Is Dexter Too Dark? (Trees And Things)

Nameless Cynic: Re: Can't get into it

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:55:01 EST

I'm curious what you consider creative enough to warrant your attention.

Don't get him started. He's still torn up because they cancelled "Full House."

PenitenziAgite: Re: Is Dexter Too Dark?

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:29:24 EST

This is subject to interpretation, but I always thought of Patrick Bateman as basically a guy stuck in an empty world, and all the killing he did was his imagination at work. In my view, Dexter and Patrick are two very different people. Bateman

Ozyman: Re: Clarifications

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:23:39 EST

Harry Morgan. If the guy was so moral, so talented at getting away with crime, and so confident Dexter was beyond redemption...

The do address this in the second season and part of the answer is that Harry Morgan wasn't a paragon of morality. &nb

uncarved block: Clarifications

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:22:05 EST

As should be very clear from the write up, I haven't seen a single episode of the show, just some of the snippets that are on Youtube. Whether or not I ever will is up in the air; gruesome images, especially in film or TV, have a bad tendency

Shy Elf: Spoliers

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:33:21 EST

We should have a spoiler tag. I prefer white on white text (shows up on highlight), but text which appears only on click is also OK.

logan: Re: Is Dexter Too Dark?

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:33:50 EST

Mmmm....no. Patrick Bateman is an amoral monster who wants to fit in with his yuppie friends and enjoy the fruits of an upper-class urban lifestyle: exotic sex, gourmet food, luxurious surroundings, a life of comfort. His station in life affords him the me

uncarved block: Pulp Vs Noir

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:32:26 EST

You could add a whole lot of names to your list, if you poked around books for a while. The Executioner series, by "Don Pendleton" has not only run to over 300 books on its own, but created two other franchises (Stony Man, and Mack Bolan Adve

uncarved block: FYI

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:03:55 EST

If you check the Wikipedia entry, Dexter uses two pseudonyms from Brett Easton Ellis books as aliases: Dr. Patrick Bateman (from American Psycho, in order to order the tranquilizers that are his "magic" weapon*, as well as Sean Ellis o

Ozyman: Re: Is Dexter Too Dark?

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:10:05 EST

A TV-MA version would be so cleaned-up and dumbed-down that it would be unwatchable.

I wonder about that. It seems like violence is completely acceptable on network television. I have not seen them, but co-workers tell me that the Sop

logan: Re: Is Dexter Too Dark?

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:32:53 EST

Meta, I originally posted this in the subq, not realizing what you have to do to viewsubq comments.

NO SPOILERS! NO SPOILERS!

I'm putting off reading the book until the series has run its course.

Look, if we can root for Tony Soprano what's so dif

Ozyman: Re: We Don't Get ShowTime

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:50:24 EST

After my posting frenzy, I went and checked out the wikipedia article on the show. The critical reception section was interesting:

The initial response to Dexter was positive. The website Metacritic calculated a score of 77 from a pos

Ozyman: Re: We Don't Get ShowTime

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:44:17 EST

I would certainly think it's worth the $28 it is currently going for on Amazon (free shipping). I've already seen the first season, and I might buy it just to see the extras. If it sounds like something you'd like, then my guess is you probably

Ozyman: Re: Can't get into it

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:39:49 EST

It is not creative enough to warrant my attention.

I'm curious what you consider creative enough to warrant your attention. There is some decent television out there, but very rarely do I see anything that I'd consider 'creative'.

pO157: We Don't Get ShowTime

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:35:58 EST

Would you say it is worth buying a boxed set of DVDs to catch it? I have only heard good things about it so far.

Ozyman: The best show on television

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:28:11 EST

Not much to add, but my wife and I think it's the best show on television right now. We watched initially because we were six feet under fans. Between the two shows, I think this really shows Micheal C. Hall's talents. The characters he

profwhat: Can't get into it

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:09:44 EST

The cable company called a few years ago and offered Showtime for $5/month, forever, and like an idiot I said yes. At the time I was interested in watching Queer as Folk; I didn't realize that show had jumped the shark years earlier. Now, all S

thefadd: Re: Is Dexter Too Dark?

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:08:50 EST

The character you describes sounds an awful lot like the main character from American Psycho, albeit possibly more likable to the audience. Having not seen Dexter myself, are there any other similarities you could draw out between the two? (Supposing of co

3fingerspointback: Re: loved Season 1

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:28:26 EST

The only thing which strikes me as a bit weak is that (at least in season 1) all he kills are serial killers.

I haven't seen any Dexter, but I do read the Punisher comics, which suffers from the same problem. Just how many cri

wetkarma: loved Season 1

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:44:11 EST

I saw Season 1 when it first came out and although the supporting actors skills are a bit weak in parts, the great, wonderful thing about Dexter is that it had a coherent story line. Unlike say "Lost" or "Heroes" or even (blasphemy) "Battlestar Galactica"

joshv: Re: Is Dexter Too Dark?

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:38:25 EST

The actually killings are only a minor part of the show, so I doubt a PG version would detract all that much. It's not the blood and gore of the killings, it's the fact that we know he is a serial killer and nobody else seems to notice, that gives th

gameCoder: Re: Is Dexter Too Dark?

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:57:50 EST

Having just finished season 1 two days ago (I'm of the mind that Netflix is more worth the money than any channels outside of basic cable), I can easily say that Dexter rules! Honestly, in general I don't think there is too much gore for network tv (