![]() Broken Ace: He's the most dedicated and skilled cop we see.After a fistfight with Hart, in which Cohle got the upper hand, Hart still realizes that Cohle was holding back. Badass Biker: While he did undercover work with outlaw bikers and Mexican cartels.However, his very last line in the series is definitely optimistic: He philosophizes about the absurdity of life itself, yet continues doing his job of "keeping the other bad men from the door." He definitely lacks the typical Anti-Nihilist's compassion and moderately optimistic view though: he is a nihilistic, brutally honest Misanthrope Supreme. Amateur Sleuth: He still investigates the Yellow King case post-retirement.He also chugs a bottle of cough syrup while driving on the way to interview a CI and seems to buy barbiturates from her after the interview is over. In 2012, he's drunk by noon and demands the interviewing detectives bring him a six-pack if they want him to keep talking. He's mostly sober in 1995, though he briefly falls off the wagon in the first episode. The Alcoholic: Cohle is a relapsing-remitting.A cerebral, intense thinker, he holds a negative view of society which sometimes puts him at odds with his partner, Martin Hart, and the rest of the force. Rust Cohle is a Louisiana State Police detective who transferred out of Texas law enforcement. We keep the other bad men from the door." Black and white, heads and tails."World needs bad men. Stoic and righteous versus laughing and chaotic. An area of confidence for one partner is the weakness of the other and vice versa. These two detectives sharing the reverse functions, Mirror relations as Socionics calls it (ESTJ- Te/Si/Ne/Fi, ISTP- Ti/Se/Ni/Fe), it often allows partners to view different sides of the same problem. This often leads others to seeing them as judgmental and disrespectful. If the ISTP sees the idea, tool, or what have you as too much, it’s quickly dismissed as irrelevant and pointless. But in Rust’s case, he does this in a manner that views religion as something of a “language virus.”Ĭoncepts and ideas that are infinite and all-powerful to some becomes insipid and unnecessary to the ISTP, whose firm beliefs are simplicity and usefulness. It still touches on the idea that for Rust to make sense of a belief in a higher power, he must shrink it down and deconstruct what he hears/sees/experiences as strong Ti users do. Much like an ESTJ, they have rules and standards that not everyone understands but they keep to them religiously.Īnd speaking of religion, Rust himself has some pretty interesting thoughts. ![]() That’s Inferior Fi for you.Įven though he has multiple affairs, Marty still becomes extremely defensive when it comes to his wife and family, getting in Rust’s face when Rust calls him out for his affair and even beating on the two boys that attempted to sleep with his daughter. Rules that often have him scoffing at Rust’s ideas about the case, yet send him into a blind rage that end in him shooting a handcuffed suspect in the face when faced with the truth he’d previously denied. ![]() Rules describe the shape of things.” -Martyĭon’t question a man with a road on his face. While others keep an open mind maybe even to the point of not knowing what they believe, the ESTJ’s dominant functions keep them centered and secure in their beliefs…which they have turned into personal rules that aren’t up for debate. ![]() ESTJs have no problems dismissing others they find to be incredible or disreputable. Marty may be a cheater and a drinker, but he brings much needed levity to the show as ESTJs do in fiction, often times in the form of an annoyed police chief telling his two rogue detectives to turn in their badge and gun. Marty: Yeah, and now I’m BEGGING you to shut the **** up. For every long-winded rant that Rust goes into, Marty rolls his eyes and brushes him off. One of the great things about the show is the balance you get with two sensory characters that hardly like each other is that you get both sides of the picture no need for an intuitive/sensor team-up, just two characters that disagree. ![]()
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