I have read the books. That aspect was terrible, but I could over look it in all but one book. There are aspects I liked more in the books and there were aspects I liked more in the show.

What?!? 

 

The whole "dark passenger" thing got pretty weird when he started talking like it was more than a metaphor, but...a lizard demon....I'm oddly curious.

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I'm curious to think what it is exactly, that Dexter was thinking, when he decided to kill LaGuerta.  How did he think that would turn out well?  Everyone knows she's investigating Dexter, and then she up and disappears?  Like that isn't going to raise red flags?  Idk, love the show, but can't wait to see how the final season goes =)

It's really all about evidence though

If they can't prove it was Dexter he walks

I think the show has just lost its commitment to appearing realistic.  It seems to happen to a lot of shows that range multiple seasons and have to start stretching for plot lines.  The show's Miami homicide division has got to be the most inept police force in the nation.  They never catch anybody, and on the rare occasions they do, the suspect always gets away so Dexter can nab them himself.  For that matter, what possible tranquilizer is so potent that a person passes out as soon as a syringe full of it touches their skin?  There's a lot of stuff that wouldn't have flown in season one that's now a matter of course.

I think the show has just lost its commitment to appearing realistic.  It seems to happen to a lot of shows that range multiple seasons and have to start stretching for plot lines.  The show's Miami homicide division has got to be the most inept police force in the nation.  They never catch anybody, and on the rare occasions they do, the suspect always gets away so Dexter can nab them himself.  For that matter, what possible tranquilizer is so potent that a person passes out as soon as a syringe full of it touches their skin?  There's a lot of stuff that wouldn't have flown in season one that's now a matter of course.

Well,  I'm assuming he pushed the plunger on the syringe.

And... That is very large artery  he pumped it in. (meaning it goes straight to the brain, if he's done it correctly)

 

Would have to talk to an anesthesiologist to know for sure if that kind of thing is possible. (He's had similar effecsts with said drug through out the series. Not always as instantanious,but still pretty damned fast acting.

I could kind of buy it if he injected them and then within a second or two it hit, but these days it's really instantaneous.  Even dead into an artery it's going to take a split second or two to register, and that's assuming perfect conditions.  Not to mention the plunger going down, which ought to need at least an additional second on a full syringe.  This season just seemed particularly bad to me with this.  People were freezing up or collapsing right as he was sticking them. 

 

And then there were other things...like stalking and snatching a victim from a crowded airport in broad daylight.  Why bother with the kill room and and all the plastic if you're going to brazenly drug and grab the guy from a place that has almost as many cameras as a casino?  It just got way too convenient for Dexter.

Yeah but it could be argued that that is actually something that makes sense

Dexter as a serial killer is growing reckless and killing more and more often

This is something that often gets real life serial killers caught

What stretches the belief is, like you said, Miami Metro hardly ever seems to catch anyone or that people rarely see Dexter even when he's taking someone out of a very public place

The character of Dexter is still believable even if the show itself is preparing to jump the shark

Or you konw.. we are only seeing the episodes where dexter snatches  a  killer, and  not all the others that get by.

 

there are probably litterally, several murders a week in that city, and far more a year than Dexter couldposibly go though.

I don't fully comprehend why Deb did what she did at the end of this season.  I can comprehend why or at least imagine why but there is no evidence for it yet but I guess that's why there's a next season.

 

I stopped watching Dexter years ago and only tuned in this season for Yvonne Strahovski - Hannah McKay

Yeah but it could be argued that that is actually something that makes sense

Dexter as a serial killer is growing reckless and killing more and more often

This is something that often gets real life serial killers caught

What stretches the belief is, like you said, Miami Metro hardly ever seems to catch anyone or that people rarely see Dexter even when he's taking someone out of a very public place

The character of Dexter is still believable even if the show itself is preparing to jump the shark

 

That's true.  He's gotten pretty free wheelin' about his whole surveillance routine.  He's definitely gotten lax about the code, even before the last few episodes.  Something that gets on my nerves about this show is that they're really good about raising perplexing questions about moral grey areas and then totally copping out on them.  Every season Dexter has some existential dilemma that ends up kind of resolving itself so that he never has to totally cross the line or come to any conclusion that would change his routine.  The biggest example of this was when Rita died.  Should have been pretty evident at that point that his modus operandi had some serious flaws, but if anything he just became more relaxed about collateral damage.  But then, he is a sociopath....or at least that's how I'd always viewed him, lizard demons notwithstanding.

