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Mostly perplexed<\/a>: Dexter<\/em> television series set to return in a limited series capacity<\/span><\/p>\n My knee-jerk reaction to this was, whyyyyy???<\/em>\u00a0 But then I stop for a few minutes and think about how much I enjoyed the television series, in spite of its ups and downs throughout the season, the staunch survival through the writers\u2019 strike(s), the awkward behind-the-scenes relationship between Deb and Dexter and their season six storyline, and of course, the head-scratching ending that spoiler alert it\u2019s only been six years, resulted in a bearded lumberjack Dexter, in exile in the Pacific Northwest, and wonder\u2026 maybe?\u00a0 Maybe this isn\u2019t going to be one of those cringe-worthy reboots, like just about every old ABC network TGIF sitcom?<\/span><\/p>\n I mean, there\u2019s a lot of terminology to define television shows these days.\u00a0 Reboots, spin-offs, revivals, etc.\u00a0 Even the linked article uses the term \u201crevival\u201d to define what the return of Dexter would be, and I guess among most available definitions, it\u2019s the closest thing that might apply, but considering it\u2019s more or less seemingly going to be a continuation of the series, it might as well just be a very late and overdue, ninth season.<\/span><\/p>\n Michael C. Hall will be reprising the role of Dexter Morgan, and frankly that\u2019s all that there really needs to be.\u00a0 I imagine there will be a bunch of flashback sequences to re-acquaint those who might have forgotten a lot of the past which might result in some paydays for the actors who played Debs, Angel, Masuoka, LaGuerta and hopefully Doakes.\u00a0 And honestly, depending on how well the series performs, I wouldn\u2019t be the least bit surprised to see an appearance by Yvonne Strahovski, which would probably kick the label of \u201climited\u201d off of the series, and next thing we know, there are two additional seasons ordered by Showtime.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is, the series didn\u2019t really end in a manner in which it would be difficult to pick back up where it left off.\u00a0 Considering the nature of the general concept, it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s in Miami, Florida or Tukwila, Washington, there are murderers and psychopaths everywhere, and Dexter would never be at a loss for murderers for him to murder, righteously.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He\u2019ll probably discover that one of his new logger colleagues has a shady side hobby, and then need to kill him, and it\u2019ll reignite the dark passenger.\u00a0 As Doakes revealed in his obsessive dossier on him, Dexter lived a life in a manner that would appear easy to remain fluid, with liquid assets and no real loose ends.\u00a0 Whatever his new alter-ego might be in the Pacific Northwest, he probably would assimilate seamlessly into whatever community he\u2019s in, and it would only be a matter of time before he\u2019s back to gleefully murdering murderers in the Seattle area while developing a taste for the large availability of Asian cuisine in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n So when I stop and think about it, a continuation of Dexter really doesn\u2019t seem like it would be all that bad.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like an entire generation has passed by, and Michael C. Hall will have changed from looking like Dexter to looking like the dad from Family Ties<\/em> or anything, he probably looks just like old Dexter, with maybe a little bit of age to him.\u00a0 The premise of the show, much like the character was fluid, and could easily pick back up.\u00a0 And as long as the restart of the show doesn\u2019t try to get too nostalgic and lives more in the present and keeps moving forward, I don\u2019t see any reason why it wouldn\u2019t be entertaining.<\/span><\/p>\n If anything at all, this provides the opportunity for the show to have a second chance at a better ending than the original, which is a massive luxury that so many shows and stories before it never get.\u00a0 Ultimately, it can\u2019t be any worse than how the book series ended, because shit, Jeff Lindsay was practically begging for a shotgun to write into book-Dexter\u2019s mouth, and couldn\u2019t have been more eager to pull it.\u00a0 Say what you will about how you felt about the original Dexter\u2019s ending, it was still 100 times better than the way the books wrapped things up.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mostly perplexed: Dexter television series set to return in a limited series capacity My knee-jerk reaction to this was, whyyyyy???\u00a0 But then I stop for a few minutes and think about how much I enjoyed the television series, in spite of its ups and downs throughout the season, the staunch survival through the writers\u2019 strike(s), … Continue reading Dexter took a hiatus about as long as the Ultimate Warrior did<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,23,83,69],"class_list":["post-47372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-dexter","tag-observations","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47374,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47372\/revisions\/47374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}