Yeah, that'll help me pay my bills.

[apocalypsos]

Last night after our company Christmas party they sent us home from work five and a half hours early. *sigh* Well, that's helpful. Maybe if they might make some CDs for us to put together, I might actually make some money.

Oh, and they gave us our Christmas presents. We got one of those stupid CDs with pictures of the employees in Christmas outfits on it (uh, no ... the only people from work whose pictures I want to take, I'll get this weekend when we're barhopping and hitting strip clubs), CDs from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tim McGraw, Panic! At The Disco, James Blunt, and Big And Rich (none of which I would buy voluntarily), and a Barbra Streisand concert DVD. And the sad thing? Still better than last year's haul, when it was Rob Thomas, Leann Rimes, Michael Buble, and The Click Five and we heard rumblings that we were getting copies of either Mr. and Mrs. Smith or The Polar Express and didn't. They'll give you free CDs for the holidays, none of which you get to choose, and let you order or buy most of the CDs they make (although you have to wait a billion weeks for them to come in when WE MAKE THEM IN-HOUSE), but just try getting a DVD at a discount price when you make them there. Considering it costs less than a buck to make a DVD, it's fucking ludicrous.

In other news I realized something that annoys me. I liked Dexter's cliffhanger this week better than Supernatural's, and it wasn't even a hiatus sort of cliffhanger. Next week we're getting that next episode. But anyway, here's why. At the end of this week's Dexter, we have Dexter finding out the truth AND reacting to that truth. And that reaction was amazing -- we have a guy who says he has no emotions (but if he did, he'd feel them for his father and Deb) -- freaking OUT about Deb's disappearance. Seriously fucking panicking, and that's not even taking into account his anger at what he sees as Harry's betrayal over the last couple of episodes. For someone who claims not to have any feelings for anyone, Dexter has behaved in the last few episodes like someone with profound feelings for his sister, his foster father and his girlfriend's family. It's a GREAT reaction shot at the end of "Truth Be Told", which pisses me off because we didn't get either in Supernatural. We didn't get the secret or Sam's reaction to it. Something about that irritates me, because it's as if the people at Supernatural think we have to be enticed back to find out The Secret HOMG, whereas Dexter expects me to watch next week because of the characters and who they are.

It's probably not true, but ... come on, Kripke. Honestly.

Comments

[crevette.livejournal.com]

I don't watch Supernatural, but I so want to sit with you and drink coffee and squee over Dexter and how he's been starting to show emotions even when he says he has none... like when he whacked Paul in the head with the frying pan. Like when he nurtures Rita's kids. Like when he got mad at Rita for not telling the kids the truth about Paul because he's upset that Harry lied to him.

His reaction to Deb being missing was great and I'm on tenterhooks until next Sunday (I normally Tivo it and watch it Monday since I go to bed before 10 PM--yes, I am old--but I will be staying up to watch this one!)

And I so want to discuss with you what his repressed memories might mean, and why Harry had that file destroyed and what happened when he was 3 years old and sitting with a number of corpses in a shipping container for several days and how that might translate to his fascination with eating (always eating while driving, etc) and the beginning in which he is eating. (watch closely, there is something in every epi that deals with food)

And... and... and.. ::flails:: I LOVE THIS SHOW!

[cavalaxis]

I love the irony of everyone trying to protect him from the truth. This from a man who has *how* many slides in his collection box?

[cavalaxis]

Thanks to you, I'm loving Dexter. And am also a bit disappointed, because the character is coming unravelled.

Sounds silly, but I like my serial killers to be a bit more unflappable.

And as much as I've loved Rudy, he got a bit mustache-twirly in the last episode. Yo, writers. We get that he's evil. The body parts carolling pretty much gave it away. He doesn't need to gloat like a Bond villain.

Anyway, I can't wait to see how it all plays out...

[altiloquent.livejournal.com]

Sounds silly, but I like my serial killers to be a bit more unflappable.

You are not alone in that. I still love him wholeheartedly and while I love the idea of character evolution, I can't help but wish that he was still the cold, calculating Dexter he believes himself to be.

[cavalaxis]

Well, and it's true to the diagnosis of psychopath. If he really is broken, he's "incapable" of feeling. There is no healing, no breakthroughs, no progress. He literally doesn't have the machinery to experience emotion the way the rest of society does.

And that's what drew me so powerfully to the character. Especially Harry's very careful lessons on how to fit in, how to "pass" for normal.

What's next? Feeling guilty for taking out the trash?

[cavalaxis]

Pardon my airquotes. I seem to have forgotten how to use italics today. Blah.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

That icon is lovely.

[cavalaxis]

Thank you. I like to think the poor fellow was deep in his cups and just fell asleep, right where he sat, never to wake again.

[rosekay.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes YES. I've gone head over heels for Dexter lately, and this is why. The narration is so charming (ahaha especially when Doakes overhears, and then Deb remarks on the "sexual tension"), you just buy into it, but then you realize it's unreliable in the best way. All of Dexter's reaction shots (Paul and the frying pan? *g*) have been golden over the last few episodes. This was the perfect way to end it, all that emotion pouring out of him, Deb in danger, and the secondary cast poised to catch the fallout.

I was initially very intrigued by the pilot, but obviously not really emotionally invested. I thought of this is as an elegant exercise in black humor that I might return to from time to time, but nothing that would draw tears or anxiety, but before I realized what was happening, it totally hooked me. I've never been so invested in so many characters in my life. It just dumps you into this whorl of emotion and tension so unexpectedly, you don't even notice you've fallen in until it's too late.

And you're right with SPN, I'll come back and watch because they made love the boys, but a lot of that was last season's work. I mean, I knew the cliffhanger was coming, but I feel cheated, played. It's unnatural, that we get that cliffhaner not only in the season opener, but the last episode before hiatus too. We're getting dangled along on a piece of information instead of an emotional fallout - previously Supernatural's specialty. You get the the feeling Kripke's just trying to see how long he can stretch out this secret, and at this rate, it better be damn exciting. I am Not Amused.

Here's to what's going to be a rocking Dexter finale and (hopefully) a return of sense to Kripke!

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

All along, I've had the feeling that Kripke hasn't a clue what he's doing and by waving pretty boys at us, we won't notice.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Pretty soon, it'll be turning into Smallville, naked men and no plot.

[cleverthylacine]

I adore Dexter.

I also adore SPN, and I think we have mostly figured out the secret (which makes me happy, because he's doing it RIGHT, as opposed to what they did in "Hex"?). BUT. BUT BUT BUT. This is getting to be like in Twin Peaks, when they kept telling us they would finally tell us who killed Laura, and then, when they finally did, nobody cared any more and most of us had guessed.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

Hey! Presents! They mean well, I think, and besides RHCP is good, give them a try /desperate fangirl.