Dexter on SHO - Page 41

Agree, the probe is not on Dex yet. I could be side tracked. We'll see

This season is about Dexter redefining Harry's Code into his own per the creator in preseason comments.

yep every kill of his this season has violated harry's code meaning it's all dexter now. Can't ait to see where this goes. I'm hoping fully Asst. DA backed cleaner job for dexter off the books(you know almost a comissioner gordon and batman type deal).

My wife and I picked up Season 1 of Dexter on DVD a couple of weeks ago, I was always interested in the show but my wife had a different Idea of what it was about and never wanted to give it a chance. Needless to say we burned through the first season, picked up the second season and burned through that one as well. Since I have ordered Showtime and we caught last nights episode. Although we missed a couple I think we will be able to fill in the blanks quite nicely.

My thoughts:
Season one was incredible, from beginning to end I never wanted to turn it off.

Season two I didn't think lived up to season 1's standard but it was very good none the less. My problem with Season 2 was the obvious fact that Dexter was not going to get caught, simply put that would have pretty much ended the series and I thought that was a big error on their part. I would have rather that aspect of the "BHB" been present throughout the series without an abrupt end until the series finally. If Dex would have used the Gulf Stream in the beginning and a couple of bodies would have been found here and there it could have slowly built up a suspense through each episode like "I wonder if they are going to find another body" or "I wonder if they realized that all the victims were violent criminals". IMHO they used the biggest trick for a end game of Dexter too early and with poor execution.

I'm wondering if anyone noticed the hair cut? It was funny last season my wife and I commented on Dexter's appearance and mentioned he needed a hair cut. It just occurred to me that maybe it was intentional, maybe the writers wanted to give a visual interpretation of the changes that Dex was going through, a darker less controlled version of himself. So he cleaned himself up a little and is back working on Harry's code.

I'm hoping the story line of bodies showing up with chunks of flesh missing is going to be like first seasons ITK. A story line that follows another murderer that Dex will eventually "Take Care Of"

All in all I'm very happy with this series and hope careful writing and tight plot lines will allow it to continue for a few more years. I hope at one point Dex uses his ability to help someone close to him in a different way, as in body disposal. It would be nice to see Rita or one of her Kids responsible for an accidental death (or maybe not so accidental) and Dex comes in and gets rid of the body that possibly gives someone an insight on just how "good" he is at it. Near the end of the series I would like for them to open up the ITK files again and piece together Dexter's connection with Rudy and the significance of it all. The good news is I'm not a writer so the chances of me being in shock and awe about the direction the story takes is better then them following my hopes and dreams for the series.

If you have access to "Showtime On Demand" you can watch previous Dexter shows.

Welcome to the club. Does your provider offer a free 'On Demand' channel with Showtime exclusive shows? Most cable providers (don't know about satellite) offer this free with the subscription to a premium cable network. Just being up to date with the ongoing Season 3 "Dexter" plot isn't enough. Even if you already know what happens in "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" the first two episodes of this season ("Our Fathers" and "Finding Freebo") are worth seeing just for the small things (a Michael C. Hall facial expression here, a Debra f*** bomb there, a Mazuka throwaway comment over yay, etc.) that add-up to make this the show it is. Track 'em bad boyz down!

Yes, I think that Dex is, indeed, "redefining" Harry's Code. He hasn't rejected it, exactly, as this season's kills involved Dex facing the practical necessity of staying alive by killing the Prado brother, and making another practical and sort of understandable decision, if not exactly a moral one, to kill a pedophile who represented a clear and present danger to Rita's kids.

Yep, the yoga instructor is next...justifiable as a service to all prego dad's worldwide .

No need. There are no signs of life in that bimbo.

I'm sure that scene hit home to quite a few fathers who could see themselves doing the same thing. I'm a pretty laid back guy, but not when it comes to my daughter/grandaughter's safety. I almost throttled my daughter's former boyfriend when he drove recklessly with her in the car.

Art

Great programming.
The hooker storyline with Batista was interesting. Sort of out of the blue.
I want Julie Benz as my wife

I concur.


This remains my favorite show on television. Just well done.

Some really great lines tonight.

I loved the "he's the f****'n witness whisperer" and "Ramon: I don't know who called, it was an anonymous tip, Dexter: "Oh; did I forget to leave my name" classic!

Dexter is a master at manipulating people and I just love when he brings it to the forefront with smart @ss internal dialog.

Still don't know exactly where this season is going, last two seasons was pretty clear what the endgame would be even if we didn't know exactly how it was going to end we knew what the events were leading too. This season I'm not sure what the finale is supposed to bring..very intrigued.

Well ... I don't see how Prado comes out of this alive. Knowing Dex's secrets have a way of being fatal. The question is how we get there.

I'll have to watch it again but it kinda looked like the artist's rendering of the killer/thief in miami looked like Ramone to me. If they're the same person Dexter would have his reason for killing him.

I thought so too. The sketch was shown only briefly but I immediately thought it looked like Ramon-- who, at least so far, has been depicted as a completely unsympathetic character IMO.

