Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how they're going to be able to wrap this up.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone still thinking Qavvik might be in on this? I don't because nothing in the season has been very deep so far. I think he is exactly as written. That said, is Pete hiding something?

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Anonymous wrote:He's in a medically induced coma and presumably still is. I think he's alive the same way "Dead Travis" is actually alive -- think back to the scene with the science teacher explaining Tsalal's work with microorganisms. I think they have some kind of regenerative property. That's got to be tied to Dead Travis, the frozen guy, and maybe Clark's seizures.

I’m liking the show, but I can’t believe they didn’t have at least one scene where people were having a WTF moment over how he could still be alive after being entombed in ice for several days. Instead, a quick reference to him being in a medically-induced coma and back to humdrum police work.

I caught that too. They’re all odd ducks.

I assumed that was all part of the ultra-annoying supernatural element of the show. Sure, it’s totally reasonable and not at all out of the ordinary for a man to just wake up from being naked in a block of snow for several days. I was equally bothered when the one cop told the other something along the lines of “You grew up in Ennis, you of all people should know that even the dead can’t sleep in the night days.” Really? Because that sounds like a lot of cock and bull and laziness on the part of the writer.

I really miss Nic Pizzolatto. I remember the whole Tuttle Industry side plot in Season 1 and knew it was a red herring. I knew the sort of person who would commit those types of crimes would be exactly the kind of guy they got in the end. I remember arguing this up and down with my then boyfriend, now husband. Meanwhile, DV had all of these really ridiculous conspiracy theories. I’m starting to worry that his predictions will pan out in this season, but I’ll reserve a final judgement until the end.

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Anonymous wrote:This show is awful. I can’t believe it’s tied to True Detective. And sadly, I’m starting to think that maybe show runners do need to be White men and I’m a minority woman. Ugh!!!!

I'm curious to see how it ends but I think I don't like it because of the constant night. I can't tell when they show someone tiredly eating if it's breakfast, dinner, or a midnight snack. It's always pitch black outside their windows and i would go nuts in that environment.

haha that is the point!

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Anonymous wrote:I've been reading recaps on Vulture and other sites and am confused. I had assumed the dead woman we've seen pop up a few times is Navarro's mom. The woman has had the cross Navarro threw out of her car in one scene. One site referred to the dead woman as a victim of the domestic abuser one of them killed. She looks the same in the scenes ie under the bed in the care home with Navarro's sister.

That is Navarro's mom, right?

and was her appearance at the flashback to the abusive guy who killed his 18 year old girlfriend implying he murdered her?

Anonymous wrote:I've been reading recaps on Vulture and other sites and am confused. I had assumed the dead woman we've seen pop up a few times is Navarro's mom. The woman has had the cross Navarro threw out of her car in one scene. One site referred to the dead woman as a victim of the domestic abuser one of them killed. She looks the same in the scenes ie under the bed in the care home with Navarro's sister.

That is Navarro's mom, right?

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Anonymous wrote:This show is awful. I can’t believe it’s tied to True Detective. And sadly, I’m starting to think that maybe show runners do need to be White men and I’m a minority woman. Ugh!!!!

I'm curious to see how it ends but I think I don't like it because of the constant night. I can't tell when they show someone tiredly eating if it's breakfast, dinner, or a midnight snack. It's always pitch black outside their windows and i would go nuts in that environment.

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Anonymous wrote:I generally don’t like to pick things apart, but the number of times the characters get out of their cars and walk off leaving the headlights of their car on is baffling to me. Way to drain the battery in the middle of nowhere. Especially noticeable when they went to explore the dredges in last night’s episode — just leaving headlights on when they might be gone for a long time. And if the car was still running, not very smart with a suspect in the area who could jump in and drive away.

I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing!! So glad I'm not alone.

There is a lot I don't like about this season but the "leaving the cars running" thing is not one of them. In very cold places, a lot of people have remote starters that start your engine while keeping the doors locked. if you turn off the car, there's always the chance it might not start up without being plugged into the block heater, or the windshield might freeze over, or the tires get frozen. Lots of people leave their cars running when they go into convenience stores, for example.

During polar night, while investigating crimes, it makes a lot of sense to leave the car on with the headlights on bright. It's not like they're paying for the gas, anyway.

What I think is crazy unrealistic in the show is how people don't have their faces covered when they are outside--that's really dangerous in -20 temps! The actors must have been freezing.