*nods* I did see it coming a mile away too, it's true. I find Dexter remarkably sympathetic given his character, but it took me a good season or so to get over my repulsion about him, but now I find they've swung too much the other way. He's a bit too 'human' now, too emotional and messy, and I don't really 'get' how he can be like that and a killer... I find the show a lot more farfetched now, it's like the tightness of Dexter's initial caracterisation has been sacrificed to progressing the plot.

But Deb's journey and the Deb part of Dexter's equation is still totally gripping to me. She's so amazing.

I did like Rita too. I'm not sure why I was so unaffected by her death. Hmm. Maybe because it felt like it was more about Dexter than about Rita?