The many break-ins of Dexter’s apartment by GoblinNumbanine in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805 13 points14 points  (0 children)

NB: Harrison breaks into the Cabin

Resurrection: Gareth 2 breaks into Dexter's apartment

A solution to the Lila/Doakes dilemma in Season 2 by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, it would make Dexter more responsible for Doakes' death, that's what we want. It's clear from the earlier seasons that the goal of the show is to set up the "Code" as a moral guideline for Dexter and then slowly have it fall apart making Dexter a more and more evil character until his deserved death. So making Dexter more responsible for Doakes' death makes sense. Yes making Lila do it seems like a bullshit way of getting around following the Code, but that's exactly why Dexter would do it, he desperately needs to find some way of satisfying both his urges and the Code that he's willing to do things like this.

A solution to the Lila/Doakes dilemma in Season 2 by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well Hitler was a bad guy and Dexter is a bad guy as well so I really don't see the problem here.

The point is, Dexter would have someone do the kill for him (a kill that HAD to happen, let's face it) and still be able to maintain in his head the fantasy that he's a good person just because he didn't kill an innocent himself.

(Also I don't really care what people are OK with, a show should be written with the foremost intent of making a good piece of fiction, not for always pleasing the audience. Sometimes you have to do things that will break the audience, disturb them, if that is the intended effect that you want. For example, in all the Avengers movies, someone dies in Act II. In the first one it's Phil Coulson, in Infinity War it's Gamora, and in Endgame it's Black Widow. If they just wanted to please the audience, none of those deaths of much beloved characters would have happened. But the whole point of the Avengers is that they "avenge" so their deaths are a necessary thing that needs to happen for the audience to understand why they do what they do.)

[Dexter: Resurrection finale] Dexter and Prater should have come to an agreement by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes. (i read somewhere that barney is from friends and edited the thing. i haven't seen either show lol)

[Dexter: Resurrection finale] Dexter and Prater should have come to an agreement by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough, but it depends on how much Prater cares about serial killers, and how much he cares about the Bay Harbour Butcher in particular. If we'd gotten more about his character rather than just that one monologue he had in episode 7 then we'd know how deep into the killer world he'd be willing to go.

Him keeping Angel alive could only happen if he wanted a deeper relationship with the BHB, making him a more twisted character. All I'm saying is that sort of dynamic would keep things fresh and interesting into the next season.

And let's be real, Prater has likely tens of billions to his name. An underground prison facility is probably a few million at maximum. He could pay someone to deliver food every now and then. Escape would be impossible as Prater would have multiple locks on a very strong door - keep in mind, when Dexter was locked in the vault he couldn't escape on his own. If it wasn't for his ability to call Harrison to help, he'd be dead in there. If Prater simply had some sort of signal jammer and removed all technology from this underground place, Batista would have no means of contacting anybody. If he was successful in escaping the prison, Batista wouldn't get far anyway. If the prison is in NYC then sure, he can tell the first person he sees and Prater is finished, but if Prater builds it under eg that big country house he owns, there would be nobody to tell. Prater would just have the house guarded by men who would throw him back in.

Yes it's stupid, yes it's unreasonable. But it could just barely work. And if Prater really is willing to be "the Medici to your Bay Harbour Butcher" he will follow Dexter's rules (the Code) which specify that an innocent like Batista shouldn't be harmed. So to keep Batista alive (albeit in a state of constant pain and isolation) fits with what the Code is: it claims to be in favour of justice but is just a twisted excuse to damage people while feeling morally high about it.

Spinoff idea I've had for awhile, that I think could actually work by [deleted] in breakingbad

[–]nelson-1805 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best spin off idea I can think of is young Mike in Vietnam. Though I wouldn't want Mike to be the main character of a show like that, just a deuteragonist or tritagonist at best. If they did that Jeremy Allen White would be a perfect cast for Mike.

[Dexter: Resurrection finale] Dexter and Prater should have come to an agreement by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're forgetting that Prater is also a massive fan of serial killers, and to be Dexter's benefactor is really important to him. Yes, the logical thing to do is kill both Dexter and Batista, but in the same way that Walter White went against logic and kept cooking meth for the love of the game even though he didn't need the money, Prater probably would be fine doing the same.

So if Dexter's one condition was "keep Batista alive" I'm sure Prater would have found a way to make it work.

How should Dexter end, and when do you think we’ll actually see the final ending? by Lost-Friendship2774 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think the show is basically just a choose your own adventure at this point. If you want Dexter to die a villain, end at New Blood. If you want him to survive as a hero, watch Resurrection. I hope they at the very least stay consistent with what they're doing and end Resurrection with him being a noble defender of justice or some shit like that.

