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Originally Posted by King Hadas
This new season feels pretty weak to me. Dexter seems less like a sociopathic killer and more like a socially awkward killer.
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I think Dexter is a serial killer who needs to understand a moral reason for killing people so as not to get caught, not because he has a conscience.
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The first two seasons clearly clock this up in terms of hammering home this point. By season 3 he is mortified not by killing someone who may be 'innocent' but because hes broken the code |
He confesses that without Harry's code he wouldn't have a band of strict ethics to stop him frying in the chair. He still actually kills. We assume that the compulsion often overrides his enforced moral ethics, otherwise he'd.....simply give up wouldn't he? We know he misses crucial emotions that society would definately consider 'normal'
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He understands that Astor is upset about Dexter's proposal to Rita, but doesn't quite know how to interpret the wants and needs of his brood. His solution to fit into his self imposed family unit is to borrow a slew of techniques learnt from another psychopathic killer. He fakes it. Just like he fakes a lot of his emotions. |
I understand where you are coming from, though in terms of 'socially awkward' but I put this down to sloppy script and tense. I'm bored of being taken to the edge of the 'will he or won't he get caught?' storyline, because it leaves you exhausted to the point where you start thinking 'he can't get caught because the series is a hit' - I'm striving to see Dexter evolve, which Season 3 seems to portray. Miguel is an interesting character. See how it goes.
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