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[#58976] Written by: 90014 [01/10/07, 04:48]
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Thank you for the 1.1gb/5.1 version. No more 350's, I'm getting these this
season. Many thanks.
[#58978] Written by: XxOsurfer3xX [01/10/07, 05:26]
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Yes!!!! Thats the only thing i can say!!! This is my favourite show, and i never
thought it would como out in 720p, Thanks EZTV!!!!
[#59006] Written by: heifer2 [01/10/07, 08:46]
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Never going back to the standard resolution, or even HR. 720p is awesome.
[#59032] Written by: bartholomew [01/10/07, 11:51]
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Just to politely inform y'all, this was previously on EZTV as a PREAIR a few
months back.
So you may have seen it already.
(I downloaded the 350Mb one and have already seen it !)

But thanks for uploading it for everyone else !
[#59060] Written by: Paros [01/10/07, 13:25]
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What is the point of this show?

Are we supposed to identify and sympathize with a psychotic murderer delivering
his own flavor of paranoid street justice? I don't get it.

Even if the show was about psychosis, the main character can't play the role
well. All kinds of hell is going on, 15 bodies of his murders are found and he
behaves like he can't decide whether to go for a burger or pizza for lunch.
Meanwhile, the rest of the characters on the show care about trivial things like
his boss having a cheating boyfriend - huh? so what? The lunatic killed so many
people and we're supposed to now care about the cheating boyfriend of his boss?

The writers of this show are mental cases. I bet some of them have had prolonged
psychotherapy and probably about hurting themselves, and how they put their
sickness on TV. What a depressing waste of time this show is.
[#59064] Written by: topoopon [01/10/07, 13:39]
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I don't know what you are talking about. This show is great. Dexter is the
classic anti-hero. He's a killer, but he only goes after the worst in
society. Sure, that makes him one of them, but he spares the innocent. Sort
of like Blade is to vampires.

As for the people around him, they lead normal
lives slightly affected by his other "work".

Michael C. Hall is a great actor! Any other person in the same role may be
able to pull it off, but he does.

Season 2 looks good so far. Lots of open plot lines! I can't wait to see
where they go.
[#59090] Written by: Paros [01/10/07, 15:39]
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Quote by topoopon
Dexter is the
classic anti-hero. He's a killer, but he only goes after the worst in
society.


Since when killers were anti-heros on TV shows? The point of the show is not the
fact that he is a murderer, it's the fact that he is a psychotic who can't find
emotional gratification unless he hacks people in a dozen pieces.

He constantly explains in voiceovers that he can't live like this and he can't
live like that and he can't live unless he kills and what's wrong with him that
he can't kill, and other paranoid stupidities like this. If he can't live like
that he can check himself in a mental institution and spare us the drama (in
terms of the show's theme I mean).

The idea that killing "bad" people is a good thing has been done before and it's
an ignorant and stupid idea that's popular with the ignorant and the stupid. As
fiction they could have a character like that and make some interesting story,
like hundreds of novels that use this idea, but they're asking us to empathize
with a psychotic killer only because his "feelings" and self-gratification don't
allow him to seek treatment.

As I said, the writers must be mental cases and they put their mental sickness
on TV.
[#59091] Written by: vi76 [01/10/07, 15:47]
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Not to be pedantic, but isn't he is playing a sociopath, not a psychopath?
(yes, there is a difference). One of the characteristics of a sociapath which
dexter shows is the inability to identify with others.

So yeah, he's wondering what to get for lunch.

And for this being stupid and ignorant; let me guess: if you don't talk about
it (or make a tv-show about it), it doesn't exist??
[#59092] Written by: Kelderkeuken [01/10/07, 15:50]
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There's like a million CSI type shows out there, all about gruesome murders and
horrible imagery. This is the only one from a killers perspective. That suddenly
makes it unacceptable to you? To me, it makes it original. I also think the show
has a great sense of humor to it. Black humor, but very enjoyable. Easily the
show I enjoyed the most from the new ones last season.
[#59111] Written by: Paros [01/10/07, 17:46]
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The problem I see with this show is not that the main character is a murderer.

