I don't get it

I don't get it

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He was hallucinating from his schizophrenia and lack of sleep. It was just a terrible coincidence to happen when he was hunting Erol.

dude just turn off ur brain lmao

You need to watch S2 to understand

it's the kellow ying

it's a flat circle

No.

Stranger Things 2 was really ......................bad.......................

Rust is a robot, that’s why his name is Rust. This is the portal back to robot land, either he takes it or saves Marty and they fall in love

YOU'RE IN CARCOSA LITTLE PRIEST

Rust messed his brain from all the drugs when he was working undercover, he's got synesthesia. He describes it as "sometimes one sense will trigger others, like I see a color and it puts a taste in my mouth", the hallucinations and weird shit he gets pertaining to the case are his sixth sense triggering others.
Why is his sixth sense acting like crazy? He once talks about the psychophere, which is a term used in weird fiction to describe the culminating "mood" of a room or area based on the amalgamation of the individual psyches of it's inhabitants, like an atmosphere for feelings and occult shit. The ritual murders and their imagery are seeping into the psychosphere and polluting it ,we see Marty's daughter pick it up for example and Rust picks it up too but without realizing it.
That "black star" is Rust momentarily feeling the incredibly oppressive "mood" there created by the despair and agony of countless victims, his synesthesia turning it into a visual hallucination.

nice

It is God coming after Rust for shooting at him

kek

This is actually a really good post

Carl Cosa had the best chicken recipes in Louisiana until that old black lady stole it from him and created Popeyes chicken, thats why she looks so surprised and asks Rust "You know Carl Cosa?"

He was fucked on painkillers

It's this but the devil is a boy

>storm chasers shooting tide pods up a tornados ass to measure its size and strength

pretty straightforward user

Here's a shot of the church with ritual paintings in juxtaposition with the chimneys polluting. Might be wrong but I think the line about the psychosphere and this shot are there to nod towards this.

yeah its this but it's really badly explained, there's little crescendo in that in the scene itself

Awesome post. What do you think about the robotussin? Was he doing it to become more attuned to the spiritual signals? I've heard dxm in large doses can cause a person to feel kinda....otherworldly.

I watched it twice and never understand the things he says to rust during the chase.

The cough syrup? I didn't really think much of it, I thought he was just taking the edge off. But you make a nice point, maybe he felt it was in the best interest of the investigation to be receptive to the freaky shit. He did say he could always tell what was real and what wasn't, so he at least felt confident it wouldn't impair him.

Favorite scene hands down

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>being receptive to the freaky shit
yeah that's pretty much what I figured too

he's waiting for the defiant to return from the gamma quadrant

Explain "One wants to escape by having the yellow king remove him, the other goes full Lugotti". I've read CATHR so Im asking more about the yellow king side.

explain the image better? also I like how the mysticism is so "believable" in this show. It's always between reality and occult and some things might only have ignorance separating them, that's what makes it so real. I don't know the scientific term for it, but we do pick up information that we're not aware of and that feeling manifests itself on some sort of sixth sense, be it premonition, being followed or a psychosphere.

>dat freeze frame

Why would you put someone through that

why do people call that a black star? it looks more like a storm

This scene is thoroughly lovecraftian in nature and thus you had to have delved through his literary works to truly appreciate the significance of all the simbolism on display here. I believe this particular frame was actually captured on one of the preliminary storyboards for the series, with a writer's note saying: "God shoots back".

I thought it was some weird portal that the occult ceremonies had opened and he was seeing it from being so tripped out. There's also the part where he talks about the near death experience after getting out of the hospital.

It's never really explained, it's mostly an homage to The King in Yellow. My thoughts on it is that Erol considers the King in Yellow a sort of deity who is outside of the "loop" (it fits with the book stuff) and can hopefully from that vantage point remove him too. He's built a shire to it, his little Carcosa in a way because Carcosa is supposed to the place where the King is from, and is offering sacrifices. Notice he tells Rust to "take the Bride's path", while luring him through the maze, almost as if he's offering brides to the King. Going full Ligotti is just because his philosophy there sounds a lot like Ligotti.
I'm not very good at explaining things. Basically they believe everyone lives in a loop, not exactly a new idea, Nietzsche for example calls this the "eternal recurrence". You're trapped in living your life over and over. Time is a circle, we just don't see it because we're disgusting 3D people, the same way a 2D could be stuck inside a mobius ring forever without realizing it. Both Rust and Erol hold this belief, while Rust despairs about it, Erol is seeking to free himself through occult shit.
It's in like with the show mentioning black stars here and there, in the book The King in Yellow (which the series heavily homages) Carcosa is where black stars rise. It's kinda hard to show a literal black star in a dark place.

