Dexter Morgan as a teenager

i looked like this at 15

>>213044992 (OP)
To catch a predator decoy

>>213044992 (OP)
MY DADDY AND MY DADDY'S CODE!

OP was never 15

>>213044992 (OP)
I have never forgotten

The weirdest thing about Dexter wearing a wig is that the series already had an actor, like Devon Graye, portraying a younger Dexter in flashbacks.

>>213044992 (OP)
>cool skateboards
>nah, I can’t my knees are busted
>hey, wanna smoke some reefer and listen to some mcr in my… dad’s van

>>213045296
>>213044992 (OP)
I'll never not hate this kind of thing. Just like they did with Odenkirk in BCS. It doesn't even need to be a younger guy that resembles the main actor,it's far less ridiculous than such cases

>>213044992 (OP)
>jesse is supposed to be 15 years old in this scene
>aaron paul was 34 years old
just fucking lol at this show. vince is a retard

>>213045108
So you were the beer and cigarettes guy?

>>213044992 (OP)
The ability to age and deage at will is an established Morgan family trait

>>213044992 (OP)
How u doin', fellow kids?

>>213044992 (OP)
how do you do fellow kid

>>213046640
Was he actually supposed to be a teen? I always just thought he was a deadbeat early 30s dude who acted like a teen and hadn't grown up and the flashbacks were just like 5 years before he started at hhm kek

>>213044992 (OP)
Still better than the ass nugget they dug up to play Harrison.

>>213044992 (OP)
meet the kid dexter

>>213048549
32 but the problem is that he looks 62.

>>213046640
shooting on digital was a mistake it would've been easier to cover up the aging on film

>>213044992 (OP)
Just look at those old recordings of high school students in the 80s and 90s, they looked old as shit.

Honestly Dexter is easier to enjoy if you view it less as a prestige television series like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad and viewing more as a cop procedural like NCIS or CSI but with occasional bouts of good writing with more blood and nudity and swearing

>>213044992 (OP)
>Actual teenage Dexter

>>213050250
I liked him. It's probably smart to get a younger batch of actors (including Christian Slater lol) ready to play these roles so Dexterverse never dies.

>>213050250
He looks 30

>>213046031
What in the fuck is this from

>>213044992 (OP)
next you are going to tell me harrison wasn't a 30year old guy during his childhood.

>>213048786
>Breaking Bad
thats not a 'prestige' television series. its pretty much real life capeshit with mid writing.

>>213051457
yes, you're very special and sophisticated

>>213045296
they used michael c hall for more important scenes even though it doesn't make sense since the other actor was good

>>213053100
i love television but it is made for the lowest common denominator. sorry to burst your bubble.

>>213044992 (OP)
I just started this, on ep 8 now and it's decent a bit slow but it's interesting. What am I in for?

>>213048786
Anyone who has ever read the books can tell you that the series was never going to be as good as early Game of Thrones. I don't even like Game of Thrones, but the Dexter books are some the worst trash you will ever read.

>>213044992 (OP)
I honestly love it when shows say fuck it and do this. It reminds me of making a movie as a teen. And our teen actors wouldnjust wear a blazer to show that they are acting as an adult character now, kek.

>>213048786
do you think boomers watched dexter on tv because it made them think after finishing an episode or because it's interesting seeing a serial killer being a cop and how he deals with it

i hate retards like you

>>213055082
Stop at season 4. It never gets good again. Original Sin is pretty good and will hopefully ignore the shittier second half of the OG series.

Don't touch the 2 sequel series. New Blood isn't good enough to bother watching Season 8 and and Resurrection is probably the worst the series has ever been

>>213044992 (OP)
it works if you view the scene as adult Dexter going through the memory and not an actual flashback scene

is it cool if i skip the middle series and go right to the 3rd?

>>213055351
the only one you can skip is original sin, new blood goes directly into the new one

>>213055311
what makes s5+ bad compared to the rest?

