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I am warming to the new Dexter, but it hits a lot differently than the original show for a few reasons:
* A cheerful, murdering killer not in control of his impulses hits differently these days. Also, Hannibal raised the bar for murderous main characters.
* When Dexter aired, there was a still a lot of faith in blood splatter science and reading wound patterns.
Pop culture really bought into the idea of murders leaving all sorts of evidence they didn't even know they were leaving because of Physics! Science, fuck yeah! These days the idea that all crime scenes are a sudoku like puzzle that a smart person can always solve is met with a lot more skepticism. When the CSI era of TV began a lot of people thought crime solving was being revolutionized and that the new techniques would become common place. In reality, properly teaching forensics was something of a revolution, but those techniques had a lot more to do with plastic buckets and wooden sticks than the slick TV science labs. Dexter started when there were still believers in the idea that science was going to get all the bastards, but from what I remember the show also helped bring a lot of problems with blood splatter analysis to light.
* Running from a bear on Not!Snow in snowshoes. What the... I ... what?
I don't know how many of you snowshoe, but running on icy rocks uphill in snowshoes is only going to send you ass-over-teakettle I promise you. Also, outdoorsy Dexter does the exact wrong thing and panics at seeing a bear? That was, uh, a choice.
But, I am curious to see where things go. Dexter is in an interesting dilemma right now. It would be a fun show to talk about! But a lot of the subreddit thinks that the allegedly planned school shooting actually happening, when a big plot point is that it didn't?
I'm curious to see where it all goes. A lot of the fandom thinks there is going to be no twist and knew the story from the start. I think there is going to be a twist at point point, even if guesses are correct about who really did what... there will be some painful twist in how it all plays out. As always, I miss the LJ era of TV fandom.
* A cheerful, murdering killer not in control of his impulses hits differently these days. Also, Hannibal raised the bar for murderous main characters.
* When Dexter aired, there was a still a lot of faith in blood splatter science and reading wound patterns.
Pop culture really bought into the idea of murders leaving all sorts of evidence they didn't even know they were leaving because of Physics! Science, fuck yeah! These days the idea that all crime scenes are a sudoku like puzzle that a smart person can always solve is met with a lot more skepticism. When the CSI era of TV began a lot of people thought crime solving was being revolutionized and that the new techniques would become common place. In reality, properly teaching forensics was something of a revolution, but those techniques had a lot more to do with plastic buckets and wooden sticks than the slick TV science labs. Dexter started when there were still believers in the idea that science was going to get all the bastards, but from what I remember the show also helped bring a lot of problems with blood splatter analysis to light.
* Running from a bear on Not!Snow in snowshoes. What the... I ... what?
I don't know how many of you snowshoe, but running on icy rocks uphill in snowshoes is only going to send you ass-over-teakettle I promise you. Also, outdoorsy Dexter does the exact wrong thing and panics at seeing a bear? That was, uh, a choice.
But, I am curious to see where things go. Dexter is in an interesting dilemma right now. It would be a fun show to talk about! But a lot of the subreddit thinks that the allegedly planned school shooting actually happening, when a big plot point is that it didn't?
I'm curious to see where it all goes. A lot of the fandom thinks there is going to be no twist and knew the story from the start. I think there is going to be a twist at point point, even if guesses are correct about who really did what... there will be some painful twist in how it all plays out. As always, I miss the LJ era of TV fandom.
