Batman comic writer Scott Snyder tells how he wanted True Detective to end
By Josh Hill
The season finale (technically a series finale, but let’s not get into that right now) of True Detective has many people scratching their heads about what they had just seen. Some saw it as a brilliant way to wrap up a brilliant series while others saw it as a confusing way to fizzle out an otherwise outstanding show.
No matter what you though of the finale, there was undoubtedly varying interpretations of what we saw with some fans agreeing and others trying to draw up their own ending. Comic book writer Scott Snyder is in the latter category and dreamed up his version of the finale for fans who want to know.
"I wanted it to veer into the supernatural because I thought it was leading into this Lovecraftian, Poe-like philosophy, this American gothic notion that if you see beyond the physical world and that empirical veil, what you’ll see is bound to drive you crazy. That there’s something unknowable and beyond our understanding. It wasn’t so much that I wanted supernatural for the sake of supernatural, but that the show set those expectations up very early. I wanted those to play out, not because I wanted to see ghosts or anything spooky, but because it would make the show that much more horrifying. It was clearly about Marty in denial of his own nature, with his myopic view of the world and his place in it set out in front of him."
The element of the supernatural was both present throughout the series and absent at the same time. While some fans picked up on Rust’s obsession with the unknown, others just assumed it as the bug-eyed mindset of an alcoholic ex-detective who had seen lot of stuff in his day.
Ether way, there was a lot of open interpretation to the ending of the series and that’s what has helped make True Detective the hit series we all fell in love with.