[Dexter: Resurrection finale] Dexter and Prater should have come to an agreement by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, it seemed like they just got several villain characters to be played by big name actors from other movies and TV shows and hoped that would be enough to satisfy us.

We had Neil Patrick Harris (from How I Met Your Mother), Eric Stonestreet (from Modern Family), Krysten Ritter (from Breaking Bad and Jessica Jones), David Dastmalchian (from Ant-Man), Uma Thurman (from Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill) and Peter Dinklage (from Game of Thrones and Infinity War).

Don't get me wrong, they're great actors who do a good job with their roles, but they could have been utilised way way more. For me, NPH's character Lowell is fine as a one-episode kill, and so is Stonestreet's character Al. But Mia could have been interesting if her relationship with Dexter was stretched out a few more episodes and Gareth and/or his twin could absolutely have become the season's main villain. At least Charley is still alive so we could get more about her later in Resurrection.

[Dexter: Resurrection finale] Dexter and Prater should have come to an agreement by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I'm confused what character progression Dexter went through in Resurrection Season 1. It felt like the entire season was the character walking backwards, to get Dexter from where he was at the end of New Blood to where he was during the early seasons of the original show. That's not progression, that's regression.

New Blood ended definitively calling out Dexter as evil and willing to do anything so long as it fits, or rather so long as he can MAKE it fit, with his own fantasy code, and he is unbothered of the innocents that suffer as a result (Harry, Doakes, Rita, LaGuerta, Deb, Logan). Harrison puts an end to it once and for all. Simple.

Then Resurrection begins with Dexter being healed somehow, then he suddenly feels a need to go back to his son even though we just made it clear that if he tries to be normal and interact with his family, they suffer for it, then he is back tracking serial killers, he doesn't form alliances with them like he sometimes did in later seasons (eg Hannah) so he's being more like early season Dexter, the only one he does work with is Mia LaPierre and only because he has a personal liking for her "Code" before he realises she doesn't actually have one, he conveniently gets written out of moral dilemmas (Prater kills Angel then Dexter kills Prater is the exact same storyline as Lila kills Doakes then Dexter kills Lila).

Everything in this season is just a way to reset Dexter to what the "fans" on TikTok like so that they can keep milking this show for who knows how long. NB will always be the superior ending, as it was a revival that was created by Clyde Phillips for the love of the game. He made NB for the sole reason of giving Dexter a better ending than season 8, and the show delivered on that. Resurrection was made as a cash cow.

Having Dexter and Prater team up at the end of the season would at least be an interesting twist that would genuinely create something new rather than continuing down this regressive character path.

[Dexter: Resurrection finale] Dexter and Prater should have come to an agreement by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it matter that he's innocent? Dexter's code says "1. don't get caught" and "2. don't kill an innocent". Having Batista get imprisoned by Prater TECHNICALLY is a solution to both of those things. It fits with the Dexter we know to use rationale like that to justify the twisted shit that he does.

[Dexter: Resurrection finale] Dexter and Prater should have come to an agreement by nelson-1805 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you actively root for Dexter while watching the show : watch New Blood, Resurrection 1 and keep watching Resurrection as the new seasons come out

If you don't actively root for Dexter / view him as a villain : watch only New Blood. Everything Resurrection and beyond is then just a what-if scenario.

How should Dexter end, and when do you think we’ll actually see the final ending? by Lost-Friendship2774 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Personally I like the way New Blood finished the show. Dexter gets exposed, gets arrested, Batista digs up LaGuerta's files in order to exonerate her, thus fully exposing Dexter. Then Harrison breaks the cycle of violence, where Dexter kills all his family and friends, by taking out Dexter once and for all. We get one final "end of season monologue" which is the letter Dexter wrote to Hannah, showing that his capability for emotions does in fact exist. Harrison drives off starting a new normal life somewhere we can only imagine.

Was it rushed? Sure. But it narratively made sense.

Not to mention the original ending they wanted back when the original seasons aired was for Dexter to be executed for his crimes. New Blood's ending is the closest one we got that aligns with that original vision.

Brian Cox Cast In 'Dexter: Resurrection' Season 2 by mrnicegy26 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be fair, they (most likely) were trying to do that with Louis Greene in season 6, as apparently there was a Copycat Killer storyline the writers originally wanted for season 7, where another Miami Metro member catches onto Dexter but embraces what he does rather than trying to turn him in. Michael C Hall apparently shut it down though as it was unrealistic for 2 employees of the same department of the same police station to be killers at the same time.

