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Dexter has so many facets to his character. The producers of this great show spend alot of time developing how we as the audience see Dexter. How many actual serial killers do you hope will get away with their crimes? Every sunday night for near three years now I find myself feeling a confusing sense of guilt for sincerely wishing Dexter keeps murdering and not getting caught. Does this make me a horribly nasty evil person? I don’t know, but I do know this is good evidence the writers and producers of Dexter are doing their job and they’re doing their job well.

 

This weeks episode is titled “Finding Freebo” because last week Dexter went to kill Freebo and wound up killing the brother of a district deputy attorney, letting Freebo slip right through his fingers. Oops! Dexter’s always making some kind of error in judgment. This is his second obvious error this season. His first was getting his girlfriend Rita pregnant. Actually Dexter’s third possibly detrimental foul up occurred last night. Immediately upon completing his mission of killing Freebo the deputy district attorney showed up, catching Dexter with fresh blood on his hands. Dexter quickly blankets the district deputy attorney with a covering of lies. These lies mean nothing to the district attorney, who is over-joyed Dexter has just rid the earth of Freebo. He then offers to help Dexter clean up the mess and get rid of all the evidence. Dexter says “I’ll take care of it, you should go, plausible deniability”. All in all it was a fine intimate moment shared between Dexter, the D.A., and the audience.

 

Freebo’s now dead and it looks like Dexter will be paling around with the D.A. for awhile, who appears to be enamored with Dexter for his kind act of revenge. I love how Dexter gets giddy just before, during, and after a kill. Everything associated with killing truly is a fix for him. I really miss his narcotics anonymous sponsor Lila. She was slightly more nuts than Dexter however they still could have found room to bring her along with the rest of the cast into this season.

 

There’s one other killer on tv who I’m beginning to fall in love with. The irresistibly sexy Summer Glau. She plays John Connor’s terminatrix protector or protectress on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”. She sometimes exhibits strange flaws in her thinking and behavior. For instance last week she kept looking up a chimney listening to birds chirp. She then tried unsuccessfully a few times to get permission from Sarah Connor to kill the birds. She couldn’t rid her mind of killing these birds. She’s going through some kind of identity crisis right now. She’s actually learning who she is just like any other sentient being. Her psyche is different from yet right on par with Dexters.

 

I know I got a little off topic but I hope this will tide you over until next weeks episode and my review of it. FanPop.com is a good place to find just about anything from articles to news to videos on Dexter or Michael C. Hall. I hope everyone has a great week. See you all back here next week.

The 2nd season of "Heroes" was boring and confusing, almost leading to me abandoning the show entirely.  I gave the show a second chance with the 3rd season premiere a few weeks ago.  The premiere was exciting and made sense.  However, that did not last long.

Last week's episode, the second in the new season, was still exciting, but it started to get really confusing again.  Last night's episode ratcheted up the confusing even more.  I'm going to try to explain what's going on without giving too much away to protect those that are still watching but might be an episode behind.  There are two concurrent story-lines going on; one in the present and one four years in the future.  For most characters, there are two versions of their characters and some of them are popping back and forth or are intermingled between the two time-lines.  This season is sub-titled "Villains" and I think that's because at one point or another, either in the present or the future, everyone is a villain.  Heroes become villains in the future, villains become heroes in the future, supposed heroes of the present are told by heroes in the future that they are actually villains in the past.

I'm so confused.  Unlike the first and second season of "Lost", which gave almost no answers to anything, "Heroes" is still doing an okay job of answering some questions.  It only took two weeks to set Parkman straight and give him a story again.  The whole Niki / Jessica / Tracy thing was somewhat answered just as quickly.  The problem is that time-traveling story-lines are terribly difficult things to write.  They are overused in sci-fi so it's hard to keep them fresh, but it's hard to keep them fresh without them being utterly confusing to the viewers.  A well-written, time-traveling story's big reveals excite the viewer and gives them big, "Oh!" moments.  Poorly written time-traveling stories have big reveals that leave the viewer going, "Oh?"  The viewer then pauses the show (if they can), dives into their memory, and slowly connects the dots behind their eyes.  The potent punch of the big reveal is lost when the viewer has to take time to discover just how potent the punch is meant to be.  Unfortunately, this third season of "Heroes" has too many of the latter big reveals.  Either that, or I'm just off my game when it comes to twisty-plot TV, which I don't think is the case, because I can keep up with "Fringe" just fine.

I'm not ready to abandon "Heroes" just yet.  As I stated earlier in this post, the new season is exciting.  Hiro is back from old-timey Japan and it's fun to watch the wide-eyed hero wannabe on screen, the same wide-eyed hero wannabe that exists somewhere in me.  It's also nice to have Sylar back in a more prominent role because whether he's playing good or evil, he plays it amazingly well.  Still, "Heroes" has become a show that on a week-to-week basis I decide whether or not I want to watch another episode.  The show has a lot of the energy that it had early in it's first season when it took the television world by storm, but the writing isn't quite as tight.  Other shows have been able to correct this same misstep in their second or third seasons.  At this moment, I still have faith that "Heroes" can do it, too.

Laugh? I thought I'd wet meself!

 

 A few months ago, I auditioned for a television show called "Top Gear Australia". I borrowed a camera and tripod and lights, I even got the material professionally edited. I sent it in to the producers and waited. . . and waited . . . and waited.

 

 I didn't get the job of presenter, which left me with the same sad, lack of joy that the first drive in a VW leaves you with. Tonight I saw the show for the first time. I am soooo glad I didn't get the job. The audition details they sent me specified that the producers weren't looking for people who were copies of the original english guys who invented the show; they wanted orignal, aussie blokes with their own personalities.

 

 What they got is three aussies who sound (apart from the accents) just like the three english blokes they're imitating. The show is a virtual carbon copy of the original, with three guys who's intonations and gestures are almost exactly the same as the three other guys in the UK.

 

 So glad I didn't get that show. 

I was looking for a video on the net. I thought it might be on youtube, but I couldn't find it. I was looking for video of Simon Pegg's appearance with Conan O'Brien on Monday. I finally found it though I wasn't familiar with the website that was hosting it.

You can watch full episodes of Conan on this site. The only drawback: you have to sit through government propaganda brought to you by The Ad Council.

Lucky for me that government propaganda cannot penetrate my thick skull, so I was able to watch Mr. Pegg without any negative effects.