I love that it makes you sympathize with someone who is clearly a monster - I've long held a fascination with that phenomena in literature and movies, and love seeing it played out so deliciously in a tv series.
Yeah, same here. And the balance is so delicate-neither alienating the audience nor whitewashing the character.
It really makes you question what worth motivation plays in justice - whether it makes a difference if justice is performed for noble or selfish reasons, and whether that conflicts with the idea of justice itself. If Dexter's brand of 'justice' is any worse than the system we have in place that allows killers to walk free.
Oh, there's no end to the implications. I'm completely death penalty myself, so I cringe when I catch myself cheering Dexter on. But yeah, we'll definitely get some interesting questions raised, and possibly some introspection for Dexter this season.
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Date: 2007-10-04 06:00 pm (UTC)Yeah, same here. And the balance is so delicate-neither alienating the audience nor whitewashing the character.
It really makes you question what worth motivation plays in justice - whether it makes a difference if justice is performed for noble or selfish reasons, and whether that conflicts with the idea of justice itself. If Dexter's brand of 'justice' is any worse than the system we have in place that allows killers to walk free.
Oh, there's no end to the implications. I'm completely death penalty myself, so I cringe when I catch myself cheering Dexter on. But yeah, we'll definitely get some interesting questions raised, and possibly some introspection for Dexter this season.