Dexter and House, what do they have in common.

[William Gaatjes]

I watched all seasons of House and recently i started with Dexter. I am now at season 2 of Dexter and i noticed he is becoming more of an asshole. Just ass House did. What is it with the screenwriters to make the main character go down hill ?

 

[zinfamous]

I watched all seasons of House and recently i started with Dexter. I am now at season 2 of Dexter and i noticed he is becoming more of an asshole. Just ass House did. What is it with the screenwriters to make the main character go down hill ?

Let's pause for a second.

....you realize that Dexter is a serial killer, right?

 

[ImpulsE69]

Let's pause for a second.

....you realize that Dexter is a serial killer, right?

Heh...SPOILERS!. Always running around with syringes and medical equipment I thought he was a doctor.

 

[Ruptga]

Just because he has a pathological need to kill people doesn't mean he has to be a jerk about it. Or something.

 

[Jaepheth]

Most TV characters, over time, become caricatures of themselves.

 

[shortylickens]

If you think Dexter is an asshole now, wait til season 3!

 

[cbrunny]

House is garbage. Dexter is awesome... until season 7. I think. Whenever that blond girlfriend shows up. Stop watching then. Not Rita.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

House is garbage. Dexter is awesome... until season 7. I think. Whenever that blond girlfriend shows up. Stop watching then. Not Rita.

If the Lithgow season was the series finale it would go down as one of the greatest dramas of all time.

 

[purbeast0]

i couldnt watch more than like the first half of season 1 of house. that show bored me to death and every episode was the same.

someone has some obscure illness no one knows what is wrong with him. house comes up with something that sounds out of this world, everyone LOL's at him, and he turns out to be right. or something like that, been a very long time since i watched it.

dexter was awesome. the later seasons definitely got out there and are not nearly as good as earlier seasons. i definitely agree with the season with lithgow was the best. i believe that was season 4.

 

[zinfamous]

If the Lithgow season was the series finale it would go down as one of the greatest dramas of all time.

:thumbsup:

the absolute worst was the Collin Hanks season ugh....

As annoying as his later GF is, Yvonne Strahavoiascsxawersky is really, really easy on the eyes...so kinda worth it to drag your feet through those seasons.

 

[purbeast0]

:thumbsup:

the absolute worst was the Collin Hanks season ugh....

As annoying as his later GF is, Yvonne Strahavoiascsxawersky is really, really easy on the eyes...so kinda worth it to drag your feet through those seasons.

both hanks and his girlfriend are sssssooooo bad at acting. hell most regulars in that show are terrible actors. but damn, hanks and the girlfriend were in leagues of their own at how bad they are.

 

[ImpulsE69]

If the Lithgow season was the series finale it would go down as one of the greatest dramas of all time.

Agree, so sad how bad it got after that...

 

[iCyborg]

i couldnt watch more than like the first half of season 1 of house. that show bored me to death and every episode was the same.

someone has some obscure illness no one knows what is wrong with him. house comes up with something that sounds out of this world, everyone LOL's at him, and he turns out to be right. or something like that, been a very long time since i watched it.

dexter was awesome. the later seasons definitely got out there and are not nearly as good as earlier seasons. i definitely agree with the season with lithgow was the best. i believe that was season 4.

I'm watching House now, and I like it even if his grumpiness/cynicism is somewhat overdone, so far I'm halfway through the 2nd season.

I can understand it's not everyone's thing, but you can banalize practically every series like that, e.g. every Dexter episode is the same: someone does something very bad and may or may not get away with it, and he gets gruesomely murdered by Dexter.
(For the record, I like Dexter too, though I only saw the first 2 seasons.)

 

[purbeast0]

yeah true, but a forensic blood spatter expert who is secretly a serial killer and only kills "bad guys" is a lot more interesting than a doctor lol.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Most TV characters, over time, become caricatures of themselves.

 

[Printer Bandit]

If the Lithgow season was the series finale it would go down as one of the greatest dramas of all time.

golden globes speeches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYo1Xr5xKl4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBPVra6Ju3k

 

[William Gaatjes]

Let's pause for a second.

