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I did think the series was great, and the spaghetti monster being a reference to the anti-religion spaghetti monster had occurred to me, too.

I did feel that there were a lot of loose ends in the plot, but maybe the next season, with different characters, will explore some of those as well. We know that Hart and Cohle are not back next season, but perhaps we will get some more explication of what really happpened to Hart’s daughter, whether her grandfather was involved with the cult, and some more about Senator Tuttle, who skated away cleanly this season.

It was redemption for both lead characters.

Rust abandoned his nihilism and accepted that life has meaning, even if he can't quite grasp what it is. He was also finally able to come to terms with the loss of his daughter.

Marty made peace with his estranged family and showed them that there was still good left in him. He also proved to himself and Rust, by finding the tiny clue that linked everything together, that he was indeed a "true detective" and not just Rust's secretary.

Loved the series. As good as "Breaking Bad." That said, I thought the finale was a little weak until the VERY end comments between Woody and McConaghey about the darkness vs. the light winning. McConaghey's final monologue was just too rambling.

But that's all nitpicking. It had to end with these two "together" as it were, as they were the only ones who could stand each other. I loved the sense of revulsion, not only by them, but even by the corrupt sheriff, at what was on the video. I do think they made the black cops out to be a little too detached and almost unconcerned with the murders.

One thing that bothered me was the ending scene where Marty reconnected with his family. His daughters were teenagers back in 2002. Ten years on, they had the same girls playing the characters again. They looked no different yet they would be in their early to mid twenties. Also, everyone else aged except his wife. She looked the same as in 2002 and also as in 1995. Sorry, but everyone changes even a little bit after 17 years.

I really liked how they had that scene with the two girls playing in the yard and the younger one wanted the tiara and the older girl threw it up in the tree. The next scene she was a teenager, dressed in goth getting out of the car with a bunch of other goths. Nice symbolism with her throwing away the princess mantle.

I also liked how they both had daughters only. Speaking as a father of daughters, I think seeing what that sick bastard was doing to girls and young women would motivate you all the more to go after him.

My favorite lefty whine (from a poster on Television Without Pity) on the finale is below. Even if I disliked the series the squalls of anguish from lefties would be worth it.

All those plotlines lead nowhere. This was nothing but another Deep South potboiler and the baddie was a bayou hick who was screwing his sister. None of the religious and political themes lead anywhere.

The coolest, baddest atheist on American TV starts sniveling about a dead girl whose presence he sensed like a New Jersey medium.

Jesus. Take back McConaughey's Oscar.Take back all those magazine covers and think pieces and blog columns about this cheap, deceptive piece of derivative, second-rate horror schlock.

What a travesty it is that HBO packaged this as some kind of intellectual, multi-layered high-end cable fare. This belongs on Cinemax reruns, right after Hills Have Eyes 2.

I liked this posters take from a thread on IMDB...

I hate to spoil this for all you guys but you need to do some research on the actual book the yellow king and on Corcosa and the entire H.P. Lovecraft world.

The yellow king author was an influence on lovecraft.

Corcosa is a city on a planet in another universe, its a universe that if we visited would instantly drive us insane, (so would seeing the play “The Yellow King”).

The only way to access this other universe is through ancient incantations, occult activity and performing abominations which twist our reality to the point that a gateway opens, that gateway would lead to that other universe.

What Rust saw was that gateway, chances are you have to be a bit clairvoyant to even sense it but Rust is a fairly deep and “sensitive” (as in clairvoyant) character.

I also know that the writer is ok with you thinking its not real, in fact he would prefer most people think it was a hallucination of Rusts, the “reality” of the show is that Rust saw a portal to another dimension, created from sheer pain, terror and horror beyond normal human experience but the writer knows that the underlying supernatural references might turn off the hardcore “detective” type TV watchers, in other words he wants the skeptics to remain skeptical but wants to tip the hat to the sci fi/horror lovers out there, the ones that know better.

Btw, all these ideas were also used by Clive Barker when he made Hellraiser, the idea that pain was a whole other dimension and that we could access that dimension by creating abominations, in hellraisers case it was the lament configuration, in the True Detectives case it was the occult torture and killing of people, same ideas.