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Post by PrimeTyme on Oct 1, 2012 19:27:23 GMT -5
So the new Season of Dexter started last night. (As far as I could see there was no thread yet)
What did everyone think?
I felt like it didn't really advance the story of Deb catching Dexter at the end of last season until the very end of the show when Dexter walks into his apartment and Deb is sitting there. With that final 10 seconds I'm now very intrigued to see where the story goes next week.
And as usual whenever I discuss Dexter I feel the need to always add " f*** Joey Quinn!" Don't know why, but I just loathe Quinn with a passion.
Go ahead Fan-Addicts, discuss the awesomeness that is Dexter!
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Oct 1, 2012 19:46:55 GMT -5
Can this be the season where Laguerta buys it
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Post by chazraps on Oct 1, 2012 19:59:28 GMT -5
So the new Season of Dexter started last night. (As far as I could see there was no thread yet) What did everyone think? I felt like it didn't really advance the story... And thus always has, and always will be the problem with "Dexter." I say this as someone who used to write about the show weekly, but it's not a top tier great show. It's a victim of being Showtime's most dependable franchise and thus they need to sacrifice quality in order to #1 Drag everything out as absolutely long as possible and #2 Make sure, no matter what, the reset button is pressed at the end of the season so everything can be back to where it was. "Dexter" is a show obsessed with maintaining its own status quo. When they recapped last season at the beginning of the premiere, that should have been a reminder of why I stopped watching. After this episode, I'm sitting this one out. |
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Post by Captain2 on Oct 1, 2012 20:54:27 GMT -5
So the new Season of Dexter started last night. (As far as I could see there was no thread yet) What did everyone think? I felt like it didn't really advance the story... And thus always has, and always will be the problem with "Dexter." I say this as someone who used to write about the show weekly, but it's not a top tier great show. It's a victim of being Showtime's most dependable franchise and thus they need to sacrifice quality in order to #1 Drag everything out as absolutely long as possible and #2 Make sure, no matter what, the reset button is pressed at the end of the season so everything can be back to where it was. "Dexter" is a show obsessed with maintaining its own status quo. When they recapped last season at the beginning of the premiere, that should have been a reminder of why I stopped watching. After this episode, I'm sitting this one out. Obsessed with maintaining status quo? I think Dexter would be the one of the few shows i watch that I'd never accuse of that. They kill off Doakes, Rita, give Dexter a son and have Debra discover that he's a killer. That's hardly nothing. |
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Post by chazraps on Oct 1, 2012 21:09:39 GMT -5
And thus always has, and always will be the problem with "Dexter." I say this as someone who used to write about the show weekly, but it's not a top tier great show. It's a victim of being Showtime's most dependable franchise and thus they need to sacrifice quality in order to #1 Drag everything out as absolutely long as possible and #2 Make sure, no matter what, the reset button is pressed at the end of the season so everything can be back to where it was. "Dexter" is a show obsessed with maintaining its own status quo. When they recapped last season at the beginning of the premiere, that should have been a reminder of why I stopped watching. After this episode, I'm sitting this one out. Obsessed with maintaining status quo? I think Dexter would be the one of the few shows i watch that I'd never accuse of that. They kill off Doakes, Rita, give Dexter a son and have Debra discover that he's a killer. That's hardly nothing. But they did ALL OF THOSE THINGS in order to return Dexter to how his life was in the very first episode. Doakes/Rita/Lumen/etc. all have made it seem like his character was changing over an arch, but the season finale has always been about making sure Dexter can once again be the killer-of-the-week guy from the first season. |
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Post by Captain2 on Oct 1, 2012 21:40:43 GMT -5
Obsessed with maintaining status quo? I think Dexter would be the one of the few shows i watch that I'd never accuse of that. They kill off Doakes, Rita, give Dexter a son and have Debra discover that he's a killer. That's hardly nothing. But they did ALL OF THOSE THINGS in order to return Dexter to how his life was in the very first episode. Doakes/Rita/Lumen/etc. all have made it seem like his character was changing over an arch, but the season finale has always been about making sure Dexter can once again be the killer-of-the-week guy from the first season. He has changed a lot over the course of the series, granted he always goes back to killing small time guys at the start of a new season but that tends to be more due to the fact the events at the end of each season tend to take up all of his time. It would hardly make sense to go kill a small time murderer when the Trinity killer is off throwing a kid in cement somewhere. He takes care of the big bad, gets his free time back and goes to take out a few small guys until something else catches his eye. |
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Oct 1, 2012 21:43:08 GMT -5
I felt like it didn't really advance the story of Deb catching Dexter at the end of last season until the very end of the show when Dexter walks into his apartment and Deb is sitting there. With that final 10 seconds I'm now very intrigued to see where the story goes next week. But... the entire episode showed how Deb didn't buy Dexter's story when she found him in the abandoned church. She was suspicious about: - what he was doing there in the first place - why he used a knife, had a bunch of knives laid out in front of him, instead of using the sword - why DDK was shrink-wrapped like Deb was back in Season 1 - why Dexter set up DDK's body like he did - why Dexter instinctively knew what he was doing when getting rid of the crime scene - how Dexter could be so calm and collected after killing someone when Deb was a wreck for lying and covering it up - where Dexter was when Masuka was working at the lab and when the babysitter was still home with Harrison If anything, the whole episode was about advancing Deb finding out about Dexter's serial killer identity. Now, whether or not Dexter was daydreaming that scene at the end of the episode, I don't know. But if that end scene is real, then it's changed the game of "Dexter" as a show more than Seasons 5 and 6 ever really did. |
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Oct 1, 2012 23:50:12 GMT -5
There was a lot more advancing the plot in last night's episode than any of the last two seasons.
