Still no definite answer as to whether Gellar is live or memorex, though the implication is stronger each episode when he doesn’t interact with anyone but Travis that it’s not live as most would understand it. I’ve even wondered if maybe they’re going to go with a supernatural twists. (The books did, but in a completely different way.)
Poor [del]Alma Garrett Ellsworth[/del]Lisa got a bum deal, but that one’s been coming since she was introduced.
They found Deb’s card on the dead body. Nobody, however, thought “maybe she shouldn’t stay alone for the next few days”. I wonder if that will be significant.
I’m assuming the Deputy Chief is the call girl’s client, though I’m wondering how his involvement will factor in to the plotline. Of course Angel and LaGuerta’s romance didn’t really factor in that much.
Yeah, it stretches credulity that a creepy-looking old guy could just hang around a preschool with a shovel in his hand without anybody taking notice. I’ll admit though, that if I didn’t read it here I also would have been too dense to figure out that Gellar is actually persona non corporea.
This episode was unfortunately pretty terrible and it served as a good example of this season as a whole. They better stop moving pieces around the board and start flipping tables soon.
Or not, because this is the highest rated season ever. What do I know.
I also think this season is pretty terrible… the main plot is boring and more ridiculous that previous seasons, and the side plots are even worse… I thought this was the last season, so I expected more, but recently read that they re-upped for 2 more seasons…
At this point, I’m definitely guessing it’s the “Fight Club” scenario.
In this episode, it seems likely that Dexter would have seen, or at least heard, Gellar. The one shot I found particularly suspicious is when Travis looks over Dexter’s shoulder, and Gellar is shown; Dexter turns around, and he’s gone. The obvious implication is that Gellar moved, but it could easily just have been in Travis’ mind. Plus, earlier, Gellar showing up the moment that Travis pulls his picture out of a trash can also seems suspicious to me.
My guess: Travis was ‘saved’ by Gellar, and decided to kill him for some reason. Since then, Gellar’s manifested in Travis’ mind as his ‘dark passenger’, from whom he desperately wants to be free. After all, if Gellar’s real, it would make sense for Travis to be a whole lot more insistent about his sister leaving town; instead, he makes a half-hearted plea to go to Disneyworld, then drops the whole thing, then she ends up dead. I also think it makes sense that if Travis found Deb’s card, he would have likely been far more angry than Gellar would have been – making the “betrayal” narrative from this episode ring a lot more true. Travis doesn’t really want to leave town, and protecting his sister is far lower on the priority list than avoiding the police.
Though, I’d have to rewatch, but doesn’t the freed woman who was to be the first “whore of Babylon” mention hearing both of them? If she only observed Travis herself and only knew about his ‘partner’ through what he said, then that’d really only strengthen the case against Gellar being real. It doesn’t make sense that they’d so carefully avoid any character other than Travis encountering Gellar unless there was a major twist that relies on it.
Yea, she says she hears two voices. So if Gellar is a hallucination, then Travis must actually talk to himself in a different voice when he imagines him.
Plus if Gellar is imaginary, then Travis would have had to chain himself to the floor in the Church.
Honestly, I kinda hope he ends up being a demon or something. This show is getting kinda stale, a few demonic possessions might help.
As I said in the other thread, I was 50/50 up until this week, but now I’m leaning toward Geller being real. This doesn’t disappoint me. I can see it being a satisfying plot thread either way.
I’m not pleased with that either. I want a conclusion, I want closure.
The thing about Dexter (as a series) is that it’s a ticking time bomb. The longer it takes Miami Metro and/or Debra to catch on to the fact that Dexter is a serial killer, the more it strains the credibility of the entire show. Because Dexter being found out is the logical end game, no? I liked Season 2 because it felt like there were real stakes involved with Dexter being caught. I also felt like the end of Season 5 redeemed itself partially because of Debra’s discovery in the finale, although it took a step backward by killing Robocop and having Quinn not care about the whole Dexter investigation any more.
Did she specifically say that she heard two distinct voices? Or maybe she referred vaguely to a “conversation” that we are assuming had to be two dif voices?
When was the last time Gellar was seen? Did he just vanish after he left the college?
Well, it’s not like he was hogtied or something, he could very easily have chained himself there.
I half expected that Gellar was going to tell him at some point, “okay, I’ve made my point, you can unchain yourself now, the key’s in your pocket” but I guess that would’ve been to big a clue.
I think it’s implausible at this point that Gellar is real. Just the way he’s always showing up in weird places at the most convenient times is impractical. Then again, he also appears in scenes in which Travis is unaware of him. When Travis was having sex with the waitress, Gellar was watching from the other room. But I guess it could’ve been a metaphorical “the Gellar in Travis’ mind is always at play” sort of message, but eh. Then again, it’s pretty hard to believe that Gellar is a master ninja stalker that followed them on their date and quietly managed to spy on them.
Gellar being real strikes me as a much bigger string of implausibilities to accept. For us to accept he’s not real, all we really need to know is that the escaped woman was just overhearing a one sided conversation (maybe quietly, in the distance) and assumed there must be two people.