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Oct. 22nd, 2007 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ishtar79I watch other shows, really. But this is the one I can’t seem to shut up about!
-Well, shit. It seems like Masuka *might* be the one to single-handedly bring Dexter down after all. I’m torn between fretting about how Dexter is going to get out of this sticky mess (which he probably will if there is to be a third season) and just being slightly embarrassed on behalf of his psychotic ass, because really? Masuka? Methinks Dex should have tried the hookers & pizzas approach from the beginning.
-And speaking of sticky messes, wow, I rarely get squicked by stuff on the show, but the bodies melting like ice-cream on a hot day (er, or really, like cadavers on a REALLY hot day), complete with *squilchy* sound effects was pretty unpleasant.
-I tend to *prefer* episodes where Dexter gets to do his thing, not the least because he’s better at chopping up bad guys than he is at a)’subtly’ trying to pump his colleagues for info b)making forensic evidence disappear c)having Deep Geeky Knowledge on algae or d)engaging on petty theft in the service of crappy art. But still, I enjoyed this ‘filler’ ep, as I felt it provided interesting character background and some interesting hints at future relationships. And speaking of relationships…
-I’m really, really hoping I’m imagining the ‘vibe’ between Deb and Lundi. Because of the paternal dynamic in their relationship, which just exposes Deb’s Daddy issues, though come to think of it, of COURSE Deb has Daddy issues, she’s Harry Morgan’s daughter!
I find it very telling that Deb is now drawn to a Harry stand-in (and didn’t Lundi’s line about the only justification for murder being saving an innocent life in the last episode just *solidify* those parallels) after her last major relationship was the dark reflection of her brother. (Not to mention her brother’s brother, and OMG, why isn’t there more incest in this fandom? Or more…everything? Blast you, HP fandom and the overflow of fic, you’ve spoiled me for the rest of the Internets!).
-So, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I’m digging this Lilah chick. Yes, the actress is cursed with a case of TryTooHarditis, but I’m more fascinated by what she brings out in Dexter.
Like that scene where she pushes him just a little bit too far, and the mask drops again, and suddenly he’s just *is*, cold and sharp but with a hint of a hunger entirely unrelated to killing and…guh! (Ohgod, all this lusting after a serial killer can’t be healthy! It’s all Michael C. Hall’s fault, with his superior Acting Fu and broad shoulders!)
Ahem, sorry, where was I? Right, so I’m loving this storyline for more reason than the potential for hot, raw, twisted sex in a way that simply can’t happen with Rita, and I’ll just stop imagining all that too, lest my attention be diverted. AGAIN. But yes, the non-sex part of the dynamic. I’m all too aware that this Cannot End Well. Whatever Lilah’s pushing and prodding and own darkness bring out of our Very Emotionally Repressed Antihero, I doubt it will be the first step towards his journey towards a happier, well-adjusted serial killer. Because, well, there are no happy, adjusted serial killers. She’s, correction, *they*, because Dexter’s hardly objecting to this turn of events (aaaw, our little asexual boy’s growing into a manwhore!), are cracking open a whole nasty can of worms. Algae-covered worms! But that’s ok, because it’s exciting, and creates dramatic tension, and may or may not lead to hawt sexscapades!
-So, Rita. A part of me feels oddly guilty for rooting for The Other Woman (possibly the little Buffy fan in my voice screaming “Don’t mess with Darla, she’ll rip you to shreds!), but the truth is, while I don’t dislike Rita, I am kind of over her. Last season her storyline resonated, because of her whole journey towards empowerment, and the nasty ex-husband issues, and Dexter learning how to operate in a real human relationship, but…they’re both kind of *there* now. You know, unless you discount that *little* lie of omission on his part, and the hilarious comedy of errors that results (Narcotics Anonymous? LMAO!). But beyond the continuing thread of the “Dexter pretending to be normal” storyline that we get (which really, we get with practically every single interaction he has on his day to day), there’s just not enough, from a dramatic standpoint, to compel me. It’s a bit too happy-suburban for me, what with the kids (who have YET to slaughter a single animal on the show, damn it! I only want kids on my screen if they’re EVIL), and if I wanted a nosy/interfering MIL storyline, I wouldn’t be watching this show (though granted, the ‘parents as aliens’ monologue was kind of amusing).