It did but she was faking the robbery so that was a generic latino guy she thought up in her head. She killed the guy.
That doesn't mean that Dexter won't kill Ramone at some point, however, one of the brothers is going down I just haven't figured out which one yet.

No, they mentioned that she gave the same sketch details that were released in the previous robberies artist sketches (probably released to the public through newspapers). I believe Dexter may well take out the younger brother and then have to take out the older brother as well if he finds out about it. Other things such as wrongly imprisoning people and whatever else Dexter uncovers will just add to his list of "guilty charges".

Or I could be totally wrong and Deb's partner could be the killer lol You never know with this show

I loved Deb's line, too, and would have have posted it if you hadn't beat me to it. I love Deb in this show. She is energetic, ambitious, and has a good heart but has NOTHING else going for her as a cop. I thought that Quinn did the right thing in keeping her in the dark when he manipulated her into playing the bad cop to his good cop in order to get a confession from the deranged girl. Earlier in the show somebody said something about the importance of "emotional IQ" in getting ahead and I thought that Deb's emotional IQ is in the moron range, if that. Still, she is a lot of fun.

Hmm, I missed that detail, thanks for the clarification. You may be right on about Ramone or Miguel, remember Laguerta's conversation to Miguel about a suspect's innocence?

True, true. Dexter can't afford a friend like this for very long

From Fredfa's "Hot Off The Press" thread:

TV Notes
Showtime Orders Two More Seasons of 'Dexter'
Premium cable network gives top rated drama series fourth and fifth seasons
By Alex Weprin, Broadcasting & Cable, 10/21/2008

Showtime is giving its top rated drama series Dexter another two seasons. The series, currently in the middle of season three, has been drawing record ratings for the premium cable network, surpassing three million viewers in its premiere week.

Seasons four and five will consist of 12 episodes each, with production on season four beginning in the Spring.

"Dexter's enormous success is a tribute to the great achievements of its cast, the producing team, the author of the original book, and the gifted Michael C. Hall, said Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt, announcing the pickup. I thought at best we would attract a devoted cult audience but soon realized that, ironically, this show is so thematically rich and layered with humanity that audiences of all kinds have flocked to it."

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/ind...leID=CA6607187

I about to ask if there was gonna be another season the other day but didn't get around to it. Now I find out not one more season but two! Fantastic news.

Power Saw To The People

2 more seasons is of Dexter. Great news... I think. The show is extremely well written and acted. and I religiously watch it. However, this season, for me, isn't living up to last season, or even the first. Of course, anything can happen, and I will be there to see it. This season is "tamer" and the current themes or plot lines will appeal to a much wider audience. Personally, I hope they are throwing us a curve ball and the then the hatchet falls and it goes back to "darker" themes of the first two episodes. At this point, at least for me, it's like the Sopranos - nothing beats the first two seasons, and then it was somewhat irregular even though I never missed an episode and many great episodes followed.

larry

Have to agree, but I think the next ep ramps it back up a bit from the previews.

Agree with this as well. I'm not bored with the character development and I assume the pace will pickup. However, there's alot of strings to tie up with the Quinn/IA chick/Deb/CI storyline, Dexter/Rita, Dexter/Prado which take quite a bit of time to unfold. In addition, Angel looks to be starting something up. LaGuerta's character seems to be going soft and sideways into another subplot and the Skinner mystery is lying fallow. Maybe they'll need 16 eps .

It's still as well written as ever, but there's more to digest. I've never been a big Smits fan, he's doing a great job with this character, but I'm not digging his interaction with the seemingly less ambitious and less sharp LaGuerta. This season seems to be meandering rather than charging. I hope I can eat these words as things pick up.

Guess what Kimosabi? I've seen the episode twice (getting ready for my write-up tomorrow) and I totally missed that! Wow!!!!

I agree completely. I absolutely loved the first two seasons, but thus far this season hasn't had the same impact. Though I do think much of my hatred comes from despising Jimmy Smits as an actor. I don't know why, but he just annoys the hell outta me.

And I did notice Dexter's proposal as well. Actually, I knew he'd use it the moment the psycho chick said it...which kind of disappointed me because he did end up using it.

[quote=archiguy;14918318]This last ep was interesting from the standpoint of giving us a reminder of how Dexter's mind works in terms of dealing with his emotional cluelessness. How many noticed that his moving proposal to his new family at the end was lifted verbatim from the psycho-gal killer's "testimony" about her late boyfriend? Well, besides dad.

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Caught this one too, but him repeating the words when she was being interrogated, gave me a hint that he was going to use it later on Rita.....Another good episode in my book, this season is moving "slower" then the last, but thats not always a bad thing......

I wonder if the pickup by CBS network for wide audience viewing (post-editing, of course) is somehow influencing the pre-production and stylizing of this 3rd season on SHO.

There seems to be much less profanity (from Deb, in particular... not withstanding "he's a f***in' witness whisperer"), and the whole pace seems slower. Much less tension I think, many fewer "blood slides", etc.

As far as the wide range of still meandering and disjointed plot lines, I suspect the pace will pick up and lots of stuff will come together very fast as the season nears its close. We will perhaps be talking excitedly again about how much they put into one show as it winds down, as we did last season when things finally wrapped up.