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captainsblogI don't think it's spoilery, at least at this point, to reveal that this season's Special Guest Villain is known as the Trinity Killer, because he murders in threesomes. Thus, having finished the third episode last night, I'll be attuned to the fourth next weekend to see if there are any three-episode components of the arc that will clue us in on who's going to do what to whom over the next several months.
Right off the bat, guys: can we stop it with the annoying product placements? I'm happily paying twelve bucks a month for this fine entertainment and I'd hope that, in quantity, would be enough to pay for the product. I don't need iPod inserts followed by this week's practical worship of a Jose Cuervo bottle. Next we'll see Dex and Deb smoking Winstons at the end of the episode.
Overall, I like where this story seems to be going- adding the pressures of husbandhood and parent-trap to Dex's already full mental plate- but I don't like some of the sideshows going on at the B- and C-story levels. Astor, for instance. She was too clingy and supportive in prior seasons and she's too predictably distant and "what-everrrr" teen-ish now. I'm a parent to a recent graduate of those years, and trust me: the real thing is far less predictable- even within a single scene. Plus, she's coming into the prime years for child characters to contract Wesley Crusher Disease, which is always fatal to fandoms.
Likewise, Angel and Maria. Ever since Maddy and David's Big Bang episode, these in-arc pairings have been considered the kiss (if not the suck) of death to not only the pairing but the whole series balance. There are just too many disgruntled people in that department for either of them to get away with it.
And Quinn was nails-on-a-blackboard last season and adding him to the credit roll this year only makes it worse. Hopefully there'll be a front-page story coming out of his pillow talk that will get him assigned to meter maid duty so I don't have to listen to him anymore.
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As for the main story (and I kinda like them mixing in Benny and the Vacation Murder and the vandal subplot instead of having just a focus on one series of crimes because, hey, real cops don't work just one case and solve it in 52 minutes or even over 13 weeks): now that Trin has established his pattern, why doesn't Lundy simply stake out the site of the third Miami murder on its exact 30th anniversary and catch the ol' Pasty White Prick in the act?
Why didn't Dexter find the 30-year-old blood left on purpose at the scene?
Was Harry this present in previous years, and why is he so perceptive about Dex's own crimes but never says a word about anyone elses?
What's the capital of South Dakota?
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One final kvetch: the OMG You Caught Me fake has now been played two straight episodes. First, a week ago, with the cop at the car crash finding "a bag" in the car, then this time with the Neighborhood Watch patrolman scaring Dex into thinking they'd caught him. We know you're paranoid and the sleep deprivation and stress are multiplying it, but don't try too hard to bludgeon us to death with it in the script. (Especially because there's apparently a whole lotta other bludgeoning coming soon.)
Will any of this keep me away? Of course not.
Right off the bat, guys: can we stop it with the annoying product placements? I'm happily paying twelve bucks a month for this fine entertainment and I'd hope that, in quantity, would be enough to pay for the product. I don't need iPod inserts followed by this week's practical worship of a Jose Cuervo bottle. Next we'll see Dex and Deb smoking Winstons at the end of the episode.
Overall, I like where this story seems to be going- adding the pressures of husbandhood and parent-trap to Dex's already full mental plate- but I don't like some of the sideshows going on at the B- and C-story levels. Astor, for instance. She was too clingy and supportive in prior seasons and she's too predictably distant and "what-everrrr" teen-ish now. I'm a parent to a recent graduate of those years, and trust me: the real thing is far less predictable- even within a single scene. Plus, she's coming into the prime years for child characters to contract Wesley Crusher Disease, which is always fatal to fandoms.
Likewise, Angel and Maria. Ever since Maddy and David's Big Bang episode, these in-arc pairings have been considered the kiss (if not the suck) of death to not only the pairing but the whole series balance. There are just too many disgruntled people in that department for either of them to get away with it.
And Quinn was nails-on-a-blackboard last season and adding him to the credit roll this year only makes it worse. Hopefully there'll be a front-page story coming out of his pillow talk that will get him assigned to meter maid duty so I don't have to listen to him anymore.
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As for the main story (and I kinda like them mixing in Benny and the Vacation Murder and the vandal subplot instead of having just a focus on one series of crimes because, hey, real cops don't work just one case and solve it in 52 minutes or even over 13 weeks): now that Trin has established his pattern, why doesn't Lundy simply stake out the site of the third Miami murder on its exact 30th anniversary and catch the ol' Pasty White Prick in the act?
Why didn't Dexter find the 30-year-old blood left on purpose at the scene?
Was Harry this present in previous years, and why is he so perceptive about Dex's own crimes but never says a word about anyone elses?
What's the capital of South Dakota?
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One final kvetch: the OMG You Caught Me fake has now been played two straight episodes. First, a week ago, with the cop at the car crash finding "a bag" in the car, then this time with the Neighborhood Watch patrolman scaring Dex into thinking they'd caught him. We know you're paranoid and the sleep deprivation and stress are multiplying it, but don't try too hard to bludgeon us to death with it in the script. (Especially because there's apparently a whole lotta other bludgeoning coming soon.)
Will any of this keep me away? Of course not.
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Date: 2009-10-12 10:09 pm (UTC)