Dexter is Dumb. There, I said it.
Oct. 2nd, 2012 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogForget blood spatter; I need a brain splatter expert after the events of this season's premiere. Don't misread the title; it was all kinds of awesome. Tense awesome, often-funny awesome, in many ways, way-overdue awesome.
But still, Dex. No. Bad. Very bad.
* So Deb knows. We knew she knew going in, but now she KNOWS. I don't have much of a problem with Dex about that, since she did most of her figuring-out from her own memories and the Miami Metro evidence locker. Still, though. Leaving his whole stash in the apartment after getting semi-caught gave her the indisputable evidence that capital-C Caught him at the end.
Dumb.
* Heading off for a kill in the midst of this? I understand (and confirmed through the the brief after-episode explanations from MCH, Carpenter and Scott Buck, which are definitely important things to be watching) that Dex needed to re-center himself in the only way he knows how to. The process seemed rushed; a bit too pat that he'd find the perp so quick and would both need and manage to chase him even more quickly, to what has to be the Worst Place In The Universe to carry out an execution:
An airport?!? Even before 9/11, they were probably among the biggest surveillance targets in this entire country. (Miami certainly more than, say, Logan.) Cash for a last-minute ticket? Syringes in the security line? (Nice social engineering, dude, getting them through, but that was one major risk there.) Plus, all that planning he did for this sekrit exit identity of his is now completely blown; I'm sure airlines are all over things when passengers, especially last-minute cash-paying ones, fail to show up at a gate. His mug has to be on watch lists now just from that, even if there weren't videos of him carting his vic into and out of the lost-luggage room in various numbers of parts. When he just sailed back to his car without challenge, I suspended my suspension of disbelief once and for all.
Dumber.
* Worst of all, though, was how shabby he was letting his covers get all rumpled. I wasn't clear on whether he was in the office long enough to figure out that LaGuerta found the slide, but he definitely knew it was missing, and after all he's done to maintain that collection despite how dangerous it is, you'd think his awareness would be even more heightened. Taking the night off from the office, but then telling the babysitter that he was working late?
Perhaps dumbest.
Not the strangest, though. Where was Harry? Other than in the wayback flashbacks, Dex could've used his voice to avoid these mistakes, and Dad was strangely un-Dad for the entire hour. Is this the first time he hasn't appeared in "real" time? Maybe Deb KNOWing is going to block him out, at least until the two of them resolve how he came to be who and what he is, entirely through the efforts of their biological and adopted father.
And that, slasher fans, is where the first hour took us. It also included a B-story (Mike), a C-story (Quinn and Angel's awkward partnership), a DD-story (the Ukranians running the scrip club), and a G-for-Geek story involving Skippy the Intern and Dex's credit identity. One wonders why they felt the need to clutter up the premiere with all of that, since the Big Reveal was plenty to process all by itself.
First reaction from one of my Facebook buds: " I don't think I can take 11 more episodes of this...O_O"
First reaction on Facebook from moi: "Want. Episode 2. NOW."
But still, Dex. No. Bad. Very bad.
* So Deb knows. We knew she knew going in, but now she KNOWS. I don't have much of a problem with Dex about that, since she did most of her figuring-out from her own memories and the Miami Metro evidence locker. Still, though. Leaving his whole stash in the apartment after getting semi-caught gave her the indisputable evidence that capital-C Caught him at the end.
Dumb.
* Heading off for a kill in the midst of this? I understand (and confirmed through the the brief after-episode explanations from MCH, Carpenter and Scott Buck, which are definitely important things to be watching) that Dex needed to re-center himself in the only way he knows how to. The process seemed rushed; a bit too pat that he'd find the perp so quick and would both need and manage to chase him even more quickly, to what has to be the Worst Place In The Universe to carry out an execution:
An airport?!? Even before 9/11, they were probably among the biggest surveillance targets in this entire country. (Miami certainly more than, say, Logan.) Cash for a last-minute ticket? Syringes in the security line? (Nice social engineering, dude, getting them through, but that was one major risk there.) Plus, all that planning he did for this sekrit exit identity of his is now completely blown; I'm sure airlines are all over things when passengers, especially last-minute cash-paying ones, fail to show up at a gate. His mug has to be on watch lists now just from that, even if there weren't videos of him carting his vic into and out of the lost-luggage room in various numbers of parts. When he just sailed back to his car without challenge, I suspended my suspension of disbelief once and for all.
Dumber.
* Worst of all, though, was how shabby he was letting his covers get all rumpled. I wasn't clear on whether he was in the office long enough to figure out that LaGuerta found the slide, but he definitely knew it was missing, and after all he's done to maintain that collection despite how dangerous it is, you'd think his awareness would be even more heightened. Taking the night off from the office, but then telling the babysitter that he was working late?
Perhaps dumbest.
Not the strangest, though. Where was Harry? Other than in the wayback flashbacks, Dex could've used his voice to avoid these mistakes, and Dad was strangely un-Dad for the entire hour. Is this the first time he hasn't appeared in "real" time? Maybe Deb KNOWing is going to block him out, at least until the two of them resolve how he came to be who and what he is, entirely through the efforts of their biological and adopted father.
And that, slasher fans, is where the first hour took us. It also included a B-story (Mike), a C-story (Quinn and Angel's awkward partnership), a DD-story (the Ukranians running the scrip club), and a G-for-Geek story involving Skippy the Intern and Dex's credit identity. One wonders why they felt the need to clutter up the premiere with all of that, since the Big Reveal was plenty to process all by itself.
First reaction from one of my Facebook buds: " I don't think I can take 11 more episodes of this...O_O"
First reaction on Facebook from moi: "Want. Episode 2. NOW."