TV The Dexter Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

[Kusachu]

The Dexter Discussion Thread​

During the day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial employee in the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's crime lab, but his meticulously crafted life masks his true nature. In reality Dexter is a disciplined and murderous psychopath (a self-admitted "monster"), and he slakes his blood lust at night by carefully killing the serial killers he tracks down during the day. Based on the novels (Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter and Dexter in the Dark) by Jeff Lindsay. - IMDB

So this the place where all fans of Dexter can come and discuss their favorite serial killer! Its now on its fifth season airing on Showtime on Sunday nights. All the episodes and any season of Dexter can be discussed here. Hope that there are many other fans out there and so that we can get some good discussion going here.

And remember....Don't forget the code!​

With season 5 coming up, I thought I'd make a discussion thread for my very favorite mass murdering sociopath.

Any Dexter fans in the house??

I don't think there is anyone I know who watched last season and wasn't completely blown away by the death of Rita. It was tv drama gold!! I always hated her too, and for some strange reason I never saw it coming!! There's no doubt that this is going to have serious repercussions on the story. What do you guys think will happen with Rita's kids? Do you think that Dexter will keep them? Or will they be sent to live with Rita's parents? I can imagine that I would probably be annoyed with having them take on a larger role in the story, though I'm excited to see Johnny Lee Miller and Juilia Stiles added to the cast this season. I forget who else I saw on the roster, but I know one of them is a nanny, so I guess that partially answers my question about the kids...but man, I hate Rita's kids almost as much as I hated Rita, but not nearly as much as I hate Deb. UGH!

Also, is anyone else tired of the relationship between Maria and Angel? Since when are we supposed to give a crap about their stupid relationship??

But whatever. I just wanted to get the conversation rolling so when the season starts I can come back and talk about the episodes...should I feel compelled.

Who's your favorite character?

Your favorite "bad guy"?

Who do you hate the most?

Who do want to/think will die this season?

Do you think there will another season after this one?

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[Hystzen]

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i might start watching it online from start..i watched first season but was ages ago no idea..n since then seen random episodes..last i watched was he dated that woman who was a pyromaniac

Edit..gona be a noob

FIRST

 

[Arrogance]

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I don't get the channel showtime so thats what I do. I find the episodes streaming online .

My friend had the first 3 seasons on DVD, so he burned me copies of those. I caught up to those within a week of binging. Then I wanted to watch the 4th season which didn't have a dvd set so I found those online. Now I'm caught up and watching each episode of the 5th season after it is release online .

So far they are two episodes into this 5h season .

 

[Xadyu]

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Hmm.. this topic inspires me to watch it a bit faster.

I've been meaning to watch it ever since it started..

Season 5 already? Damn, I have to hurry then.

 

[Arrogance]

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Its not too bad. Each season has 12 episodes. Its not too big of a season that you need to catch up to. You should be able to do it . I did. It took me like 3 weeks to a month to catch up to 4 seasons.

 

[Hystzen]

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pfft 3 weeks...a week at least with the days i got off uni n if i cram it all in fast n ignore people

 

[Arrogance]

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That sounds good Hyst. So in the little you two have seen of Dexter what do you love about it?

 

[Hystzen]

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dark humour ...

plus it quite tense when he forgets something n gets paranoid n thinks he gona get caught..

 

[Arrogance]

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There are a few things I really love about it. The protagonist is evil and yet we are forced to love him. Moreover you end up forgetting he's really a bad guy because you get into his mind. No matter what you do, he obviously kills people, thats something thats bad even though he has his own sense of justice to it.

As well there is a lot of dark humor and almost stale humor since Dexter holds no actual emotion, or he at least comes to the conclusion he has none even though as you will see there are time in which he displays some without even realizing it.

Overall its just such a unique, one of a kind plot that you won't see anywhere else. It gets you thinking like the average mystery you normally have but at the same time there is just WAY more to it.

The mind of Dexter is just fascinating .