....you realize that Dexter is a serial killer, right?

Well, besides that.

 

[TwiceOver]

golden globes speeches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYo1Xr5xKl4

"Married to his co-star Jennifer Carpenter".

Yeah, the only way that no talent ass clown got the role. Seriously better acting by my 5 year old pretending to be full thinking he can move on to dessert.

 

[darkswordsman17]

OP, him becoming more of an asshole is one of the smallest problems of the show. Surprised you didn't bitch about Rita since that seemed to have been what most people bitched about forever, while many of those same people gobbled up Skyler in Breaking Bad even though she was practically the same fucking character and easily as annoying and frankly Skyler's actions actually make less sense than Rita's.

Plus, I can't fathom how basically no one else takes issue with the absolutely massive plot hole from the end of season 1 that the writers pretend didn't happen until they had to try and finish out the show. Every season after that was basically just padding the show out until it started to wane in popularity and they had to finish it off.

Dexter really seemed to be a show that had a thought out conclusion and was likely only meant to be a few seasons long until it got popular and then it turned into typical Showtime show ("risque" plot, T&A). I'd say Dexter was about the best of that breed, but it never lived up to the promise that the first season offered.

 

[TwiceOver]

Which plot hole for which show?

 

[William Gaatjes]

OP, him becoming more of an asshole is one of the smallest problems of the show. Surprised you didn't bitch about Rita since that seemed to have been what most people bitched about forever, while many of those same people gobbled up Skyler in Breaking Bad even though she was practically the same fucking character and easily as annoying and frankly Skyler's actions actually make less sense than Rita's.

Plus, I can't fathom how basically no one else takes issue with the absolutely massive plot hole from the end of season 1 that the writers pretend didn't happen until they had to try and finish out the show. Every season after that was basically just padding the show out until it started to wane in popularity and they had to finish it off.

Dexter really seemed to be a show that had a thought out conclusion and was likely only meant to be a few seasons long until it got popular and then it turned into typical Showtime show ("risque" plot, T&A). I'd say Dexter was about the best of that breed, but it never lived up to the promise that the first season offered.

I found the Rita character not really annoying, she is a sweetheart.

Spoiler

She tries to protect her kids and has some emotional luggage from her previous idiot husband. Her mother and her husband

are the explanation for her being a sort of bipolar in emotional behavior. Not easy to cope with i guess but maybe worth it in the end.

Breaking bad i still have to see. Everybody says it is great, but i found the first two episodes to be boring. But my colleague mentioned it gets better after a few episodes.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Did you guys also noticed Dexter gets thinner as the seasons progress ? Season1 he was muscled but in season 3 it is all gone. It seems he traded weight lifting for jogging. I am sure happy he got rid of Lila.

 

[mrjminer]

If the Lithgow season was the series finale it would go down as one of the greatest dramas of all time.

Yea, Dexter went so far downhill after Season 4. It remained watchable, but it was just way worse overall. The Season 4 finale would have been a perfect series finale. I believe had it ended there, Dexter would be recognized as the greatest show of all time, even with Season 3 being obviously weaker than 1,2, and 4 (it was still good).

The best episode ever, IMO, is "Hungry Man," primarily for the

Spoiler

scene where Dexter drags Arthur Mitchell into the kitchen and has the camera cut to the knife

. When I saw it for the first time, that scene was so well done it blew my fucking mind out of the back of my skull.

 

[KeithP]

Most TV characters, over time, become caricatures of themselves.

Yep, I call it character caricature syndrome. It is especially noticeable in long running sit-coms. Small facets of personality start taking over until there is nothing relatable to a "regular" person left in the character.

Sometimes it happens fast, other times slow. The more talented the writers the slower it happens but even with the best writers, it still happens.

-KeithP

 

[purbeast0]

Did you guys also noticed Dexter gets thinner as the seasons progress ? Season1 he was muscled but in season 3 it is all gone. It seems he traded weight lifting for jogging. I am sure happy he got rid of Lila.

he was also diagnosed with cancer as the show went on