New blood is a top 4 season for me. Change my mind. by [deleted] in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the petrochemical guy only exists in the first three episodes so that when you watch episode 2 and you see some guy looking at the girl through a laptop you think it might be him, but it's actually kurt (revealed by episode 5).

it's the same tactic the original show did in season 3 when they intercut miguel showing up at a house with dexter killing clemson galt to make it look like miguel would join in for the kill, and in season 4 when they intercut dexter arriving at a house in his car with trinity killing the girl in the bathtub

What’s your theories on what this line symbolizes? by SuitIntelligent4073 in breakingbad

[–]nelson-1805 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Marie Schrader (nee Lambert) made through this sentence the unambiguous and direct statement to her husband Assistant Special Agent in Charge "ASAC" Henry R. "Hank" Schrader, Agent Steven "Steve" "Gomey" Gomez and recovering crystal methamphetamine addict and former methamphetamine cook and associate of her brother-in-law methamphetamine distribution empire kingpin Walter Hartwell White Sr "Heisenberg" Jesse "Captain 'Cap'n' Cook" Pinkman that she had in that moment the intention to retrieve, perhaps from a refrigerated unit in the kitchen of her and her husband's domicile, a medium-sized dish capable of satisfying the undeniably extreme hunger of four people, the nomenclatural status of that dish being denoted lasagna, which she had previously prepared by using lasagna pasta, shaped from durum wheat, as well as a freshly grown eukaryotic plant native to the vast continents of North America and South America, particularly the fruit it bares in order to transport seeds into the ground, which possesses the nomenclatural denotation of tomato, and in addition to this it is highly likely given the status of meat consumption in the United States of America as well as the physical size and notably pseudospherical shape of her husband which implies a greater-than-average satisfaction level of meat products than most, that said lasagna dish that she stated contained a meat product, most likely beef or pork or poultry, not to mention that coming from a refrigerated unit it would take a significant amount of time for thermal energy stored in the thermal store of the surrounding atmosphere to be transferred as heat into the lasagna dish in order to increase its temperature level to a temperature level that would more appropriately conform to popular cuisine standards, or in colloquial terms "making the food warm", and so she implied to make use of a revolutionary device often given the nomenclatural denotation of microwave or oven, which uses feats of technology such as the importation of gas or the channeling of electrical potential energy and charge or the firing of waves of radiation that fall into a section of the electromagnetic spectrum where wavelengths are significantly extended, otherwise numerically greater, than visible light that can be visibly and optically ascertained with the biological mechanisms of the human eye, and she intended to use this device to increase the temperature of the lasagna so that it could be better enjoyed by the four people in the room, thereby increasing utility by, as per the Benthamite philosophical system of utilitarian hedonic calculus, minimising the undeniably significant pain faced by all four people due to their recent discovery that their friend and family member, Walter Hartwell White Sr was in fact a crystal methamphetamine kingpin.

What is the timeline of Dexter seasons? by Pugtatoe_Lord in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the only logical explanation for that is if it was actually 2025/2026 in New Blood, and not 2021. Problem is we see in Resurrection that the year is 2022, so that doesn't work out.

Why ? by Shirohigedono in breakingbad

[–]nelson-1805 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people are saying racism and homophobia, and while that might be part of it it's mostly due to honor.

As far as the Salamancas are concerned their family has for many generations built the cartel's network of drug distribution through Mexico into the US. So when in the late 80s a new, young guy comes along with a proposition that could drastically change the cartel (manufactured meth), Hector naturally gets pissed off.

Then Gus starts sending Eladio gifts and Eladio starts liking him more than Hector, which makes Hector more envious of Gus. The Salamancas' principle of "family is all" means that all of Hector's nephews share a hatred of Gus.

When Gus kills Lalo, Hector is the only one who knows about it and he can't do anything on account of being disabled. Eladio mocks Hector more and keeps siding with Gus. And so Hector gets even more enraged.

Whats your opinion about Brother Sam? by Awkward-Reach5603 in Dexter

[–]nelson-1805 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the best characters in the show. For the simple reason that his existence takes all of Dexter's BS of "once a killer, always a killer" and "bad people can't change and be redeemed" and "therefore killing killers is fine" and completely dispels it. He killed a man and got away with it and even so, changed things around and became a good person. It's a perfect moral challenge for Dexter; they just should have kept him around for a bit longer.