Like I said, it’s not that I don’t like Rita. It’s just…where will this go? While in my fantasy the show concludes with an unrepentant Dexter getting away with it, I doubt that’s where the writers go-I see discovery, and tragedy, and probably Rita uncovering the truth, with a possible side of her feeling that her life, and her kids’ is directly threatened by what she sees as a monster that posed as her boyfriend, and that? Would completely *destroy* her, possibly even more than her abusive rapist ex did. I would just find it refreshingly original if *both* Dexter and Rita walked out of this relationship unscathed and a better for it. That won’t happen either, of course, because this show HATES happy, well-adjusted people. And I love it for it.
-Wow, Harry is really a piece of work, isn’t he? I mean sure, we knew he wasn’t going to be winning Parent of the Year awards anytime soon, but…WOW. The shrink can’t see the monster in Dexter? REALLY? Who the hell says that shit to a kid’s face? I don’t care about what he was trying to accomplish in the long-term with shaping Dexter into a neat vigilante monster, that line actually shocked me, in a show where very little does. Poor Dexter. Poor Deb.
-Ok, Doakes needs more scenes with people who aren’t Dexter, because he actually manages to gain a whole third dimension in them.
-What LaGuerta did? Totally stone cold. And I thank her from the bottom of my heart for it, because every second I had to endure of that inane, sexist Pascal storyline made me want to claw my eyes out. I don’t care if your boyfriend is sleeping around with half the city, you don’t bring that shit to work! Granted, it’s not the most professional of environments, what with Doakes being like a walking billboard for “RAGE”, PTSD-Deb pulling out her gun on kids and sharing inappropriate sexual info with her boss, Masuka the impending sexual harassment suit and even Angel bugging the shit out of everyone with the endless New Age platitudes, but did we really need a woman in power suddenly falling apart like some bad fifties female chiche? Also, I enjoy Evil!LaGuerta.
-Well, shit. It seems like Masuka *might* be the one to single-handedly bring Dexter down after all. I’m torn between fretting about how Dexter is going to get out of this sticky mess (which he probably will if there is to be a third season) and just being slightly embarrassed on behalf of his psychotic ass, because really? Masuka? Methinks Dex should have tried the hookers & pizzas approach from the beginning.
-And speaking of sticky messes, wow, I rarely get squicked by stuff on the show, but the bodies melting like ice-cream on a hot day (er, or really, like cadavers on a REALLY hot day), complete with *squilchy* sound effects was pretty unpleasant.
-I tend to *prefer* episodes where Dexter gets to do his thing, not the least because he’s better at chopping up bad guys than he is at a)’subtly’ trying to pump his colleagues for info b)making forensic evidence disappear c)having Deep Geeky Knowledge on algae or d)engaging on petty theft in the service of crappy art. But still, I enjoyed this ‘filler’ ep, as I felt it provided interesting character background and some interesting hints at future relationships. And speaking of relationships…
-I’m really, really hoping I’m imagining the ‘vibe’ between Deb and Lundi. Because of the paternal dynamic in their relationship, which just exposes Deb’s Daddy issues, though come to think of it, of COURSE Deb has Daddy issues, she’s Harry Morgan’s daughter!
I find it very telling that Deb is now drawn to a Harry stand-in (and didn’t Lundi’s line about the only justification for murder being saving an innocent life in the last episode just *solidify* those parallels) after her last major relationship was the dark reflection of her brother. (Not to mention her brother’s brother, and OMG, why isn’t there more incest in this fandom? Or more…everything? Blast you, HP fandom and the overflow of fic, you’ve spoiled me for the rest of the Internets!).
-So, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I’m digging this Lilah chick. Yes, the actress is cursed with a case of TryTooHarditis, but I’m more fascinated by what she brings out in Dexter.