Carcosa stuff. Sorry about the quality.

They could do something like this.
>Notice he tells Rust to "take the Bride's path", while luring him through the maze
do you have any ideas on this ?

The Repairer of Reputations is my favorite of those stories. Actual spoiler: I don't think the narrator was actually crazy.

>said he felt his daughter when he was under in the dark
>all he had to do was let go
>monster at the end of a dream

>"under in the dark" in the childress maze
>saw the other side by the portal that opened and felt his daughter
>lowered his guard and let go
>got stabbed by childress, the monster
>disappeared into a coma
yeah I'm reaching but it's fun

That's a tough one, I've thought about it before and didn't come to any conclusion I liked sufficiently. Maybe he's acknowledging Rust sort of believes the same shit he does and so he's a priest the same way he himself is, worshiping the King (the philosophy)? Or maybe his sacrifices are female brides and male priests? Or maybe because Rust had been for years the only one "preaching" that some very wrong shit was going down? I don't know, this is one of the details that elude me.
And yes, I agree a "black star" could have been better portrayed. Might have been a design choice to keep it ambiguous as to what it was maybe.

I think it was my favorite too and yes, I agree with the spoiler.

These people believe death is not the end and Carcosa is one of the paths to get there. The man with the scarred face is talking to Rust and asking him to "come die with me, little priest." He says, "you blessed DeWalt. Reggie. Acolytes. Witnesses to my journey." because Rust killed them. The green-eared spaghetti monster was friends with those two and did a lot of terrible things with them and they all believed in Carcosa, thus their death is a blessing.

>It's always between reality and occult and some things might only have ignorance separating them
Almost the whole genre of weird fiction delves into this. A fine line between is this shit real or am I losing my mind? Ambiguity is great because it keeps you engaged and makes you think and draw your own conclusions after all is said and done.

That makes sense, very good point user. He's a "priest" because he "blessed" them.

well I only know about the alien shit but I like the "real but not acknowledged" like in the example that might make you question the real weird.
>the same way a 2D could be stuck inside a mobius ring forever without realizing it
how

>muh 2deep4u story about rural retards murdering hillbillies

Imagine you're a dot in this thing and you have no proper perception of a third dimension. You don't see the twist, you don't see it looping into itself. No matter where you go you're stuck there. It's not a perfect example but it's a way to show how lacking the proper perception of a dimension can really change things. From the second (width or length) to the third dimension (depth or volume) things change so much, imagine attaining a higher perspective on the fourth (time). We already know time is not this absolutely rigid linear from A to B thing we thought it were, immense gravity for example will slow it down relatively. Know knows, maybe from the "outside" time is a wholly different thing from how we experience it.

in the king in yellow novels people can teleport to another worlds,
its pleyades magic i ain't gotta explain shit.

But people who die just continue in the circle. What they did differently was help with the killings and rapings, and it seems that sex is a big part of it.
>you know what they did to me? What I will do to all the sons and daughters of man
>you blessed DeWalt. Reggie. Acolytes. Witnesses to my journey.
>Lovers. I'm not ashamed
Like here, we know they had sex, they were his acolytes and were blessed, but still it was HIS journey they witnessed, so did they really go to carcosa? and if they didnt, what did childress do that they didnt?

He was trippin

this guy gets it

FROM THE DUSTY MAY SUN

Fuck off, reddit. Season 2 is the better season.

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LLLLLUURRVEEE DATT CHIGGEN FRUM POPEYES!

AND THE RATTLESNAKES EXPLODE

This, but more literal. By continually torturing, raping, and murdering children this cult strengthens it’s dark power. The goal being to open a portal and let the Big Evil/Darkness/Old One (however you view it) into our World. As he entered Errol’s temple/alter, dedicated to this goal, Rust sees how close Errol is to opening this portal.