Dexter 5.03 and a bit on Undercovers 1.03
Oct. 12th, 2010 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakMore catching up with tv. Undercovers continues to be great fun all around, though I was distracted in the latest episode (in the positive sense!), because, lo and behold: people talking German on an American tv show... and it actually sounds German. Not bablefish German. Not German pronounced with horrible accents while other characters congratulate each other on how well they speak the language. No. This was the genuine article. J.J. Abrams, you more than did your homework, and your actors - the regular ones, I mean, not the guest ones hired for this episode - either worked wonders with their linguistic coaches or were already fluent. (I'm especially impressed by Steven's actor, who had the speech rhythm down pat.) Dankeschön.
Meanwhile in Miami:
I must admit, I kept waiting for the nanny to reveal herself as a fellow serial killer or something like that, but no. Which is even better. Also, loved Dexter's "I'm not used to notes on the fridge" (out loud), combined with "except from other serial killers" (narrator voice).
Looks like the head decorating killer is our season antagonist. And Deb starts to form a new partnership with the Venezuelan officer. If this woman gets killed by the villain of the season, I'll be severely disappointed, show. Otoh, if you continue this teaming up thing, we're all good. In some ways, this young woman is Deb a few years ago, and I think she sees that, too.
I'm also okay with the way the Quinn encounter plays out so far (i.e. while he's determined to make it into more, Deb evidently is not).
The mention of Cody and Astor makes me hope thatabigail_n is right and getting the kids back, specifically Astor, will be Dexter's true challenge of the season.
Last week's killer continued to be an interesting case, mirroring Dexter in his powers of observation (noticing the missing ring), and trapping methods. The scene where they both went down after having tranquilized each other and both woke up in the ambulance, lying through their teeth, was the show's dark humour personified. Otoh. what the man did was not payed for laughs, and it was fascinating that Dexter did not get his usual satisfaction out of killing him. Of course, now it turns out that the whole thing was a set up for the return of an old dilemma. Now, season 2 Dexter was Dex at his smuggest, and reasoning himself into believing that Doakes deserved less to live than he did was possible for him. Also, Lila did him the favour of actually killing Doakes, which meant he didn't have to find out whether he was capable of letting Doakes go through a trial and death sentence. But season 5 Dexter is Dexter shattered, and this young woman is a stranger. What will he do with her?
Meanwhile in Miami:
I must admit, I kept waiting for the nanny to reveal herself as a fellow serial killer or something like that, but no. Which is even better. Also, loved Dexter's "I'm not used to notes on the fridge" (out loud), combined with "except from other serial killers" (narrator voice).
Looks like the head decorating killer is our season antagonist. And Deb starts to form a new partnership with the Venezuelan officer. If this woman gets killed by the villain of the season, I'll be severely disappointed, show. Otoh, if you continue this teaming up thing, we're all good. In some ways, this young woman is Deb a few years ago, and I think she sees that, too.
I'm also okay with the way the Quinn encounter plays out so far (i.e. while he's determined to make it into more, Deb evidently is not).
The mention of Cody and Astor makes me hope that
abigail_n is right and getting the kids back, specifically Astor, will be Dexter's true challenge of the season. Last week's killer continued to be an interesting case, mirroring Dexter in his powers of observation (noticing the missing ring), and trapping methods. The scene where they both went down after having tranquilized each other and both woke up in the ambulance, lying through their teeth, was the show's dark humour personified. Otoh. what the man did was not payed for laughs, and it was fascinating that Dexter did not get his usual satisfaction out of killing him. Of course, now it turns out that the whole thing was a set up for the return of an old dilemma. Now, season 2 Dexter was Dex at his smuggest, and reasoning himself into believing that Doakes deserved less to live than he did was possible for him. Also, Lila did him the favour of actually killing Doakes, which meant he didn't have to find out whether he was capable of letting Doakes go through a trial and death sentence. But season 5 Dexter is Dexter shattered, and this young woman is a stranger. What will he do with her?
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Date: 2010-10-12 06:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-12 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-12 09:00 pm (UTC)(Ah, lex sanguinis vs. lex solis... ;)
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Date: 2010-10-13 01:31 pm (UTC)A rare feat indeed. My favourite "lost in translation" pseudo-German moment is from the Die Hard trilogy (can't remember which part) when a "German" terrorist goon instructs the other to shoot at the window:
Scheiß dem Fenster! Scheiß dem Fenster!
Um, yeah.
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Date: 2010-10-13 06:21 pm (UTC)