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Originally Posted by carrie721

ok, that is awesome.

the copycat thing is what i was thinking, too.

honestly, i can't relate to anyone who's that upset about rita leaving. she seriously bugs.

yep, i agree. as much as i hated to see lundy go, it really made me respect the writers that none of the characters is a sacred cow.

ilene chaiken offed a fan favorite in season 3 of the l word, but that was in service to her ego, not the story. so it doesn't really count.

Haha - I stole that .gif off someone on LiveJournal because it makes me laugh. Around Thanksgiving, someone even slapped a clip-art Pilgrim hat on Doakes' head, but I forgot to steal that one, too, sigh.

I've never seen this 1 Word you mention, so I can't comment on that. But no sacred cows is always good. Rita was a lot more annoying to me in season 4. I feel like she behaved differently than she usually would have. I'm not sure what the writers were trying to do with that, really. I do know that they've said in interviews, though, that they hadn't originally intended to kill her, and they didn't decide to do it until almost the very end.

Originally Posted by slipkid

I realize he was sending a message to Dexter, yet Trinity could've beaten Rita to death, or shot her, or dismembered her body as Dexter witnessed with his own mother. It wasn't mentioned but Trinity was probably someone with OCD, and had to kill Rita in the same ritual as all of his second murders in his pattern. She had to die in the bathtub.

Speaking of Julie Benz, who played Rita on Dexter, I've been re-watching old episodes of "Sliders" (Netflix). She appears in an episode during the third season (1996), and she doesn't look that much different today. "Middle-aged mother" is a harsh term to use for her.

Oh no no, don't misunderstand - I think Julie Benz is quite pretty. I wish I had her arms. "Middle-aged mother" isn't a derogatory comment coming from me. I'm going to be one myself in a few years, and I'm still awesome. I don't mean that to say she looks old - she doesn't. In fact, I noticed over the course of season 4 that they even started to give her less-frumpy things to wear.

But from a just-numbers standpoint, she's middle-aged or nearly so. I agree Trinity popped her in the bathtub because that was the next murder he did in his series - boy, bathtub, building, bludgeoning - but part of a serial killer's pattern is not only the things that they do to the victims, but who the victims are themselves. He never previously chose a random person to put in the bathtub - he was always putting his sister in there. Rita wouldn't symbolize his sister, so the cops will be curious, I think.

Or maybe not. I think Lundy would've been curious about it, but he's dead. Hell, even Doakes would probably have been curious about it, but he's also dead.

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Reasons why I think Rita will be back:

Dexter has been slowly losing that emotionless mask since we started watching, and yeah, he is going to feel REALLY guilty.

I didn't think about the Masuka thing. That's a good call. Their decision to use him for such an important plot point in season 5 was interesting to me. I LOVE Masuka, so I was glad to see him getting a more active role. Also agreed about Quinn, they've been setting something like that up for 2 seasons now. Alas, Quinn is not as cool as Doakes.

I imagine we will see Julie Benz again in future episodes. I'm just not sure I can get behind having her be like the Harry in Dex's head.

And good ol' Deb. I could not, for the life of me, like her at all for the first 3 seasons. I thought she was ridiculously annoying, prone to stupid decisions, and that weird thing Carpenter does with her mouth drives me up a tree.

I looked at her the same way I look at whats-her-face - Jack Bauer's daughter, Kim, in the early seasons of 24 (and hey, 24 writers, if you're reading this, and I know you are, I just saw a commercial for the new season and Kim's dumb face popped up, and I want you to know that you're off my Christmas card list. You're on notice.)

If they have Deb fight a mountain lion in the Everglades, then I'm never watching Dexter again. But I did soften up towards her during season 4. Carpenter had some really great performances that I felt gave Deb more depth than I'd seen her have previously. So here's hoping they will change it up a bit.

Maybe LaGuerta can date the bad guy this time. Dexter, Deb, Batista and Quinn have all already done it. It's time for the Loo to have the same fun!