Dexter
Posted 22 June 2008 in Television by Catriona
So Dexter is coming to Channel 10. Dexter Uncut, according to the ad. we just saw.
(Just saw, that is, while we’re still desperately waiting for Rove to finish so we can watch Supernatural. Don’t get me wrong; there’s something charming about Rove as a person, but I have absolutely no interest in his programme. Plus, the ad. for Supernatural promised me an answer to an important question: will Dean kill someone to save his own life? My feeling is that the answer lies somewhere between “Yes” and “You just completely made that dilemma up for the purposes of advertising, didn’t you, Channel 10? I really wish you’d stop doing that.” But I still want to know the answer.)
Where was I?
Oh, right. Dexter.
We’ve already seen the first two seasons of Dexter—and loved it. It’s not easy to watch, and I wonder how it will do on Channel 10.
But what interested me in the Channel 10 ad. was the way they positioned Dexter as asking a series of questions: “Killer? Cop? Good? Evil?”
I turned to Nick and said, “Well, he’s not a cop.”
Share your thoughts [3]
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heretic wrote at Jun 23, 01:54 pm
Meh. Channel 10 promos are total fabrications as often as not, it’s not worth watching them.
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Catriona wrote at Jun 23, 09:26 pm
But I find it hilarious! Nick and I take bets on whether the dilemma presented in the promos is actually going to appear in the show or not. You’re right; invariably, it doesn’t. But it must be an interesting exercise for the promo writers, looking at the first five minutes of a programme and wondering how you can make an entirely artificial storyline out of the material.
And they’re better than Channel 7 promos, which tend to give away the ending, usually with the addition of a voiceover saying, “You’ll never believe what happens.”
You’re right, Channel 7; I wouldn’t have.
It’s like the trailer for V for Vendetta that showed the Houses of Parliament exploding. Thanks, guys.
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Catriona wrote at Jun 23, 09:48 pm
Oh, and I should have said in the previous comment that what gets us is the internal contradiction.
The “Killer? Cop? Good? Evil?” question runs over an ad. that includes a scene from the first episode where Dexter, confronted with the question “You a cop?”, says, “Nah, crime lab.”
So at least one the answers is right there in their own ad., but they don’t care.