Dexter

[Matt]

Ever since the first season, this show is the best. I have huge hopes for the new season since season 2 is still my favorite of them all (yeah, more than season4, tough Lithgow was the man!) and the new season looks to be more like season 2. Dexter is the hunted...I like that.

Lithgow was amazing, and it will be tough to top him. They are smart for not trying until season 6, once some time has passed. I think the best way to top Trinity though, is with Dr. Danco from the books. For those of you who have not read the books:

Spoiler

Danco does not kill his victims. He kidnaps them, makes them play a deranged game of hangman where he cuts off their arms, then legs, then tounge, then lips, eyelids, nose, ears, teeth, and penis. But being a doctor he keeps and leaves them alive, but as a stump who is incapable of doing anything but going crazy in their own mind. Its brutal. It disgusts even Dexter. Granted, you'd need to tweak him and remove the Doakes connection, but it can be done.

I think that is the best way to handle season 6. A monster the likes of which Dexter has never dealt with. One who actually scares and disgusts Dexter. Someone he has no desire to learn from or empathize with, but simply kill. As for who can play Danco, maybe Sam Neill or Willem Dafoe?

 

[Maximus One]

Yea but thats basically the same as The Ice Truck Killer just to the next extreme in terms of dismemberment at least. I do agree that Dexter needs to come against someone that, I dunno if disgusts is the right word, more like perplexes and dumbfounds Dexter. Someone that he can't even understand on any level whatsoever

 

[Ghostvirus]

I think in the final season Dexter should go up against a killer that makes him realise he isn't even close to the monster he thinks he is. Like the scene in season 4 when Dexter is in the van with Trinity & wonders if he really is human after all. Except times 100.

I like that Danco dude. I could see Michael Emerson in that role. He would own it in my opinion.

 

[RogueDK]

Re-subscribing

 

[RaZaTrOn]

I like that Danco dude. I could see Michael Emerson in that role. He would own it in my opinion.

Dr. Danco was brilliant i would love for him to be in this or the next series. Maybe not as a whole series villain but for at least part of it.

How would you guys feel introducing more characters from the books.

I thought Brandon Wiess would be an interesting villain.
Kyle Chutsky for a possible new love interest for Deborah?

In the new book Dexter is Delicious Jeff Lindsay explores cannibalism, do you think that could fit into the show?

 

[Prison Mike]

Michael Emerson in Dexter? YES Please!!!

 

[Ghostvirus]

Did they say at comic-con how long they plan on going with the show? I really can't see them going to many more seasons.

 

[Reek]

Lithgow was amazing, and it will be tough to top him. They are smart for not trying until season 6, once some time has passed. I think the best way to top Trinity though, is with Dr. Danco from the books. For those of you who have not read the books:

Spoiler

Danco does not kill his victims. He kidnaps them, makes them play a deranged game of hangman where he cuts off their arms, then legs, then tounge, then lips, eyelids, nose, ears, teeth, and penis. But being a doctor he keeps and leaves them alive, but as a stump who is incapable of doing anything but going crazy in their own mind. Its brutal. It disgusts even Dexter. Granted, you'd need to tweak him and remove the Doakes connection, but it can be done.

I think that is the best way to handle season 6. A monster the likes of which Dexter has never dealt with. One who actually scares and disgusts Dexter. Someone he has no desire to learn from or empathize with, but simply kill. As for who can play Danco, maybe Sam Neill or Willem Dafoe?

Yes. Dr Danco is a great choice... but i think they will come up with another killer themselves. Id love to see a great actor pull off danco.

I think this whole quinn vs dexter thing will end quickly this season. I have a feeling the first half of the season will be cat and mouse with them, then dex frames the neighbor for ritas death, and quinn feels like **** and becomes friends with dex. I have a feeling Deb and Quinn will become a couple by the end of the season. but quinn vs dex is too much like doakes vs dex.
im predicting eventually LaGuerta is going go after dex. i think that is such an obvious direction they are heading. LaGuerta thought Doakes was innocent, and seemed skeptical about it still in season 3. But, Quinns comparison to doakes will be apparent to LaGuerta. They both question dexter as a killer, or hiding something.

and i can not wait to see how much deeper Deb digs into dex... she has to find out. has to!

 

[Matt]

LaGuerta going after Dexter would be closer to the book. I don't think Dexter will frame his neighbor. He framed Doakes, yeah, but Doakes was digging and provoking him. The neighbor is an innocent. he has kids. To frame him for murder would be wrong.

 

[Reek]

but dont forget...when it comes to getting caught, dex will do anything. rule #1...Dont get caught.

