I had no idea they were going to kill Rita. I knew something was going to happen at the end because they kept throwing out tension music and miscues. The voicemail made me flip, but I think it was Rita until I saw the blood. Dexter can get out of almost anything with his easy charm, but be paid dearly in this episode and was cut almost no slack. While I hate that it was Rita, it is the consequences. Dexter can't have nice things. He doesn't get to have his cake and eat it too. It's covered in blood.
Dexter is an emotional mimic in a lot of situations. He knows how he is supposed to react from watching the people around him and stumbling through it. I think about how and what Harry taught him and I come to thinking he taught Dexter what he thought he would need to survive. I don't think Harry ever considered trying to become anything else, only how to hide what he is under something else.
With the Dark Defender, the dark part is often set aside.
I'm not sure I want to see rage and revenge Dexter. I almost want to see him shut down. He already killed Trinity, showing him more mercy than any other kill I can remember.
I didn't consider Rita's death as adding to that long list of women in refrigerators. Dexter was something good in her life, yes, but he was also something dark. She didn't know Dexter's secret, but death and destruction are the consequences of being in Dexter's life. Everything around him will eventually be touched by his darkness and turn to shit. Thinking about the whole season, I think Rita's death was a natural conclusion to the season. It was about Dexter trying to have everything. He juggled being so many different things and having so many people in his life. This episode was showing him that he can't do it, he can't have that. I'm devastated that Rita had to be the ball that fell.
I love Rita and her journey and how far she has come from when we first met her in season one. It's really awful to think, but I'd have rather it been Cody, but he wouldn't have fit in Trinity's pattern and given Harrison to parallel.
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Date: 2009-12-15 07:48 pm (UTC)Dexter is an emotional mimic in a lot of situations. He knows how he is supposed to react from watching the people around him and stumbling through it. I think about how and what Harry taught him and I come to thinking he taught Dexter what he thought he would need to survive. I don't think Harry ever considered trying to become anything else, only how to hide what he is under something else.
With the Dark Defender, the dark part is often set aside.
I'm not sure I want to see rage and revenge Dexter. I almost want to see him shut down. He already killed Trinity, showing him more mercy than any other kill I can remember.
I didn't consider Rita's death as adding to that long list of women in refrigerators.
Dexter was something good in her life, yes, but he was also something dark. She didn't know Dexter's secret, but death and destruction are the consequences of being in Dexter's life. Everything around him will eventually be touched by his darkness and turn to shit. Thinking about the whole season, I think Rita's death was a natural conclusion to the season. It was about Dexter trying to have everything. He juggled being so many different things and having so many people in his life. This episode was showing him that he can't do it, he can't have that. I'm devastated that Rita had to be the ball that fell.
I love Rita and her journey and how far she has come from when we first met her in season one. It's really awful to think, but I'd have rather it been Cody, but he wouldn't have fit in Trinity's pattern and given Harrison to parallel.