I’ve been wondering if they were going to use Rita’s death to reboot the series with Dexter as a loner again, but it seemed like they were going to try to have him balance family life. It looks like they’re going to kids out of the picture. I wonder if that means a return to the plot of earlier seasons.
I’m not sure who the villain will be this season. I thought that perhaps they’d go in the direction of having the FBI investigate Dexter, and maybe Quinn have a Doakes role, but that would kind of be a repeat of season 2. But lacking that, I’m not sure what the big conflict is going to be this season. It can’t be the animal removal guy, right? He’s nothing special.
I was under the impression that the animal guy was going to be our villain this season. At the end of the episode they showed Dexter opening the drum he tossed in the pond to reveal a dead body, scanning around we see several other similar drums and Dexter found a kill trophy (the hair) in his apartment (gee, I wonder if that’s supposed to be similar to something else*). They also showed the guy electrocuting what appeared to be an already dead body in one of the drums. They put a lot of time into this guy, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be him.
Also, unless I misunderstood, I’m fairly sure Quinn is going to have a Doakes like roll this season.
I guess it would just be lame. The villains of seasons past have been powerful and enigmatic and interesting. This guy seems like run of mill crazy loser killer… in as far as you can have a run of the mill serial killer. There’s nothing for Dexter to gain from him, no reason for Dexter not to kill him as soon as practical.
I think the dead animal guy won’t last , it appears he may not even make it beyond next week. Julia Styles is the guest star this year, she should show up soon. Don’t expect her to be a villain but maybe she will be.
We only just met him. I’m willing to bet next Sunday Dexter will be back in his house and find all the locks of hair. Instead of killing him, he’ll want to learn from him (of course we did that also, with Arthur Miller). Maybe he’ll find out he has some long lost connection with this guy (okay, we did that, with his brother). Who knows? Has one of his normal kills ever made it more then one episode? If it’s not him, maybe it’ll be Quinn (but we did that, with Doakes). Whatever they do, I trust them to keep me on the edge of my seat.
While Dexter was learning about Trinity he also let him kill again - for example his wife, and he almost killed that kid. Don’t know that he will let that happen again.
Hopefully, part of this season will be about Deborah learning the truth about Dexter. She did work out who his brother was, right? That subject should come up again…
I was hoping there wouldn’t be a villain this season. I’m all for introducing new characters but there doesn’t need to be a rival serial killer to keep me interested.
I like Dead Animal Pickup Guy, he’s no season-long baddie but he’s interesting enough for one or two episodes.
Previous seasons offered up interesting victims. I liked the human trafficking couple and the kid that Dexter decided to mentor a little bit too late. I hope Dex gets a chance to meet and kill more interesting folks, maybe even leave some folks alive if they’re sufficiently interesting.
I’m a little bothered that we’re re-hashing the Doakes storyline with Quinn but it is realistic that people, particularly LEO’s would notice something off about Dex. I’m hoping Dexter will think outside the box and figure out a way to get Quinn off the scent without killing him - more for the sake of not repeating the Doakes thing though, I don’t really like Quinn.
I should be happy that Astor and Cody are gone so I can get my serial killer show back but I’m oddly disappointed at their departure. Anyone else feel that way?
I want more Deb. I want her to fight Quinn all season only to realize that Dexter IS weird.
I liked the animal control guy going all “CSI” on the racoon.
Quinns story line is at least a little different then Doakes in that Quinn’s actually after the wrong guy, Dexter didn’t kill Rita.
Do we know the Trinity Killer actually killed Rita? I was kinda operating under the assumption that he didn’t, and that whoever did would be the “big bad”. Could be wrong though.
Also remember Dexter saw Quinn taking cash from a dead guy’s pocket but he did not do anything about it. That was the start of Quinn going after Dexter, he seemed to be worried Dexter would turn him in for that theft.
Agreed, especially considering how hard Lithgow would be to follow. Plenty of story-telling potential with Dexter’s nascent emotions.
The girl who plays Astor was pretty good in these first two episodes, and I would prefer a story with the kids over more LaGuerta/Batista, as long as they don’t follow the direction of the books. Well, maybe if the show could pull it off better…
Quinn didn’t like Dexter right off the bat in a “The boy ain’t right” sort of way. He tried to get over it and be friends with Dexter, but Dex was having none of it. at that point Quinn decided there’s something not right and he was going to get to the bottom of it.
I could be misremembering, but I’m fairly sure we know Trinity killed Rita.
I don’t know, but it wouldn’t make sense. Harrison has no blood relation to them. And there’s the whole Harrison=Harry’s Son thing we haven’t gotten to yet. Of course, for Dexter to start teaching Harrison we’ll have to skip a few years between seasons somewhere along the line. Dexter spills a lot of his secrets to Harrison, maybe they’ll work that in to it. I assume Deb will help raise Harrison, that may be part of the drama, it’ll increase the drama since he’ll still have to sneak around.
Harrison stayed with Dexter. He is his biological son so the grandparents would have a hard time taking him away if they tried. And those grandparents are not related to him anyway , they were Rita’s first husband’s parents.
I wasn’t the biggest fan of this episode. The writers can’t seem to come up with ANYTHING good for the whole LaGuerta/Batista relationship, and this conflict was only slightly less lame than the jurisdiction argument from the last episode because it might lead to future intrigue.
Astor seemed to be doing the best she could, but… the whole “I hate you because I hate you” thing was a bit bothersome.
Animal Collector Guy will probably be resolved in the next episode, I’d imagine. Perhaps it will segue into the main plot for the season.
I thought that was pretty fair. She ended up explaining herself. Dad skipped out, the kids finally got settled into their new routine and then Dexter came along and now Mom’s dead. And she was right, if Dexter hadn’t come along, Rita would still be alive (not because of what he is, but more along the lines of The Butterfly effect"). Besides, she’s young and confused and just lost her mom, she doesn’t really know what to think. She’s going to be a train wreck for years.
Didn’t Trinity hint to Dexter that he killed Rita, when Dexter was wrapping him up? I’m remembering cryptic comments that Dexter didn’t pick up on until he went home and found Rita dead.
I’m glad Aster’s gone. I don’t know how old the character is supposed to be, but the stuff she was saying to Dexter seemed way too adult. Cody reacted normally, but Aster talked like she’s been watching daytime soaps. Unless the writers were going to spend a lot of time on a reconciliation, Aster had to go.
As for Raccoon Guy, it looked like he electrocuted that woman after dumping her in the barrel. That was one of the more disturbing murders I’ve seen on the show.
And I thought it was unrealistic that Dexter could follow him on that deserted road at night without being noticed. Maybe it was just the way the scenes were shot, but it looked like he was too close.