Dexter Season 7: Eatin' Lil Debbie's Snacks

Sacr3D · October 9, 2012, 8:02am

Which is why I’m doing it.

Don_Barracuda · October 9, 2012, 1:10pm

I laughed so hard when Deb stumbled out the car, …ugh I almost drove off the road, I’m so fucking tired

Super_Saiyan_Cable · October 9, 2012, 8:01pm

[details=Spoiler] spoiler test for vegas pimp and other sensitive fuckin idiots

[details=Spoiler] las vegas pimp gtfo dude. really tho, my bad, but seriously, there was no way you could get the ep spoiled from my post other than the damn toggle i decorated the entire post with “spoiler” only a masochist would keep reading at that point if they really didnt wanna hear about the ep.

but i should’ve took the couple minutes to learn how to properly manage my posts, my apologies. anyway ep2 was ok, hopefully they clean up the loose ends and sloppiness. substance is making up for it though.

Don_Barracuda · October 12, 2012, 11:00pm

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axeman61 · October 13, 2012, 2:41pm

I checked out on this show after S6.

I haven’t read this thread. Has the show come back to at least S3 quality?

SoVi3t · October 13, 2012, 6:38pm

yeah not gonna lie, that bothered me a little lol.

We dunno if he kills or doesn’t kill. Hell, all those geek collectibles he has could be trophies.

And fuck his step-kids, ggpo.

anon26555290 · October 13, 2012, 9:49pm

I dunno if I am liking the direction its going. Deb seems to be fine with everything rather quickly and now shes going to be busting his balls all the time and for some reason they always wanna introduce some main villain (the russian) for the season instead of just dealing with the plot lines between existing characters. Yeah the step kids could stay at their grandparents… hell id like it if he dumped Harrison off too.

white_shadow · October 14, 2012, 6:25am

They’re really making a shit sundae for Dex (and Deb) to overcome this season. Methinks creepy hacker dude has to end up being an ally to resolve LaGuerta + the Ukrainian mob that will be gunning for his ass.

I couldn’t get over that scene. Also the fact that he’s cheating on his cute lil latina girlfriend and leaves a vid his escapades right there in an easy to find folder? Okaaaay…

Shaft_Agent · October 14, 2012, 8:47am

yeah, dudes need to stop sperging out over that computer thing. remember you are still watching the show after this happened:

last season’s finale

Spoiler

Dexter survived the Lake of Fire tableau by hopping onto a tugboat full of Cuban immigrants, murdering a pirate, then swimming ashore. Later on, he arrived at that crime scene where Travis had murdered the elderly couple and painted an enormous mural of Dexter on their living room wall. In an outrageously dumb moment, no detectives or uniformed police officers had even entered the living room, which gave Dexter a good ten minutes to literally deface the mural with a hammer, which apparently one can do without making any noise. Meanwhile Travis busted into Dexter’s house, tried on one of his shirts (which don’t look as good on Colin Hanks, FYI), discovered Dexter had a son, and then conspired to kidnap him. Which he did later on during a Noah’s Arc themed pageant while conveniently never noticing that Dexter was still alive. Travis then brought Harrison atop a skyscraper in time for a solar eclipse, Dexter found them, and Travis made Dexter inject himself with a syringe, but Dexter faked it and then punched Travis out. Then apparently Dexter carried a grown man to his car in broad daylight.

Who pays these writers?

Koop · October 14, 2012, 5:01pm

touche’ sir… touche’

Don_Barracuda · October 14, 2012, 9:21pm

what’s worse being a serial killer or a gamer?

Kotaku asks the questions - http://kotaku.com/5951350/a-cable-drama-conundrum-whats-worse-a-serial-killer-or-a-gamer

A Cable Drama Conundrum: What’s Worse:

No, seriously. This is a question I’ve had to wonder of late thanks to Dexter, the hit TV show that follows a serial killer who kills other serial killers. This would make him a “good” serial killer—at least, as good as someone who murders people can be. That may sound ridiculous, but being privy to Dexter’s thoughts, insecurities and private life makes it easy to feel empathy for a character who struggles with something he cannot control or wants to do.

