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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.

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Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨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.

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- RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Really? Time for a re-read.
    
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thessnake03@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh damn

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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?

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- RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As I recall he lives through book 2 but isn’t a detective after the mutilation
  
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  - 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.
    
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