{"id":183,"date":"2008-09-29T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-09-26T13:58:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T20:58:27","slug":"dexter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/dexter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dexter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dexter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-184\" title=\"dexter\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dexter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sho.com\/site\/dexter\/home.do\">Dexter<\/a> fans out there? What did you think of last night&#8217;s Season 3 opening episode? It&#8217;s on my PVR, so don&#8217;t give away any episode spoilers before I&#8217;ve had a chance to watch it. But I would like to know <em>if<\/em>\u00a0you watch Dexter, why does the series appeal to you? Do you think Dexter is a sympathetic character? Or do you just find him fascinating (as I do)? (Not to mention perfectly cast&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Conversely, have you tried watching an episode or two and turned away in disgust?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I didn&#8217;t discover Dexter until partway through the first season. A family member received Season One as a Xmas gift last year, so I watched the entire season in a couple of sittings and tried my best <em>NOT<\/em>\u00a0to watch any episodes of Season Two as they were airing, because I wanted to watch the season all at once again. I accomplished this treat a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0Now, I find the character of Dexter intensely fascinating and complex. However, at the end of the second\u00a0season I found myself wondering where they could possibly take Season 3 that would maintain Dexter as an interesting and somewhat sympathetic character. So many questions about his past were answered in Seasons 1 and 2. So what does he do now? Just go on his merry, slashing way?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I accidentally stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/entertainment\/story.html?id=7173b5e2-5f72-4183-903f-02349ed302ee\">this news story about Season 3<\/a>. Warning, the news story contains the following spoiler, which I&#8217;ve quoted in white font, so if YOU WANT TO READ IT, highlight it. If you don&#8217;t want to read it, DON&#8217;T HIGHLIGHT IT!!<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">This season, Dexter will make a mistake: He will kill someone who is innocent. The vigilante killer, the avenger of miscarried justice, will be forced to confront his own culpability. That moral crisis will precipitate a potential emotional meltdown, according to Clyde Phillips, Dexter&#8217;s head writer and executive producer.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hmm, velly interesting. I like it! Except for the one unfortunate occurrence in the spoiler, of course. What I like even better is that Jimmy Smits is appearing in Season 3. Yes, it looks like it&#8217;s gearing up to be another great season of Dexter. Too bad I can&#8217;t seem to find the series on my HD channel (this is Canada, remember, and we don&#8217;t get Showtime). I&#8217;m hooked on the series enough that I&#8217;m willing to do something I rarely do\u2014watch a non-HD channel. Our TV is humongoid, and non-HD just isn&#8217;t the same&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any Dexter fans out there? What did you think of last night&#8217;s Season 3 opening episode? It&#8217;s on my PVR, so don&#8217;t give away any episode spoilers before I&#8217;ve had a chance to watch it. But I would like to know if\u00a0you watch Dexter, why does the series appeal to you? Do you think Dexter&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/dexter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dexter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}