 

One thing that makes this stuff stand out maybe more than it otherwise would to me is that I also watch Breaking Bad, which is a show I see as doing a similar sort of thing with a much better eye on the psychology of the characters.  I know they're different in the sense that this is about a serial killer and that's about a drug dealer, but I kind of lump them together in the sense that they're both kind of an exploration of an extremely deviant personality who is involved in behavior far outside the acceptable bounds of society, but is still interested in remaining a regular guy in a sense, being a family man, etc.  One of many reasons I've grown to like that show so much better is the aspect of chronicling a fairly normal guy in his transformation into deviant psychotic, whereas Dexter has this abnormal mental compulsion to kill right from the beginning which kind of creates an us and them dichotomy where you have to take certain things for granted in order to get behind him.  Anyway, they're kind of interesting shows to compare, I think.

okay, about this season.

 

i'm glad to see its picking upi, next season should be a good one. i actually expect Dex to end up locked up instead of goign out in a blaze of glory. i think Deb will be the one to bring in Dex next season. i also think the girlfriend will play a big part this comming up season as well.

 

if Dex does end up dieing, i think it will be by Angel or the old family friend (retired cop dude).

 

i also wonder if the loose end from Trinity will be comming back and playing a part this final season.

 

 

as to how things will end up from Laguarda being shot with Debs weapon. the killing itself will eat Deb alive (hence my belief she will finally sucumb and bring in Dex). that said, Dex has already set it up to look like the crime dude shot Laguarda and she inturn shot him. all Dex will have to do is switch the ballistics and flub the report.

 

flubbing the report will take more fandangling though, especially if the other tech gets there first. the angle of the bullet will not match up the story he has planned, but switching the rounds will be easy enough.

 

the only other problematic loose end is the video survellience about Deb at that gas station and who knew Laguarda ws following this angle.

 

 

 

as to what Bat and Nol are talking about.

 

re-Miami Metro. their not inept. the show only focuses on kills that Dex makes, whihc is liekly 1 out or 100 cases that dept sees. we also know that Dex, when he picks a victim, actually steals the case away from miami metro. either killing the criminal befor ehte police dept can get them or falsifying evidence that lets the perp walk. so thats not ineptness on the Depts part.

 

re-Dex's kills. This is the drug that Dex uses. he has actually named it in past season and this season, callign it M99. its basically an elephant Tranqualizer.

 

in each instance, we see Dex depress the syringe in the side of the neck in the main artery. most vics take 1 to 2 seconds to subcumb, their legs giving out half a second before they become unconcious. some (like the bull guy from last season) take up to 5 seconds to subcomb likely because they have other drugs in their system that fight the sedative effects. this did not change this season as far as i saw, and i've been wathcing the show since season 1. this sedative is real and is known to work that quickly, for instance, on an Elephant it can render them imbobile in 1-2 minutes and unconcious in 5 mins. this is a 1-2 ton animal. you can imagine how a small dose the size that Dex uses could act on a 200lb human. the only question is how he has a ready supply of the stuff, considering he kills an average of 1 vic every 1-2 weeks. (this i believe was explained in an earlier season).

 

also note that the show does not follow Dex chronologically, only when he's about the abduct and kill his vic. this takes time, not only to clear his own schedule (especially with a kid and a near live in babysitter now. and a wife earlier) but also to stalk his vic, vet the vic and prep the kill room. this takes time. what we generally see is the final vetting of the vic (rarely seen unless the current vic is used ot set up a later plot) and mostly the abducting and kill.just like we never see him dismember and package the body and only see his acutal disposal rarely.

 

imo, Dex is not above multi-tasking. he likely stalks and vets multiple vics at the same time (lining up kills to make sure his addiction is sated) but only kills one at a time depending on availabality. we never see this part because, well it wouldn't make for very interesting viewing and would leave little time for plot outside of an indivivual kill.