>>213055425
different writer and dexter starts acting out of character but that's only really really noticeable in season 7, s5 and 6 are still watchable but obviously going from the peak of s4 they're going to look bad

>>213050876
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZhllfpyVTo
s8 of Dexter. his son falls off a treadmill and in the space of 3 seconds goes from a 4 year old to a guy in his mid 30s and back.

>>213055425
After the season 4 finale, the show's dynamic changed it ruined Dexter as a character. The writers were having a tug-of-war with his character progression and the show stagnated until season 7. 7 & 8 edged the fans with Deus Ex Machinas saving people at random times and the show ended in the worst most unsatisfying way possible that it became a meme for 10 years.

>>213044992 (OP)
The code of Harry?
More like the hair of Cody!

>>213044992 (OP)
what did you guys think about the new season so far?

>>213055766
Retard take. Dexter was kino from beginning to end.

>>213055571
Everyone on set that day was phoning it in lmao

>>213044992 (OP)
CGI wasn't the best back then, but he looked decent.

>>213056239
kino, it's funny like how dexter should be

4chan is twitter reposts now

>>213056587
that pic of dexter has been meme'd before you knew what 4chan was

>>213055425
i dropped the series at S3 back in the day but recently watched the whole series
i think the drop in quality post S4 is pretty exaggerated, though that's likely a result of writing standards across every entertainment industry being so low these days
that being said I did hate S5

>>213056840
5+ was just women writers wanting to have a self-insert save dexter

were so back

>>213057674
I hope this isn't in miami

>>213057797
SDCC

>>213053882
I feel like this was a deliberate dig at the industry for using wigs to try to pass off older actors as being teenagers and it was funny. The fact that they keep doing this shit after De Niro in The Irishman blows my mind. Just hire a younger actor you delusional fuckwits.

For me? It was the wig he wore all through Season 5 because of chemo

>>213058020
yep this was his peak hair, messy season 4 is good too

>>213058020
like he HAD chemo or he was just doing it
snl don't steal my skit

>>213046177
>gettin Jiggy wit it

>>213050250
unc already has crows feet

Tonight's the night

>>213045296
This was when Dexter was already an adult, not a kid. He's about 21 in this flashback when his dad is in the hospital. They redid this whole plot in Dexter Original Sin withal another actor if you want to compare.

>>213058120
Had it
Can't remember if they filmed S5 during it but Michael C. Hall did get cancer and wore a beanie around all the time lol

>>213044992 (OP)
why does anybody still watch this shit?

>>213058514
dexter has aura no cap

>>213058543
HAD it maybe. the last few seasons of the original show were so bad its wild theres this many spinoffs still going on

>>213058574
imagine having a horrible fall off but still getting spin offs because people just love the concept of dexter, that's aura unc

>>213058598
Is he mummying them like medusa for a reason?
i liked the archimedes eagle spread

>>213051457
nice revisionism. other then the wire or sopranos breaking bad is the go to for best tv drama show

>>213058620
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4Bg9jY05w
director probably watched a video like this

>>213058514
Dexter scratches a itch that I can't describe.
Hall is a very good actor so his performance is memorable and quite good, even all the side characters stand out a little. I like the aesthetic of the Miami backdrop. It has decent humor in spots (cringe in others). It's a police show with a extra added twist to it. It was bad more than it was good but I can atleast say I enjoy it still.

>>213058598
this doesnt really look fun to do. I mean I get why he kills people this way, but its not cool looking

>>213045296
I always thought it was such a shame they didn't try to get a similar looking actor for Original Sin. And also that they dropped his signature hairstyle so quickly

>>213058326
>unc
???

>>213058673
well now its like an anime where he cant die no matter what. it became too ridiculous and unrealistic for me to care about anymore

>>213050810
I fully expect s2 of Original Sin to be its own thing that throws the canon completely out the window. It's already ignored it in so many aspects and they can't develop the show further otherwise since canonically literally nothing interesting happens between its end and s1 of Dexter (unless Harry dying undramatically counts)

>>213053882
I remember watching one flew over the cuckoos nest and not believing my eyes at how youthful and gallant devito looked in that. youth is just a precious thing anons.

