Dexter: New Blood 2021

@trakteris Look, I'm all for anti-gun agendas in my tv shows. And it kinda funny to think that serial killer that prefers knifes would have being against them. Anyway first episode was alright.

I'm not that hopeful overall. So far it seems that Dexter either would be an ok series or would end with some form of trainwreck.

Honestly, I wish they would start with something bold. Like Dexter killing innocent ahole. And having to deal with inner turmoil over that. At least something that would indicate that at the end of the series we and OG creator would get that "perfect ending" for Dexter.

@trakteris lol the ending wasn't rushed at all and if anything took up too much time. The entire season in built around the tension between Dexter and his estranged son lmao how can you say Harrison turning against Dexter's perverse hypocritical logic is rushed or bad writing? . The SJW stuff is never a central plot point so knocking it for that is ridiculous too. Just admit they didn't do exactly what you wanted them to do and you're mad about it.

@trakteris
I'm not gonna speak for SeanMSU here. But Dexter is hypocrite even withought the scene in the cell.
The show and the main character at a certain point was sold to us as an antihero that never makes any mistakes in judgement. Like it's a noble calling to follow. Look how many fans wanted it to turn into "family business ". Ignoring that he was just another serial killer with strong urge to kill that always gets away with his crimes.

And this angle was confronted in previous and final episode. Hell, in the final dialogue even. We shouldn't root for him to continue "saving innocent people". He fucked up individual that getting off on his killings. The whole speech to Kurt and Harrison reaction to it was there to point it out.

And to top it all off. Dexter way of dealing with the murderers doesn't help victim's families to move on. Like Harrison that got obsessed with the idea of finding and killing Trinity with his "own" weapon. Because in his mind, thanks to Dexter, he is still out here and he just got away with it.

@trakteris I would say that the series started with showing him struggle to keep the urge at bay. He didn't slipped he was dreaming about hurting Matt - first for being an asshole and after that remembering that he sort of has a reason to kill him instead. And on the flimsiest possible proof - witnessing of one person that hates Matt because he treats him like shit. If at the end we find out that it was just a drunk teenager incident (well, it kind was that anyway) that wouldn't be surprising. Because it wasn't about Matt's crime or him getting away with it (Kurt was the one who allowed his son to get away with it. I would say Kurt deserved the wrath more for that reason from Dexter's usual judgement system) - it was about finding excuse to feed the "dark passenger" not stopping serial killer/pedophile/organiser of human trafficking etc. Dexter would have returned to killing no matter what as with most irl serial killers that can hide for decades until they can't anymore.

They used Logan as quick shortcut to show what would happened if Dexter wasn't saved by writers that couldn't write themselves out of the corners. He would have to kill innocent person by his own hands in order to be free eventually. But in doing so they hit the other side of a problem - there were ways out of it without killing Logan for sure. I'm mostly fine with that not being 100% realistic. Symbolically it fits well, if you remember in OG series we had opposite problem. Alot of convenient deaths around him (and they remind us of those with flashback) where Dexter conveniently got away and didn't covered his hands with innocent blood.

I wish Batista wouldn't be part of the story at all, it felt forced as hell. Deb and Trinity were enough. They would have to heavily involved Molly or that type of person in the main storyline to connect both worlds, but they went with the easy and forced solution. If Batista was previously used as Doakes or Laguerta type of character than sure. But he was the most oblivious one. He doesn't fit for that role at all.

There were barely any "you made me this way" type of argument through. On the contrary he was telling Dexter off for trying to paint his anger and violence as a "dark passenger" ignoring other possible explanations.
Why do you think his judgement of Dexter was flawed? Harrison told him that saving innocent angle was a bunch of bs. We as the audience know that it was bs. But that not how Dexter was trying to sell his actions to his son - so Harrison is correct here. Getting off is the whole reason and it's not some "side activity" that's Dexter whole personality. His hobbies, his relationships - all used for passing as normal, nothing more.

I don't know what you problems with teenagers are, it sounds like simpsons meme about shouting at the cloud. But you should definitely rewatch their encounter for more details.

Personally, I wish they would never drop the concept of him being psychopath. On one hand he always uses people for cover, on the other they were selling his relationship with Deb and Harrison as sincere one.
If his reason for leaving Harrison is real, than it makes sense that the only way for him to fulfill it is not be in his son life. I would prefer legal punishment - life in prison. I don't see the need or a way to organically connect to reactions from anyone we known before. It won't add anything new or powerful. All the characters that would have made it interesting are long dead. Instead of Logan, he could have wounding Angela in the forest and got killed by Harrison for that. But this concept was played with, constantly, in the OG series. So I understand why they went with something new in the end. Letter was used as a nice wrap up for his reason and that's specific ending.