Dexter is Dark.
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captainsblogEleanor turned in early last night, so when 9:00 rolled round, I tried something completely different: I watched the current Dexter episode in real time, but with the lights and sound off and the captions on.
It worked out remarkably well. I did go back during laundry-folding time this afternoon, and watched the climactic scene, as well as the 705 previews and the aftershow, with the sound on, and it certainly aided the plot and the mood in the final scenes between Dex and Bad Guy and, then, Dex and Debs (the music at the end, which I rarely notice, was especially good this week), but you really didn't need them to build the suspense or the intense among the various developing storylines.
"Various" is an understatement. The B-stories, C-stories, and D- through Zed Zed Nine Plural Zed Alpha-stories of this season are getting more tangled than a bloodied pile of used crime-scene tape. If the Deb Knows main story is the still-evolving topline (and each week, What She Knows, How She Feels about WSK, and What Will Dexter Do based on WSK, keep changing, too), the subplots keep bubbling up and back down all around themselves. There's LaGuerta's independent investigation of Slidegate, which, from the 705 previews will resurface next week; there's the continuing fallout from each of the people we've seen killed by, with or because of Dexter (Viktor, Wayne Wayne Randall, and now Creepy Cemetery Guy, who may be reduced to ashes but I don't count out of further appearances along with that slide box). I still don't think we've heard the last of Louis (although the first of him still creeps me out), and the Russian Mob soap opera keeps getting weirder and weirder; that whole scene with Isaac bemoaning Viktor's death played better for me with the sound off, because it let me hear, in full glory, what I heard him saying in my head:
Hellz, they even brought back references to Cody and Astor for a week, which believe me, is a far better thing than actually bringing back Cody and Astor. And as long as the season finale continues to be known, however unofficially, as "Surprise MFer!," you have to keep wondering if Doakes is somehow going to wrestle his way back to the land of the living.
Plenty of SFU crossover material at the end this week- between Dex wearing his best David Fisher funeral suit in Deb's dream, and the cemetery/crematorium action at the end. In the final scene, I heard him say, "Yeah, I have this other sister, and you think I'm a sick fuck?...."
It's got to start getting fast and furious from here. I'm also mindful that the Deb Knows plotline changes one of the major differences between the series and the Lindsey novels. Some of the others- mainly, Rita and Brian still being alive- can't be changed, but there's one that I seriously wonder about them trying to change in a final shot at Dexterverse harmony:
In the books, Laguerta is, and has long been, dead. Dead as a Doakesnail.
We now return you to our interminable plugging of Homeland.
It worked out remarkably well. I did go back during laundry-folding time this afternoon, and watched the climactic scene, as well as the 705 previews and the aftershow, with the sound on, and it certainly aided the plot and the mood in the final scenes between Dex and Bad Guy and, then, Dex and Debs (the music at the end, which I rarely notice, was especially good this week), but you really didn't need them to build the suspense or the intense among the various developing storylines.
"Various" is an understatement. The B-stories, C-stories, and D- through Zed Zed Nine Plural Zed Alpha-stories of this season are getting more tangled than a bloodied pile of used crime-scene tape. If the Deb Knows main story is the still-evolving topline (and each week, What She Knows, How She Feels about WSK, and What Will Dexter Do based on WSK, keep changing, too), the subplots keep bubbling up and back down all around themselves. There's LaGuerta's independent investigation of Slidegate, which, from the 705 previews will resurface next week; there's the continuing fallout from each of the people we've seen killed by, with or because of Dexter (Viktor, Wayne Wayne Randall, and now Creepy Cemetery Guy, who may be reduced to ashes but I don't count out of further appearances along with that slide box). I still don't think we've heard the last of Louis (although the first of him still creeps me out), and the Russian Mob soap opera keeps getting weirder and weirder; that whole scene with Isaac bemoaning Viktor's death played better for me with the sound off, because it let me hear, in full glory, what I heard him saying in my head:
Hellz, they even brought back references to Cody and Astor for a week, which believe me, is a far better thing than actually bringing back Cody and Astor. And as long as the season finale continues to be known, however unofficially, as "Surprise MFer!," you have to keep wondering if Doakes is somehow going to wrestle his way back to the land of the living.
Plenty of SFU crossover material at the end this week- between Dex wearing his best David Fisher funeral suit in Deb's dream, and the cemetery/crematorium action at the end. In the final scene, I heard him say, "Yeah, I have this other sister, and you think I'm a sick fuck?...."
It's got to start getting fast and furious from here. I'm also mindful that the Deb Knows plotline changes one of the major differences between the series and the Lindsey novels. Some of the others- mainly, Rita and Brian still being alive- can't be changed, but there's one that I seriously wonder about them trying to change in a final shot at Dexterverse harmony:
In the books, Laguerta is, and has long been, dead. Dead as a Doakesnail.
We now return you to our interminable plugging of Homeland.
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