The problem I see is how he is portrayed on the show and what the script writers
are expecting the audience to empathize and identify with.

If he was a sociopath he wouldn't have a relationship with a woman and have so
much concern about her children. But anyway, it doesn't make sense to do a
diagnosis of what exactly mental derangement he has because he's a fictional
character.

The problem with the show is that the creators want us to think that this is
something that could be happening with the person in the next office cubicle.
It's a reality drama, not a supernatural one (like so many others on tv lately),
meaning the main character is supposed to have reality based motives for what he
does, whether or not they are within the average expectations of society.

But this is a psychotic behaving lunatic who is aware enough of his lunacy but
for some apparent reason he prefers to stay away from treatment and hack people
in small pieces. If he's so aware why not volunteer for commitment to a mental
hospital?

It's a stupid show.
[#59115] Written by: Branstrom [01/10/07, 17:58]
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How much of the show have you watched, Paros? This single episode?


LOVE THE 720p! Keep 'em coming!
[#59124] Written by: Paros [01/10/07, 18:56]
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Quote by Branstrom
How much of the show have you watched, Paros? This single episode?


LOVE THE 720p! Keep 'em coming!


I thank the uploader too, don't misunderstand me here, I'm criticizing the show
not the uploader, lol

Branstorm, I've watched enough of it to figure out what's happening.

In comparison, if you take another reality based drama like Prison Break for
example, they exaggerate so much on it but it doesn't really matter for
developing the story because the characters do mostly what we would expect from
people who we may meet on our every day lives - that's where the reality drama
comes from.

In Dexter the whole point of the show is to have the audience "love" the
psychotic serial murderer who is smart enough to psychoanalyze himself but
doesn't want to bother with getting treatment but keep on slicing human beings
into pieces. Why? Because the script writers are mentally disturbed.
[#59273] Written by: bugbug [03/10/07, 00:06]
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First off, it's based on a book, now a series of books. The scriptwriters saw a
great story and jumped on it, obviously. Supposedly the books are humourous, the
show isn't so much. So I don't think anyone is really deranged: someone wrote a
comedy, someone else adapted it as a drama.

Secondly, watch the fucking show from the beginning and you'd see how amazing
and intense it is. Because until then, you haven't seen 'enough' at all.
Excluding the new shows I haven't seen this season, it's currently the best
thing on American TV.

Thirdly, you DO find yourself relating to him and caring about him to different
extents, that's one of the things that makes him (and the show) so damn
interesting. He doesn't see himself as a human, but we, the audience, can.

Fourth, he's not psychotic or a psychopath, he's far too cool, calm and
collected for that. He keeps killing bottom-feeders because it allows him to
keep himself in control, we're not necessarily supposed to think it's a 'good
thing' that he's doing. The moral ambiguity makes the show even more fun.
[#59379] Written by: m182 [03/10/07, 05:32]
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Wow Paros - that must suck, always looking at shows with the view \"what are the
(probably retarded) screenwriters trying to make me feel here?\" (you mentioned
the screenwriters 5+ times?). Stop deconstructing it and just immerse yourself.

You don\'t have to feel empathy with a character to like watching them - you can
be fascinated by an aspect of their personality - for me I\'m intrigued with how
a sociopath *might* live day to day. Not saying dexter is accurate, or anywhere
near it, but it does present one possibility.

It\'s also amusing how your condemn the character for not acting rationally
(meaning \"as you would\" - by turning himself in etc etc. Empathy isn\'t putting
yourself in someone else\'s shoes - it\'s putting yourself in someone else\'s
*brain*. It\'s not how you would act in their situation, it\'s gathering an
understanding of how they might act themselves, and why. It\'s funny how many
people can\'t even imagine other people making different (yet rational) decisions
than they would.

BTW dexter is great, but cheesy. My pick of current shows is The Wire... now
*that* is a show all about presenting lives to immerse yourself into
[#59483] Written by: robbo rebel [03/10/07, 14:42]
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Paros I see where you are coming form I used to have a similar opinion before I
got hooked onto the show, trust me jus watch the show in sequence not just
comment on a particular or the opening episode else am sorry to say you are an
idiot.
cheers mate
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