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Man, I love Deb. Dexter without Deb will be so weird, so we better get a lot of ghost Deb.
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Khablam posted:I've only just completed my rewatch and I have already forgotten what happened in season 3. A kill goes wrong when Dexter encounters someone else who's come to kill his suspect (Freebo), winds up in a fight with them, and kills them. The person he kills turns out to be the junkie brother of an ADA. Dexter winds up befriending the ADA, so much so that he lets the ADA in on his Code and helps him start to kill people himself because he's frustrated with the deficiencies of the criminal justice system. Meanwhile, Miami Metro tracks a serial killer who skins people. It's related to the ADA because Freebo owed money to the Skinner, and this FOR SOME REASON causes the Skinner to start killing so, so many people who are tangentially related to the Freebo case. It's extremely hard to tell what the gently caress the Skinner is doing; his actions make no sense at all.
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The skinner guy was the one he just dropped in front of a cop car and the police were like "welp suicide by cop I guess, CASE CLOSED" wasn't he
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Cant forget about the great Clemson Galt. Too bad for the guy he died long before 2016 when he would have been pardoned anyhow
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Aug 16, 2021 11:54
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Thus far, the lowest point of my rewatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVEdFM0T7Bg
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Dragonstoned posted:The skinner guy was the one he just dropped in front of a cop car and the police were like "welp suicide by cop I guess, CASE CLOSED" wasn't he Just got to this. Dexter gets kidnapped by the Skinner, who was put onto him by Miguel Prado. He's strapped to the guy's table, but has a heart-to-heart with Ghost Dad about how he wants to live for his unborn son. He tips the table over onto his hand, dislocating his wrist or something like that allowing him to get free. He breaks the Skinner's neck and throws him onto a responding cop car (they are there because of some poo poo Masuka dug up about tobacco leaves, I wasn't paying enough attention to figure it out). Dexter goes from completely at the Skinner's mercy to killing him in a way that can't be traced to him in about 90 seconds.
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PostNouveau posted:Thus far, the lowest point of my rewatch: oh lord wheres part 2
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Khanstant posted:oh lord wheres part 2 That's what the sequel series is for
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Angel and LaGuerta getting together has a lot of "We didn't have anything for these characters to do this season" energy
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PostNouveau posted:Angel and LaGuerta getting together has a lot of "We didn't have anything for these characters to do this season" energy That always drove me crazy, because it’s one of the clearest instances of the writers just not caring about writing anything that matters beyond the current season. They spent a season establishing a love interest for Angel, then the next season it’s “oh, they broke up off screen and now he’s with Laguerta.” Then they get married, and a couple seasons later it’s “oh, they got divorced off screen.”
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Diabolik900 posted:That always drove me crazy, because it’s one of the clearest instances of the writers just not caring about writing anything that matters beyond the current season. They spent a season establishing a love interest for Angel, then the next season it’s “oh, they broke up off screen and now he’s with Laguerta.” Then they get married, and a couple seasons later it’s “oh, they got divorced off screen.” lol I totally forgot they got married. I thought they were gonna be done by the end of this season for sure.
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PostNouveau posted:lol I totally forgot they got married. I thought they were gonna be done by the end of this season for sure. I'm pretty sure I remember there was a tweet by the guy who played Angel where he'd completely forgotten his on-screen wife had died and turned into a bench
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PostNouveau posted:I forgot Deb dates this old man and also the old man has a long gratuitous rear end shot I forgot how much I hated Deb as a character, wish she got whacked near the end of season one.
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Aug 17, 2021 06:40
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Should have kept the bit from the books where Deb knows about Dexter. Have her find out at the end of S1 when he saves her and begrudgingly accept a need for him.
