I don't really mind the way they're writing him, he's started devolving in Season 1 when Brian ruffled his feathers and knocked loose a couple of memories and it's still ongoing.
He thinks he's the shit and way too clever for the police. He doesn't care about justice, never has and doesn't bother pretending when Deb's not around. All that really matters are his urges. This has increased over the extent of the show ... not a good attitude for learning anything.
I don't think it's a question of learning. He's gotten away with it every time. He hasn't lost anything important except for Rita and he's over that by now.
Lila and Miguel weren't really situations to learn from I'd say. He was having fun while it lasted and he ended it when they became problems... win-win for him, actually.
Without Deb, he'd be a goner at this point in the show, heading for complete self-destruction in a very short time. He may still, who knows where they'll go.
So you're deciding what Dexter should aspire to be? You think he should run rings around the police, care for justice and not be impacted by urges? I assume that's what you mean since you are pointing these things out as deficits
The person you are describing is one that the majority of our population wouldn't care about. Most people are "on his side" because he's human and makes mistakes.
I wouldn't be interested in a character that has little to no flaws, does not care about or get close to others (mistakes, like you said, Miguel and Lila, or romance like Lumen and Hannah, or family like Deb and Harrison).
How boring would it be to have a guy that doesn't care about anything or anyone but killing and getting nowhere near caught.
I didn't actually mean it as a judgment of his character. That was my interpretation of his behaviour throughout the series. Pure description. And I wouldn't even call it him being flawless or not human, because that type of arrogance (if you want to call it that) - him thinking he's better than the police because he always got away with it - is a pretty big flaw in the sense that it makes him careless and makes him take bigger risks.
Isn't that what gets most serial killers caught in the end?
Btw, I don't think Lila and Miguel meant much to him, in a way I'd see them as a means to an end. I do think that he cares about Deb and Harrison, but in the first episode of this season he was prepared to run and leave Harrison behind. Dexter is his own No. 1 priority most of the time, because essentially he's pretty self-centered. That's a human flaw, too. He's never really hidden it either.
To clarify more: I just wanted to point out that there's an explanation for his mistakes because I always read people complaining about him making them and not learning from them. What I wrote was a possible explanation for why he keeps making mistakes.
And don't get me wrong - I like him. I don't mind that his character changed over the course of the series and that he's not as he was in Season 1.
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That scene with Dexter and Hannah made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteI was very optimistic when this show cast Yvonne Strahovski but the plot these writers have come up with is just awful.
ReplyDeleteHe's still devolving I think.
ReplyDeleteI don't really mind the way they're writing him, he's started devolving in Season 1 when Brian ruffled his feathers and knocked loose a couple of memories and it's still ongoing.
He thinks he's the shit and way too clever for the police. He doesn't care about justice, never has and doesn't bother pretending when Deb's not around. All that really matters are his urges. This has increased over the extent of the show ... not a good attitude for learning anything.
I don't think it's a question of learning. He's gotten away with it every time. He hasn't lost anything important except for Rita and he's over that by now.
Lila and Miguel weren't really situations to learn from I'd say. He was having fun while it lasted and he ended it when they became problems... win-win for him, actually.
Without Deb, he'd be a goner at this point in the show, heading for complete self-destruction in a very short time. He may still, who knows where they'll go.
thats pretty good...u summed it up how i would have also....☺....
ReplyDeleteSo you're deciding what Dexter should aspire to be? You think he should run rings around the police, care for justice and not be impacted by urges? I assume that's what you mean since you are pointing these things out as deficits
ReplyDeleteThe person you are describing is one that the majority of our population wouldn't care about. Most people are "on his side" because he's human and makes mistakes.
I wouldn't be interested in a character that has little to no flaws, does not care about or get close to others (mistakes, like you said, Miguel and Lila, or romance like Lumen and Hannah, or family like Deb and Harrison).
How boring would it be to have a guy that doesn't care about anything or anyone but killing and getting nowhere near caught.
I didn't actually mean it as a judgment of his character. That was my interpretation of his behaviour throughout the series. Pure description.
ReplyDeleteAnd I wouldn't even call it him being flawless or not human, because that type of arrogance (if you want to call it that) - him thinking he's better than the police because he always got away with it - is a pretty big flaw in the sense that it makes him careless and makes him take bigger risks.
Isn't that what gets most serial killers caught in the end?
Btw, I don't think Lila and Miguel meant much to him, in a way I'd see them as a means to an end.
I do think that he cares about Deb and Harrison, but in the first episode of this season he was prepared to run and leave Harrison behind. Dexter is his own No. 1 priority most of the time, because essentially he's pretty self-centered.
That's a human flaw, too. He's never really hidden it either.
To clarify more: I just wanted to point out that there's an explanation for his mistakes because I always read people complaining about him making them and not learning from them. What I wrote was a possible explanation for why he keeps making mistakes.
And don't get me wrong - I like him. I don't mind that his character changed over the course of the series and that he's not as he was in Season 1.