elden-12 said: None of this is your fault. I know how easy it is to blame yourself for things beyond your control (I do it myself all the time) but really there is nothing you could’ve done!
arevhat said: No one is mad at you, I promise. I live in the EU and said this morning that I wished every bad thing on those that voted to leave, but that would also affect those that voted against it, and I definitely don’t want that. So I’m hoping for the best. People are mad at some of Britain, they just shorthand it. I have nothing but sympathy and heartache for you.
I love your blog! And your URL makes me laugh every time I see it. I was looking through your posts and think "why Wilden" is because Cece and Ali traded stories. Cece is the one that pushed Ian from the bell tower, and Ali is the one that killed Wilden. At least I hope that is the case. It's always seemed odd to me that Ian would be relatively calm in asking "what are you doing here?" if it was Ali, so he either knew she was alive, or it wasn't Ali.
Thanks :DAnd that’s a great theory…. I always wondered about Ian’s reaction as well. Maybe they did trade stories. I always felt like there’s a lot of swapping going on with the flashbacks. Unreliable narrators….
arevhat replied to your post “becauseanna replied to your post “I need Christmas cocktail recipes....”
Chambord! That's the word I was forgetting. Creme de cassis + champagne and Chambord + sparkling are pretty much the same thing. I like my egg nog non-alcoholic myself.
Ah, okay. I've never had eggnog. It's not that big a thing in Australia.
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Egg nog is a favourite. Abut I like filthy fizz as well around Christmas (add some Chambord to you sparkling).
arevhat answered your question “I need Christmas cocktail recipes. Anyone got any?”
I'm making mulled wine this year, strengthened with kirsch, recipe on epicurious. Other years I've done Sidecars or champagne/cava with creme de cassis.
Realising how ignorant I am about various alcoholic things because I had to google a lot of words here. I'm not much of a fan of wine, but I might give some of the others a shot.
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Love your thoughts, and yes, you could have written a far superior Dexter :) What bothered me the most is that the creators apparently viewed Dexter as some sort of flawless superhero. That is stupid, boring, and just does not work.
What was frustrating about the last few seasons is how...pointless? they felt.
Each of the first 4 seasons had a pretty solid character arc for Dexter. The character learned something and grew. The end of the first season, he kills his brother, somebody who understands him completely, and chooses Deb - his adoptive family - over his blood family.
Every subsequent (good) season had the same theme - Dexter trying to find people to accept him for what he was, and realizing that his real family were people who loved him even if they didn't know all his secrets. Walking that line, and realizing he could never truly be one or the other.
I mean, what did Dexter learn in season 6? As much as I loved some of the flash and spectacle, and as much as Colin Hanks and EJO did a great job, it was all rather pointless for Dexter's character development until the final moment (when Deb found out).
At least in season 5 Dexter did a LOT of soul searching. Realizing that some people *could* let go of their darkness. Like, I LOVED that, even if the writing itself sometimes fell flat.
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Same. I haven’t enjoyed it since the end of S4, but I kept watching out of habit. I haven’t seen the last 3 episodes and have zero desire to finish the series.
I watched through the end of season 6, but like you, the enjoyment hadn't been the same since S4. Earlier this year I marathoned S7 in preparation for the final season, thinking I should at least finish the show I'd put so much investment in. And then they brought Hannah back, and I lost all interest.
Like honestly I think the whole show would have been tighter if they'd had LaGuerta investigating Dexter in S5, concurrent with the Lumen storyline, and had the Deb/LaGuerta shootout happen more or less like it did at the end of S7. (Except make it obvious that Dexter was expecting Deb to kill him, as though he were accepting his fate as punishment for Rita's death)
(Also Deb would have found out about Dexter at the same time as the shootout with LaGuerta - thus adding to her confusion and conflict over what to do/who to shoot)
Then you can have S6 with Deb reeling from LaGuerta and the discovery of Dexter's secret.
I was even okay with the *idea* of Evelyn Vogel, and what she could have been - Dexter coming back to the start, with the woman who created him.
But for me, to have true narrative completion, Debra had to live. In the very first episode of the show Dexter says, "If I could have feelings, I'd have them for Deb." Vogel sets up the conflict for the season; her insistence that Dexter *can't* have true feelings for someone, and him rebelling against that.
So it makes thematic sense for him to either die for her, or exile himself (like he did in that stupid finale), leaving her and Harrison to live their lives. His penance to stay away from the people he loves most and never be able to be with them. At the same time as he discovers that he truly does love.
So, basically. I should have written the fuckin' show.
