Comment on What is an example of an adaptation of a book where the TV series was better?
SatyrSack@feddit.org 1 day ago
I cannot remember the details that led to this opinion, but I remember preferring the first season of Dexter to the novel that it was based on. I think that was the only season that was even close to a direct adaptation of the novels, but I liked the changes that were made.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The show was consistently better except what they did with Doakes. Doakes innthe books still chases after Dexter after having been mutilated to a killer. He was in a chair without a tongue still trying to get Dexter Morgan.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I could not disagree more. The show’s decision to ground everything in the “real world” changed Dexter from an avenging angel to a person with emotional/psychological problems that are actually pretty far removed from reality.
The conceit of a “dark passenger” that identified evil, rather than just Dexter’s subjective judgemental or evidence-based judgements took Dexter into a certainty that is missing in the show, and ultimately planted the seeds of doom for the series. Once Dexter is ambivalent it’s over.
IMO
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
The Dark Passenger first shows up in book 3 as I recall. Dexter was always driven by his ASPD/psychopathy in the first books.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Really? Time for a re-read.
thessnake03@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh damn
SatyrSack@feddit.org 1 day ago
Oh, he didn’t die at the end of the first book? Or did we just think he died, but he came back later or something?
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
As I recall he lives through book 2 but isn’t a detective after the mutilation
SatyrSack@feddit.org 1 day ago
Ah, I just looked into it, and I was probably confusing that with LaGuerta’s death in the novel yet prominent role in the TV series.