Like that scene where she pushes him just a little bit too far, and the mask drops again, and suddenly he’s just *is*, cold and sharp but with a hint of a hunger entirely unrelated to killing and…guh! (Ohgod, all this lusting after a serial killer can’t be healthy! It’s all Michael C. Hall’s fault, with his superior Acting Fu and broad shoulders!)
Ahem, sorry, where was I? Right, so I’m loving this storyline for more reason than the potential for hot, raw, twisted sex in a way that simply can’t happen with Rita, and I’ll just stop imagining all that too, lest my attention be diverted. AGAIN. But yes, the non-sex part of the dynamic. I’m all too aware that this Cannot End Well. Whatever Lilah’s pushing and prodding and own darkness bring out of our Very Emotionally Repressed Antihero, I doubt it will be the first step towards his journey towards a happier, well-adjusted serial killer. Because, well, there are no happy, adjusted serial killers. She’s, correction, *they*, because Dexter’s hardly objecting to this turn of events (aaaw, our little asexual boy’s growing into a manwhore!), are cracking open a whole nasty can of worms. Algae-covered worms! But that’s ok, because it’s exciting, and creates dramatic tension, and may or may not lead to hawt sexscapades!
-So, Rita. A part of me feels oddly guilty for rooting for The Other Woman (possibly the little Buffy fan in my voice screaming “Don’t mess with Darla, she’ll rip you to shreds!), but the truth is, while I don’t dislike Rita, I am kind of over her. Last season her storyline resonated, because of her whole journey towards empowerment, and the nasty ex-husband issues, and Dexter learning how to operate in a real human relationship, but…they’re both kind of *there* now. You know, unless you discount that *little* lie of omission on his part, and the hilarious comedy of errors that results (Narcotics Anonymous? LMAO!). But beyond the continuing thread of the “Dexter pretending to be normal” storyline that we get (which really, we get with practically every single interaction he has on his day to day), there’s just not enough, from a dramatic standpoint, to compel me. It’s a bit too happy-suburban for me, what with the kids (who have YET to slaughter a single animal on the show, damn it! I only want kids on my screen if they’re EVIL), and if I wanted a nosy/interfering MIL storyline, I wouldn’t be watching this show (though granted, the ‘parents as aliens’ monologue was kind of amusing).
Like I said, it’s not that I don’t like Rita. It’s just…where will this go? While in my fantasy the show concludes with an unrepentant Dexter getting away with it, I doubt that’s where the writers go-I see discovery, and tragedy, and probably Rita uncovering the truth, with a possible side of her feeling that her life, and her kids’ is directly threatened by what she sees as a monster that posed as her boyfriend, and that? Would completely *destroy* her, possibly even more than her abusive rapist ex did. I would just find it refreshingly original if *both* Dexter and Rita walked out of this relationship unscathed and a better for it. That won’t happen either, of course, because this show HATES happy, well-adjusted people. And I love it for it.
-Wow, Harry is really a piece of work, isn’t he? I mean sure, we knew he wasn’t going to be winning Parent of the Year awards anytime soon, but…WOW. The shrink can’t see the monster in Dexter? REALLY? Who the hell says that shit to a kid’s face? I don’t care about what he was trying to accomplish in the long-term with shaping Dexter into a neat vigilante monster, that line actually shocked me, in a show where very little does. Poor Dexter. Poor Deb.
-Ok, Doakes needs more scenes with people who aren’t Dexter, because he actually manages to gain a whole third dimension in them.
-What LaGuerta did? Totally stone cold. And I thank her from the bottom of my heart for it, because every second I had to endure of that inane, sexist Pascal storyline made me want to claw my eyes out. I don’t care if your boyfriend is sleeping around with half the city, you don’t bring that shit to work! Granted, it’s not the most professional of environments, what with Doakes being like a walking billboard for “RAGE”, PTSD-Deb pulling out her gun on kids and sharing inappropriate sexual info with her boss, Masuka the impending sexual harassment suit and even Angel bugging the shit out of everyone with the endless New Age platitudes, but did we really need a woman in power suddenly falling apart like some bad fifties female chiche? Also, I enjoy Evil!LaGuerta.
