SIIIIIIIGHS WITH CONTENTMENT

[trinityvixen]

I haven't watched last week's Smallville yet, even though the review is now days overdue. I couldn't not watch Dexter with feiran last night. I liked it well enough, though it didn't have that immediate punch of season two's opening, and I'm far to familiar with the series to be as blown away and sucked in all at once like I was with season one. Mostly, I was just so pleased to be rolled back into this world. There really is nothing like it. Battlestar Galactica has got the acting chops and genre interest for me, but Dexter absolutely owns every single aspect of fiction. The setting is alluringly familiar and alarmingly alien all at once, reassuring and unsettling all at once the way Dexter himself is. All the characters are part of the fabric of the show--you can't imagine the place where they exist continuing to function without them. (I do miss you-know-who from last season, though.) And then there's Michael C. Hall, who seems to have become a producer. Interesting.

I had to laugh at the end of this first episode though because it looks like they're going to--literally--answer the question of nature versus nurture. Or, you know, let Dexter worry about it some and try to work it out from his rather warped POV. Should be fun. Unless it gets stupid, which, let's face it, baby plots often do. I would be interested to see whether the show actually "goes there" and even brings up the idea of abortion. Rita isn't really in any place to have another kid unless she and Dexter go the whole-hog and start living together. Will that even come up? It is Showtime, not ABC, so maybe?

But the turning on Harry is an excellent device. It's not rebellion, per se. Rebelling doesn't work when Harry isn't there to see it. Dexter also cannot afford to shuck all of Harry's lessons in refuting what Harry made of him. He needs to make peace, really, which is what he seems to be doing. He's realizing that you can't be Daddy's favorite serial killer all your life. Your life would never go anywhere, and that, more than any of the other sketchy behavior, is what will get you the hairy eyeball from people. Good luck, Daddy-to-be Dexter.

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I was indifferent to this one. I wouldn't say I disliked it, but I feel like the main "killer" plotline could end up a lamer version of Season 2. And I called the pregnancy plot from minute one, and rolled my eyes hard when I was right.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't think they're going to emphasize the murder excepting in that it brings Jimmy Smits further into Dexter's orbit. Like when he called Dexter over to the crime scene to interrogate him about why Dexter was looking up the dead brother's records. I think Jimmy Smits' character was spoiling for a fight (especially with Deb later being so insensitive about the brother), but he found Dexter to be more sincere (ha!) than that. I think the murder is meant only to catapult Dexter into this guy's orbit and see how that goes and also to see if Dexter can develop a conscience as he is repeatedly kept around the grieving family members of the person he killed.

So, really, I don't see this as being another witch-hunt like the Bay Harbor Butcher thing, but as a means to turn Dexter into a human being. The pregnancy thing is undoubtedly a part of that. For the record, I was putting my money on Dexter proposing to Rita (it happens in the books) as part of what I mentioned in this post, how Dexter is trying to evolve and move past just the Code of Harry and Rita-as-cover.

SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER

[anarchicsquirrl.livejournal.com]

SPOILER!!!!!!!!

Re: SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::giggles:: Oh, I do miss you a lot. If you were in the city to harass about Dexter in person, it would be much fun. I'm glad you make the most of LJ to do it by proxy, though.