>save your child from being taken to jail
OR
>go after a serial killer because he stole your "name"
which one /tv/ ?

>>213058785
the second one

S1 = S2 > S4 > S6 > S3 > S5 > S7 > S8
Thoughts?
S3 was really bad, I am surprised how people rarely mention this.

>>213058785
kill my kid and myself

>>213058826
Season 3 is bad when watching it but then you look back at Miguel and Dexter and delude yourself into thinking it wasn't bad

>>213058785
Is my name Betty?

>>213044992 (OP)
Deb Morgan as a teenager

crazy how michael c hall is a complete faggot that acts in drag and likes dressing as a prostitute but he can also play dexter perfectly

>>213059146
its called being an actor

>>213058860
Isn't Betty a woman's name?

>>213058514
Nostalgia and too much time on their hands. Pathetic.

>>213045537
BCS is general was way too relaxed about ageing and make up. It really became immersion breaking later in the show

>>213058826
This would be my exact rating as well, but I firmly think S1 > S2

>>213050250
This dude did a great job.

way better than patrick gibson

>>213058598
it's like saw in that way

>>213058719
you can just hear the anime theme, can't you?

emodad

>i'm so glad you don't have a problem with my 136 past boyfriends, anon
how do you respond?

>>213044992 (OP)
This was so unbelievable to me.
Just cast a new actor to play young Dexter.
Embarrassing to see this.

>>213063392
It’d make me a hypocrite.
But since you don’t care about the thousands of women I’ve slept with and the hundreds of people I’ve killed, I’m willing to overlook all your boyfriends.

>>213063392
Damn, she's so kissable.

>>213044992 (OP)
>me, my mommy, and my daddy

>>213058826
S1>S2>S4>S7>S3>S5>S6>S8
how do you have 6 that high?

>>213063392
sex with deb

>>213060520
yet here you are itt

>>213058673
>It was bad more than it was good
I think it was more good than it was bad, it's just that the low points were so unbelievably shitty compared to the rest of it that it falsely gives that impression

>Your name? Who are you?!
>I'm Paramount+ with Showtime presents Dexter: Resurrection™- and there's only room in this world for one Dark Passenger™
What did he mean by this?

>>213044992 (OP)
Good thread starter.

I finished New Blood, was surprisingly good all throughout. The Batista thing was a little retarded but i'm fine with it. Harrison was great and I loved the dynamic. I like how they went through the effort to make the town seem lively and have character even tho we probably wont see any of those characters again.
Only thing I thought was really retarded was dexter having to kill the cop...why couldn't he have just continued choking him out and have him pass out, how does it make sense for him to immediately kill him in that position, yeah he had a gun but how the hell was he supposed to aim and properly kill him, why did he have to kill him, why didn't dexter lie about killing him and said he knocked him out?
Regardless of how retarded it was, I do like how it lead to the final confrontation in the end. It's crazy how good this is compared to the last few seasons.

Anyways, i'm half way through Original Sin now and it's surprisingly good too. All of the actors play their parts really well so far and the plot isn't crazy but i'm a fan. It's not perfect casting but it's good enough and I think the actors do a good job copying the voices and mannerisms of the actors they're portraying. Is it true they're doing season 2?

>>213056239
It's pretty good, I'm invested and wanting to see how it plays out. The only thing I dislike at this point is the female detective
>"She sees things we don't see"
>Literally just her matching the colors on the trash bag ties and noticing the bag was tied strangely
>Make her quirky by having her obsessed with putting on her headphones and then rudely yelling at people because she can't hear them

I also appreciate that they acknowledged and commented on the shitty writing in new blood
>Undid the shitty retcon of Dexter always having used ketamine, he's back to M99
>Acknowledged that they have zero evidence to arrest him in new blood and that's why he's off scott free
I'm cautiously optimistic that this season will get a good ending

>>213059146
wait what?

