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There's really no point in you continuing to post your point of view in here bud. No one agrees with you, because it makes basically no sense in light of what was on-screen throughout the show and requires the viewer to completely ignore a massive number of connections made by the principals to various characters. There are a range of possible interpretations of what went on in those eight episodes, a range of possibilities as to what the real arrangement was, and viewers can reasonably speculate on those. Yours is unlikely to the point of absurd; it's as if someone came out and said "well maybe they were wrong about Errol being the guy in the sketch, and maybe there's an actual spaghetti monster with green ears out there somewhere calling the shots and he's still at large!" Um, okay, maybe, but... no.
Basically you're engaging in a masturbatory exercise whose sole purpose is to provide yourself comfort that you're right about everything, while everyone else is wrong, and no possible evaluation of you or your opinions could conceivably be anything other than positive. This can just as easily be accomplished out loud, to yourself, rather than here on the forums; we don't need to be involved. Enjoy your illusory infallibility.
LOL You're hilariously delusional and a bit creepy having constructed a profile of some sort on me. None of this is even right except the clothes thing. I'm not the "head moderator", Chris is; it's not possible to edit a post, even for us; I can't do math for shit; I have read a couple of graphic novels I guess (six of them now that I think about it) but I doubt that makes me an expert; and I'm from Vancouver, where the Seahawks are the only team within driving distance and we all cheer for them.
I am a nerd though... I have expended significant energy thinking about what should happen going forward in Game of Thrones. It's impossible to have strong opinions on that subject and not be a nerd.
You meanwhile have a personality disorder, and apparently an unsettling obsession with me. I am not flattered.
He was being sarcastic; his view is essentially that anything that wasn't blatantly put before the viewer was just a red herring and in making those connections we're all just overthinking a simplistic narrative. This assumes that the fact that the story is finite means that every question has to be wrapped up nicely by the end.
PS about the whole "it was just Errol" thing,
All of the things that, in the previous episode, Cohle was telling Marty that he had uncovered, and what we saw on the videotape, pointed to a larger group of men working on these things. But we get to the end, and it's just Errol left, along with his father in the shed. How many other people were involved in the specific things that Cohle and Hart were investigating?
Nic Pizzolatto: There's the men in the video, and there's about 10 of them. Then you can begin to look at that as if that cult began to disintegrate shortly afterwards, and then there were always revenants existing on a local level. If you track the name Childress, you realize Sheriff Childress was the sheriff when Marie Fontenot disappeared, an Officer Childress was attending to Guy Francis in 2002 when he committed suicide. The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy. I think it would have rang false to have Hart and Cohle suddenly clean up 50 years of the culture history that led to Errol Childress, or to get all the men in that video. It's important to me, I think, that Cohle says, "We didn't get em all, Marty," and Marty says, "We ain't going to. This isn't that kind of world." This isn't the kind of world where you mop up everything. We discharged our duty, but of course there are levels and wheels and historical contexts to what happened that we'll never be able to touch.
Haha your capacity for self-delusion is extraordinary. Sad though.
"were the older men ever implicated in anything besides pedophilia and simply witnessing errols killings "
"if the cult was that powerful and longstanding then he would probably have more than just one tape. errol was doing his own thing"
(Ski_the_east points out that he wasn't doing his own thing and there was a group of bad men carrying out these activities, as Pizzolatto says)
"I must have missed all those guys in the opening scene of episode 1"
"the 'elders' were (probably) involved in one murder there were many murders"
"there wasnt any evidence of systematic influence, there was evidence of one act of tampering with that seemingly innocent/naive Sheriff, which again was related the only crime in the entire show where they are even implicated"
Basically all contradicted by What NP says up there.
