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I love Dexter, but does anyone else find every single female character on this show grating beyond belief? Deb is a self-centered whiner-- I wanted the Ice Truck Killer to end her. Rita is needy and clueless, and that whole Paul storyline drove me nuts. La Guerta is heartlessly ambitious (she seems not to be this season, but like other posters, I have to doubt her niceness), and Esme is behaving like an unprofessional idiot. I want to like one of them but can’t find a reason to. Even Dexter’s sponsor gets on my nerves-- she has that tough girl know-it-all sex kitten thing going on that’s just not working for me, though I am going to enjoy watching Rita deal with her.
My take on Doakes easing up on Dexter is because Doakes now believes that Dexter has at least one serious flaw he was hiding in the first season and now that Dexter is attending meetings, believes that is the sole reason Doakes had a “spidey” sense about Dexter. As long as Doakes couldn’t find anything to hang on Dexter (gambling, drinking to excess, chasing women, writing bad checks, or other bad habits), he was going to birddog Dexter.
As far as Laguerta, she was burned by the Captain and she’s smart enough not to immediately team up with him and turn against Esme. It’s a question of, “Fool me once, shame on you, Fool me twice, shame on me”. She’s still smarting from when he summarily demoted her and promoted Esme, all because of his standing with the “good ole boy network”. I believe that Laguerta’s refusal to sandbag Esme right now, is because Laguerta knows that when your enemy is destroying themselves, you should stand back and watch the whole thing. In the back of her mind, Laguerta knows that if Esme screws up badly enough, the Captain will finally be negatively affected because he’s the one who promoted Esme.
I guess you all can tell that I’m fully invested in this show and can’t wait to see what happens next.
I’m glad the “dark passenger” idea is finally being addressed in the series.
I assumed that Lila is not a murderer, but is addicted to sex, and that Dexter is going to be her next “victim.” As we’ve already seen, this will go over big with Rita.
BTW, if hot babes like Lila are common in NA and AA meetings (and there’s always one in every movie that features meetings), I think I’m going to pull a “Fight Club,” and start going to meetings even though I’m not an addict/alcoholic.
I agree with Rubystreak about the women. They’re all pretty pathetic.
I thought for a moment that’s where they were going when Lila said something about the coffee being better next door. I thought she meant at the meeting next door.
Or just dump her without the killing part. Rita doesn’t act like she cares all that much about Dexter anyway. What’s she doing for him that he needs to change his life for her? They haven’t been together that long and the kids aren’t his. She’s boring and not very bright.
He’s an excellent boyfriend. He thinks about the things a good boyfriend would do – because those things don’t come naturally to him – and he ends up doing more than a “normal” man would do.
Dex could do better.
Per S1: Rita was introduced to Dexter by Deb, who repsonded to Rita’s domestic abuse call. Leaving aside how messed up it is to be fixing your brother up with the victim of a crime you’re investigating, Dexter is with Rita because she adds to his cover without (initially) making any sexual demands or having any expressed sexual needs. That part has of course changed. “Rita’s as damaged in her way as I am in mine.”
But he doesn’t care about doing better.
In fairness to her, I think her concern is that Dex could end up like her ex. Remember that he had good qualities too, but his drug addiction pushed him into violence and stuff like that. Rita doesn’t want to give even an inch on that, and I realy don’t blame her, what with the kids and all.
Good points, thanks. (But I still don’t like her.)
And it does make for a good story, Dex in a program where he can talk about himself without really talking about himself. Sorta like last season, with the therapist.
My thoughts exactly. Also, it got me thinking…
I wonder why Dex hid that he was headed to NA the first and second time. He knew that Doakes was looking for something - anything to pin on him, why not let him think it was an addiction? It’s a good red herring. If Doakes implied that Dex had led him there on purpose, Dex could have said he thought buying a new car would be a good cover, and made his “oops, ya got me,” face.
I guess his sociopathy limits his ability to predict how people will react to him. The point was nicely hammered in by Rita at the end.
Could a substance abuse problem put his job at risk?
Gosh, could it possibly be that he loves her and the kids?!?
Yes, in the beginning he was using her as a beard to make himself appear more normal, and hoped that her abused past would provide a good excuse to avoid becoming intimate. But obviously he’s changed, she’s changed, and their relationship has changed, and the epiphany he had at the NA meeting was that she and the kids may be more important to him than even his addiction to killing.
Or so it seemed to me.
I could see it causing waves, but as Doakes said, he wouldn’t have been the first blueshirt to have such a problem. I bet his colleagues are jaded. Also, since Dex has no record of being impaired or incompetent on the job**, the consequences would be minimal.
**Aside from passing out in the hotel room in S1, but no one was blaming him for that.
I think he was too busy being repelled by the dullness of the meetings and trying to weasel his way out of them to consider how useful they could be in throwing Doakes off the scent.
And as Doakes said, “Keep going to the meetings, or stay out of my way.”
That should be “Keep going to the meetings AND stay out of my way” There wasn’t really a choice given.
[nitpick] actual quote was “Stay clean” not “keep going to the meetings”. [/nitpick]
I just wanted to clarify the and/or thing. It makes a rather large difference in that I don’t think Doakes was giving Dex a choice in the matter.