>>213063392
did she go through second puberty or something? she's so hot in the first 2 or 3 seasons

>>213065760
>why did he have to kill him
it was the heat of the moment, he's done it before for less like the guy he beat to death in season 5. He got in his fight or flight mode and he killed logan out of instinct. Also yeah, original sin is confirmed for season 2

>>213065904
she's cute in the later seasons too

>>213065858
>>Undid the shitty retcon of Dexter always having used ketamine, he's back to M99
I thought they established that he used ketamine in iron lake because that's all he had access to but there was still the connection that the BHB killings all had needles poked into their neck

Why does OS have to use so much fucking music. We get it, it's the fucking 90s or whatever. The show doesn't need to shove in your face that it's a time piece constantly.

>>213065760
New Blood was hot garbage and Harrison almost single handily made the show unwatchable. The writing was so ridiculous that nothing felt believable at all
>During a wrestling match, after he already had his opponent pinned, Harrison spergs out and snaps the other kids arm
>He gets ABSOLUTELY ZERO PUNISHMENT FOR THIS
>No suspension from the school, not kicked off the wrestling team, the other kid and his parents don't press charges, nothing even though it was very clearly an intentional action
>Harrison wants to be the moral arbiter and is willing to kill his dad because Dexter killed the cop
>Harrison however is totally fine with the fact that he attempted to kill the loner kid at school and framed him to be a wanna be school shooter, putting him in a coma and destroying his families lives by making them live with that stigma/guilt
>Harrison skips his therapy sessions and the therapist doesn't call Dexter to report this lmao
Everything surrounding Harrison had plot armor, that paired with his whiney shitty attitude made him insufferable to watch

>>213066077
okay but that bitch on the roller blades was fucking hot

>>213066046
No, they actually retconned it entirely and said that the bay harbor butcher victims all had ketamine in their systems, which is what made his detective girlfriend suspect him of being the bay harbor butcher.
It was literally a shitty retcon because the writers were too dumb to think of another way to connect Dexter back to the bay harbor killings.

That's why in resurrection they specifically make the call back to him using the name Patrick Bateman on his fake license to get M99, acknowledging the retcon and undoing it

>>213066182
their actual response was even more retarded. When pressed about it the writers said that what angela saw was from amateur crime bloggers writing about it and they got the teo chemicals mixed up, even though we see her looking at tox screens from police reports so their bullshit excuse wasn't even consistent with what they showed

>>213066247
I'm almost certain in the writing room for that season they probably struggled to find a way to connect Dexter back to the bay harbor killings, because he had no means to get a controlled substance like M99, so they just decided to switch it to ketamine and told themselves "the fans probably won't notice or care".

Everything in New Blood was just trash. The way Dexter was arrested, all he had to do was wait it out and beat the charges in court because they had absolutely nothing on him

>>213066109
How is anything there bad writing? The arm breaking is whatever, would you REALLY feel better if they spent a 2 minute scene explaining how he's not grounded or some shit? With the therapist thing Dexter makes Harrison go to therapy next time with Dex being there with him.

The entire point is that Harrison is fucked up and he doesn't know how to deal with his feelings. It's not bad writing that he has the urge to hurt people and at the same time have real feelings and wanting to protect them. Harrison wanting to protect that kid from the jocks but then found out he wanted to kill them, Harrison used this as a way to have a reason to hurt somebody and I think Dex even has a line in his head about noticing how Harrison was almost following his code.. He's a teenager who has a shitty life and his dad who he finally found after thinking he was dead most of his life is terrible at supporting him, part of the show is harrison growing and trying to learn and deal with his dark passenger ending with him being completely disgusted by Dexter and wanting nothing to do with him.

>>213065858
>>"She sees things we don't see"
>>Literally just her matching the colors on the trash bag ties and noticing the bag was tied strangely
Well I will give it the benefit of the doubt because in-universe every police station seems to be filled with just incompetent people in this world. Even in the OG it was like that.

>>213065858
if they do the headphones thing one more fucking time I swear to god...

