tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289595359432630118.post4526528581661907799..comments2024-03-18T04:36:26.547-04:00Comments on Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress: Dexter 3.12: Season's Happy Endings?Paul Levinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609987407926836519noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289595359432630118.post-33583240363470107902009-01-12T17:02:00.000-05:002009-01-12T17:02:00.000-05:00I agree, can't wait for season 4!I agree, can't wait for season 4!Adam Tramantanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14614234411470986993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289595359432630118.post-89368204609339538402008-12-21T09:18:00.000-05:002008-12-21T09:18:00.000-05:00Sorry to correct you, Paul, but Batista did not be...Sorry to correct you, Paul, but Batista did not become involved with a prostitute. Barbara Gianna is an undercover cop, not a hooker. Surprised you didn't know that. Yes, he was looking for "companionship" that night, but that doesn't make Gianna a hooker.<BR/><BR/>Overall -- kind of a lame ending, with moments of brilliance. No investigation because King was run over by a cop car? That seems odd to me. Frankly, Miami Metro is looking more inept every season because of all these serial killers. And what's with Syl having NO grief at all just days after her husband was murdered? I know she was angry with him, but man, that's cold.<BR/><BR/>The moment of brilliance -- Dexter's breakdown of Ramon. That took his lecture to Batista a few episodes ago and magnified it.<BR/><BR/>It's clear that the writers are taking Dexter on his Pinocchio-like journey to becoming a real boy. Some who enjoy liking Dexter just the way he is are disappointed, but you can't just leave him as he is without him starting to look like just a vigilante -- something this season has made him look like, especially when compared to Miguel.Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03865082576641051315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289595359432630118.post-65607158521732359642008-12-18T09:29:00.000-05:002008-12-18T09:29:00.000-05:00You can watch the season finale online at http://w...You can watch the season finale online at http://watchdexterseasonfinale.blogspot.com/Mr. Divorcedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06792012997385174201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289595359432630118.post-7172273716118372922008-12-17T13:40:00.000-05:002008-12-17T13:40:00.000-05:00I really loved season 3, great characters, great s...I really loved season 3, great characters, great story and i am liking the development of Dexters personality. For me the pacing in the middle was a bit slow and the end a bit rushed. It Needed to be 2 episodes longer or edited down in the middle (especially would have liked to have seen more tension around the death of Miguel and the capture of Dexter by the skinner). I liked the finale, though would have liked at least one major loose end. Anyway, yay Dexter! Looking forward to season 4.Sol Connectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04951869606742662503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289595359432630118.post-24703723058134464472008-12-16T23:19:00.000-05:002008-12-16T23:19:00.000-05:00Burrito?OK... I love Dexter, but it puts me on a p...Burrito?<BR/><BR/>OK... I love Dexter, but it puts me on a private pedantic hell because of the show’s spectacularly lousy dialectic writing about Cuban Spanish.<BR/><BR/>Because Dexter takes place in Miami, there’s a lot of Cuban stuff and characters going on, but whoever the writer(s) for the series is, they seem to believe that Cubans in Miami are indistinguishable from the Hollywood area Mexicans and Mexican-Americans that he or she “knows” as Latinos or Hispanics.<BR/><BR/>As a result some pretty amazing cultural blunders in the spoken language continue to occur in the show, and I discussed some of them at http://dcartnews.blogspot.com/search?q=dexter.<BR/><BR/>But now an even more egregious culinary blunder took place in the series finale that revealed to me that the writer or writers for this series have zero understanding of the diversity of cultures in their own continent, and now I am firmly convinced that they have never set foot in Miami.<BR/><BR/>Let me set a different background for you. Imagine that you’re watching a TV series and the characters walk into a restaurant in South Carolina and inside a big sign announces that the restaurant has the “Best Soul Food in the South.” The characters sit down and then they order Egg Foo Young and a couple of egg rolls.<BR/><BR/>That would not make sense, right? Lousy script writing or a small easy-to-fix culinary gaffe?<BR/><BR/>In the Dexter season-ending episode, actress Jennifer Carpenter, who plays Dexter’s annoying and foul-mouthed sister and now Detective Debra Morgan, walks up to a food establishment, where a prominent sign displays that it sells “The Best Cuban Food in Miami.”<BR/><BR/>She then orders a burrito.<BR/><BR/>A burrito?<BR/><BR/>There is no such food item in any Cuban restaurant in Miami, or Cuba or the entire planet Earth. Outside of a Mexican restaurant environment, you ask any Cuban what a “burrito” is and he will tell you that it is a small donkey. A “burro” is a donkey or ass, and a “burrito” is a small donkey.<BR/><BR/>Cuban food does not include any dishes called burrito, but Dexter’s Hollywood-based writers, never having set foot in Miami or even a Cuban restaurant in la-la land, assume that Cuban food (and by default all Latin American food) consists of burritos, tamales, refried beans, enchiladas, etc.<BR/><BR/>We had a small “Dexter watching” party for the season-ending episode, and one of the persons in the group was a very good Puerto Rican friend. When Detective Debra Morgan ordered a burrito at a place selling “Miami’s Best Cuban Food,” we both burst out laughing.<BR/><BR/>However, inside: Dexter, you’re killing me!Lennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15335261603489770267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289595359432630118.post-37973855320252106442008-12-16T20:28:00.000-05:002008-12-16T20:28:00.000-05:00I pretty much agree with you - especially regardin...I pretty much agree with you - especially regarding Miguel, who was dispatched much too easily the week before.Paul Levinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07609987407926836519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289595359432630118.post-14257314655358315852008-12-16T20:09:00.000-05:002008-12-16T20:09:00.000-05:00What a joke the ending was, barely tied to the tab...What a joke the ending was, barely tied to the table, easily escapes &dispatches the killer like he was a bug. All wrapped up nicely, they really mailed it in, ruined the season for me. Should have left him tied to the table and partially skinned to end the season and left everyone wondering!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com