Originally posted by samfreedman77
If you called me a Zionist kike, I'd just say "them some fightin words queerbait". Meaning I wouldn't get offended.
Gid is a poop. I am 20 and much more sexually accomplished than he. And better looking and probably own more leather bound books.
Season 6 was worse than season 7. 7 was alright at the start, until it became clear that Deb knowing was just going to be absorbed into the formula of the show. It should have been huge and changed the very nature of the show, but it didn't. Also the Hannah romance was awful. I bought Lila as a ****ed up relationship. I bought Rita as slowly becoming the love of this life. I bought Lumen as vulnerable healing experience and bonding as the one person his killing improves and helps. I do not buy Hannah. Dexter doesn't meet a girl and fall in love with her for no reason based on sexual attraction.
But season 6 was still worse. Its the worst season. Just awful. On every conceivable level. If ever you doubt that, just remember:
This season is being really bad though. There isn't even a real main plot at all, just three rehashes of old plots:
Dexter saves a new friend from a serial killer. (Season 5)
Dexter teaches someone the code. (Season 3)
Dexter falls in love with a serial killer. (Season 7)
Originally posted by The_Tempest
It doesn't help that the protagonist is a boring, unsympathetic sociopath.
Dexter had serious charm in the earlier seasons, and he killed a suitably bad victim every episode which made you root for him. If anything indicates the strength of the earlier writing, its that it made me feel nail biting tension over Dexter being caught in episode six.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
He had humor and wit in his narrations in the earlier seasons, but that's entirely evaporated into sullen seriousness.
Hall is a good actor, but Dexter is simply not (and has never been) a compelling protagonist. Just like Palpatine, as much as I love him, is not a compelling protagonist. A compelling protagonist should generally be likeable and sympathetic.
Haha, what even the heck?
No. Dexters likable in that he's witty and kills bad people. We also get to see his point of view on things and he can be rather endearing at times (such as early on when he frets over sex, his relationship with Deb, his bizarre outlook on certain things etc). He's sympathetic both because you're tricked into rooting for him by the direction and focus on him, that he's arguably doing a good thing and is killing people worse than himself and his sympathetic backstory and character traits.
Calling him one-note is also patently ridiculous.