Dexter season two

[ratcreature]

Is it just me, or is Dexter somehow less creepy this season? I still enjoy watching it, but season one felt creepier to me.

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[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's more creepy to me, just because Dexter was SO CLOSE to losing it this past ep. He showed his temper in a way he's never done before.

[ratcreature]

Hmm, I found that kind of frightening, but in a way more normal? For me his serial killer impulse is creepy, also the methodical murdering, but feeling a lot of pressure and then showing that as anger or a violent temper is understandable, after all lots of people feel that way sometimes, myself included.

I mean, I understand feeling frustrated or cornered and then wanting to lash out hurt someone else, that's not creepy but human. I manage not to hurt actual people but for example one method I sometimes use to keep my temper in discussions where others offend and attack me verbally is to visualize how I might hurt them physically. I did that more as a teenager, but it's just kind of soothing. I still remember that a friend once asked me after a rather heatedgroup discussion in a project how I managed to stay calm when being called cunt by some guy (well the German equivalent) and I answered that I imagined I was kicking his head in while he was lying helpless on the floor the whole time the jerk talked.... Obviously since I'm not crazy or violent and have working impulse control I never actually hurt anyone, but well.

OTOH wanting to murder someone without any emotion to drive it or any personal reason, that is far creepier for me.

[gnatkip.livejournal.com]

I don't know if he's actually doing less killing this season, or if it's just that he's being portrayed as a more sympathetic character. He's definitely more prey than predator this season, so we're getting less of that jarring mental thing going on... that "he just sliced that guy open!" vs. "but he's so LIKEABLE!" thing.

But I'm enjoying it just as much as the first season. I haven't read the books, so I have no idea how faithful it is or what's coming up, but I think it's a really well done show.

[ratcreature]

I like the current season as well, and I'm not less fond of Dexter, it just seemed like a change in emphasis to me this season.

I haven't read the books either, so I'm just a tv version fan too.

[annexensen.livejournal.com]

The first season was so great---this one just seems to be building up to complications and plot scenarios...still fab adn creepy enough for me though

[ratcreature]

Yeah, Dexter's life hs gotten more complicated.