My Emotional Response to Season 4 of Dexter
Instead of writing about my feelings about Dexter Season 4, I’ve decided to display them in a very poorly done graph.
Dexter Season Three
Smits was f*cking creepy. Even when he was acting normal, you knew he couldn’t possibly be normal.
I mean, who talks about friendship and trust that much. Seriously?!
I think that I liked this season more than last season.
I still say last season’s drug story line was retarded.
I absolutely loved all of Deb’s progression in this season. Loved her and Anton from start to finish. Its so nice to be able to be happy for Deb.
It was also nice to see Laguerta in a new light. Still clever… but also… caring.
Yay for Batista! Its also so nice to see him happy. I loved seeing him handle his promotion in stride and handle it responsibly.
The beginning of the season was a bit slow for me, mostly because I felt like I knew what was going to happen, and just wanted to see it happen. By the middle of the season it started to pick up and just get awesome.
Of course.. how could I ever forget Dexter? He finally figured out that the two people in his life he can trust, Rita and Deb, are the people he should trust. Every time Dexter tries to make a friend, it ends up in a whole mess of death. Maybe he’ll learn that you can have very good friends who don’t know all of your secrets.
I always love how Dexter is confronted with people he has a lot.. in common with, but ultimately, he can see the difference between himself and them (Miguel Prado, George King).
Dexter was faced with different opportunities for murder. Murder as pure self-defense (Oscar Prado) murder as a favor (for Miguel Prado), murdering someone who wasn’t a killer (just a pervert), and murder for mercy (Camilla).
It was great to see Dexter sort through all those different opportunities to see which ones he was really comfortable with.
Dexter Season Two
Oh, Lila. I don’t like you one bit. I never did.
For whatever Dexter had in common with Rudy and Lila, you really see how different he actually is. He is a different kind of human, not completely devoid of emotion. I think that this has less to do with the code than Dexter thinks. There is no doubt that Dexter is a cold-blooded killer, that he has this intense need to kill that he cannot stop, but there’s more to him, even if he is unable to understand what that is.
I don’t think Rudy or Lila could understand that Dexter was different from them, the same way other “normal” people can’t understand that Dexter is different, either.
All the Freudian sh*t was a little silly and just plain transparent. From Deb with all her daddy approval issues to that dream Dexter has about saving his mom.
Rita really turned Dexter into Paul in her own head. Its amazing how grief works.
Dexter is going to have a really hard time finding someone who understands him and who he can also trust enough to not hurt he or the people he cares about. I’m pretty sure he’s figuring that out.
I think if anyone got it, maybe it was Doakes, but probably not.
All in all an enjoyable and satisfying season.
