Trash Talk Tuesday: Prepared for the Final Season of Dexter?

Go home, Deb, you're drunk. 

Spoiler Alert!!!

On Sunday, the final season of Dexter began. My initial thoughts? It was underwhelming. I was expecting more out of the first episode. Truthfully, I want Deb to go away. The direction her storyline seems to be going is an overdone plot device: the traumatized character angrily turning to drugs for escape. I’m imagining in every other episdode, Deb threatening to turn herself and Dexter in. Dexter being this angry over her ignoring him is obnoxious. You have a child, Dex, you can use him to keep you “human”. You don’t need Debra. I’m worried they are going to have him realize he’s in love with her also, which will make me vomit and scream and want to kill the writer who made that decision. 

Can we talk about Harrison more? He speaks! Dexter is the worst father right now. He had been so great. But now, he’s getting blood on stuffed animals and leaving Harrison in his UNLOCKED car. Dear Daddy Dexter needs to have a reality check. Once again, Harrison is the perfect person to define him as a normal human. He doesn’t need Debra. He has a son. This might just be my child loving mommy instincts kicking in and getting annoyed. I’ll get over it if Dexter never leaves Harrison in a car alone again. Hopefully Jamie won’t be screwing nasty, gaunt-looking Quinn next time Dexter feels like stabbing one of Deb’s boyfriends…

I was shocked and pleased by who Evelyn Vogel is, and why she came to Miami Metro. At first I thought they were turning her into a new version of Doakes, someone who knows Dexter is messed up but can’t prove it. I’m glad she already knows and wants to use that knowledge to her advantage. I also find this big bad serial killer to be a great choice for the last season. 

Hopefully the Deb storyline surprises me. If there is one thing this show does with complete grace, it is surprising the viewers. I’m already ready for the next episode! 

 Also, if you didn't see it before here's the link to my post about Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.

Writing Wednesday: Darkly Dreaming Dexter, a TV show better than the original book? MADNESS.

"Another beautiful Miami day.

 Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers."

- Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay

As any aspiring writer should, I try to always read the original book of a movie/TV adaption. The only book I refuse to do this for is Big Fish because I'm too scared of the possibly of not liking it. But everything else, I want to read the original, I want to support the author. 

So naturally, as a fan of the Dexter television series I needed to read the book. I finished it Tuesday afternoon, and it took me far too long to read a book that short. I had a hard time feeling compelled to read it since I knew the outcome, at least until the book took a weird turn that didn't occur in the first season of the show. Now that I'm done, I feel weird writing a review of this book because I've never truly and completely liked a TV/movie more than the original book. Live-action and even cartoon adaptions never do the author's words justice. But that's not the case with this book. 

I could tell he was a newbie writer. Things were repetitive. For example, Dexter had to keep telling us he was an unfeeling monster. And we got it after the first chapter. It didn't need to be spelled out for us, after he murders someone. The book also felt rushed, and not thought out until the end. It was as though, Jeff Lindsay knew the beginning and ending but didn't know how to connect the two. 

The best difference is Deb. Even LaGuerta. I'm glad they get more screen time in the series, but they are better characters in the book. Rita too! Oh my gosh, she's in the book so little I almost forgot about her. There's stuff about each of the women that I love in the show, but things I love just as much (if not more) in the book that they changed. One thing I realized during the last season of the show is that it's pseudo-feminist. They try to tell us the women are strong and independent but the women all rely on the men for just about everything. The men rely on no one, not even each other. Deb is like that in the book, but LaGuerta isn't. She's more sexualized in the book, but a slight bit more badass. 

Overall, I would give the book a 2.5. Feel free to voice your opinions in the comments!

Also, I'm excited for the new season even though some think it should have ended early. What do you think?