Comments on: Disappointed by DEXTER: Resistance is Futile

By: Martine

Martine — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:05:24 +0000

I looked it up. Erik King is 5’10″ weight 185lb. Michael C Hall is 6′ even and weight 195lb. Just to be accurate. Its tough to judge the height of folks on screen, huh? I really did think they would both be a bit over 200lbs too. I guess that thing about the camera adding 10lb is true. Neither of them is very big.

By: Martine

Martine — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:16:02 +0000

Sorry for the spelling/grammar errors, this keyboard sucks.

By: Martine

Martine — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:14:36 +0000

I am usually very critical of plot failure, but this is really not working for me. Yes, Dexter could very easily subdue Doakes. Doakes wasn’t expecting Dexter to fight back, and attacked him straight on. They are roughly the same size, with Dexter looking more fit then Doakes. So Im not sure why you are saying Michael hall, who looks to be around 225 is 160 lbs. They are both lethal, I suppose, but obviously Dexter fights more often. As for why Doakes sisn’t tell anyone two simple reasons. he had already tried to warn people about Dexter and no one listened. Also he is the type to rely on himself. As for why the GPS it was BECAUSE he was told not to tail Dexter any more by LeGuardia. So your points make no sense to me.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:14:45 +0000

i read this article before i watched it and when i finally did i saw the reasons you listed above. And while they were sort of big the episode as a whole was still good and i was still on the edge of my seat and cant wait to see how it pans out next week

By: Snow

Snow — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:28:48 +0000

Reading the posts above, did I miss something? Is Dexter a reality show about a serial killer (you never know these days) or a fictional television show? Someone confirm please.

The episode was awesome! Dexter’s thoughts on the ride to the police station and being confronted with his box was great television.

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:17:49 +0000

Re: The GPS thing. Doakes following Dexter wasn’t just about knowing were he was, it was about intimidation. He could have attempted to follow Dexter in secret, but instead he always made sure Dexter knew he was there. It was all to get under Dexter’s skin, which it kinda did.

By: brian

brian — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:19:45 +0000

I really like the show too but I gotta agree with the original poster.

1) While Dexter may know jiujitsu, I didn’t see any jiujitsu in that scene. I saw a guy tackle a Special Forces dude while in handcuffs, fall off the dock into the water and miraculously get his handcuffs around Doakes’ neck. No chance, no way.

2) The GPS thing is just the latest in the screwy aspects of the story. How come Lundy never says “Uh, well the killer seems to be someone who works here. Who here owns a boat?” Seems he would get a shorter list pretty quickly that way (unless all Miami cops have a fancy boat costing more than most cars).

3) Yep – “I didn’t do it but Dexter Morgan did. In fact, if you check the second murder victim disappeared when I was at the police academy in Atlanta and the fifth disappeared on my honeymoon in Barbados and the sixteenth disppeared when I was in the hospital with a gunshot wound…”

4) No matter how you slice it (hee-hee), Season 3 of Dexter is going to be pushing the credulity envelope a bit.

5) How could I have missed that? Must be some psychological problem. However, having a very attractive middle-aged butt myself, I find all these derogatory comments about middle-aged butts to be highly offensive.

Some of my problems with the show:

1) The whole recoveryof the bodies in Bay Harbor bugs me. Check out the water depths off Miami: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/grddas03/html/gna26080.htm
All Dexter had to do was keep going a few miles and he would dump the bodies in a thousand meters of water where no scuba diver is ever going…

2) So Dexter climbs out his window and gets in his boat and finds his way to some remote location in the Everglades. I guess Dexter knows the Everglades pretty well. I would have trouble driving my car back there, to say nothing of doing it by boat.

3) That whole business of killing his mother’s killer is totally risky and stupid. Particularly when the crazy g/f knows about it.

4) So after Dexter chainsaws someone, how does he get cleaned up? He would have blood all over him – his hair would be covered. Did he jump in the water in the Everglades before seeing his g/f or does he drive home covered with blood?

5) When Dexter lugs those bodies from his car to his boat, does nobody see him? If I had a boat at a marina and regularly saw someone load a couple of hundred pounds of Heftys into it, I would be suspicious. Then when I heard on the news that they found a bunch of bodies in Heftys. Oh, and the police analyze the rocks but don’t think to call other boat owners at those marinas and ask if they’ve ever seen anyone dragging bodies in Heftys to their boats.

I like this show but it’s just not credible. It’s as bad as 24 as the original poster suggested.

By: wiikness

wiikness — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:23 +0000

I so disagree I cant even tell you how much.. last ep was seriously aweseome. And the points you list are all easily contradicted, like we’ve seen in the previous posts. allthough i like to add this:

3. No. he wasnt 100% sure. And since he’s been terrorising dexter for the last couple of months LaGuerta would never believe a crazy statement like “dexter is the killer”, no way. He had to prove it first

By: Aileen

Aileen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:59:09 +0000

You should head over to the televisionwithoutpity forums sometime, TVaddict…most of the time your critiques have already come up there and people have already given pretty good explanations. Although the comments to this post have been pretty good so far.

On the Doakes v. Dexter thing, one of the reasons that Dexter won is that Doakes was just a tad freaked out and Dexter went very cold very quickly. That could have given Dexter the slight advantage that he needed. Plus, as people have already pointed out, Dexter IS a trained martial artist. AND he’s dealt with taking out larger people before in his killings.

By: ChrisK

ChrisK — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:48:40 +0000

My 2 cents: Doakes said he found him with a GPS Tap not a GPS device planted on the boat. Most Ocean going boats already have GPS computers for safety and easy navigation. I understood Doakes’ comment as using his CIA contacts, which he just started to do after finding the slides, to tap into Dexter’s GPS navicomp.

In regard to the struggle: Sociopaths do not have the fear normal people do of threats. Jujitsu as noted above – once grappling their sizes are not different enough to make a difference, it would be technique, skill and opportunity. Besides, if Doakes couldn’t be overcome by Dexter, the series would end in this episode.

The phone thing. Doakes already looks wacko when it comes to accusing Dexter of things, but seriously, in real life the name would be the first thing out of his mouth. I would think if you were to question the realistic actions of people the logical question would be, why didn’t Doakes just give the slides to his Lt best friend and explain what he had found. She would not have discounted him with a box of blood samples.

But hey, all these fun twists and plot points are all a part of creating suspense. I for one, certainly can’t wait till next episode.

Maybe Dexter’s story is Doakes snatched him at gun point out through the window, made Dexter drive them out to the cabin in his boat and was going to butcher him. Dexter cuts off his own foot to play the victim.