re: true detective theories

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There's a reason half of the posters here think the dinner was the same night and the other half think it was some time later. Writers frickin' witcha'

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Well it's partly because the show Rust show up for dinner earlier in the episode, then show other scenes going on in that timeline, then cut back to the actual dinner.

This analyzation of the dinner is overblown anyway. It showed Rust's demons, his connection with Marty's demons and the present day detectives' interest in Rust's state at the time of the investigation.

We've seen both Marty and Rust lie to the present day detectives and the truth revealed in the flashback. It would make no sense for the flashback of that dinner scene to be a lie.

This thread is a...

Yes, I think it is implied through the story arc and the acting that Rust turned down Marty's offer for dinner numerous times.

I believe Marty even tells Rust something like, "Look you are going to have to come to dinner..." implying that Rust has even refused before.

I think Rust talking about Jan 3 and his daughter was his justification for turning Marty down. He couldn't handle seeing a family on his daughters bday. He instead drank alone/went and met skanks.

He had dinner at Marty's after his daughters bday, after he fell off the wagon.

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Are you suggesting that this happen off camera? Because the only time Marty mentions "You've got to come see the family" was at the crime scene of Lange. This is when Rust takes a puff of his cig and goes into the cane fields.

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I thought Marty also mentioned it in the bar which is when Rust agrees to come to dinner.

Edit: In any case I think this is correct:

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Yes, I think it is implied through the story arc and the acting that Rust turned down Marty's offer for dinner numerous times. I believe Marty even tells Rust something like, "Look you are going to have to come to dinner..." implying that Rust has even refused before. I think Rust talking about Jan 3 and his daughter was his justification for turning Marty down. He couldn't handle seeing a family on his daughters bday. He instead drank alone/went and met skanks. He had dinner at Marty's after his daughters bday, after he fell off the wagon.

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This is Rust narrating -- telling the detectives

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"Anyway, that evening, wasn't even sundown, he decided it was a good time to invite me over for dinner, which I got a problem with, alright, because I'm thinking about Marty's wife and his two kids and how it's my daughter's birthday, and I know there's nothing I can do about it, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but...I'm gonna have a drink"

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For real, I gotta stop reading this shite.

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yeah, I've moved on to tumblr.

The curling one had me cracking up.

dude the dinner was not the same night that he was invited.. it couldn't be more clear

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dude the dinner was not the same night that he was invited.. it couldn't be more clear

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Clear as mud considering half the posters in the thread think it happened the same night while others think it happened later.

Writer disjointed the dinner scene for a reason IMO

And why are the investigators so interested in the issue?

So it makes sense to you that the morning Marty wakes up in the recliner, his wife tells him that she's missed him the last couple days, even though you are suggesting they just had dinner the night before?

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So it makes sense to you that the morning Marty wakes up in the recliner, his wife tells him that she's missed him the last couple days, even though you are suggesting they just had dinner the night before?

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It makes me think they are lying about having dinner that night