Dexter Season 3

Magus · 10-30-2008, 11:01 PM

Don't know how many of you get Showtime (or watch it by other means), but I find the new season's main fulcrum of Dexter finally finding a quasi-father friend figure who is not disgusted by his vigilantism and finally full-blown supports and helps him in it to be exciting (in an Anti-Batman way, I guess), even though it is obvious it will all end badly by the end of the season.

I mean, Prado is basically a murderous Commissioner Gordon as far as his relationship with Dexter goes. The bending of the traditional moral value versus murderous vigilantism, but with the obvious imagery of Prado as naive in his half-worshipful relationship with Dexter tempering it--it's going to be a good season. The delicious irony that Dexter killed Prado's brother is just icing on the cake, because when it is eventually revealed (as it undoubtedly will be), Prado's hypocrisy will be exposed--he will hate Dexter even though he has been supporting him in similar acts on (arguably) similar people (Oscar Prado doesn't seem to have been clean at all, and, while it is partially Dexter's rationalization that he was probably waiting to kill Freebo not because of ethics but because he owed Freebo money, it doesn't change the fact that it probably was his reason for it, to simply get rid of his debt). Supposed morality will not stand up to emotion, which is all the supposed morality was in the first place--desire for vengeance/righteous indignation.

Er, so anyway. Prison break-type episode coming up! Looks exciting! Also hilarious how it is so obviously morally wrong and yet Prado will undoubtedly twist it for himself to be right. Dexter will probably not bother to rationalize it if we're lucky (I find the older Dexter to have been more interesting, with lines along the line of, "I gotta hurry up and get this guy before the cops arrest him, because man, I need to kill somebody". The newer rationalizing Dexter is sort of annoying).

I guess none of them saw To Kill A Mockingbird (I mean, yeah, that guy was innocent, but the idea of freeing a convicted criminal so you can personally kill him is the main basis of the upcoming episode, from what I can see).

Mondt · 10-30-2008, 11:18 PM

Gah, I've only seen the first episode. We discontinued our subscription to Showtime so I have to find other ways to watch it. Fail.

10-30-2008, 11:01 PM	#1
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	Dexter Season 3 Don't know how many of you get Showtime (or watch it by other means), but I find the new season's main fulcrum of Dexter finally finding a quasi-father friend figure who is not disgusted by his vigilantism and finally full-blown supports and helps him in it to be exciting (in an Anti-Batman way, I guess), even though it is obvious it will all end badly by the end of the season. I mean, Prado is basically a murderous Commissioner Gordon as far as his relationship with Dexter goes. The bending of the traditional moral value versus murderous vigilantism, but with the obvious imagery of Prado as naive in his half-worshipful relationship with Dexter tempering it--it's going to be a good season. The delicious irony that Dexter killed Prado's brother is just icing on the cake, because when it is eventually revealed (as it undoubtedly will be), Prado's hypocrisy will be exposed--he will hate Dexter even though he has been supporting him in similar acts on (arguably) similar people (Oscar Prado doesn't seem to have been clean at all, and, while it is partially Dexter's rationalization that he was probably waiting to kill Freebo not because of ethics but because he owed Freebo money, it doesn't change the fact that it probably was his reason for it, to simply get rid of his debt). Supposed morality will not stand up to emotion, which is all the supposed morality was in the first place--desire for vengeance/righteous indignation. Er, so anyway. Prison break-type episode coming up! Looks exciting! Also hilarious how it is so obviously morally wrong and yet Prado will undoubtedly twist it for himself to be right. Dexter will probably not bother to rationalize it if we're lucky (I find the older Dexter to have been more interesting, with lines along the line of, "I gotta hurry up and get this guy before the cops arrest him, because man, I need to kill somebody". The newer rationalizing Dexter is sort of annoying). I guess none of them saw To Kill A Mockingbird (I mean, yeah, that guy was innocent, but the idea of freeing a convicted criminal so you can personally kill him is the main basis of the upcoming episode, from what I can see). __________________ The Valiant Review