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rionaleonhart) wrote2025-03-21 09:48 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2025-03-21 09:48 am
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Fuck You Twice.
I've finished the second season of Dexter!
Hey, I'm not seeing attraction where none exists, for once! Turns out Deb/Lundy is both a) canon and b) genuinely cute. I suppose, if you've got severe trauma related to a serial killer, being in a relationship with someone who's really good at identifying serial killers would probably help you feel more secure.
Of course, it might ultimately upend your life even more if, say, your brother is a serial killer, but what are the odds of that?
If you'd told me when I started watching this show that I'd end up kind of shipping Debra with someone old enough to be her father, I'd... well, let's be honest, I probably wouldn't actually have been all that surprised. This is by no means unprecedented.
In 'Resistance Is Futile', we get to see Dexter genuinely terrified, and it's pretty great.
It's cute that, right after his 'oh shit I am definitely doomed' revelation, Dexter takes some tiny measure of comfort in Debra saying she feels Lundy is someone she can count on. If he's going to get caught and executed, he wants someone to help his sister through it, even if it's the person who caught him in the first place.
Dexter and Doakes have such good interactions! I especially like it when Doakes starts genuinely trying to get through to him. Once there's some measure of honesty between them, Doakes is able to connect with Dexter, rather than just obsessively trying to work out what he's up to.
I've been wondering and wondering how the Doakes storyline will resolve. Now that he knows the truth, he has to be removed from the equation for the show to continue, but how do you do that without it feeling like a cop-out? 'Doakes is killed by an unrelated third party' (e.g. alligator, drug dealers) would be deeply unsatisfying; 'Dexter discovers Doakes actually does fit his code somehow, meaning Dexter can now kill him' would be too convenient. 'Dexter breaks his own code by killing Doakes and is then fucked up about it' could potentially have worked, but I have to commend 'Lila discovers the truth and murders Doakes' for how absolutely insane a resolution it is.
I'm not a Dexter/Lila person (the only Dexter pairings that have caught my interest so far are Dexter/Brian and possibly Dexter/Doakes), but I did enjoy the weird atmosphere of the scene where they meet at the aquarium and he goes 'do you think I'm going to kill you?' and she goes 'well, are you going to kill me?'
LaGuerta is breaking my heart. It's good to see her and Deb find some common ground over this, even if that common ground is deeply sad.
Dexter realises 'it's incredibly unlikely I've made it through all of this; it's almost like some higher power wants me to keep killing people,' and I think it would be very funny if he managed to work out that that 'higher power' is, in fact, the writers of the show.
Because Dexter's murders are more spaced out in the second season, I almost find myself forgetting he's a murderer until he's actively murdering someone. It's the entire premise of the show, and yet he'll break out the knife and I'll find myself going, Oh, steady on, Dexter; that's a bit much.
Hey, I'm not seeing attraction where none exists, for once! Turns out Deb/Lundy is both a) canon and b) genuinely cute. I suppose, if you've got severe trauma related to a serial killer, being in a relationship with someone who's really good at identifying serial killers would probably help you feel more secure.
Of course, it might ultimately upend your life even more if, say, your brother is a serial killer, but what are the odds of that?
If you'd told me when I started watching this show that I'd end up kind of shipping Debra with someone old enough to be her father, I'd... well, let's be honest, I probably wouldn't actually have been all that surprised. This is by no means unprecedented.
In 'Resistance Is Futile', we get to see Dexter genuinely terrified, and it's pretty great.
It's cute that, right after his 'oh shit I am definitely doomed' revelation, Dexter takes some tiny measure of comfort in Debra saying she feels Lundy is someone she can count on. If he's going to get caught and executed, he wants someone to help his sister through it, even if it's the person who caught him in the first place.
Dexter and Doakes have such good interactions! I especially like it when Doakes starts genuinely trying to get through to him. Once there's some measure of honesty between them, Doakes is able to connect with Dexter, rather than just obsessively trying to work out what he's up to.
