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Two days at Disneyland has kind of killed me. But I caught the finale of Dexter last night. (because that's what everyone needs when returning from a trip exhausted - serial killer mayhem!)
I... I've seen some shock, and I wasn't really at all. Once Trinity knew Dexter's real name, he was obviously going after the family and since he wasn't going after the kids.... They teased the Deb thing, but she wasn't there. Maybe if I hadn't seen CM a few weeks ago run the same story, I would've been more shocked, but, not really. And I liked Rita (when the writers weren't using her as a device to pile on Dexter, but generally she reacted as a real person would, I think, to Dexter's various irritating habits).
But comparing the two eps, I found the CM one so much better. Part of it is Dexter both as a show and as a character is more distant from emotion, and part of it was the writers were so committed to the "twist" that it sucked a lot of the horror out of it. But the only one I really felt for last night was wee Harrison -- I couldn't really feel for Rita because she was already dead. I can imagine what her last moments were like, but I KNOW what Haley's were. I know what she did, I know how brave she was.
Also, the CM one was structured so you have Hotch able to cathartically kill Foyet's ass, whereas Dexter was the opposite -- Trinity was already dead by the Dexter found Rita, so it just sort of hangs there, unresolved. (and the unnatural-in-retrospect moment, in which Trinity SHOULD have told Dexter he was too late - it's very manipulative either for the sake of the death ending or to dangle the possibility of a copycat).
But despite my rather "been there, done that" attitude, the season was still awesome. Lithgow was fabulous, and can probably write his Supporting Emmy speech right now. Deb's fall and rise this season is a thing of beauty. But, boo, to the ending. SUCKS. Poor Rita. Poor Julie Benz.
Dexter Single Dad of Three? *shudders* That's going to be resolved in the first two eps, I'm sure - with them all going away, becauese, there's just no way he can cope.
Also, I know he's kind of annoying and I wouldn't mind him figuring some things out and becoming the new Doakes, but I'd like to stare at Quinn a little more next season before his inevitable death. Thx.
I... I've seen some shock, and I wasn't really at all. Once Trinity knew Dexter's real name, he was obviously going after the family and since he wasn't going after the kids.... They teased the Deb thing, but she wasn't there. Maybe if I hadn't seen CM a few weeks ago run the same story, I would've been more shocked, but, not really. And I liked Rita (when the writers weren't using her as a device to pile on Dexter, but generally she reacted as a real person would, I think, to Dexter's various irritating habits).
But comparing the two eps, I found the CM one so much better. Part of it is Dexter both as a show and as a character is more distant from emotion, and part of it was the writers were so committed to the "twist" that it sucked a lot of the horror out of it. But the only one I really felt for last night was wee Harrison -- I couldn't really feel for Rita because she was already dead. I can imagine what her last moments were like, but I KNOW what Haley's were. I know what she did, I know how brave she was.
Also, the CM one was structured so you have Hotch able to cathartically kill Foyet's ass, whereas Dexter was the opposite -- Trinity was already dead by the Dexter found Rita, so it just sort of hangs there, unresolved. (and the unnatural-in-retrospect moment, in which Trinity SHOULD have told Dexter he was too late - it's very manipulative either for the sake of the death ending or to dangle the possibility of a copycat).
But despite my rather "been there, done that" attitude, the season was still awesome. Lithgow was fabulous, and can probably write his Supporting Emmy speech right now. Deb's fall and rise this season is a thing of beauty. But, boo, to the ending. SUCKS. Poor Rita. Poor Julie Benz.
Dexter Single Dad of Three? *shudders* That's going to be resolved in the first two eps, I'm sure - with them all going away, becauese, there's just no way he can cope.
Also, I know he's kind of annoying and I wouldn't mind him figuring some things out and becoming the new Doakes, but I'd like to stare at Quinn a little more next season before his inevitable death. Thx.
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