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Chula Vista · 12-12-2015, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Oh, and as an open-ended thing, whether or not The Yellow King is actually supposed to be a real entity, what do you think it all means? Cause it's obviously more than just some literary device just to be interesting.

Maybe not. These two think it was more style over substance.

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But who is The Yellow King? Does it matter?

Esther: Perhaps the most frustrating element of the finale, and maybe the show in general, was the fact that Pizzolatto laid out an entire mythology having to do with The Yellow King and Carcosa that remains a mystery as we leave the show behind. In one sense, that’s true to life: killers often are brought to justice without the public ever knowing what their motives were. These guys were evil and believed in some evil things. In another sense, it feels like Pizzolatto was jerking us around and showing off just how writerly he could be. I’m sure in the coming days there will be plenty of theories of how it all ties together, but for now I feel a little bit like I’ve been cheated.

David: I was certainly satisfied with what a nightmarish vision Carcosa turned out to be. Major hat tip to this show’s production designer, who did an equally good job on Errol’s dilapidated shack and his stick-filled chamber of horrors. But I agree that Pizzolatto maybe leaned a little too hard on the whole “who knows why men do the evil that they do” angle. There were so many scenes across the season of people freaking out at the sight of the stick sculptures, at the thought of the scar-faced man. Even Ann Dowd’s babbling in this final episode raised more questions we’ll never get answers to. I understand Pizzolatto’s resistance to just dumping a whole bunch of exposition on us at the end. But it was kinda hilarious how Marty literally cut the explanation off from his hospital bed. He doesn’t need to hear the details, and from a character perspective that makes sense, but I would have loved just a couple minutes on why Errol was doing what he was doing, and why his victims/acolytes were so cowed by him.