like, "oh well the plot was thrown away, i'll claim this was great b/c it became centered around a character i never liked in the first place". you do realize how ridiculous that is, right?

It is a TV show, not real life. It was entertaining and quite obviously thought provoking.

What is funny to me is that HBO bought the show based on the first two episodes. Wow, did this series change or what after that? I mean HBO got their monies worth based on ratings but the last three episodes really took a turn.

I have argued you have to analyze this series from a reverse order. It ended up on a vector that like a hurricane forecast was in a wider range and not where most models predicted. It is like a hurricane forecasting for Destin and making land fall in Houston. What we did not take into account was the high pressure system that came down and stalled over Mobile. Game changer was Maggie fricking Rust. It broke up the marriage and Rust and Marty's partnership. It sent Rust to Alaska off the deep end.

SFP is 4th dimensional with a lot of circular logic. The plot getting unhinged occurred early on for him but truthfully the writer did a great job of sucking us in. Then spun us around and pointed us at the finish line. We wobbled all the way and did our best to make time. In end, a few had more bruises than the rest of us. Some still haven't gotten there yet.

Shut up. You're like a gayer version of him.

i wathced BoB all the way through for the first time last year. you missed out on that opportunity

and fwiw, BoB was really, really good. it wasn't really deep at all but what it dealt with was done very well

never seen lonesome dove. don't really have a desire to do so.

currently i'm watching firefly (and i've posted a tad about my thoughts). it's not really a show worthy of a lot of discussion

i'm saving mad men and dexter, by the way. from what i can read b/w the lines, dexter becomes an absolute shite show

i couldn't really get into freaks and geeks and only got about 1/3 of the way through. i made a thread about it

Meathead gonna meathead...

Dude, you are nothing like Rust. Not only do not understand Rust's philosophy, but you can't even figure out the barely fuzzy "plot holes" at the end of the show.

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Dude dresses idiosyncratic views as facts on almost every subject.

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we're talking about subjective valuation, which i believe will always be idiosyncratic (we don't live in mother russia, here)

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If it vaguely sounds reasonable but it's really bullshite, SFP has probably said it.

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personal opinion?