| Author | Message | ||
     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Is it just me or is this shaping up to be better than the first series? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
It's not following the book, Probably why. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Yes, it's good isn't it? I LOVE Dexter. It's really being brave, going off in odd directions that promise a lot of grief, yet cutting short some threads that you might have expected it to pursue (it really shook me when one character died of camera). A great series. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
'Of' camera?  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.133.226 |
They steal souls you know. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
You better believe it. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
I agree. I just watched the second episode. For me, Dexter is the best show on tv. I can't believe how good the central character is. There have been instances before where the killer has been the anti-hero (Hannibal Lector, Norman Bates, etc), but Dexter is 100% for the audience. He makes mass murder seem such an admirable pursuit. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Dexter is an incredible show. The main character is just perfect; a truly modern hero for these fucked-up times. Love, love, love it. The final few eps of season 2 are particularly breathtaking. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Season 2 is extremely good. I know that Season 3 has just shown in the States. My own worry is that they'll do what most successful American TV shows do and keep going until they run out of creative energy and the whole thing falls apart. Dexter series 1 and 2, however, are utterly stunning. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.58.113 |
Enjoyed season 1. Must get on to season 2. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Ali and I's favourite TV thing outside of Doctor Who. Very very good indeed. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
He's not a mass murderer, he's a serial killer. A mass murderer kills several people at a time. Pedantic I know but a point worth making. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
Point taken, Weber. I just wasn't sure if 'serial killing' is a real verb. Mass murder sounded neater. But didn't he kill the husband and wife people-smugglers at the same time in the first series?  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
That's still not a mass murder, I think you need to top 5 before it's a mass killing. Or possibly just kill one person in church on a Sunday... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
I got hold of the first two books recently. Halfway through the first one and loving it. I think I prefer the atmosphere of the TV series though. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Finished the first of the books now and I have to say it kept a big grin on my face for most of it and a few laugh out loud moments. I must say I did prefer the TV series denouement to the book. The second series can't follow the second book given the changes they made - one of the regulars is dead in the book for example. Another change is that the Ice Truck Killer isn't seen in person till the final 20 pages, none of the seducing the sister bit which was a highlight of the TV show for me. Overall it's well worth a read, twisted and funny but never particularly scary which the TV show can be - and it never really makes you stop and think "Hang on, why am I siding with this guy?" like the TV show does. I've just started on something called Rain Dogs by some hack writer whose name I can't remember  ) and it seems quite good so far. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
Dexter is good, though! That's why we side. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Dexter is an insane serial killer with a vestigial consience. He stalks people, drugs them, straps them to a table, tortures them and then kills them, chops them into a dozen pieces and drops them in the sea. Moral ambiguity doesn't begin to describe it. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Yeah, I never saw Dexter as the goody to be honest. But he is the hero if you see what I mean. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
He does those things, but he's good. He does what many don't; he uses and suppresses his flaws to help us. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
The f*cked up morality of Dexter is part of what makes the series great. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
I'm finding a lot of convergence of themes with also-lovely series Being Human (which it seems no-one is watching). You start to feel like we all want to fit in, and yet also want/need to be different. Another series I quite like is the Sarah Connor chronicles - not perfect but with quite deep, interesting ideas the films never touched on. I know I'm more excited about the series and how it goes than I am the next movie. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.233.47 |
How could anyone not identify with Dexter? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.233.47 |
"Moral ambiguity doesn't begin to describe it." Exactly. We all have monstrous aspects. It's how we deal with them that defines us. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
I actually *love* Dexter, and his show. Not for a very long long while have I accepted an entire cast of characters and found them all appealing - even the 'bad' ones. It's wonderful. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.156.233.165 |
Um - where did that Dexter series 3/4 go? Anyway - I saw some very stinky reviews of series 3 but some very good ones of 4. Looks like it pulled itself out of the Mork and Mindy trap. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.156.233.165 |
'I'm finding a lot of convergence of themes with also-lovely series Being Human (which it seems no-one is watching)' See what I wrote there, once upon a time? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
The other dexter thread is titled ITV are bastards | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
Im enjoying watching BEING HUMAN, Tony. An almost quote.... 'They aren't moving in and that goes for Casper, too.' :>) | ||
| Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 82.22.70.137 |
Nearly finished Series 3 - and it's so lame I could cry. The 1st series was amazing, the 2nd so so - but have the 4th one ready to go - have heard nothing but great things about it. |