I've been wondering and wondering how the Doakes storyline will resolve. Now that he knows the truth, he has to be removed from the equation for the show to continue, but how do you do that without it feeling like a cop-out? 'Doakes is killed by an unrelated third party' (e.g. alligator, drug dealers) would be deeply unsatisfying; 'Dexter discovers Doakes actually does fit his code somehow, meaning Dexter can now kill him' would be too convenient. 'Dexter breaks his own code by killing Doakes and is then fucked up about it' could potentially have worked, but I have to commend 'Lila discovers the truth and murders Doakes' for how absolutely insane a resolution it is.
I'm not a Dexter/Lila person (the only Dexter pairings that have caught my interest so far are Dexter/Brian and possibly Dexter/Doakes), but I did enjoy the weird atmosphere of the scene where they meet at the aquarium and he goes 'do you think I'm going to kill you?' and she goes 'well, are you going to kill me?'
LaGuerta is breaking my heart. It's good to see her and Deb find some common ground over this, even if that common ground is deeply sad.
Dexter realises 'it's incredibly unlikely I've made it through all of this; it's almost like some higher power wants me to keep killing people,' and I think it would be very funny if he managed to work out that that 'higher power' is, in fact, the writers of the show.
Because Dexter's murders are more spaced out in the second season, I almost find myself forgetting he's a murderer until he's actively murdering someone. It's the entire premise of the show, and yet he'll break out the knife and I'll find myself going, Oh, steady on, Dexter; that's a bit much.
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I love the bit where Doakes tries to connect! For one thing I'm fond of scenes where everyone who isn't Dexter can tell he's having feelings while he claims he doesn't have any, and also it was such a good scene!
"You don't have to kill someone about it Dexter! ...oh right, you do, I forgot."
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I did think 'wow, Wolfy and Derek showed remarkable restraint on my last Dexter entry' when I hit that development!
Doakes and Dexter already had an interesting dynamic, and it becomes so much more interesting once Doakes knows the truth! After Doakes discovered Dexter's identity, I scribbled down a few hundred words of Dexter strapping him down and the two of them talking while Dexter prepares to kill him, but I feel the episodes after that sort of render that fic concept redundant.
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YAY!
being in a relationship with someone who's really good at identifying serial killers would probably help you feel more secure.
Yes!
If he's going to get caught and executed, he wants someone to help his sister through it, even if it's the person who caught him in the first place.
Yep you love your sister, Dexter. Sorry. That's one very large doughnut.
Once there's some measure of honesty between them, Doakes is able to connect with Dexter, rather than just obsessively trying to work out what he's up to.
Awww. In a different universe this is an arc that ends in love.
'Dexter breaks his own code by killing Doakes and is then fucked up about it' could potentially have worked, but I have to commend 'Lila discovers the truth and murders Doakes' for how absolutely insane a resolution it is.
She just wants Dexter's attention so badly!
I'm not a Dexter/Lila person
I remember liking it at the time, but mostly for its obviously doomed nature and the fact that she was a massive fuck-up and thus immensely attractive as a character.
Dexter realises 'it's incredibly unlikely I've made it through all of this; it's almost like some higher power wants me to keep killing people,' and I think it would be very funny if he managed to work out that that 'higher power' is, in fact, the writers of the show.
I would love it if it was a fourth-wall-breaker and Dexter was like: everyone watching this is complicit in the murders.
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He does, and it delights me. I'm really enjoying the relationship between them.
In a different universe this is an arc that ends in love.
Hey, who's to say it doesn't end in love in this universe?
Lila is an impressively enormous fuck-up, it's true!
I would love it if it was a fourth-wall-breaker and Dexter was like: everyone watching this is complicit in the murders.
God, he would say that.
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I had a similar moment recently when I was reading this (fiction) book about John the Baptist and I heard myself in my head go "hmm, this book has a weirdly biblical feel to it" only to realize 5 seconds later that 'weirdly' has no place in that sentence.
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(Anonymous) 2025-03-27 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)-timydamonkey
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