Every so often, Dexter meets other people who are deviants—murderers, yes, but also folks who are arsonists, rapists and so on. Dexter tries to connect with these characters, given that they might be the only ones who are capable of understanding him. These characters sometimes get dangerously close to finding out Dexter’s secret. Ultimately neither of these situations ends well. The darkness and corruption in other characters tends to be absolute, and being beyond saving means that before long, these characters find themselves killed by Dexter. The latest potential victim? Louis Greene, a character introduced in season six. He’s a gamer.

Louis works at a fictionalized version of the Miami police department, like Dexter. What better place to hide than in plain sight, after all? As the show goes on, we find out that the reason Louis interns there is because he’s making a game called “Homicidal Tendencies.” The premise of Homocidal Tendencies is that you get to play as famous serial killers—Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer and The Bay Harbor Butcher—the latter being Dexter himself. As of yet it’s unclear if Louis actually knows who Dexter is, but Louis’ obsession with Dexter specifically is hard to otherwise justify.

So when Louis shows Dexter his game, as the audience we immediately think that Louis knows more than he lets on. Dexter becomes alarmed and shuts Louis down. He asks Louis why anyone would want to take a life—this is something that, despite Dexter’s actions, Dexter broods over regularly. We know that when Dexter asks that, he’s not just trying to throw Louis off his track. He genuinely doesn’t understand why someone would want to do such a thing, much less in a superfluous, silly thing like a game. Dexter calls the game offensive and tells Louis to do something else.

The audience watching, judging from the public controversy surrounding violent games, is likely to agree with Dexter. Why would anyone want to play as a serial killer? And what does making a ‘tasteless’ game like that say about a game developer, other than that their morality is out of whack? Even Dexter, an actual serial killer, sees something wrong with what Louis wants to create—so does that mean Louis is worse than Dexter?

It doesn’t help that Louis is characterized as a man with a serious case of arrested development—like many gamers in media are. His apartment is bursting with toy figurines, comic books and gaming gear, like Razer brand products. The show highlights the Razer products, which seems like a weird endorsement to me—what does that say about people who buy Razer products, if not people who identify as gamers?

Most of us wouldn’t see anything wrong with what we see in Louis’ apartment, but Dexter makes a point to look down on Louis for it. The reason we’re shown the apartment at all is because it helps cement the idea that something is terribly wrong with Louis—and by extension, people who play games. Look at how dangerous the gamer lifestyle is, look at how it messes with someone’s principles!
[RIGHT] [/RIGHT]
This is furthered when we see Louis channel Anonymous. Louis is an absolute whiz when it comes to technology—but in the questionable, malicious way. We see him circumvent the law to track people down, if not hack into people’s accounts. He illegally tracks down a stolen piece of evidence from Miami Metro, buys it, and then sends it to Dexter’s house—this is but one of the number of things Louis does to mess with Dexter. In the latest episode of Dexter, we find out that the reason Louis does all this is because Dexter shot down his game. He’s nothing more than a resentful kid. As a gamer, it’s “obvious” that Louis cannot take anything seriously. Would he play or make games otherwise?

Dexter makes no qualms about presenting gamers in a negative light. What’s startling to me is that by characterizing Louis the way they do, they’re kind of saying that Louis is worse than a serial killer…because he likes games. Gone is any indication of why it would be worthwhile to play a game that lets you experience something you otherwise never could, to see life from new perspectives, to engage in morally dubious actions in a safe space. Maybe it turns out that Louis really is as bad as Dexter thinks he is—but even then, the questions the show raises about video games are still uncomfortable.

For all the ruckus people make about how immature games are, there’s little support when games try to break from that and present something nuanced, complex, if not “adult.” What, exactly, is gaming supposed to do when that’s the case?

More amusing to me, however, is that anything someone might fear about a game that puts you in the shoes of a serial killer would probably be no worse than what a show like Dexter. The show takes a moral grey area and runs with it: and that’s exactly why we love it. It’s not clear if what we see is “wrong” or “right,” and our conflict in trying to decide what we think about Dexter is what makes the show compelling. What’s the worst than could happen if we played a game like Homocidal Tendencies—it might be easier for us to feel empathy for the characters and that could have disastrous consequences? You mean it might have the same effect as watching Dexter? Oh no.