 

[shailks]

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There are a few things I really love about it. The protagonist is evil and yet we are forced to love him. Moreover you end up forgetting he's really a bad guy because you get into his mind. No matter what you do, he obviously kills people, thats something thats bad even though he has his own sense of justice to it.



The mind of Dexter is just fascinating .

I am a big fan of this serial, so thanks for a making a thread for it. It's not that he has a sense of justice in doing what he does. Most of the times he just accepts the serial killer is so much alike him in many ways and even tries to learn from them. His precaution or ritual is just to avoid him making mistakes and going in a killing spree. The humour is really good and also the way he thinks about normal life. :P

 

[Arrogance]

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I am a big fan of this serial, so thanks for a making a thread for it. It's not that he has a sense of justice in doing what he does. Most of the times he just accepts the serial killer is so much alike him in many ways and even tries to learn from them. His precaution or ritual is just to avoid him making mistakes and going in a killing spree. The humour is really good and also the way he thinks about normal life. :P

Well by justice I meant that its not necessarily his Justice, but the acts becomes justified through the code. The second season stresses this specifically in that people actually were praising his deeds as the Bay Harbor Butcher. In that there is a sense of justice of him cleaning up the streets.

Also you see that one time he killed someone who didn't commit a crime, how broke up he was because he broke the code and thus felt he had actually done an injustice in killing someone for the first time in his life.

So just to clarify what I mean when I say justice .

 

[shailks]

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also debra and her trash talks , the serial would be incomplete without her.

 

[Arrogance]

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My favorite line from the most recent episode was when she went into Quinns apartment and when he answers the door she calls him "F*ck puddle" .

Whoever writes her script is amazing .

Overall there are times Deb annoys me but overall its quite funny, the crap that comes out of her mouth is just gold.

 

[Kusachu]

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Okay...So...looks kind of weird with my post all up there and then Arrogance's beneath it...think I'll be editing that. Also, erm, yeah, there's no mention of spoilers in the topic name, which there should be, especially with my post up there spoiling the shit out of the whole thing. i'd take that liberty to but yeah, no go modding powers over here...

Moderator Notice:
* Done~ Charlie-San

AND since no one really replied to MY specific post, then I'll do it myself.

Damn am I ever glad that Rita's kids are the f*ck out of the story for now. That little girl couldn't act her way out of a sack. I liked how they did it though, having her want to go and then tying that all in with Cody not wanting to and the brother sister thing and all that.

I'm still hating on Deb though. She's got serious issues and they aren't even amusing. But she is funny sometimes I guess, like when she's telling that douche to keep his fat sausage fingers off her. I hate that guy too, whatever his name is. (I tend to not even register the names of douches I hate lol) And speaking of him, I'm hoping that he's gonna be on the slab this season.

And more with the Angel/Maria crap? Waste of time. Who cares if she's got money? *sigh* Really, how is Angel even a cop? Date raping (though not really), beating the crap out of people...wait. Sounds like it fits now that I think about it.

Hmmm...anything else? AH! The new victim. Well, he's okay for a mark I guess, but i hope he doesn't last too long. I want more on the heat on that Dexter/Kyle Butler angle. Can they actually turn the heat up more than they did with the Bay Harbor Butcher case? That was probably my favorite of it all.

 

[Arrogance]

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Yea, that was what happened when they merged it. Sorry about that, I was planning on making this thread for a while and the tunnel vision got to me and I never noticed you made one a few weeks ago . Also the threads were merged so all the posts above yours were from the thread I stupidly went and made, so no one saw your first post . Well they are together now in harmony and I and Charlie tried the best we could to fix my stupid error .

As for Rita's kids, I've always hated Aster and though she was a brat, and hormones have really gotten to her. She's the type of kid you just know is gonna be a a pain in the ass when she grows up. I feel bad for Cody though cause he wanted to stay with Dexter .

