Dealing with Dexter
Game over. I just watched my Cardinals play one of the most embarrassing games in Monday Night Football history. They had a total of 7 fucking turnovers. SEVEN! That's a god damn touchdown, or normally it would be a touchdown but in this game, when the Cards did get in the endzone, they missed the extra point; resulting in only 6 points.
To say that I needed an escape from real-life sports depression was an understatement. I needed something to cheer me up. Then I remembered that I had the Dexter season finale on my laptop and I thought that that would do the trick. It was going great. Dexter finished off the Trinity Killer, he started to believe that having a Dark Passenger was not his destiny, and he was off to meet Rita and start his new life. I was now in a good mood and could go to bed happily, then... BANG!
Dexter gets a voicemail...
Rita missed the plane...
Crying baby on blood soaked floor...
Rita dead in the tub...
Dexter realizes he is not in control, and his Dark Passenger is not really a passenger but actually the driver. His destiny is set in stone...
OHHHH FUCK! Now how am I suppose to go to sleep? I don't know whether it was caused by my affinity for this show, or if it was just a combination of an awful Cards loss plus this season finale, but this was the closest I have ever came to shedding tears for a TV Show.
(I would admit it if I actually cried. I am not trying to sound manly by saying "almost cried." I will admit when I cry in movies and such. Documentaries usually get to me, such as Young at Heart and some HBO documentary on Babe Ruth. Did you know that after Babe died they displayed his open casket on top of home plate for two days? Over 200,000 people came to say goodbye.)
Anywhat! By now, most of you know that I don't like writing in paragraph form because I hate transitions, I like breaking my ideas up into categories because it makes for an easier read, and I love bolding words. So, according to what I just said, here are some reasons why the finale, and in particular, the last scene was so emotional.
Dexter
Like I said before, he seemed to have turned over a new leaf. Or more particularly, he now thought of his family first. He no longer saw them as an obstacle to his Dark hobby. He now loved them and thought of how his hobby would hurt them, instead of how they hurt it. And, right as he came to this conclusion, he lost the most important part of that family.
Rita
A lot of people I know where glad to see her go. They thought she was to whiny and hated that they had to watch Dexter go to therapy instead of see him slash people up. They wanted more action scenes. What these people don't realize is that the scenes with Rita and the family, where action scenes to Dexter.
When he was in those plastic lined rooms slashing up his victims he wasn't challenged. Killing was his nine to five job. He did it with no challenge at all. What he did have problems with was the every day normal-life activities, such as dealing with Rita. This is what vexed Dexter the most, and aren't action scenes the ones where the main characters are challenged the most?
Watching a serial killer kill is nothing special. Watching a serial killer raise a toddler is scary as fuck.
(It was also sad to see Rita go because she got hotter every season. Similar to the main chick in Curb Your Enthusiam, what's her name? I don't do research.)
The Bloody Baby - Harrison
Born in blood, just like his dad. Watching the baby in blood gave me a double impact of disgust. The first being, upset for the character in the TV show, and the second was for the baby actor playing Harrison.
I hate when there is a crying baby in a movie or TV show. My mind always goes to, 'What did they have to do to make that baby cry? Did they have to hurt him? Did they scare him? Is he going to have major psychological issues because of this when he grows up?"
Now, according to the show, Dexter became a killer because he witnessed his mom get slaughtered at a young age, and odds are that Dexter's kid is now going to fall to the same fate. If this is true, who is to say that the actor playing the baby won't succumb to the same awful destiny. I know it's far fetched, but how is a small little baby suppose to know the difference between fake and real blood. Just don't be surprised if in 20 years we hear about this kid having 37 or so dead bodies buried underneath his floor boards.
(One of the worst cases of making a baby actor cry and possible giving him unfixable issues is this music video for MGMT's song "Kids." CLICK HERE. I can't even make it past the crib scene. Poor kid. He is going to be fucked up")
All those things being said. It was time to change up the show. I can't wait to see what the shit is going to happen in season five. Now that Dexter has lost Rita; his conscience, will he go killer crazy, or will he stick to Harry's Code?
More Dexter Stuff
Listen to Actors
Enough of my bullshit. Watch Michael C. Hall, and John Lithgow discuss the finale. CLICK HERE
Why No Name Change?
Was anyone else annoyed that after they found out that Trinity killed 4 people instead of 3 per cycle that they didn't rename him. Something like, The Quad Killer, or anything along those lines?
Season 5 Possibilities
Here is a interview with executive producer, Sara Colleton. The finale and possible season 5 story lines are discussed. CLICK HERE
If you didn't read the interview here are a few highlights.
1. Dexter may have finished off the Trinity's last cycle. There was the kidnapped kid that Dexter saved. Then Rita in the tub. We're not sure if a mother jumped to her death, but if we learn in season 5 that there indeed was, then Dexter did finish off the cycle when he bludgeoned Trinity with the hammer.
2. They might make it so that a lot of time passes between this season and next season.
3. The interviewer asked if the Trinity Killer may make a comeback and speak to Dexter conscience like Dexter's dead father does. I love this idea. Let's get rid of the Code of Harry and go with the Trinity Code, or Code of Three, or whatever you want to call it. As long as Lithgow gets to come back. He killed it. Pun not intended.
Lithgow
At first I wasn't sure about Ligthgow as Dexter's nemesis for the season, but he quickly became one of the best TV villians of all time. Is that even a big list though? TV villians? I guess I only watch comedy on TV which is usually without vilians.
Why did we have to see his bare-ass twice in the first episode? Here is my theory.
Last year they had Jimmy Smits as the big guest star of the season. Jimmy Smits got famous on NYPD Blue in the 90s. Back then, NYPD Blue got a lot of press for being the first TV show to show full man ass. Smits let America look at his ass a few times on the cop drama.
So, my theory goes like this. The writers of Dexter had a guy that got famous for showing his butt on TV for a whole season of Dexter and never showed him even with his shirt off. So, as some weird writer joke, they gave us Lithgow's ass, twice in the season opener of the next season. Well played writers. well played.
Books
A lot of people don't even know that the TV show is based on a series of novels written by Jeff Lindsay. The best part about the books is that they are nothing like the TV show. It's almost like Dexter is in another universe, where some characters that got killed in the TV show are still alive, some characters know his secret, and other serial killers are waiting to be hunted. (I know this is true with the last three books. I didn't read the first one because someone told me that it was exactly the same as the first TV season.)
the books are...
Darkly Dreaming Dexter 2004
Dearly Devoted Dexter 2005
Dexter in the Dark 2007
Dexter by Design 2009
Dexter is Delicious (forthcoming)
I suggest reading them while the show is off the air. I tried reading Dexter by Design during this current TV season and it got a little bit confusing with all the different story lines going on at the same time.
Dexter in the Dark was the best read. It goes into some extreme detail regarding the origins of Dexter's Dark Passenger and it is not the same explanation as the TV series gives.
All that being said, you will not find yourself ever saying, "the books were better." This is one case where the writers of the show have surpassed that of the novelist. Although, Lindsay does a great job at describing the crime scenes down to every detail, it is impossible to compete with the imagery supplied by that of the show.
Dexmas Gifts
What's better to stuff the stockings with than serial killer paraphernalia? Check out these Dexter gifts. CLICK HERE
There's actually some weird shit on there. Who would want Dexter Jewerely?
A Masuka Bobblehead on the other hand is straight up Brad Ass
Posted by Brad Ass at 12/15/2009 7:50 PM 
Categories: Television
Tags: finale john lithgow dexter masuka bobblehead
Categories: Television
Tags: finale john lithgow dexter masuka bobblehead
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