Nitpick, it’s Gellar, not Geller, topic title has it correct, but many people are still writing it wrong</nitpick>
So did Travis kill Gellar? Or did Gellar just kick off on his own and Travis decided to stick him in the freezer?
And was it not awesome watching Deb get up in LaGuerta’s face?
I didn’t know that. We had 10 seasons of Professor (Ross) Geller, so it’s going to be a hard habit to kick.
Ohhhh, that’s right! That was the other completely unsurprising “surprise” – that Matthews was the one with the OD’d hooker. Not a good night for reveals, to say the least.
Can LaGuerta open and close cases or only Deb?
I felt like if I were in Deb’s shoes last week I would have said “If you want the case shut, you close it, but I don’t want my name on it because I don’t think it’s shut”
OR
I felt like if I were in Deb’s shoes last week I would have closed it but then written in (if you can do this), “Closed at the request of LaGuerta”
Just something to shift the blame to her. Deb knows something isn’t right. She has no idea LaGuerta is up to something, but the only reason we know that (even last week) is because we’re privy to info that Deb isn’t. Namely a phone call that LaGuerta made to someone letting them know that it was taken care of.
It also seemed to me that when the Father came in she could have said to him that LaGuerta asked her to close it and that he needs to talk to her to get it reopened. Though knowing LaGuerta I think she’s backstabby enough to say “My name isn’t anywhere on that report, there’s nothing I can do about it, I’m not sure why she mentioned me”
I liked LaGuerta as the Lt. But as whatever she is right now, I really don’t care for it. I don’t think the show really needs this much extra drama. Some drama, sure, but this almost seems like too much. Having one rogue officer that she needs to keep under control would have been good (cough Quinn cough), but having LaGuerta actively causing problems is getting obnoxious. She seems to just be acting like a bully as well. Other then the dead hooker thing. It’s like she’s just picking on Deb for fun. I’m not sure if that’s because Angel didn’t get the job or if she’s board or if Deb failing will some how advance her own career. I hope it has a good payoff.
:rolleyes: The amazing reveal that 97% of the audience saw coming.
I can’t believe they renewed this for two more seasons.
42% of the people in this poll felt that Gellar was going to turn out to be real.
That’s not even close to the results of the poll. “Professor Geller is real and actively working with Travis” got less than 30% of the votes. And I’m not sure that a poll of all of 27 people tells us much about the viewers as a whole…
:smack: I did my math wrong.
I still strongly hold that no where near 97% of the viewers saw this coming.
I’d put it at less then 50% of the viewers at a whole. I firmly believe that most of the viewers that don’t pick apart the episodes, the ones that just watch it and don’t think about it again until next Sunday didn’t see it coming.
I think it’s the people like us that saw it coming. The people that dissect each episode, bounce ideas off each other, look back at older episodes to see what happened in them, review scenes to see who said what to whom etc…
I don’t think I would have predicted the reveal if I hadn’t read the theory beforehand. I wish I hadn’t read it, but such are the perils of the Internet.
I really want to know how Travis was able to set up the tableau in the lecture hall so quickly.
He did it overnight. In between the time that Dexter dropped him off and the school opened up in the morning. I’d be more curious about how he did the other ones which were more complex (so they would take longer to setup) and out in the open. Could the greenhouse one be seen from public areas?
So how does one shut down an elevator without being in it?
Travis must have the standard slasher-movie abilities to create perfect delays, move with superhuman speed, perfectly predict the actions of others, etc. Next up, Dexter drives all the way to Kansas, checks into a random motel, opens the closet - boom, Travis is waiting for him.
I agree completely.
However, knowing that the intern owns the prosthetic hand possibly makes a previous bit of computer stupidity somewhat less stupid. He hacked the auction website and claimed that he deleted the auction listing, but could not get any info about the buyer. (I ranted about the specifics of this in a previous Dexter thread.) While the most likely explanation is that the writers just don’t know what they’re talking about, this can be fan-wanked as follows: Our leet haxor intern knows that Miami Metro is full of simpletons, and just gives them some meaningless techno-babble reason why he can’t get the buyer’s information. He knows they’ll buy whatever explanation he’ll give, and this way he can protect himself. And if he’s somehow involved with the hot babe former intern (working together, killed her and stole her login credentials, whatever) then he wouldn’t even have had to truly hack the auction site.
Also, I cringed when professor [del]Dawkins[/del] Casey mocked creationists then immediately referred to evolution as “life arising from chaos”. The only people I’ve ever heard refer to evolution in that way are creationists themselves.
And +1 to the idea that this “reveal” wasn’t much of a reveal.
I knew he wasn’t real based on reading here and a few other things, but if I were watching it totally alone? I’m not sure if I would have figured it out. Dexter doesn’t captivate my attention the way it used to, so I might not have picked up on the not-talking-to-other-people thing. I did wonder if maybe he was real and that was going to be the surprise. Er, I mean alive… he was always real, but mostly he was real, but frozen.
Going into that basement was pretty stupid of Dexter. Don’t go in some place that you don’t know you can’t get OUT of!
The whole ice truck killer hand and the intern could be written into a really good storyline, potentially. You spend the last couple episodes thinking Batista is just kind of being a douche, but since the guy isn’t entirely on the up and up, Batista is more like being a Dokes, the only person to think there is something wrong with the slightly creepy guy in the office.
By the way, why does a long-abandoned church have electricity? If Travis has a generator, how does he keep it running without anybody noticing?
I think that’s a suspension of disbelief thing. As was said elsewhere, an abandoned church should have been stripped of all the stained glass, marble, furniture, statues etc
OTOH, maybe he’s it’s not abandoned. I mean, not that he’s using it as a church, but that he owns it, pays taxes on it, pays the utilities, maintains the exterior etc so as not to draw attention to it. That would keep the homeless out of it, it would keep the vandals away from it and it would keep the cops from nosing around to check up on it to make sure the homeless and vandals are leaving it alone.
Well, if the property is in Travis’s (or Gellar’s) name, the cops should have found it by now but, as you say, suspension of disbelief.
Did it really have electricity? I can’t recall whether or not there was obvious use of electricity.
There were lights and a freezer in the basement which means it either has electricity or there’s a generator somewhere.
Also, it might not be in either of their names. Maybe it’s in someone else’s name, maybe a fake name, maybe Travis set up an LLC just to keep himself one degree separated from it (yes, I know his name would be affiliated with the LLC).
:smack: right, the freezer