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Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« on: July 27, 2011, 10:05:28 PM »
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After weeks of such ego-healing balm, I am ready to return to the fray with my second offering:  Dexter, Showtime’s killer serial about a serial killer who tortures and dismembers his victims for good rather than for evil. All the following comments apply only to the first season, the only one I’ve watched. There’ll be no important spoilers.

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It's a little rambly but pro-Dexter. I have to decide if I will get Showtime again in time for the next season.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2011, 10:24:14 PM »
 :popcorn:

Meh, I'll stick with my plan A for now, picking up a copy of Slaughterhouse 5 which I've yet to read.
This looks promising though, on the list.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2011, 10:41:10 PM »
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a serial killer who tortures and dismembers his victims for good rather than for evil

That doesn't even make any sense.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2011, 01:01:32 PM »
I believe he's a killer of serial killers. 
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2011, 03:27:52 PM »
Quote from: Karin on July 28, 2011, 01:01:32 PM
I believe he's a killer of serial killers. 

Correct, he is a forensic investigator who punishes the guilty rather, than say, allow them to go through the State of Floriada court system.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2011, 04:38:02 PM »
Dexter's adopted father, Harry, saw he had the affect of a psychopath (a flat or blunted affect). Harry was also a cop who saw some bad guys escape justice so he decided to give Dexter a code to fit in with normal society and turned him loose on the bad guys who escaped justice.

Sadly, when Harry saw that his son was still a monster, albeit one with a code, it was too much for him and it hastened his death from some disease, I forget what. Probably cancer.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2011, 05:55:27 PM »
I love Dexter!  If he lived next door to me I would feel safe and secure.  He makes me almost wish I was a sociopath.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2011, 07:02:01 AM »
Sounds interesting. Downloading first season now.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2011, 10:33:24 AM »
Well, Ive downloaded all 5 seasons. And Ive watched the first season.

Very addictive. Not as mesmerizing as Shadowline was, but still pretty darn good.

Thanks for the tip.  :II:
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2011, 12:59:10 PM »
Skip last season.  It has Julia Stiles in it.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2011, 11:18:10 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on August 01, 2011, 12:59:10 PM
Skip last season.  It has Julia Stiles in it.
I'm up to episode 8 in season 5 and have yet to find a reason to hate Julia Stiles or the character she plays.  In fact, I hope she gets those bastards and makes them suffer.  Does she do something that puts Dexter in jeopardy, or do you just not appreciate her acting talents?
*Wow, they seem to really hate her at the IMDB forums too.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2011, 11:44:18 PM »
Quote from: JakeStyle on August 06, 2011, 11:18:10 PM
I'm up to episode 8 in season 5 and have yet to find a reason to hate Julia Stiles or the character she plays.  In fact, I hope she gets those bastards and makes them suffer.  Does she do something that puts Dexter in jeopardy, or do you just not appreciate her acting talents?
*Wow, they seem to really hate her at the IMDB forums too.

If I remember correctly, the actor who plays Dexter cheated on his wife with her while they were working on the show. 
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2011, 12:36:48 AM »
If I remember his wife had already been murdered before he even met her.  Now I am really confused.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2011, 12:43:45 AM »
Quote from: JakeStyle on August 07, 2011, 12:36:48 AM
If I remember his wife had already been murdered before he even met her.  Now I am really confused.

Not Dexter the character, Michael C. Hall, the actor who plays Dexter, had an affair with Julia Stiles, or so the rumor goes.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2011, 06:52:03 AM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on August 07, 2011, 12:43:45 AM
Not Dexter the character, Michael C. Hall, the actor who plays Dexter, had an affair with Julia Stiles, or so the rumor goes.

But do we really NEED a reason to despise Julia Stiles? 
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2011, 05:35:18 PM »
Every time she wrinkles her nose in that season of Dexter a cute little baby puppy dies.  She is just pure evil. 
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2011, 11:56:39 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on August 07, 2011, 12:43:45 AM
Not Dexter the character, Michael C. Hall, the actor who plays Dexter, had an affair with Julia Stiles, or so the rumor goes.
Ahh, that's messed up. Thanks!
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #17 on: August 09, 2011, 01:28:04 PM »
From what I have read Jennifer Carpenter (Michael C. Hall's wife) was friends with Julia Stiles and hung out with her on set.  She was shocked that Stiles would bang her husband right in front of her like that.  I would direct you to the post where I explained in detail all of the evil Stiles has made in this world but that would require me to spend about 5 minutes searching through posts about her and cause projectile vomiting.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2011, 09:47:13 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on July 28, 2011, 04:38:02 PM
Dexter's adopted father, Harry, saw he had the affect of a psychopath (a flat or blunted affect). Harry was also a cop who saw some bad guys escape justice so he decided to give Dexter a code to fit in with normal society and turned him loose on the bad guys who escaped justice.

Sadly, when Harry saw that his son was still a monster, albeit one with a code, it was too much for him and it hastened his death from some disease, I forget what. Probably cancer.

Harry had cancer but was getting better. What killed him was a "angel of death" nurse. Dexter recognized her for what she was since they were they same ( except for Dexter's code ). She was one of his first.

I had no interst in watching the show because it just sounded gawd awful but my ex girl friend insisted. I watched it so she would quit nagging me to. I was hooked from the start. Earlier this year I got Darkly Dreaming Dexter on my kindle. That is the book it is based on. It was a "ok" book that I can not really reconmend to anyone. The TV show is MUCH better.
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Re: Stuff Conservatives Should Actually Like, Section B (Dexter)
« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2011, 06:11:05 PM »
Quote from: Bodadh on August 11, 2011, 09:47:13 PM
Harry had cancer but was getting better. What killed him was a "angel of death" nurse. Dexter recognized her for what she was since they were they same ( except for Dexter's code ). She was one of his first.

I had no interst in watching the show because it just sounded gawd awful but my ex girl friend insisted. I watched it so she would quit nagging me to. I was hooked from the start. Earlier this year I got Darkly Dreaming Dexter on my kindle. That is the book it is based on. It was a "ok" book that I can not really reconmend to anyone. The TV show is MUCH better.
Yeah, I listened to all of the books. They are okay but the TV show is superior.
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