Dexter 10/28

[Klompy]

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It seems like Dexter is going to discover that Harry was his biological father.

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This never even crossed my mind, but I agree there's a decent chance of the show going this way.

Episode was pretty good, but not great. I think I'm let down any episode he doesn't kill someone.

[burkoboy]

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It seems like Dexter is going to discover that Harry was his biological father.

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This never even crossed my mind, but I agree there's a decent chance of the show going this way.

Episode was pretty good, but not great. I think I'm
let down any episode he doesn't kill someone.

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I don't know if this is possible. IIRC dexter had to do specific research to make sure that guy was really his biological father in the first season. I may be remembering wrong, or that he was actually testing to see cause of death, not that he was his biological father. Anyone remember in better detail?

[Hopey]

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And secondly, if he was going to clean the boat, he'd at least take it out on the water. He wouldn't be doing it right in the harbor when he knew that the cops already had an idea which harbor the bodies had been dumped from. The whole timeline there just didn't make sense at all.


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Yeah, that was pretty hard to believe. Even if he didn't realize that there was video surveillance of the dock, he knew from his sister that the investigators had already been by earlier. Standing out in the open on his boat with a black-light and spray bottle is not the smartest move for someone who is supposedly as meticulous as Dexter. Taking the boat out to the open water before checking for blood is the least he could do to cover his tracks.

[spentrent]

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The sponsor character is interesting, but this episode was disappointing to me. I don't like Dexter falling apart and making so many clearly reckless decisions, it is way out of character for him. The "dark defender" thing is pretty stupid as well.

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Yeah, I posted immediately after watching the episode, but after I had 5 or 10 minutes to think about it, I thought it made no sense at all that Dexter would be out on the boat with the blue light. In the first place, he was way too careful to not know if there were blood splatters on his boat. He would have had the boat as clean as it could possibly be right when he dumped the bodies.

And secondly, if he was going to clean the boat, he'd at least take it out on the water. He wouldn't be doing it right in the harbor when he knew that the cops already had an idea which harbor the bodies had been dumped from. The whole timeline there just didn't make sense at all.

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The sponsor is [censored] up Dexter's game. He's being too human now and being lazy. I wanted to think that the late-night boat cleaning was not believable, but I think that he's healing -- becoming the human he really is -- and losing the capacity to stay focused on staying under the radar.

He never really looked for external justification before. He accepted that he was [censored] up in the head as axiomatic; Harry's Law gave him an outlet and excuse for his psychopathy rather than a moral justification.

This episode however seemed to mark a turning point. It hammered away at Dexter's new need for external justification, righteous moral approval even, from his satisfaction at overhearing the guys in the booth at the very beginning of the episode, to the Dark Defender stuff, and finally to reassuring his sponsor that she did the right thing in offing the dealer boyfriend.

This was never on Dexter's mind and now it's all there is.

I like the idea of Doakes becoming an inside man. I think it's possible but I question it after his dance with his Special Ops bro. Sure, Dexter isn't killing innocent wives, but Doakes seems driven to enforce the law in the name of the law as a beacon for the greater good, not driven to support simple vengeance, righteous though it might be to the individual hurt by the assailant's crime.

In any case this season is keeping me on my toes as much if not more so than last season. What a great [censored] show!

[WJL]

This was the pivotal show of the season,IMO. All the subplots took a direction during this hour; Dexter's relationship with Lila picked up a lot of momentum; Dexter may well be seen on the tapes on his boat, moving the case more in his direction; Rita's mother is moving in with her, making this relationship near impossible.

From here on, look for the freight train to really start rolling . . . it's going to be a wild ride from here to the end, much like the first season after the identity of the ITK was clearly revealed.

[21times20]

did you guys know that his sponsor is Bill Murray's daughter? im not sure how much, if at all, or in what way, this changes how i feel about her nipples

[Uston]

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did you guys know that his sponsor is Bill Murray's daughter?

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Different Bill Murray.

[NasEscobar]

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This episode however seemed to mark a turning point. It hammered away at Dexter's new need for external justification, righteous moral approval even, from his satisfaction at overhearing the guys in the booth at the very beginning of the episode, to the Dark Defender stuff, and finally to reassuring his sponsor that she did the right thing in offing the dealer boyfriend.

This was never on Dexter's mind and now it's all there is.

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One of the first season's episodes (perhaps the season finale?) ended with him day-dreaming that he was being honored with people thanking him and [censored].

He's always been human, I think he's just now is realizing he is.

[Hendricks433]

I really hope Shotime doesnt do with dexter what it did with Weeds, and make a ridiuculous ending to the season and start the next season with a ridiculous way to get out of it. I just hope the writing stays good. I can understand him messing up, he has a lot on his mind and hes not really focused.

[NasEscobar]

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I don't like Dexter falling apart and making so many clearly reckless decisions, it is way out of character for him.

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He let things get personal. Someone in the investigation is going to have to help him I think. He's on camera cleaning his boat in one of three docks he could have used, he didn't kill the bar owner and the bar owner knows who he is, Deb and his GF know he went out of town the same night the person that killed his mom got effed up...

I think there is a decent chance the second half of this season or the third season is him on the lam.