 

[Maximus One]

I do like the fact that by the trailer, Quinn seems to be doing what Doakes didn't and that is planting that seed of doubt in, what looked like, ALL of Dexter's co-workers. Dex and Doakes may have had some-what public encounters and animosity but like somebody said before Doakes was the penultimate "Meat-head" character and went after Dexter like a freight train while it seems that Quinn is going to be getting everyone to start doubting Dexter, and those first words at the crime scene, bad, bad, bad all around. OMG I'm getting so excited for this **** to be back allready!!!!

 

[Prison Mike]

I have been rewatching season 3 and will rewatch season 4 soon. Season 3 seems to be the weakest but I still enjoyed it.

 

[Maximus One]

I cant stand season 3 for real. Like I used to have seasons 1 and 2 but someone jacked my season 2 set. But I never even bothered gettin the season 3 one. Btw Michael Emerson on Dexter = EPIC!!!!!!

 

[Paroxysm]

Showtime's 'Dexter' To Depart From The 'One Bad Guy A Season' Formula

The producers of the Emmy-nominated drama discussed changes on the show following the climactic Season 4 finale. In Season 5, Dexter will undergo a process of “atonement,” stressing that it would be atonement, not a nervous breakdown, since he has now has to cope with the responsibilities of being a single father. The show will also depart from having a single guest “bad guy,” along the lines of John Lithgow this past season, in favor of having Dexter interact with several guests stars on his road to atonement.


Executive producer Sara Colleton called the showrunner transition from Clyde Phillips, who left at the end of last season, to Chip Johannessen “seamless” because he was a big fan and watcher of the show. She added that after four years it was “time for fresh blood.”


As for lingering speculation that Julie Benz, whose character was killed off, may return to the show, "we can say no, absolutely," Colleton said. "It would fundamentally harm the DNA of our show." But Johannessen didn't quite dismiss the possibility that the actress could appear in a flashback. ”You’ll be seeing her more than dead in the bathtub, for sure.“

I really like this idea

 

[Reek]

depart from it? uh well...season 2 had one bad guy..Dexter. season 5 looks to have another bad guy....Dexter.

 

[Paroxysm]

depart from it? uh well...season 2 had one bad guy..Dexter. season 5 looks to have another bad guy....Dexter.

and you started this thread.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Showtime's 'Dexter' To Depart From The 'One Bad Guy A Season' Formula



I really like this idea

I don't really understand the need for "fresh blood". What they need is to know exactly where the season is going before it starts.

Like I said before. You can easily telly just by watching the point at which they knew what they wanted to do in season 4. When they know where they are going the writing is great. But when they just blindly drive it can get a little off balance.

As far as season 3 - After watching it again. My whole problem was I wasn't worried for Dexter. Jimmy Smits in my eyes never, ever posed a threat to him. So therefore there was no tention like with Trinity, Ice-TK, Lilla, Doakes, FBI...

The only tension for me was when Dexter was revealing all his secrets to the assistant DA. I was what are you doing! But once he stabbed that dude in the chest. Worry was gone.

& don't get me started on the skinner.

 

[Maximus One]

Coolest thing the Skinner ever did was make that ****ed up looking expression after Dexter broke his neck

 

[RetroNaz]

Agreed. Infact, season 3 nearly killed the whole show for me.
Not in a really bad way, but just in the sense that I thought Season 1 and 2 were so good, it was all downhill from that point onwards.

How wrong I was!

 

[Slick]

Come on guys season 3 was not that bad it just wasn't as good.

 

[RetroNaz]

Yeah I'm not saying it was the end of the world bad...it just got me bored of the whole Dexter series...

 

[BatMatt]

Season 3 was enjoyable, it was a little slow at times. On that note, the 2nd to last episode felt more like a finale than the actual finale did

 

[Prison Mike]

I agree. The 11th episode with Smits last episode felt like the finale. But overall, I still enjoyed season 3. The Skinner was weak but the main antagonist of the season was Miguel anyway. I did like the idea that Dexter had an "apprentice". I was excited about it as I was watching the season when it aired 2 years ago.

 

[Reek]

and you started this thread.

well, i have been watching since the beginning and have every episode. watched multiple times.

but yea...i guess..

anyways...

Doakes was not a big bad. Dexter was the bad guy. It looks like hes gonna be the bad guy in season 5 as well.

 

[Reek]

and season 3 was not that bad. if any of the seasons 'broke formula' it was season 3.

honestly, none of the seasons really had the same formula anyway. sure each has had a bad guy, but ITK was not really an enemy of dexters until he took deb. doakes wasnt an enemy as much as he was an annoyance at how good he was at what he did. miguel was fine up until the end. as for season long big bads, trinity is the only one. i dont count the skinner, i just thought that whole story line was stupid. some tree trimming midget skinning people who obviously had no idea where freebo was. :