Yea the whole Deb and Quinn thing is really weird and Quinns another person I hate on the show. I love Deb's lines but if I had to meet her in the real world I'd probably be annoyed.

Angel/Maria isn't too bad. Its actually the most normal thing the show has at this point. In some weird way they work together that I really can't put into words.

As for the new victim I dunno how its going to turn out. I have a feeling Dexter may not even take care of him. I dunno, he's just got too much going on still.

 

[Kusachu]

Is anyone else LOVING Julia Stiles?? I think her situation was handled nicely. It would be nice to see her as a romantic interest for Dex, but somehow I still think she's going to end up dead. It was good to see Dex own Matsuda at the crime scene too. lol He was in and out like BAM!

But oh noes! Are the brothers gonna come after Deb now?? She did see one of them.

He was kind of hot too, so that was a bonus.

 

[Nuno]

While I didn't particularly enjoy episode 1 and 2 as much as "normal" Dexter episodes, episoide 3 and 4 kind of made me get the old "Dex feeling" back. We're back to business, no single dad crap or mourning. Rita is finally written out of the story, aswell as her kids.

Despite that, episode 4 left me with a love/hate reaction. The hate probably came from Dexter's obvious softness and stupidity, I can't believe what he's doing lately. Harry spelled it out perfectly in this episode, first Dex killed a guy with no prep time in a "public" bathroom, then does a sloppy kill of Boyd, and now he helped a dying witness survive, who judging by the preview will only screw up even more for him. Generally I don't like how parts of the story is going. I love how Debra and Batista's respective situations are being portrayed, and I absolutely love how Quinn is involving himself in the Trinity investigation and "figuring" out Dex. I did expect for Trinity's son to back up Dexter and say "no, never seen him" when Quinn was asking him about Dex being Kyle Butler, but I guess my predictions can't always be right in Dexter!

As for the next episode, I'm both excited and not excited. I'm not really looking forward to the mess Dexter is creating for himself in an awkward manner, but at the same time I can't wait to see him get out of this mud (like always!).

 

[Kusachu]

That's the thing about Dexter though, they make him out to have been "made" into what he is, not a born psycho, and the whole thing about him showing compassion to the girl reinforces this. That's the difference between Dexter and Trinity. Trinity didn't "love" his family, he abused them and used them as cover, while Dexter also uses his family for cover, he actually cares about them. If he was truly irredeemably psychotic, he wouldn't care at all. What I really liked, was Dexter's off handed answer to Harry asking him what the first rule was. He said, never kill and innocent, when over and over and over throughout the series we hear him repeatedly state that it is "Don't get caught."

I also thought it was clever how he explained himself to Lumen, that a serial killer killed his wife and all that. It slyly deceives her into thinking that's the real reason why he's killing. I also think that she's a really good plot device for Dex to find more people in need for being murdered, since he's "off work" right now and all.

 

[Arrogance]

Just got to watching the episode today. Since I don't get showtime I have to watch it online but I also wait till Wednesday because I'm off from school so I get to watch it with my dad.

At first Lumen was really annoying the crap out of me but I have to admit she's making things interesting. Quinn as always annoys me, but again his complications are making things interesting.

All along I had a feeling that the Internal Affairs would be for Maria and not Angel. Like the issue at hand would become her sleeping around and that would in hand have an effect on what she got done and how she got to where she is now.

In regards to Santa Muerta stuff I'm very suspicious of the cop, the Spanish female one (who I have no idea what her name is) that brought up Santa Muerta to Deb in the first place at the scene of the first beheading. For some reason she knows to much and she pushed Santa Muerta without the investigation even being fully off the bat. Now she's fully involved in this case and she has had a hand in the investigation the whole time and something about her weaseling her way into all of this is bothering me. She's hiding something IMO but I don't know what yet.

 

[Channy]

So i just got done watching the 5th season of Dexter and might i say it was pretty good i think in the 6th season is when Dex will unload his secret onto Deb i think shes getting pretty ready