This was a terribly long written rant, and I disagree with about everything you said in the entirety of it.
This season could be better than last season, it could be worse, but you are judging that it could be better off of episode 1, and there's NO WAY to tell if this season will be better or worse until we're at least half way into the season.
Nic P owes everyone who is a fan of season 1 a proper season of quality television when he tagged this as True Detective. This "he doesn't owe us anything" is fucking bullshit. If you're going to tag this as true detective, you better be able to fucking back it up. This is not debatable, we're allowed to judge this new content by it's first season, and you owe your fans to reasonably live up to the expectation.
I'm not saying all of the second season detractors feel this way, but rather the ones complaining about the shows intro music not holding a candle to the first season
Leonard cohen is awesome, but the season 2 song sucks compared to the Handsome Family's "far from any road". Probably because "far from any road" was just perfect for the intro, but yeah everyone is complaining about the song because it just doesn't fit well. As fans of the show we're allowed to do that.
(I saw a complaint that it was horrible how the crime showed up at the beginning of season one's first episode, yet Nic had the gaul to show the murder at the end of Season 2's first episode. Like changing up the formula is such a horrible thing)
I was confused watching the first episode of season 2. I had no idea what the fuck was going on the first time I watched it, and I wasn't alone. At least in season 1 you immediately know at the very beginning of the episode that there's two detectives at a crime scene. Season 2, I didn't know who these people were or what they were doing or why any of this stuff I am being showed mattered at all.
Not everyone will get it, some of us will downright hate it, but how can we as the audience feel like we're owed something by the artists creating their art?
Wrong. You act like we can't judge art, but that we should just be happy we're getting anything at all. That's ridiculous. We're entitled to our own opinions, and we can complain about things we don't like about the new season as much as we want to. People might exaggerate how much they dislike certain things, of course it's hard to follow season 1 of true detective and live up to the hype, but we are owed generally the same tier of quality that season 1 provided when season 2 was labeled "True Detective". When a band makes a great record, you expect their follow up record to be just as good, and if it isn't you have the right to judge it accordingly.
Nic Pizz likely spent hundreds of hours writing and prepping this new season, and we feel like we're owed something when we spend just an hour with the fruits of his labo
Yeah he makes a lot of money making a show for a lot of people to watch. There's a shitload of people out there who spend 100's of hours on something and no one appreciates it at all or makes a dime off of it, don't give me this shit man.
Even if you hate it, when else will we get the chance to see into the mind of such a great artist like Nic Pizz?
That's dumb. If you hate something, and it sucks, you can voice your opinion about it. That's why we have a subreddit for discussion on this. I honestly hate you for writing that statement.
TL;DR: if The Beatles listened to fans, and the millions of screaming fans got their way, we would've gotten Please Please Me 2.0 in 1969, NOT Abbey Road. Let artists do what they want.
That 30 people upvoted your rant just makes me cringe.