…must stop reading Kotaku articles

anon26555290 · October 14, 2012, 9:29pm

Yo

Yo never mind that what about when dexter and travis were on the campus and they were like THERES GELLAR LETS GET EM

Deadsider · October 14, 2012, 9:33pm

So I have a theory going on for what might happen at the end for a shocker. I’m going to spoiler mark it just in case it does turn out to be true and some might not want to see this possibility in their minds because it would wreck some things.

end of season speculation

[details=Spoiler]In short, I think Dexter will kill Debra.

I mean, he won’t want to. Ever. But Deb is stubborn, and while being an accomplice (though it was more forced on her than actual pre-meditated thought) I have doubts she’ll ever support Dex. I think at some point despite her strong feelings for her brother, I do think there is a line that Dex could cross that she couldn’t forgive. And if she gets it in her head that Dexter has to be brought in, nothing will stop her otherwise.

So that brings us to The Code. Remember, protect yourself at all costs, which does mean that if someone close to him will turn him in he has to take actions to get out of it. And if the “nightmare scenario” of raging supercop Deb comes true, the tease on the official FB tease over the summer of “I will not kill my sister, I will not kill my sister” may come true and what a heart breaker that would be.

Not to mention, at 7 seasons, the show is getting on. Big things like Deb finding out the secret was bound to happen towards the end of the show, and whatta twist if Deb is placed on the table at the end and how to cope from there (maybe in Season 8 the miami police bust Dex and the show ends?).

Food for thought.[/details]

anon26555290 · October 15, 2012, 2:48am

I thought it would have been great if he killed her in the first episode of this season.

anon26555290 · October 15, 2012, 8:07am

Good ep

[details=Spoiler] Guess Lewis wont be a problem anymore lol. You got Deb seeing the merit of what Dexter does and promising to get off his back but how is that really going to work out? The Russian Mob is going to uncover Dex’s body stash

Don_Barracuda · October 15, 2012, 2:59pm

I think he’ll be a huge problem, they made the point of showing the blood splatter. Dexter will probably report the boat as stolen too, which would look well dodgy.

anon26555290 · October 16, 2012, 4:54am

oh yeah thats right.

JGreen · October 16, 2012, 5:50am

Spoiler

I’m betting that towards the end of the season, there will be a search for Lewis. Then, they’ll find him buried somewhere and blame Dex on the murder because of the boat. However, Debra and Dex will both know it’s not him because he doesn’t kill that way. So, Debra will be conflicted on what to do since she knows Dex didn’t kill Lewis only due to knowing how Dex actually kills.

Las_Vegas_Pimp · October 16, 2012, 5:58am

Get owned kid, just like anyone who tries to mess with Dexter

Koop · October 16, 2012, 4:40pm

So I have a theory going on for what might happen at the end for a shocker. I’m going to spoiler mark it just in case it does turn out to be true and some might not want to see this possibility in their minds because it would wreck some things.

end of season speculation

[details=Spoiler]In short, I think Dexter will kill Debra.

I mean, he won’t want to. Ever. But Deb is stubborn, and while being an accomplice (though it was more forced on her than actual pre-meditated thought) I have doubts she’ll ever support Dex. I think at some point despite her strong feelings for her brother, I do think there is a line that Dex could cross that she couldn’t forgive. And if she gets it in her head that Dexter has to be brought in, nothing will stop her otherwise.

So that brings us to The Code. Remember, protect yourself at all costs, which does mean that if someone close to him will turn him in he has to take actions to get out of it. And if the “nightmare scenario” of raging supercop Deb comes true, the tease on the official FB tease over the summer of “I will not kill my sister, I will not kill my sister” may come true and what a heart breaker that would be.

Not to mention, at 7 seasons, the show is getting on. Big things like Deb finding out the secret was bound to happen towards the end of the show, and whatta twist if Deb is placed on the table at the end and how to cope from there (maybe in Season 8 the miami police bust Dex and the show ends?).

Food for thought.[/details]

I like that play out but:

Spoiler

Wit that happening… how does laguerta tie into this being she has apparently evidence now?