Dexter Season Three

[JayBee74]

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Good points, I don't think it's time to push the panic button though.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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Good points, I don't think it's time to push the panic button though.

Lets hope not because although the show usually gets better and more intense as the season goes on, the baby storyline and the Jimmy Smits relationship with Dex seem to be the 2 main plots they're going with this year and both I find quite boring so I don't know what they could do with either to hold my interest. Let's hope the girl that got killed wasn't killed by Freebo and there's a new serial killer on the loose because at this point I'll take a rehash of the 1st season than listen to Jimmy Smits and Rita moralizing about life.

[Beantown]

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Man, I liked that episodes. Maybe it's just me, though.

[JayBee74]

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Man, I liked that episodes. Maybe it's just me, though.

I liked the episode too. I think the supporting cast/characters always give much to the show, and I'm not ready to say if the Dex-Smits partnership is not necessarily a good thing.

[PVarck31]

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Im really hoping tonights episode gets back to what made the show so good in the first 2 seasons.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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I missed the 1st 10 minutes so I'm assuming that Prado just left Dexter there to clean up the mess but this show seemed a little better but I wish Rita just had a miscarriage and got it over with. It's slow torture. Also this homoerotic crush that Prado has for Dexter is a little creepy.

At least we got a mystery with a new serial killer to distract me from that. Hopefully it's developed well.

[JayBee74]

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I missed the 1st 10 minutes so I'm assuming that Prado just left Dexter there to clean up the mess but this show seemed a little better but I wish Rita just had a miscarriage and got it over with. It's slow torture. Also this homoerotic crush that Prado has for Dexter is a little creepy.

At least we got a mystery with a new serial killer to distract me from that. Hopefully it's developed well.

I don't know what to make of the Dex-Prado relationship. It surprised me that Dex had given at least a second of thought to having found a friend he could confide in. I liked this episode, but not crazy about Debra's possible intimate involvement. Offing the child predator was well done.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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This thread doesn't get much play except from me and Jaybee, but tonite's show was tedious. Jaybee I thought it was slowly coming to form the last 2 shows but this episode brought it down a couple of notches and what it introduced might make it alot worse.

When the most suspenseful moment is when Dex goes to all that trouble to get Prado's brother to hit a bouncer then you know it's in trouble. How did that prove that he could not be trusted. Then it ends with Dexter doing his best Tom Cruise impersonation from Jerry MacGuire, I really thought Rita was gonna end the show saying "you had me at hello".

I don't know what's going thru the writer's heads right now but if this marriage and baby thing play thru it's the death of the show. I'm praying this killer on the loose and the Quinn sub plots amount to something and please don't have Deb fall in love with the guitar drug dealer guy because that's bordering on ridiculous. And what the hell was the point of Angel and the prostitute cop thing. it totally came out of nowhere and made no sense. Angel all of a sudden is banging skanky prostitues. I don't get it. It seems they should show something in prior shows about his lonliness before they spring that on us. I thought he was undercover and couldn't figure out what was happening, it was so bizarre.

Maybe the writer's strike had something to do with this and the writer's came back and had to rush out a script to get the show ready for September. It's like they're saying "we got a week to figure out a season, OK let's give Dexter a baby". It's too bad because I watch sports amd movies and Dexter is the only show I watch on TV so it's pissing me off that it's starting to suck this quickly.

[SlimKibbles]

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I keep forgetting to post in this. Haven't watched Sunday's episode yet and will reserve judgement about it until then. Seymour, I do have the some of the fears you do about this season so far though. The whole Deb/informer thing is a little strange. The baby thing could be okay though. The whole "Dexter as a dad" deal could be interesting. Wondering who the current killer is. No clues so far from what I can tell.

[JayBee74]

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This thread doesn't get much play except from me and Jaybee, but tonite's show was tedious. Jaybee I thought it was slowly coming to form the last 2 shows but this episode brought it down a couple of notches and what it introduced might make it alot worse.

When the most suspenseful moment is when Dex goes to all that trouble to get Prado's brother to hit a bouncer then you know it's in trouble. How did that prove that he could not be trusted. Then it ends with Dexter doing his best Tom Cruise impersonation from Jerry MacGuire, I really thought Rita was gonna end the show saying "you had me at hello".

