Dexter: differences between the books and the TV show (open spoilers)

[OpalCat]

@Swords_to_Plowshares

Book spoilers:

[spoiler]The books jump the shark when they start introducing these weird supernatural elements to explain shit.

Quoth Wikipedia:
In Dexter in the Dark, the third novel of the series, it is revealed through third person narrative of an entity referred to as “IT” that the Dark Passenger is an independent agent inhabiting Dexter, rather than a deviant psychological construction. Later, Dexter realizes the Dark Passenger is related to Moloch, a Middle Eastern deity worshiped in Biblical times. The Dark Passenger is one of Moloch’s many offspring; Moloch had many children (formed through human sacrifice), and learned to share its knowledge with them.

Laaaaame.[/spoiler]

They’re starting to get into that shit where I am in the book now. I’m a little over halfway through it (…I think. I’m a little ways into the second part of the 2-part audiobook, in any case.). I have to say I agree that this is not a good path to go down.

I’m finding that I am kind of bored by “empty Dexter” without his Dark Passenger. And the Moloch stuff seems like a lame way to explain what should just be explained as being a broken part of Dexter’s subconscious.

(The thread title warns of open spoilers so you don’t need to use spoiler tags here, btw, though thanks for thinking of it.)