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Originally Posted by jwb
One of my problems was he was never a convincing sociopath to me.
I think that a true sociopathic serial killer wouldn't win over the audience so they had to inject morality into him somehow to make him a palatable protagonist.
Tony was much more of a sociopath and yet still strangely more likable. Cause he wasn't phony. He wasn't sanctimonious. He was real, flawed, and yet endearing.
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Like I said, Dexter's characterization is basically comic book logic and you just have to either roll with it or give up. And they absolutely did inject morality into him. Have you read any of the Dexter books? They're kinda ****ing boring cause Dexter doesn't really have any redeeming qualities and so there's nothing for the reader to latch onto and since they're just detective thriller trash they can't survive as "real literature". The TV show makes the correct choice in injecting morality into Dexter because otherwise the melodrama would fall as flat as the books.