I don't know what's going thru the writer's heads right now but if this marriage and baby thing play thru it's the death of the show. I'm praying this killer on the loose and the Quinn sub plots amount to something and please don't have Deb fall in love with the guitar drug dealer guy because that's bordering on ridiculous. And what the hell was the point of Angel and the prostitute cop thing. it totally came out of nowhere and made no sense. Angel all of a sudden is banging skanky prostitues. I don't get it. It seems they should show something in prior shows about his lonliness before they spring that on us. I thought he was undercover and couldn't figure out what was happening, it was so bizarre.

Maybe the writer's strike had something to do with this and the writer's came back and had to rush out a script to get the show ready for September. It's like they're saying "we got a week to figure out a season, OK let's give Dexter a baby". It's too bad because I watch sports amd movies and Dexter is the only show I watch on TV so it's pissing me off that it's starting to suck this quickly.

I just watched the episode yesterday and thought it was easily the best of the season. Add that to the previews and you can see that the writers' Dexter roadblocks are not crazed killers or obsessed cops (Doakes), but rather the increasing intimacy of his relationships with Smits & Rita. The closer he gets to both hampers his work as vigilante-slash-killer.

The supporting characters were well advanced, but I agree with Seymour about the Deb-Guitar Player possible romance. Having said that if they keep it as friends the two play well off each other. Angel's despair over his lost marriage has been brought up in previous episodes, so I didn't blink when I saw him seeking comfort in a prostitute. The vice squad cop Kyra Sedgwick lookalike is an interesting character that I'd like to see more. Quinn is the smaller puzzle this season, very likeable on the one hand, but quite possibly very dirty on the other. Or does Yuki (Internal affairs girl harassing Deb) have some personal business with Quinn. Good scene when Quinn tells Masuka that he can be revolting at times, and without missing a beat he makes a vulgar "creme filled doughnut" remark to a disgusted Deb. Now we can look forward to Masuka trying to rehibilate his image.

Ramon taking a swing at the bouncer was just the icing on the cake for Miguel Prado (Smits). Obviously Prado had doubts about his brother, but not enough to try and persuade Dex that he could be trusted.

The Jerry Maguire moment surely sets up next weeks conflict between vigilante/ killer and husband as Rita seems headed for a miscarriage.

One of my favorite Dex episodes and he didn't even kill anybody.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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I just watched the episode yesterday and thought it was easily the best of the season. Add that to the previews and you can see that the writers' Dexter roadblocks are not crazed killers or obsessed cops (Doakes), but rather the increasing intimacy of his relationships with Smits & Rita. The closer he gets to both hampers his work as vigilante-slash-killer.

The supporting characters were well advanced, but I agree with Seymour about the Deb-Guitar Player possible romance. Having said that if they keep it as friends the two play well off each other. Angel's despair over his lost marriage has been brought up in previous episodes, so I didn't blink when I saw him seeking comfort in a prostitute. The vice squad cop Kyra Sedgwick lookalike is an interesting character that I'd like to see more. Quinn is the smaller puzzle this season, very likeable on the one hand, but quite possibly very dirty on the other. Or does Yuki (Internal affairs girl harassing Deb) have some personal business with Quinn. Good scene when Quinn tells Masuka that he can be revolting at times, and without missing a beat he makes a vulgar "creme filled doughnut" remark to a disgusted Deb. Now we can look forward to Masuka trying to rehibilate his image.

Ramon taking a swing at the bouncer was just the icing on the cake for Miguel Prado (Smits). Obviously Prado had doubts about his brother, but not enough to try and persuade Dex that he could be trusted.

The Jerry Maguire moment surely sets up next weeks conflict between vigilante/ killer and husband as Rita seems headed for a miscarriage.

One of my favorite Dex episodes and he didn't even kill anybody.

I guess me and you have differing opinions where this show should go. I fell in love with this show because it was a quirky, dark comedy that blended well with being starkly violent in the right places. In essence the show being like Dexter himself. One moment it has charm and humour, the next moment it's grisly and dark, ambiguous like the personality of a serial killer who appears likable on the outside but is a monster on the inside because he can't help it, something along the lines of American Psycho, one of my favorite movies.

Just imagine Patrick Bateman trying to be domesticated if he was the main character of this show. Trying to make a serial killer a good old fashioned family man has just taken the bite out of the show and makes him boring. Watching the Dexter character from the 1st season, I would never have guessed he would end up being this caring by the 3rd season.

