La belle dame sans merci, John Keats // True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto // Erica Jong
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I'm cringe and I've done cringe things
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I do like how clear it is that rust and marty don't have the read on maggie they think they do. I think of rust's "I can see her softening" and it's probably only said to keep marty focused given rust doesn't care about their marriage at all and just wants marty sharp for their sting, but when we see their resumed home life (which he was right about it resuming, but look what it took -- if they never find those kids does it happen at all?) it's clear maggie hasn't softened, hasn't forgiven marty. especially in her interview, it's clear she never did. at one point maggie is recollecting a line she attributes to rust, "people don't forgive, they just have short memories." we never hear him say this, and I like to think this is maggie's own thought she misremembers as rust's simply because she feels it's too loaded coming from herself. the other way we're shown how misread maggie's been by marty is just funny. "he found religion. I didn't care for that. I liked him before, he had a sense of humor." he just never gets her at all.
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Pls someone talk to me about the quiet codependence Rust and Marty have, the too-easy domesticity they can fall into. Their constant arguing and moral disagreement and that blends so easily into sharing clothes and a bottle and a home. The open hostility that silently becomes worry when no one else is watching. The implicit, unyielding trust that's never questioned and always counted on, between two people born and living in a world that's punished trust from the beginning.
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And before you ask, YES…
There are plenty of cute girls in the story for Avery to kiss!!
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over the rewatches I've really grown an affinity for maggie as a character. she just stands out more and more as you go, she feels like the culmination of this sinister gendered cosmology true detective is ultimately about
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