Dissing Dexter
Dissing Dexter. My friends, I have to say that 3rd Season of Dexter did not add up to the prior two seasons. I get the feeling its showing its “House” colors. What I mean is that when House first came on TV, it was something new and exciting, a totally different character. But over the course of the first 3 seasons you could see a pattern “house is mean to a patient, they diagnose what is wrong, patient gets worse, house is mean to the patient and then saves the day”…that was an episode by episode course. Dexter’s run is more along the entire season. The first two had some give and take; the ice truck killer was wholly involved with the majority of the characters. Doaks and Lyla gave season 2 a different feel. But the third season seems sloppy to me….It seems the writers are trying TOO hard to make the viewer pick out good guys and bad guys from the beginning. Dexter viewers are intelligent enough on their own not to notice this. And there are times where the characters are breaking into someone’s house, in the middle of the day, just walking up to a window and hopping in….little too easy? Especially with a guy who is on the News and a HUGE character in the Cuban community?
Although there some very well written parts of the show, Dexter’s humanization, trying to work his way out of his sociopathic normality’s.
I’ve been completely enthralled with sociopaths for awhile now, just before Dexter actually came out. I’ve been in awe of how well they keep his character tied to what the science tells of being sociopathic. Consistently not caring a single bit about another person, whether they live or die or are in pain, none of that impacts you as a person. I think of myself as a semi-sociopath, not because I don’t care, or know how someone else is feeling. I understand they are in pain, but more than likely I don’t know them and I don’t care. I don’t WANT anyone to suffer but there always will be suffering. Instead I focus on those that I can help, those close around me. My friends and family. I know I could go and work in a soup kitchen and that would make me a better person in someone’s eyes. But only if I told people “oh, I can’t do that on Saturday, I’m working in a soup kitchen…. And now it’s like you’re trying to impress people by being pious.