He's had a whole personality transformation and the love of a good women has done this when medical science can't do it. Dexter's father tried his whole life to change him yet Rita can do it in 2 years while not even knowing who he really is and Dexter has already cheated on her so he can't be that in love with her. Serial killers are unfeeling and uncaring so it doesn't make sense for Dexter to start making Jerry MacGuire speeches. You can't make introverts to become extroverts just like you can't make serial killers because loving individuals. Dexter needs to kill so if I was him I wouldn't want to be getting married because that would be a series drag on trying to satisfy his cravings. That should be the 1st thing he's thinking about. How's he going to kill at night when he should be home changing diapers with Rita. You have to admit it makes no sense because Dexter hates the fact thathe's buddies with Prado but yet is willing to live with a family of 5 where he would have no time to do anything on his own. I guess we have to assume that when Dexter says he's going out for a really long coffee break at midnight she will just take his word for it.

The show just seems to be contradicting itself and I always knew that Dexter had a limited shelf life because of the nature of the show so it seems the writer's just used this "family man" arc because they want to drag the show out for 5 years because of the good ratings.

[JayBee74]

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I guess me and you have differing opinions where this show should go. I fell in love with this show because it was a quirky, dark comedy that blended well with being starkly violent in the right places. In essence the show being like Dexter himself. One moment it has charm and humour, the next moment it's grisly and dark, ambiguous like the personality of a serial killer who appears likable on the outside but is a monster on the inside because he can't help it, something along the lines of American Psycho, one of my favorite movies.

Just imagine Patrick Bateman trying to be domesticated if he was the main character of this show. Trying to make a serial killer a good old fashioned family man has just taken the bite out of the show and makes him boring. Watching the Dexter character from the 1st season, I would never have guessed he would end up being this caring by the 3rd season.

He's had a whole personality transformation and the love of a good women has done this when medical science can't do it. Dexter's father tried his whole life to change him yet Rita can do it in 2 years while not even knowing who he really is and Dexter has already cheated on her so he can't be that in love with her. Serial killers are unfeeling and uncaring so it doesn't make sense for Dexter to start making Jerry MacGuire speeches. You can't make introverts to become extroverts just like you can't make serial killers because loving individuals. Dexter needs to kill so if I was him I wouldn't want to be getting married because that would be a series drag on trying to satisfy his cravings. That should be the 1st thing he's thinking about. How's he going to kill at night when he should be home changing diapers with Rita. You have to admit it makes no sense because Dexter hates the fact thathe's buddies with Prado but yet is willing to live with a family of 5 where he would have no time to do anything on his own. I guess we have to assume that when Dexter says he's going out for a really long coffee break at midnight she will just take his word for it.

The show just seems to be contradicting itself and I always knew that Dexter had a limited shelf life because of the nature of the show so it seems the writer's just used this "family man" arc because they want to drag the show out for 5 years because of the good ratings.

But Dexter is wired differently than ANYBODY , so you can stretch all psychological points dealing with serial killers. If he was a typical unfeeling indiscriminate murderer the series would have lasted a day. Dexter has a need to be normal, and he has become shortsighted because of it. The preview of the next episode summarize Dexter's problems of having to be in two places at one time. On a tip from DA Prado (inside info from the DA could be a good angle) he has to cancel house hunting plans, and is not there with Rita when she has problems with the baby. It looks like the Dex-Rita relationship could enter the breakup stage, even if temporarily, if she loses the baby.
PS-the show has been renewed for Seasons 4 & 5.

[JayBee74]

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Great episode-I was surprised at Prado's deduction at the very end. After a moderate start the last two episodes have really taken off, although some might disagree with me. I'm even having second thoughts about Deb and the Guitar Player (emphasis on Player). The marriage....I don't know.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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Yea that was better episode, much better than the last one and finally some good old fashion tension at the end for a change. I must be warped but when Rita said in the hospital that the baby was OK I was like . I just can't stand this baby storyline and waiting for Dexter to show up at Rita's with a coat hanger one of these times.

[PVarck31]

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Wow, very good episode. Likes most I am very surprised at the ending. This is really the fist time someone else knows the real dexter outside harry.