http://porch-dog.com/?p=3575 Intellectualism flies out the window and lands on the porch. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:17:42 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://porch-dog.com/?p=3575&cpage=1#comment-2924 Big Dog Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:32:10 +0000 http://porch-dog.com/?p=3575#comment-2924 Having finished Dexter I can now fully confirm that the reviewer is a dolt. Shouldn't she have made this complaint three years ago when an actor playing 3 year old Dexter was seated in a shipping crate filled with his own mother's blood? Blood we actually saw smack baby Dexter in the face as it flew off a chainsaw...a chainsaw we saw headed toward the whimpering mother as she said "Mommy loves you Dexter." I mean, for chrissakes, did the show really go off the rails when 3 month old Harrison is seen sitting in a comparatively tiny puddle of bloody water? I mean, just because the other thing, the baby Dexter thing, happens as a flashback doesn't mean it didn't happen in the world of the show, and it certainly didn't diminish the gore factor for the viewer. The bottom line here is that New Mommy Critic liked Rita and decided to climb on a moral outrage high horse because the character she identified with was written out of the show. Too sad. If New Mommy Critic had drug addiction and shady friends maybe she would have gotten all up in arms three years ago instead of today. Having finished Dexter I can now fully confirm that the reviewer is a dolt. Shouldn’t she have made this complaint three years ago when an actor playing 3 year old Dexter was seated in a shipping crate filled with his own mother’s blood? Blood we actually saw smack baby Dexter in the face as it flew off a chainsaw…a chainsaw we saw headed toward the whimpering mother as she said “Mommy loves you Dexter.” I mean, for chrissakes, did the show really go off the rails when 3 month old Harrison is seen sitting in a comparatively tiny puddle of bloody water? I mean, just because the other thing, the baby Dexter thing, happens as a flashback doesn’t mean it didn’t happen in the world of the show, and it certainly didn’t diminish the gore factor for the viewer. The bottom line here is that New Mommy Critic liked Rita and decided to climb on a moral outrage high horse because the character she identified with was written out of the show. Too sad. If New Mommy Critic had drug addiction and shady friends maybe she would have gotten all up in arms three years ago instead of today.

]]> http://porch-dog.com/?p=3575&cpage=1#comment-2897 Nancee Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:30:36 +0000 http://porch-dog.com/?p=3575#comment-2897 I thought the ending was wonderful because it makes us, and Dexter, come face to face with our humanity, not deny it as Havrilesky posits. What is more important, our own happiness or that of the ones we love? Dexter made the wrong choice and it cost Rita her life. I never made the mistake of thinking Dexter could be a hero, or that he was making the world a better place. Killing can never accomplish either of those goals. He is, and will always be, doomed and damned, and we are simply watching him painfully come to that realization. If Havrilesky ever saw "sunshine" in this show I think she needs to start asking herself some serious questions. Or perhaps become a more astute viewer. I thought the ending was wonderful because it makes us, and Dexter, come face to face with our humanity, not deny it as Havrilesky posits. What is more important, our own happiness or that of the ones we love? Dexter made the wrong choice and it cost Rita her life. I never made the mistake of thinking Dexter could be a hero, or that he was making the world a better place. Killing can never accomplish either of those goals. He is, and will always be, doomed and damned, and we are simply watching him painfully come to that realization. If Havrilesky ever saw “sunshine” in this show I think she needs to start asking herself some serious questions. Or perhaps become a more astute viewer.

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