turnonmyheels | (no subject)

I am so so sad Rita is gone. I found her to be just as twisted as Dexter in her own little way and I can't imagine what's going to happen now. Well, I can actually. I imagine the paternal grandparents will take Cody and Astor and Rita's mother will try to take baby!morgan but what I REALLY want is to see Deb and Dexter try to raise that baby. That shit would be dark!comedy gold.

I find myself, this season especially, getting really pissed off at Dexter and how his "Dark Passenger" winds up getting in the way of Debra's career. If he wasn't out wreaking havoc on Deb's cases, Miami Metro would realize she's the best damn detective they've got. I really hurt for her professionally this season.

I hope the writer's will be forced to tighen up Dexter's characterization and methods, he was so sloppy this season that it drove me nuts.

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I don't think anyone on my flist posts about Dexter -- so I was very surprised with how many people posted yesterday and how many of those people all echoed your sentiments about Rita. I feel like the only person around who will genuinely miss her. My very favorite Rita moment ever was the look of utterly sublime happiness on her face when she put the padlock on Dexter's little house in the backyard. She truthfully didn't care what he was doing out there -- she just wanted him there and not lying and off in his old apartment. It was really twisted.

All of her personal work at trying to grow and be a better person and how she tried to drag Dexter with her was genuinely amusing to me. She was so self-deluded and yet so strong at the same time. Not to mention, she's easy on the eyes *g*

I agree that the sloppiness was intended and that they had to get out of the happy suburban corner they'd written Dexter into, but I'd rather have seen Rita realize the futility of trying to make Dexter into something and grow into something else herself.