 

 

re-personal life. Bat you're 100% wrong in this perception of Dex. he never wanted to be "a normal family man". he strove for understanding, to fill the void that Harry left. but Rita and his other "relationships" (until this last girl and the female SK from season 2/3) were all part of his cover. Comparing Dex to Walt is not fiar to either character as both are mentally different and have a different complexity tot heir characters.

 

Walt was a Human that became twisted due to circumstances. Dex was always twisted and entertains the idea of striking a balance between normality and his addiction (or Dark Passenger). and really, for me to call it an addiction is simplifying the complexity that drives Dexs need to kill. tbh, Dex wins over Walt in complexity, design, realism and interest. out of the two, psychologically speaking, Dex is a much better and interesting study. then again, i also wanted to be a profiler on Serial Killers for the FBI at one point, so i find those sorts fascinating already. anyways, you say that it "creates an us and them dichotomy" and your partially right. there is an "us and them" undercurrent to Dex, because he doesnt consider himslef to be part of the Human race. for simplicity, he consideres himself a different species of human. as he reflected in this season (and has in the past) "my kind doesn't normally get the happy ending".

 

 

re-abduction. Nol is right in that, 98% of serial killers get caught when they start becomming wreckless. this is mostly driven by the fact that their normal secure rutine becomes boring and they need to "spice it up". its the same reason behind Stalkers escalating to attacking their victims. SKs OTOH are egotistical narcassists that feel they are mentally dominate over the rest of us. so generally, when they up the game, its normally to taunt the police to show case their mental superiority.

 

in Dexs case, its the realization that his compulsion to kill comes not from some outside influence or possession; but from the realization that it is an addiciton. its the owning up to his actions isntead of placing the blame on some obsucre part of himself and in this sense fully accepting that part of himself and not shunning it. for him, this relaization was liberating. he's no longer ashamed or guilty of the fact that he kills, and in this he starts to go away from the Code because of the reasons the Code was built. not to keep him from being caught (as he also feels himself superior to the police and FBI and can aviod getting caught) but to channel his need into soemthign that society would approve of.

 

he's comming now, to realize. he doesn't need or want societys approval (Harrys approval) of his actions. and its this liberation and newly gained freedom of self that is leading to his recklessness. infact, in previous seasons we have seen Dex struggle with the confines of Harrys code and even rebel agaisnt the code on some occasions. last season he actually replaced Harry with his brother and went on a spree of sorts. this time will be different because of the realization that he no longer needs or wants society to accept him, because he has accepted that his "Dark Passenger" is infact himself and has come not only to accept that fact, but whole heartedly embrace it.

 

a very interesting and frankly dangerous aspect of this new revolation, is a new found territorialness. as seen in his out right refusal to leave which led to Laguarda being killed. i'm very interested to see how big of a factor this plays in his demise.

 

 

re-getting behind them. tbh, i cant say i ever got behind Walt, i never foudn him likable though i do find the series interesting and likable. i love seeing how Walt gets himself in a pinch and how he comes up with ingenious ways to get himself out of a pinch. it was also interesting to see a "punching bag" of a guy go from being walked all over to one BAMF that even the mention of his name strikes fear in people.

 

Dex OTOH. his likability comes less from "taking certain things for granted" and more from the complexity and developement of his character. he's more "anti-hero" than anything. you know he's not a good guy, but because of his actions he becomes a hero in a way. everyone likes an "anti-hero". but his likability comes from who he kills, why he kills and how discaplined he is. its vigilanty justice if you will. i think another aspect of why people root for him, is becuase people honeslty wanted to see him overcome his need to kill and become normal

 

 

Comparison of Dexter and Batman

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http://i.imgur.com/Ifq9L.jpg

That last one... (aside from the possible racist aspect) is... actualy not that far off.

You have a guy that was able to see behind someones mask.

Comparison of Dexter and Batman

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http://i.imgur.com/Ifq9L.jpg

 

+1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ckzE5vT0wc

season starts in less than 3 weeks!  June 30th people!!

 

 

THE COUNT DOWNS ON!!!

Aaah that trailer was amazing. I can't wait!