Someone in Hollywood is Dating my Ex-GF
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lydamorehouseI was watching season 2 of "DEXTER" my latest television series obssession (which I catch via Netflix), and I realized that someone in Hollywood is dating my ex-girlfriend.
Briefly, I dated someone in NA (Narcotics Anonymous), and the resemblence between her and the woman who portrays "Leela" in season 2, Dexter's sponsor in NA, is rather... haunting. In fact, I think Shawn is feeling generally turned off by this season because of Leela's resemblence to my ex-GF. Leela's boundaries are slightly worse that my ex-GF's, but she did, ocassionally have a tendency to wander around naked without a whole lot of self-consciousness (a lot like Leela) and her sort of crazy/artistic vibe (my ex-GF is a costume designer rather than a sculptor, but you know it's all "arty") is similar (although again my ex-Gf tended to think about things in a way that was far outside of the box and Leela is clearly just plain criminal...).
And she's so not working the steps. Dexter is far too new to recovery to be hopping into bed with his sponsor. You're supposed to wait a year, kids! Leela is a really crappy sponsor, but I think she's supposed to be... but it still makes me yell that the TV. (Although, for the record, I think this whole "serial killer in 12-step recovery" is a hillarious take on the whole thing, and, for the most part, I think the show has done really fun things with it.
But, I think they're a little off track. The best part of "Dexter," in my (and Shawn's) opinion, has been completely dropped this season (so far,) which is his emotional disconnect as a sociopath.
Dexter is having a lot of feelings in this season, and they're kind of out of character, IMHO. He's supposed to be the self-proclaimed "little wooden boy," and weirdly, that was a key part of how the writers walked the line of making a serial killer sympathetic. His often wry, but always strangely innocent and genuine outsider observations on how other people react to the world always grounded him as sympathetic for me.
Without that, I'm somehow expected to root for a serial killer. That's a much tougher sell.
Plus watching my ex-GF every night is getting kind of... freaky.
Briefly, I dated someone in NA (Narcotics Anonymous), and the resemblence between her and the woman who portrays "Leela" in season 2, Dexter's sponsor in NA, is rather... haunting. In fact, I think Shawn is feeling generally turned off by this season because of Leela's resemblence to my ex-GF. Leela's boundaries are slightly worse that my ex-GF's, but she did, ocassionally have a tendency to wander around naked without a whole lot of self-consciousness (a lot like Leela) and her sort of crazy/artistic vibe (my ex-GF is a costume designer rather than a sculptor, but you know it's all "arty") is similar (although again my ex-Gf tended to think about things in a way that was far outside of the box and Leela is clearly just plain criminal...).
And she's so not working the steps. Dexter is far too new to recovery to be hopping into bed with his sponsor. You're supposed to wait a year, kids! Leela is a really crappy sponsor, but I think she's supposed to be... but it still makes me yell that the TV. (Although, for the record, I think this whole "serial killer in 12-step recovery" is a hillarious take on the whole thing, and, for the most part, I think the show has done really fun things with it.
But, I think they're a little off track. The best part of "Dexter," in my (and Shawn's) opinion, has been completely dropped this season (so far,) which is his emotional disconnect as a sociopath.
Dexter is having a lot of feelings in this season, and they're kind of out of character, IMHO. He's supposed to be the self-proclaimed "little wooden boy," and weirdly, that was a key part of how the writers walked the line of making a serial killer sympathetic. His often wry, but always strangely innocent and genuine outsider observations on how other people react to the world always grounded him as sympathetic for me.
Without that, I'm somehow expected to root for a serial killer. That's a much tougher sell.
Plus watching my ex-GF every night is getting kind of... freaky.
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Date: 2008-10-08 04:33 pm (UTC)I would say it's probably not for everyone. You can't be squeamish because they don't shy away from the gore, but Dexter is surprisingly complex. It feels a bit like sceince fiction because it asks a fascinating "what if" question, which is: what if a serial killer was raised by someone decent? What if the serial killer only killed people who'd gotten away with murder? Can a serial killer be a GOOD person at heart?
The last question is surprisingly left unanswered. They don't try to white wash the darker part of Dexter. The audience is really left to struggle with the question of whether or not they CAN root for Dexter and whether or not the ends justify the means, you know?
That totally keeps me hooked, if you can't tell. :-)