>>213046177
Ive seen this pic for years and i'm doubting it's fake now

>>213066408
>How is anything there bad writing?
Because the show isn't set in fucking fantasy land. It's meant to be a believable story and yet we see Harrison sperg out and snap another kids arm, and he doesn't even get kicked off the fucking wrestling team lmao. They may as well have given Harrison a gold medal and told him "good job, snap the next kids arm too!"
>the therapist thing
Again, we live in fucking reality. If a teenager who has been enrolled by their parents into therapy skips their session, a licensed therapist is going to call and report it.
Actually doing that could have made for a good scene, Dexter already knowing for a fact that Harrison blew off therapy, but Harrison lying to him. Maybe Dexter then decides to follow him secretly next time, see where he goes when he blows off therapy. But nah, instead let's have Harrison lie about it, and then immediately confess to not going, that's way more interesting!

>harrison wanted to protect the popular kids
No, he wanted to use the nerdy kid as a way to skyrocket himself into popularity, meanwhile destroying his whole families lives. But noooooo please don't focus on that, Dexter simply HAS to die because he killed the cop Harrison liked. Harrison deserves ZERO accountability for his own actions while demanding Dexter has accountability for his lmao

>>213066109
Perhaps worse than any of that is how the New Blood finale very abruptly tries to write Dex into a corner and illustrate how he's actually an unsympathetic bad guy who needs to die.
Not just with the killing Logan thing, but how earlier when Angela arrests him, Dex almost attacks her with kitchen knives. He immediately decides he's willing to kill or maim his own girlfriend, who is a good person and has done nothing wrong, in order to escape. It's jarring and something we've never really seen from him before

>>213066703
The headphones thing is so funny because realistically it could get in the way of her noticing any kind of sounds that could point to clues. Like the sounds of a squeaky or loose floor board or some shit.
>>213066619
The trash bag thing was just way too much for me. I mean they act like she's a genius for going
>wait a minute.....these garbage ties......are red.......LET ME LOOK FOR OTHER RED TIES
She sees what we can't!

>>213066854
Yeah, it was pretty character assassination of Dexter. If she actually had evidence on her, I could believe him considering killing her because the first rule of the code is "don't get caught", which was intentionally there to give him wiggle room.
But they had absolutely zero evidence on him whatsoever. The most they could do is have his real name exposed, but they had no chance in hell of him ever getting convicted.

>>213066848
You're watching Dexter and you're sperging out over minor flaws.
Do you know where you are?
>he wanted to use the nerdy kid as a way to skyrocket himself into popularity, meanwhile destroying his whole families lives
This was never implied ever, so that's ur own schizo theory

>>213066909
I've deluded myself into thinking that they're fully aware of what they're doing and are just taking the piss out of other new york cop procedurals. That makes it easier to take

I don't see why they don't use CGI to make people look younger for flashbacks?
I get its not cost effective for a show like better call Saul and the tech was not there for dexter's original run but even newer shows are not taking advantage of new tech.
https://youtu.be/GeH5_-4xkfE?t=15

>>213066989
I was always under the impression that Dexter ran (and runs) on a shoestring budget

>>213066976
>DUDE WHY DO YOU CARE THAT THIS SHOW THAT IS MEANT TO TELL A SERIOUS STORY IS FULL OF PLOT HOLES?
Sorry anon, I was going to reply to your post, but then I just snapped your arm and no one cared, so it looks like I'm actually right.
>minor flaws
Yeah minor flaws like saying the bay harbor butcher victims all had ketamine in their systems when it was M99 lmao. Enjoy your slop

>>213067116
Maybe it did before, but not with Resurrection, with this fucking cast they've put together

>>213067116
pleas sir we is small family developl, only 80 million dollars pls understand

>>213065327
Lmao, how old are they supposed to be?

tvids dot tv server 1 has episode 4 now, if anyone's stll looking

>>213067148
You're watching dexter, not the wire. If you want something that isn't going to have spotty writing or outright plotholes, you've driven miles off course.

>>213068172
>dude who cares if the writers respect the audience so little they make retcons that make no sense at all, this isn't a good show!
Glad we both agree New Blood was shit