Hi! What's your take on Dexter's relationship with Hannah? I always thought it was very forced and out of character personnally. It kills me lowkey that until the finale he mostly choses her over Deb...
I think they were so focused on making Dexter so in love with her it felt forced and unbelievable. There are aspects to Hannah's character that could have been interesting but they don't really follow through on any of it.
Something I thought was actually really interesting is that ok in s7 Dexter turns to Hannah because he's feeling rejected by Deb. He feels like Deb will never understand him but that Hannah being a killer will. But Hannah isn't a compulsive killer she's a practical killer. She doesn't understand him at all. This is a point of contention in ep10. She tells him the dark passenger isn't real and he just ends up agreeing with her by the end of the episode. And of course this has no real lasting effect he goes right back to believing in the dark passenger. It's such a heavy-handed lackluster episode that fails to really explore the way killing is part of an obsessive-compulsive cycle for Dexter.
I'm not sure why they didn't let conflict like this fester especially because they must have known Hannah was going to try and kill Deb and Dex was going to turn her in for murder by the end of the season.
Maybe this will make me sound like a crazy shipper but I do genuinely think they were originally going to go down the incest path but chickened out due to the backlash. It seemed like the end of s7 was setting Hannah up to be the villain of s8. It would have made so much more sense and she could have been a really interesting antagonist. Instead they bring her back as the love interest but it feels very ooc that Dexter forgives her so easily after she tried to kill Deb (he killed his own brother for that). They also make her more of a damsel in distress in s8. Someone Dexter has to swoop in a save. Also making her the perfect mother for Harrison in a way that also felt forced. They completely stripped away anything interesting about her character and her relationship with Dexter. I think they felt like they had to place Dex and Deb into non-incestuous relationships so they could have the dramatic ending between the two.