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Dragonstoned posted:I'm pretty sure I remember there was a tweet by the guy who played Angel where he'd completely forgotten his on-screen wife had died and turned into a bench Not a tweet (well, at least not JUST a tweet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7uvkztyy5U
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Dragonstoned posted:I'm pretty sure I remember there was a tweet by the guy who played Angel where he'd completely forgotten his on-screen wife had died and turned into a bench Better than a tweet, it was an interview where they asked him what he thinks each character is doing now and he just said that Laguerta is probably still fighting the good fight as a police captain somewhere without realizing she was dead. edit: 
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Argue posted:Better than a tweet, it was an interview where they asked him what he thinks each character is doing now and he just said that Laguerta is probably still fighting the good fight as a police captain somewhere without realizing she was dead. This is so, so good. I know some actors don't really get into the nitty gritty of their work and have a 9-to-5 attitude about getting their lines right and hitting their marks, but drat Fake edit: to be sure, this isn't on him but on the dramatic gruel that the show had become by that point.
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McSpanky posted:This is so, so good. I know some actors don't really get into the nitty gritty of their work and have a 9-to-5 attitude about getting their lines right and hitting their marks, but drat Oh, totally. Of all the shows that don't deserve attention, even from their own cast and crew, it's this one.
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Someone brought up Dexter somehow carrying a body up to the top of a grain silo a while back, well I just watched that episode and it’s just full of the wildest stupid poo poo.
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Diabolik900 posted:Someone brought up Dexter somehow carrying a body up to the top of a grain silo a while back, well I just watched that episode and it’s just full of the wildest stupid poo poo. This is all so much worse than I remembered. And different, too. I thought Jonah came back in season 5, but for reasons I can't yet understand, I still remember that Mos Def was in season 6. Anyway, my one small claim to fame on these here forums was coming up with the title for season 6. It was something like Dexter S6: Olmos here, Mos Def better than S5. Colin Hanks. Oh, that'd likely be how I remember all of that poo poo went down in s6.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:This is all so much worse than I remembered. And different, too. I thought Jonah came back in season 5, but for reasons I can't yet understand, I still remember that Mos Def was in season 6. Jonah was also in season 5. Quinn suspected that Dexter was Kyle Butler, tracked Jonah down, and tried to show him a picture of Dexter, but was stopped by his FBI guard, who conveniently disappeared by the next season.
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Aug 17, 2021 12:09
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How could that poor gas station girl resist a pickup like such as "my mother was killed in front of me when I was a child. but there are no mothers around here I can see" or whatever
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Not a tweet (well, at least not JUST a tweet): The wonderful thing about Dexter Youtube is getting to see into the bizarre world where people like this exist: quote:Quinn and Deb were such a cute couple I wish Deb didn't die .. Quinn was so broke hearted and lost without her.. ???????
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Regy Rusty posted:The wonderful thing about Dexter Youtube is getting to see into the bizarre world where people like this exist: Yeah, that's kind of how I feel with anyone outside of this thread. Like, we all pretty much agree that starting with s5, it went downhill, but there are WAY too many people out there who are all "this show just kept getting better and better, though I didn't really like the ending." I mean, different strokes and all, but 
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Season 5 is much like Resident Evil 5 in that it gets too hard a time for not being the crown jewel of the series that preceded it. Likewise both 6th entries are total cow dung
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I think season 5 is by far the weakest. It's a step down from any of the previous seasons, and 6 is where the show goes fully off the rails and becomes good for all the wrong reasons. Like, what good things are in season 5? "I'm sorry for your loss," and the PI dude are all I can recall.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yeah, that's kind of how I feel with anyone outside of this thread. Like, we all pretty much agree that starting with s5, it went downhill, but there are WAY too many people out there who are all "this show just kept getting better and better, though I didn't really like the ending." Its worst tendencies begin long before Season 5. I'm in the middle of Season 4 now and ghost dad is now inserting himself into regular scenes. In Season 3 Dexter used to have to go to Hazy Lens Land for a whole scene where he talks things over with Harry. Now Harry seems to be in the background of every scene and there will just be hazy cuts where he butts into a conversation for like a line. I don't remember precisely but I feel like at some point they get so lazy that they don't even shoot Harry to be hazy and dreamlike anymore?
