# Rita Morgan \[from Dexter\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812 "2009-12-19T00:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/1 "2009-12-19T00:41:58Z")
No Spoiler in OP ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/2 "2009-12-19T00:42:58Z")
Man, this still fucks me up. I have been having nightmares about Rita. I woke up with nightmares this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/3 "2009-12-19T01:19:40Z")
It’s okay, she’s dead now. The whining has stopped. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/4 "2009-12-19T01:20:30Z")
There’s a big 'ol Dexter thread still going strong. Discussion of the amazing season finale begins in [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11884562#post11884562) and continues on for the next several pages. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/5 "2009-12-19T01:21:31Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > There’s a big 'ol Dexter thread still going strong. Discussion of the amazing season finale begins in [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11884562#post11884562) and continues on for the next several pages. And there are four Avatar threads. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/6 "2009-12-19T01:26:06Z")
For real? I helpfully point out a discussion that you would clearly be interested in reading, and you give me a dickish response in return? Gotta love dopers. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/7 "2009-12-19T01:27:51Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > For real? I helpfully point out a discussion that you would clearly be interested in reading, and you give me a dickish response in return? Gotta love dopers. Sorry, I thought you were being dickish. If you weren’t, then, thanks, I am aware of the other thread and have posted in it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/8 "2009-12-19T01:38:55Z")
Much as I regret the death of a hot chick TV character, she WAs seriously annoying. And not too smart either. I mean, how did Dex get away with all that shit? I don’t think he told her he needed a weekly Serial Killers Night Out. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/9 "2009-12-19T01:42:14Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Much as I regret the death of a hot chick TV character, she WAs seriously annoying. And not too smart either. I mean, how did Dex get away with all that shit? I don’t think he told her he needed a weekly Serial Killers Night Out. Yes, she was annoying, and she wasn’t too bright, but it’s still the tragedy of it all. She was just a lady trying to make a good life, who thought she found a good man. I mean, I really feel sorry for those kids. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/10 "2009-12-19T01:52:30Z")
She was cast as a born loser, and I mean right from birth. Domineering manipulative bitch mother, total loser first husband, serial killer second husband, and kids with Hollywood first names. Please keep in mind that she was writeen to screw with your emotions this way. You want REAL tragedy, look at Jackie Kennedy. You are over-invested. My feeling was that Arthur should have killed the baby too. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/11 "2009-12-19T01:55:11Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > total loser first husband, serial killer second husband Third husband. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/12 "2009-12-19T01:55:24Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > She was cast as a born loser, and I mean right from birth. Domineering manipulative bitch mother, total loser first husband, serial killer second husband, and kids with Hollywood first names. > > Please keep in mind that she was writeen to screw with your emotions this way. You want REAL tragedy, look at Jackie Kennedy. > > You are over-invested. My feeling was that Arthur should have killed the baby too. Wow. Hateful. Anyway, it was poignant to me, I guess for personal reasons. Sharing stuff like this on the dope is probably a mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/13 "2009-12-19T02:18:59Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#): > > It’s okay, she’s dead now. The whining has stopped. If this is true, I’m less than thrilled with the spoilerificness of this post. I just opened this this thread to see if it tended toward “What a bint!” or the other way, and there isn’t anything in the way of a “Prepare to have a major plot point blown if you haven’t seen the latest episode” before that. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/14 "2009-12-19T02:34:05Z")
Oops, I was just kidding, she isn’t dead. Nothing to see here, no bathtub full of blood or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/15 "2009-12-19T04:29:26Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Wow. Hateful. > > Anyway, it was poignant to me, I guess for personal reasons. Sharing stuff like this on the dope is probably a mistake. Wow, you really ARE over-invested. I am not hateful of fictional characters, because they are not worth that level of emotion. I preferred the pre-Rita Dexter, just like Harry does. 🙂 In the other thread we had some discussion of what hapens to the kids next year. Seems possible that a set of grandparents might take the older kids, but Dex is the bio-parent of Harrison. And I see little Harrison as a serious impediment to Dex’x freedon to kill. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/16 "2009-12-19T06:31:57Z")
Julie Benz’s character’s death did nothing to slow down her appearances on her previous two series. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/17 "2010-01-10T07:06:09Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Wow, you really ARE over-invested. I am not hateful of fictional characters, because they are not worth that level of emotion. I preferred the pre-Rita Dexter, just like Harry does. 🙂 In the other thread we had some discussion of what hapens to the kids next year. Seems possible that a set of grandparents might take the older kids, but Dex is the bio-parent of Harrison. And I see little Harrison as a serious impediment to Dex’x freedon to kill. The entire point of engaging fiction is to be emotionally manipulated. So talking about how you weren’t emotionally manipulated is beyond the veil of pointlessness. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/18 "2010-01-10T07:10:16Z")
Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/19 "2010-01-10T07:55:00Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > The entire point of engaging fiction is to be emotionally manipulated. So talking about how you weren’t emotionally manipulated is beyond the veil of pointlessness. So is reviving a three week old thread just to post that. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812/20 "2010-01-12T16:43:52Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > The entire point of engaging fiction is to be emotionally manipulated. So talking about how you weren’t emotionally manipulated is beyond the veil of pointlessness. But, in the end, it’s just a couple of writer’s sitting around thinking of ways to mess with you. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rita-morgan-from-dexter/521812.md?page=2)