Devastation to the families of the people Dexter killed? With only a couple of exceptions they were all truly bad people. I don't have much sympathy for their families. Families make you what you are, and if you're a bad person, well, thank your folks. Doakes' family deserves to know that he didn't do it, but i doubt they'll bring that up at any point. Any murders Dexter gets convicted for will not include the ones covered by the Bay Harbour Butcher investigation- too embarrassing for the cops. Will he ever get caught? I imagine he will either grow a conscience and turn himself in, or possibly Deb/Angel will kill him. I'm not sure that the fanbase can really be said to be rooting for him. I certainly don't watch the show for the plastic-wrap moments. It's the psychology of Dexter that keeps me coming back. Same as with CM, I want to know what it is that makes killers different. This is just a much longer explanation. I kinda wish that Dexter's brother had turned out to be his exact opposite. That would lend some credence to the big build-up they did about Dex being raised to kill by Harry. As it stands, they're falling back on a single traumatic experience to explain everything, which is lame. It takes years of serious abuse to make a serial murderer. Any Dexter/CM crossover is seriously limited by the expectation that the BAU always gets their guy, true. An in-depth explanation of the sort so readily provided by Dr. Reid would be totally out of place in the Dexter universe. CM is far too realistic for that to work. Dexter is a cartoon compared to any character on CM.
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Date: Jan. 14th, 2010 10:58 pm (UTC)Doakes' family deserves to know that he didn't do it, but i doubt they'll bring that up at any point. Any murders Dexter gets convicted for will not include the ones covered by the Bay Harbour Butcher investigation- too embarrassing for the cops. Will he ever get caught? I imagine he will either grow a conscience and turn himself in, or possibly Deb/Angel will kill him.
I'm not sure that the fanbase can really be said to be rooting for him. I certainly don't watch the show for the plastic-wrap moments. It's the psychology of Dexter that keeps me coming back. Same as with CM, I want to know what it is that makes killers different. This is just a much longer explanation.
I kinda wish that Dexter's brother had turned out to be his exact opposite. That would lend some credence to the big build-up they did about Dex being raised to kill by Harry. As it stands, they're falling back on a single traumatic experience to explain everything, which is lame. It takes years of serious abuse to make a serial murderer.
Any Dexter/CM crossover is seriously limited by the expectation that the BAU always gets their guy, true. An in-depth explanation of the sort so readily provided by Dr. Reid would be totally out of place in the Dexter universe. CM is far too realistic for that to work. Dexter is a cartoon compared to any character on CM.