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Ok, like... Season 4 is schlocky and dumb, yes, but at that point, it at least had the promise and potential to lead to something that'd be a game changer. Maybe Dexter would be outted and caught. Maybe Quinn will figure him out. Maybe Trinity gets away, and gets even worse. Or maybe, just maybe... 4 full years later, Dexter murders a man under police surveillance and nothing is done about it. At all. Fuuuuuck this show.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yeah, that's kind of how I feel with anyone outside of this thread. Like, we all pretty much agree that starting with s5, it went downhill, but there are WAY too many people out there who are all "this show just kept getting better and better, though I didn't really like the ending." PostNouveau posted:Its worst tendencies begin long before Season 5. I'm in the middle of Season 4 now and ghost dad is now inserting himself into regular scenes. In Season 3 Dexter used to have to go to Hazy Lens Land for a whole scene where he talks things over with Harry. Now Harry seems to be in the background of every scene and there will just be hazy cuts where he butts into a conversation for like a line. Ghost Harry was awful from the start. That's when the show started going downhill (season 3). Ghost Harry can be entertaining in a dumb way (reunion, the diner car park), but that's when the show started breaking apart - when Dexter started talking to ghosts for some reason / started exhibiting Hollywood-schizophrenia.
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Robocop was by far the best part of whatever season he was in
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George H.W. oval office posted:Robocop was by far the best part of whatever season he was in I genuinely appreciated how the writers called out their own writing with his line "The gently caress kinda name is "Lumen", anyway?!"
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PostNouveau posted:He's extremely redundant. In a show with overwhelming interior monologue narration, why do you need another loving character for Dexter to run through his thoughts with? Yeah, that too. Not sure what they thought they were adding to the show with that decision. I guess they really wanted to keep the actor in it 
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DEXTER: That's me. Dexter Morgan. I kill people, but only bad people. It's the code that my father taught to me. If I don't live by the code, I'll go to a very dark place. I have to kill but only by the code. GHOST DAD: Dexter, I'm worried that you're straying from the code. Remember, you have to live by the code. If you don't follow the code, you'll become that which you hunt. DEXTER: He's right. I have to follow the code. If I don't follow the code I would become a worthy victim of myself. Meaning that I would deserve to be killed, because that's what I do. I kill.
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PostNouveau posted:
Oh, I agree. Maybe "appreciate" isn't the right word, but I liked hearing that line, because that's literally what the audience has been thinking since she was introduced.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Robocop was by far the best part of whatever season he was in A movie where he faces off against Clint Eastwood in a battle of decrepit old crooked cop/do-gooder
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I had several friends when the show was airing who had a seething hatred for it, starting with the intro. I can't even recall why specifically, but the film major friend especially had a long rant on how lovely it looked or the lighting or whatever with it. I thought the steak was pretty gross but liked the show at first and mostly ignored their heavy shade, but in retrospect, they had much better taste and instincts than I did. Tried rewatching it recently, never even finished the show, can't remember which season I stopped and only saw random bits thereafter, but geez, it is pretty loving bad, I remember thinking Michael C Hall was a pretty good actor, but idk, once the wool is lifted he's a pretty corny clown.
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Season 4 is not as good as Season 1. The Lithgow stuff is good, but the Kyle Butler facade gets stretched so thin and worn out so much. I remember when Angel had, like, one scene a season. Like big reveal, we get a scene without other cops around and it turns out his wife threw him out. Now I gotta get like 5 minutes an episode of him and LaGuerta making kissy faces. And scenes with Quinn and his girlfriend! Oh man she wants to put a label on their relationship, who gives a gently caress? If this character is just around for the gratuitous nudity (like every drat episode), find some other way to cram in gratuitous nudity. (edit: she's trinity's daughter? I don't remember that poo poo at all.) Edit2: She's NOT his accomplice she was secretly helping him this is so stupid PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Season 5: OK it has happened. I thought I was going crazy because they were still doing hazy cam whenever ghost dad came around, but that's completely gone now, he's just a regular dude who shows up in normal shots.
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