Timeline for Why are only two bodies made public in True Detective?
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| Jun 24, 2014 at 23:21 | history | edited | Napoleon Wilson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 11, 2014 at 20:23 | comment | added | John Smith Optional | You're right. That pretty much blows my theory out of the water. Damn. Hope someone else has a crack at this, too! | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 20:22 | comment | added | Vedran Šego | There is a problem with that theory: Marie Fontenot. Her murder was ritualistic (we know so from the tape), but her death was covered up, not exposed. | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 18:24 | comment | added | John Smith Optional | ... and perhaps I didn't explain well enough: they weren't trying to mess with the authorities, they were trying to consolidate their power amongst their own ranks by executing a deed and watching as it goes unpunished, as though they were protected by the Yellow King himself, as though his power makes them beyond reproach. The entire purpose of the ritual was to make it public, and get away with it. Its the fetishization of their own influence. | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 18:21 | comment | added | John Smith Optional | The way I see it, the answer is in your comment: 'assuming that the cult killed more than these two', there is nothing to indicate the cult did kill more than these two. Childress killed potentially hundreds, but as you noted in your question, these were carried out in privacy at Carcosa. The public ritual was a rare ceremony, only performed every decade or so, as sacrifice to the Yellow King. The cult enabled Childress, but it was Childress who carried out the murders.... | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 17:01 | comment | added | Vedran Šego | +1 for the long and elaborate answer. However, as you said, it is inconclusive. I still see no motivation in exposing the bodies. It was not a part of the ritual (as others would have to be exposed as well, assuming that the cult killed more than these two), I find it unconvincing that they just wanted to mess with the authorities a bit,... I understand that the show wants to leave many loose ends, but I feel that the lack of a viable explanation (or at least a guess) about this makes a gapping hole in the whole show, and I don't think they really did let something like that slip by. | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 14:20 | history | answered | John Smith Optional | CC BY-SA 3.0 |