Didn't like this theory initially, but damn, I gotta agree with it... the mirror shots also might fit with it - e.g., Rust has that tiny mirror so as not to see the audience reflected in it, and Martin's double-take when looking in the mirror at Ledoux's place. And Rust did mention something about the cartels peeling…

This is ridiculously insane, and I LOVE IT!! Nothing like a nihilist who believes in a kind of fate.

You mean like a tape? A video recording of the interviews that we (audience included) are all watching? And here I was thinking that it was a reference to the cyclical time in ritual by Eliade. He discusses how ritual breaks the linear construct of time and allows one to exist across all times in some of his work.…

All the other things make sense, the can does not have to be disk, but another symbol none of us though of yet.

Well, except for the fact that show is not on disc. I am not watching it on disc. Through the miracle of internet streaming, I will never watch it on disc. Actually most people who see it will not see it on disc. So if Rust is trapped on a disc, and I am not watching it on disc, I guess I am not watching Rust but only…

I just got mindraped, and I came to half of your story by going back to watch Rust's speech again, and it hit me. The real mindfuck and the message, the riddle, it is in the title of the show. The viewer is the True Detective in this case. I just have to watch all the episodes again. Thanks for the clarification, I…

In the first episode he says "this place is like somebody's memory of a town and the memory is fading". It sounded like it fits to what you are talking about. So the 1992 Rust seems to have an inkling of what is going on but the 2012 version is absolutely sure.

Grant Morrison has been pulling this exact thing in comics since as far back as his run on Animal Man in the 80s, and it's been a theme that has played a major part in many of his works. Particularly The Invisibles (which shares a lot of Lovecraftian influence with TD, although it's far more overt) and Flex Mentallo.…

I've covered that in my comment above. Realising what you're getting at... Yeah, that's heady stuff.

Oh my god, I just realised. A flat circle where they relive their lives over and over... It's a fucking DVD. They just did the cinematic equivalent of this page

LOL I didn't know about the Pizzolatto cameo — that is hilarious and great. I think it's possible that Rust "knows" he's a fictional character without this actually being about breaking the fourth wall. Because in his philosophy, everything is meaningless, so we might as well just be fictional characters who are…

Andromeda started out as a fun, romping, amusing sort of military space opera with quirky characters and a sense of humor about itself, lurched into a loud and pointless action-adventure show, and then spun rapidly into a black hole of arch seriousness: the daffy blue alien girl with a tail was reborn as a Mysterious…

I still love Time Trax. You're never going to talk me out of that.

All of the political messages of the original RoboCop are still relevant today, which is kind of depressing.

This is me speaking as both a huge Firefly fan and a huge Whedonite. I never ever ever ever want to see another post about the possibility of this show returning. Ever.

Were you *alive* int he 1990s? It was *Alien 3* that killed the franchise. Alien:Resurrection was a last gasp to save it - yes it changed Whedon's original script, but it's still a very solid, good movie. Dude...Alien 3 was the one that needlessly brought Ripley back after her story was over. Resurrection…

Wait, there was a forth Alien film? That explains that strange extra disc in my boxed set...

The Alien franchise killed itself with Resurrection by trying to keep Ripley involved. The basic story would have been nuts. A morally questionable crew of mercenaries steal cryopods and sale them to the government who is experimenting with Aliens on a ship. All hell breaks loose. Mercs have to shoot their way out.…

Art direction is the core of production values. Without them, you're wasting time and talent.

Thank you. It's inexcusable. They have the money, the hardware and the man power.