I don't remember when or who, but someone recommended Dexter to me. Today, I caved and bought S1 on DVD. I've watched the first two episodes, and I'm not sure what I think yet.
Dexter: He's utterly charming and sympathetic, and I can't believe I've written that about an avowed serial killer. I suppose it's because he's preying on other serial killers, and the show is skewed to present Dexter as justified. This in cemented early on with his killing of Donovan, creepy, child-killing pedophile. Dexter is righteously angry that children were victimized. It's an anger shared by most viewers, even those who hate the booger-mining little shit leeches, and it's a failsafe hook.
My keen sense of TV foreshadowing tells me that Dexter was likely sexually abused as a child.
Deb: Dexter's sister is a total moron, and if it weren't for Dexter's killer-fu, she'd still be shoveling Officer Flicka's poo down at the stableyard. She's got no instincts, no moxie, and no initiative of her own. She's quick to deride Lt. LaGuerta as a clueless moron, but she's running a hard second in that footrace herself, the yutz. It might help if she didn't look like a baby doll startled by the plosive, majestic fanfare of an unexpected fart.
Rita: Oh, what a wreck. I sympathize with her aversion to sex; after the repeated rapes she's endured, I'd have no interest in bumping uglies, either.
However(and I know many members of Team Snatch will take issue with this), if she knows that sexual intimacy is impossible for her, she should not be initiating sex, only to come unglued and wail that she can't do it, can't, can't, can't, oh, woe, but I'm so afraid of losing you, Dexter. If sex is scary and bad, mmmkay, then just say so, you moron. Either that, or seek counseling to treat the problem. But don't nudge him into sex and then smear your drama all over him when you overload. Dexter was perfectly content in the asexual relationship; she broached the subject. Therefore, she bears the onus for coping with the fallout and has no business acting as if Dexter is the one pressuring her into intimacy.
Fortunately for her, Dexter has even less interest in sex than she does, but the fact remains that, had Dexter any emotional affect whatsoever, it would be grossly emotionally manipulative on her part.
"I want you." "How could you make me want you?" Gag. I really hope this "Wash your winkie, no, I won't" isn't a running theme.
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