No, UR RONG!!11 
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No, that’s upsetting…
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It was almost as good as the Breaking Bad finale, which was a dream. This episode was probably a dream too, come to think of it. Probably Marty’s final fantasy during a marathon anal-sex session that made his heart 'splode.
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I’m just gonna have to go ahead and disagree with most of what you said there.
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Heheh welllll, true.
What did Rust mean by his “definitions fading”?
In the way he defined himself. In an aftershow interview, the series creator talked about how our lives (and societies) are predicated on the stories we craft about ourselves and enact. Your very “identity” is a story you tell yourself (influenced by your culture and projected back out on the world, in various permutations at that). In death, your persona (“through sound,” literally a mask with a megaphone mouth Greek actors wore to project their voice) is lost. His “mask” was slipping (i.e. “Take off your mask.”).
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Wow, thanks
I was slightly disappointed too, but mostly because of the way some elements were just casually added to the pile (Erroll’s double accent, the final vision, “take off your mask” etc). If you want to leave an aura of mystery, there is no need for the hospital scenes (just let Rust do his speech while half-dead waiting for rescue with Marty); if you want to wrap everything up, then you can’t leave stuff unexplained.
Still, it’s been a blast of a series and deserves to be buried in prizes. McConaughey was in a state of grace and even Harrelson had a good run (i never rated him, but he’s been almost perfect here). It would be nice if the follow-up had some sort of link to this arc, but I can see how an ambitious writer like Pizzolatto might want to do something more anthological and keep only a tenuous bit of thematic coherence, in order to attract big names to fresh stories (although tbh, were I an Hollywood A-lister, I’d be scared to death to measure myself against this McConaughey…).
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