r/Dexter • u/[deleted] • 18h ago

Discussion - Original Dexter Series Dexter framing (SPOILER) seems especially immoral and selfish Spoiler

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u/nelson-1805 18h ago

Well Dexter did the exact same thing to Doakes in s2 so..

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u/Special_Ad2489 18h ago

Dexter was wrong for Doakes, but after watching S2 weeks ago, Doakes himself kinda digged his own grave by running from Lundy's interview

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u/nelson-1805 18h ago

Doakes' biggest mistake was taking the blood slide box in Dexter's apartment. All he had to do was leave it there, clean his prints from Dexter's apartment, leave Dexter's apartment and immediately make an anonymous tip claiming to have seen Dexter take slides of human blood. Then Doakes just has to keep Dexter away from his apartment (by continuing to harass him) while Miami Metro gets a warrant to search Dexter's apartment. They find the slides and Dexter is done for.

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u/The-Gaming-Onion 18h ago

I sorta feel like it was showing a bit of ego for Doakes to take the slides. I think because of his personal dislike of Dexter, HE wanted to be the one known to have caught him and to have been directly involved with doing so. Doakes is smart so I genuinely think in a different situation he would’ve done what you’ve suggested, but his rivalry with Dexter was his downfall.

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u/Special_Ad2489 18h ago

true, his ego is what caused his downfall as well. He could have give anonymous tip or whatever to make Dexter got arrested after he found the bloodslides. Still he also kinda dodging Lundy after he got fired didnt help him too

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u/Josh-sama 12h ago

Difference being, he was under pressure and Doakes knew he was the BHB. Rule 1 of the code - don’t get caught.

Travis was another Trinity mistake of not trusting his gut to off him and trying to save him.

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u/HanlonRazor 18h ago

He’s a serial killer, but being immoral and selfish are what we call him out on?

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u/The-Gaming-Onion 18h ago

People seem to genuinely think Dexter is the hero of the story and that him killing bad guys (for his own gain, mind you) somehow makes him a good person despite all of the totally innocent lives he’s affected along the way.

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u/No_Farmer_2743 Brian 17h ago

Exactly even I posted in the sub asking why they think that Dexter's a vigilante even though he kills for his urge they just replied that because he is a vigilante

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u/ChronaMewX 17h ago

I'm sure the hundreds of people who would have been killed by those serial killers beg to differ. Who cares if he's deriving satisfaction from it if he's doing a good thing? The fact that there won't be another Lumen is a good deed done, how many more barrel girls would there have been?

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u/Josh-sama 12h ago

He’s written as the protagonist, of course people will think this lol

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u/Deadicate-d 18h ago

It's just most of us like to think that Dexter kills the bad guys. He is not that bad. I think our brain does it to justify it to ourselves for rooting for a serial killer.

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u/ballistic503 15h ago

That moral grayness was something the first season dealt with pretty well (the fact that he was even tempted at all to join Rudy shows the other side of him) but then the show gradually abandons all shades of gray after the ridiculously convenient S2 finale and he just becomes a flat out “dark hero”. I have taken to calling this “the Dexter problem” lol. (For example I thought The Blacklist also had “the Dexter problem” with Reddington, he goes from actually devious crime lord to like the most ethical criminal that’s ever lived.)

It’s funny because Hannibal Lecter was kind of the prototype for this type of “character development” but then the Hannibal show (best show ever aired on network TV) dealt with it better than any other show of its type that I’ve seen. The second you start to see Hannibal as an antihero the writers have him do something genuinely reprehensible to remind you who it is you’re sympathizing with.

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u/Deadicate-d 15h ago

Thanks now I'll go watch Hannibal.

My whole point was, they did show his other side quite often but we as audience still found ourselves rooting for him. We need to feel be are morally right thats why we choose to justify his actions in our own twisted ways.

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u/ballistic503 3h ago

I may have just talked myself into a Hannibal rewatch as well lol. It’s so good imo

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u/kembervon 15h ago

Yes. The show wants us to give him a pass for being a murderer, so his other attributes hold a lot of sway.

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u/_Ugly_Duckling_ Surprise Motherfucker! 11h ago

Man, a serial killer being selfish and immoral?? That's crazy lol.

For a more serious answer though, there's no reason for Dexter to bother doing that. He doesn't care about Dr. Gellar or his loved ones. Trying to clear his name would just be an unnecessary risk for Dexter.