It's like the baseline is also 'Dexter will never get caught because he's so brilliant', when we haven't seen evidence of that in quite a while. He wasn't careful this season, he was as sloppy as he's ever been. Letting Travis see him? Talking to Trinity was one thing, but at least Dexter got to know him under an alias. Trinity figured it out because he was a good villain and showed up at Dexter's workplace. But Travis was an idiot. And Dexter doesn't kill him, but talks to him, then lets him go, then turns up at his workplace, doesn't deny that he was going to kill him, etc, and wants to team up to get the other guy (Gellar?) now. WTF? And the only reason Deb caught him was dumb luck, not because she'd been suspicious or he'd been leaving clues that she'd seen.
And even when Dexter did go 'off the rails' with ghost!Brian, he what, stole some stuff and went on a joyride? Got a blowjob from a gas station cashier? Like, this is not what should happen when a serial killer cuts loose.
Also, the dead angel tableau was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. I don't think it was supposed to be hilarious. And THE most hilarious thing I've ever seen was Travis' mural with devil!Dexter.
Oh, and as long as I'm at it, the 'Travis was hallucinating Gellar' thing was the most ridiculous plot twist. Eowyn said it better than me in a comment on my journal, but it was ridiculous because it broke the established POV on the show. We were 'inside' the head of a character who wasn't Dexter, and Dexter is a show that has a realistic POV when other characters are involved (Dexter has a ghost!Harry and sometimes imagines things, but no one else does). Breaking the POV for a reveal like that was cheap. And it wasn't even a good reveal on top of that.
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Date: Jun. 14th, 2012 12:16 am (UTC)And even when Dexter did go 'off the rails' with ghost!Brian, he what, stole some stuff and went on a joyride? Got a blowjob from a gas station cashier? Like, this is not what should happen when a serial killer cuts loose.
Also, the dead angel tableau was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. I don't think it was supposed to be hilarious. And THE most hilarious thing I've ever seen was Travis' mural with devil!Dexter.
Oh, and as long as I'm at it, the 'Travis was hallucinating Gellar' thing was the most ridiculous plot twist. Eowyn said it better than me in a comment on my journal, but it was ridiculous because it broke the established POV on the show. We were 'inside' the head of a character who wasn't Dexter, and Dexter is a show that has a realistic POV when other characters are involved (Dexter has a ghost!Harry and sometimes imagines things, but no one else does). Breaking the POV for a reveal like that was cheap. And it wasn't even a good reveal on top of that.