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Post by 543Y2J on Oct 2, 2012 8:04:21 GMT -5
I really liked the new episode. I think they could finally be back on track this season.
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Post by 543Y2J on Nov 26, 2012 16:50:43 GMT -5
Spoiler this just incase people haven't seen the most recent episode yet {Spoiler} HEH?! They killed off Isaak...? The main villain...before the final episode, who the f*** is going to Dexters final confrontation/kill for the series then  |
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Post by Lazy peon on Nov 26, 2012 18:59:45 GMT -5
Spoiler this just incase people haven't seen the most recent episode yet {Spoiler} HEH?! They killed off Isaak...? The main villain...before the final episode, who the f*** is going to Dexters final confrontation/kill for the series then {Spoiler}The fire killer, George Novikov, or... Hanna? |
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Post by mjolnir on Nov 26, 2012 19:01:02 GMT -5
Spoiler this just incase people haven't seen the most recent episode yet {Spoiler} HEH?! They killed off Isaak...? The main villain...before the final episode, who the f*** is going to Dexters final confrontation/kill for the series then {Spoiler}By the looks of the preview, the Phantom/the crime scene guy. Possibly Hannah and the guy who killed Isaak too. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 19:21:15 GMT -5
I have a feeling that George (the guy from the club) will be the big bad of this season and Hannah and The Phantom along with the LaGuerta storyline will drive the next season
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Post by Shy Guy on Nov 26, 2012 22:00:26 GMT -5
i dunno what it is, but i've been hating this season a lot
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Post by Piccolo on Nov 26, 2012 22:41:42 GMT -5
Deb is my hero, man. I've been meh on her from season to season... she was just always such a mess, it was hard to really get behind her in any meaningful way. But that scene in the hospital, she really kind of stepped into her potential. I think she's over it now; she knows who she is, she knows where her lines are, and there was always a certain manipulative creepiness about her relationship with Dexter... how she idolized him while being ignorant of the most salient aspect of his character, how he subtly sabotaged her cases when he wanted someone for himself... and it all kind of exploded this season. And I think she's weathered it and is basically who she's gonna be going forward.
But I don't know what that means for Dexter. I don't know if that means she's gonna take him out in the end... because this thing with Hannah, I think it signifies a very nasty turn in terms of Dexter's ability to be free and do what he does. Hannah kills innocents. Dexter's saving grace has always been that he doesn't. And by hooking up with her, helping her, he's endorsing that kind of killing... the kind that makes no distinction between those who deserve it and those who don't. That's where he flips from antihero to villain.
I'm interested to see where this goes. It's the first time in the entire run of the series that I really dislike Dexter and want him to get some kind of comeuppance... and it's a strange feeling, but it's kind of where I should be at this point in the series, I think. Kind of like how at the end of The Shield, Shane and Vik both do their respective unforgivable acts, and you can practically see that noose tightening around their necks. I don't know if Dexter's there quite yet, but much longer with Hannah and he will be.
It's funny - earlier in the season, I was expecting the corruption of Deb... I thought she'd kill Hannah, she and Dex would go full-on incestuous, and they'd be partners in crime evading LaGuerta et al. Now, I think Deb's staying a hundred percent principled and Dexter's going to go completely off the rails. But the fun thing is, next episode, they could completely turn it around again. It's hard to tell where this is going.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Nov 26, 2012 23:12:20 GMT -5
I guess I will give my two cents worth -
1) I think that Hannah is the type that gets a vicarious thrill off of being in the midst of a violent maelstrom. Dexter was at first the type that turned her on, but the look on her face when he said that he felt safe with her suggests to me that she now deems him to be disposable. The question is how long she is in the show before she does a full-on heel turn on Dexter.
2) I have been expecting LaGuerta to buy it every season since the first since she died in the very first Dexter book. I had expected that Louis would kill her (he was a little too obsessed with Dexter for me to think that he didn't know something about Dexter), but that is out. I suppose that there could be someone that starts acting as the Dark Defender (remember that comic?) who studied the Bay Harbor Butcher case well enough to zero in on Dexter himself who targets her to protect his idol.
3) I think that Deb will find herself trying to play it straight from here on out. The real question is whether LaGuerta and Matthews might start causing her political problems in order to reduce her ability to interfere in their investigation of Dexter.
4) There seems to be too many open threads to do a traditional return to as close to status quo as possible by the end of this season. There is the Phantom case, George, the BHB case reopen, Hannah, and Joey Quinn's problems. Add to that the fact that Astor is starting to have some dark thoughts going on, which brings to mind her persona in the books, though Cody is merely just an annoying kid rather than seriously damaged like in the books.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Nov 27, 2012 0:56:37 GMT -5
Spoiler this just incase people haven't seen the most recent episode yet {Spoiler} HEH?! They killed off Isaak...? The main villain...before the final episode, who the f*** is going to Dexters final confrontation/kill for the series then {Spoiler}  |
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Post by Jiren on Nov 27, 2012 10:41:55 GMT -5
Honestly I find this season very "meh"
- I don't care bout the Hannah storyline, Lumin & Prado were much better
- Isaak - For those that have seen it.......Yeah
- Laguerda - JUST DIE!!!!!
I liked the Deb/Dexter though
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Nov 28, 2012 16:09:17 GMT -5
i dunno what it is, but i've been hating this season a lot It's awful. Then again, I've thought the show sucked since season 5. I had some hope for this season, but this is just shitty television. |
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Post by spyda on Nov 28, 2012 20:32:32 GMT -5
Why can't Debra & LaGuerta die already? I wanted them dead since the first season  Anyway, I think Dexters final confrontation for this season will be with the serial arsonist |
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