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I keep thinking back to the interview we did before the season, and the moment when I was asking you about comparisons to other serial killer shows, and you said that you couldn't care less about serial killers. How seriously were we ultimately meant to take the actual Dora Lange investigation, and how much of it was just a line to hang the character examination on?

Nic Pizzolatto: I don't think it was an empty vehicle, is what I guess I would say there. I don't think it could have been just anything that these guys were working on. I think it's relevant that the person they're chasing is both the victim of an historical evil and the perpetrator of an historical evil. The killer in that way is a physical articulation of cultural aspects that have sat behind the scenes, even informing that polluted landscape that provides so much of the background. If you go from the idea of something being in its natural state and then being perverted, and that this particular villain, for lack of a better word, is a killer of women and children, and his methodology is intimately tied to a mythology of belief — I do think if you want to go back and watch 7 and 8, there's enough given in the fragments that everyone states, there's enough that you can actually piece together historically, how Sam Tuttle in the early '30s led to Errol Childress in the first decade of the new millennium. I would say it wasn't an empty vehicle at all. I think the killer, his methodology and his actual crimes were endemic, not only to our characters, but to the world we were dealing with. It wouldn't have worked to have a robbery that didn't get solved properly in 1995. There's almost a way that Cohle, Hart and Errol, these men are in some ways the creations of their fathers, if you pay attention to their backstories.

brainpanhandler » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:43 pm wrote:

8bitagent » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:37 am wrote:You should do a documentary short on the subject!

For a few years now I've been toying with the idea of trying my hand at video and this would be an interesting choice for a first effort.

That image is from the "Carcosa" maze complex the main killer creates leading to a sacrificial chamber.

I think I'll go back in the daylight.

8bitagent » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:18 pm wrote:
Btw folks, is this the yellow king I presume?

IanEye » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:22 pm wrote:

8bitagent » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:18 pm wrote:
Btw folks, is this the yellow king I presume?

Nope.

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8bitagent » Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:18 pm wrote:

brainpanhandler » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:43 pm wrote:

8bitagent » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:37 am wrote:You should do a documentary short on the subject!

For a few years now I've been toying with the idea of trying my hand at video and this would be an interesting choice for a first effort.

That image is from the "Carcosa" maze complex the main killer creates leading to a sacrificial chamber.

I think I'll go back in the daylight.

Thought this was a pretty well done shot


Btw folks, is this the yellow king I presume?

IanEye » Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:22 pm wrote:

8bitagent » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:18 pm wrote:
Btw folks, is this the yellow king I presume?

Nope.

.

Zombie Glenn Beck » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:24 pm wrote:

Luther Blissett » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:08 pm wrote:I would like to link the True Detective subreddit to the Franklin Case today, because they displayed some quite adept investigative tics of their own in analyzing the show. I think some of them, now that the first season of a piece of media entertainment has ended, could be convinced to take on something real life that may have the power to potentially help someone.

Is there a single clean, well-presented, well-researched overview of the case that I could present as a gateway? I only know of the longer works or the more convoluted, complex, and (frankly) elitist overviews that almost seem set up to turn people away.

Conspiracy of Silence is probably the best intro to the case you can find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asvl6kO1Vo8

Luther Blissett » Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:24 pm wrote: Thanks. http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueDetective/c ... ases_just/

You'll have to pardon the elementary nature of my overview, errors, inaccuracies, or glaring oversight on my part. I tried to balance brevity and clarity (another reason why I like this place is the community's appreciation of thoroughness, something lacking elsewhere) in hopes of any kind of effectiveness there.