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Originally Posted by The Mind Assassin
please explain your opinion of the last 10 minutes please? its meaning?
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Rust's finding religion/God/heaven (or a close approximation to it) isn't meant to be a message about the truth or validity of religion from the show's creators. All it signals or signifies is that Rust has changed; the show isn't saying if it's for the better. From the beginning this show has been a character sketch of the two cops and their relationship. The serial killer case was just a vehicle to showcase it in a long enough time period. All that occurred in the end was the final twist in their dynamic. If anything, Rust's existential moment was simply him realizing how much he really does care and/or is hurt about the death of his daughter and the sobering realization that his tough-atheist/apathetic attitude is wrong (maybe not wrong, but misguided and used as a front). Not necessarily because atheism is wrong but because he's been suppressing those emotions. Marty's character shed his smooth talking/coolest guy in the room persona when his family visited. Them walking off together just re-affirms that they're really the only two people who understand each other and those twists and their conversation about them just solidifies that. It's not a referendum on religion nor is it really about the case. It was a study of the two characters. To think this entire show's endgame was to be pro-religion (or pro-atheism for that matter) is missing the entire point, I would think.
Or not. Whatever.