The Bourne Autopsy
Jan. 26th, 2009 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogI'm about halfway through the second season of Dexter- the real thing this time, not those bowdlerized versions of S.1 they were showing on CBS during the strike last year- and I'm finding the boy to be his usual lovable self.
At least twice since last night, when we've turned the DVD player off and the regular tv channel came back on- Em was watching something on USA earlier yesterday- I did a double-take because I briefly thought I was still seeing Dex in action on basic cable. Alas, they've been marathoning the Bourne movies, and it was actually Matt Damon I was looking at.
I'd never really thought about the parallels before. Both abandoned by their original "families" in scenes of gruesome death, left with no memories of them and having to fend for themselves both physically and psychologically. Both plots prominently feature fishing boats. Lots of law enforcement code and shoptalk abound in each.
I can go one of two ways with this comparison. One, put them in a Celebrity Death Match of sorts and see who emerges victorious. Bourne's mad ninja kung fu skillz versus Dex's meticulous training in both forensics and The Code. Guns and bare hands against hypos and power tools. Somehow my early money's on Dexter, in a geeky final panel showing him standing victorious over Jason's curare-paralyzed bod and saying, *
* Apologies, as always, for the shitty photoshopping, as well as for using the R-word, which is a necessary part of the context I'm ripping off.
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The other possibility is to work them both into a crossover character combining all of those elements. Something like,.... ::cue flashback music and dry ice::
DEXTER BOURNE awakes on the shore of Miami Beach, unaware of his identity or his past.
BAD GUY, 1200 MILES AWAY
Yo, homes, this is a muthafuckin stickup.
D.B.
I heard that.
::leaps East Coast in a single bound::
BAD GUY
Cmon, bro, gimme your stash....
D.B.
You move, you die.
BAD GUY
What the fuck.....
D.B.
::kills bad guy with bare hands and hacks him up with a kitchen knife::
Now all he needs is a tacky nickname for the Miami papers. The Necro Ninja, maybe?
At least twice since last night, when we've turned the DVD player off and the regular tv channel came back on- Em was watching something on USA earlier yesterday- I did a double-take because I briefly thought I was still seeing Dex in action on basic cable. Alas, they've been marathoning the Bourne movies, and it was actually Matt Damon I was looking at.
I'd never really thought about the parallels before. Both abandoned by their original "families" in scenes of gruesome death, left with no memories of them and having to fend for themselves both physically and psychologically. Both plots prominently feature fishing boats. Lots of law enforcement code and shoptalk abound in each.
I can go one of two ways with this comparison. One, put them in a Celebrity Death Match of sorts and see who emerges victorious. Bourne's mad ninja kung fu skillz versus Dex's meticulous training in both forensics and The Code. Guns and bare hands against hypos and power tools. Somehow my early money's on Dexter, in a geeky final panel showing him standing victorious over Jason's curare-paralyzed bod and saying, *
* Apologies, as always, for the shitty photoshopping, as well as for using the R-word, which is a necessary part of the context I'm ripping off.
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The other possibility is to work them both into a crossover character combining all of those elements. Something like,.... ::cue flashback music and dry ice::
DEXTER BOURNE awakes on the shore of Miami Beach, unaware of his identity or his past.
BAD GUY, 1200 MILES AWAY
Yo, homes, this is a muthafuckin stickup.
D.B.
I heard that.
::leaps East Coast in a single bound::
BAD GUY
Cmon, bro, gimme your stash....
D.B.
You move, you die.
BAD GUY
What the fuck.....
D.B.
::kills bad guy with bare hands and hacks him up with a kitchen knife::
Now all he needs is a tacky nickname for the Miami papers. The Necro Ninja, maybe?