Dexter Season 3

Dexter Season 3

 

.  This season was pretty good.  Lots of off stuff happened.  I don’t know why, but this was the most fun for me to watch out of the three seasons.  .  Most of the time while watching this shit, I felt like doing myself ala Dave Carradean because it seemed to take forever to finish.  I had some decent rest and took it in with some restraint this time.  I watched half the season last night, took some rest and watch the remainder today.  Again I feel at a loss for words to describe it.  I feel kind of empty.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad it’s over, I don’t miss that shit and I’m not anticipating the fourth season until it is all the way out.  I hate how these TV shows leave it at cliffhangers.  I’m glad Dexter leaves the season with closure.  I wasn’t wondering what would happen from season to season.  That’s a nice thing to do.  Anyway, fuck this shit.  I gotta take off from these series and get back to the real world. 

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Dexter Season 2

Dexter Season 2

 

                I was just now able to finish up watching the second season of Dexter.  It was good I suppose.  It kind of gets me depressed watching it.  It’s like, it’s a good story and all that shit, but, I think sitting on my ass the whole day was what put me in such a self loathing mood.  I smoked a lot of cigarettes and ate junk for most of my viewing time.  I got a little bit of exercise in on the machine there.  Anyways, I have been trying to finish this shit since last night around this time.  I had things to do like sleep and go out whilst watching, so that held it up.  It was 12 hours of viewing.

 

                So, I find it kind of hard to summarize it.  It seems like it took forever to watch.  The other series that I took in recently, such as ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Southland’ did not seem as long.  I feel like saying to myself, “what did I learn from all of this that I watched?”  I didn’t learn anything.  It was entertaining a lot of the time, but I feel like I didn’t accomplish anything. 

                Anyway let’s take a short synopsis of it.  Dexter is a serial killer.  Or is it spelled cereal?  Sounds like someone who kills people with Cheerios.  He works in a police station as a forensic investigator, but he is not a cop.  He has a cop for a sister and his dad was a cop.  His dad taught him to only kill those who really deserved it.  So he is kind of like a vigilante.  He supposedly has no feelings.  He became know by his deeds as the bay butcher (cite me incorrect so I can edit), and he framed an innocent man for his deeds.  He plays daddy with a woman and her two children, and drags them around the craziness that happens to him.  He found another woman and had a little stint with her in the middle of his relationship with the lady with the two kids, however she ended up to be an immature psychopath and he had to kill her at the end of the season.  It was quite a fulfilling ending, yet it leaves it open ended enough to have a third season, only slightly though.  It’s kind of finished already.  I don’t really want to watch another season of this shit, but, I downloaded it already and it’s there for the watching.  I might take it in tomorrow, but I’m not completely sure.  I’m getting a series right now via torrent that I really like, and that will keep me busy for a long time.  This last season of Dexter that I have will tie me up for another 12 hours.  I might start it now, I might not.  I feel like there is no body in what I can reflect upon it.  I feel bored even writing this right now.  All these facts deter me from putting in season 3.  I have a feeling it’s going to be a little bit shitty.  These kinds of cable TV miniseries or however they are called tend to get shittier and shittier as they mature.  They become pointless, less value than jerking off.  Fuck it, I’ll put it in.

Tv Shows vs the film

Breaking Bad Season 2
So the final episode of season two finally came down on the torrent sites. It was kind of a bummer really. It reminded me of Donnie Darko with the plane crash thing. It’s nice and all that, but, it surely leaves it open ended. They can certainly put a third season there, but, I am probably not going to catch up to that until after the whole season 3 is available. I like to watch the whole season in one sitting. So it’s goodbye to breaking bad for me.

Dexter season 1
I was able to finish watching season 1 of Dexter while downloading the last episode of season 2 of breaking bad. It was a pretty decent show. Tittles, murders, forensics, serial killers all that jazz. It’s interesting for a cop show. I’m glad I got up to season 3 of that already on the PC. I’m tempted to watch season two right now, but, that would hang me up for at least twelve hours; and I have shit to do tomorrow.

The TV shows VS the feature length film.
I think there is some value now to TV shows. I used to think I was a purist of film. I still would prefer a well done film than a TV show. I thought that film was the only way to do some watching. I used to think that the stories in a film were like a novel, and that a TV show was that of some sort of periodical. But, now after taking in a few new(to me) TV series as my vacation has been ending, I find the opposite to be true. I find that movies nowadays are shit. I am really very impressed with only 1 out of every 10 that I take in. It’s hard to put a rich and interesting story into a two hour block of time. It takes so much finesse and it’s a huge risk to have a film produced. You can take so many more smaller risks in TV, and get away with much more.
Take for instance the case of love. The only way you can show love in a movie is the case of ‘love at first sight’, which in the real world, happens not-so-often to maybe even never for some people. In a TV show, you can progress a relationship through many appearances, and make love look more believable and lasting by building it up over many shows, hours of exposure to reinforce and idea.
Another point would be the idea of counter-culture (drug use) as a theme. It’s a risk to show this kind of activity on the big screen. How would you approach this kind of situation? The usual Ideal of the drug movie is not blockbuster film material. Take for instance, Trainspotting, Spun, requiem for a dream, et.al. These are risky things to produce on film because of the central nature of drug use as the main theme. People are shy to be associated with these things as fans. I would think that the films listed above do not appear so frequently on people’s favorite list on their personal internet profiles. I wouldn’t want to list them because of the implications about them. I want to leave a certain kind of ‘me’ behind me, and I’m sure other reformed individuals might think the same. I’m not proud of everything I have done. Basically, in a TV show, you can risk putting this kind of illicit content activity there and leave it to the viewing public to decide if they like it. They can then proceed and make another season, or, nip it in the bud and kill the season.
A movie needs to be a focused, concise piece of relevant work. It must appeal to a wide audience. If it is high budget, it must recoup the expenditure that made it possible. It must be interesting and worthy. I love film. I love to see the brilliant vision of a person in just two hours. I love to be struck with genius and dazzled in my chair. I like all this to happen in just 2 hours. As I see all that there is to see these days, I see it is getting harder to satisfy this longing for a good film. It’s certainly a harder thing to do, to really ‘wow’ me with a film.