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Originally Posted by The Batlord
The basic premise of the show is ridiculous: a serial killer who's a quasi-good person. So of course the writing is going to go for some cheese at times. If you've ever read any of the books, Dexter is much more "in character" for a sociopath, and he's also not very interesting, because sociopaths are not interesting people. They do interesting things, but as people they're kinda dull.
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I would've liked something like a Patrick Bateman type. He managed to convey some of the actual emotions that you would expect out of a sociopath (greed, envy, narcissism) without any of the sympathetic/empathetic ones. And his deadpan assessments make for great one liners. Dexter has his moments, hell even when he's being awkward I don't feel like he's betraying his character per se, he just doesn't know how to appropriately respond to social situations so he fumbles his way through them in his attempt to appear normal.
It's the showing empathy and caring about people thing that runs completely counter to his being "empty", as he puts it
The show is 'sociopathy' that is consumable for the masses, the irony being that the masses could never swallow actual sociopathy. Revulsion would be the likely reaction instead