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Dexter Review: The Trail of Travis

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Travis vs. Travis

But it also left me regretful.









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I knew that this episode would open up in a good way leading to the finale. I think this was an exceptional pick-up from the past few episodes.
LaGuerta is just becoming pointless to me. Batista needs more screen time. Quinn needs to grow up. Masuka needs more investment.
As far as Deb's therapy goes, does anyone else foresee her therapist insinuating that Debra has trouble with men in the past, cos she's really in love with her brother? Not that I'm promoting incest relationships, but it seems to be where it's going in my opinion. The way she's been talking about Dexter seems as though the therapist will take it out of code. They always do.
With Dexter, I'm glad he snapped at Harry. Harry has always had bad calls. Not that he has never had bad ones, but he can be really terrible at times. I'm glad however that Dexter finally listened and called the cops. Travis has taken it too far and it's time for Dexter to let someone else in on this. He should have along time ago.


There was a wink of dialogue where Deb questioned around Dexter how her sister didn't know and she legitimately believed Travis to be a really good person. I thought this episode was pretty good compared to the rest of the season. You're a little too harsh though. Dexter has always had minor problems. People complained about Rita incessantly before if you recall, yet people have nothing but admiration for Season 4 despite the fact that she was in it, despite the fact it had Batista/LaGuerta crap, and so forth. Also, to Alex, if he's fragile with multiple personalities, the dominant Gellar one would've taken over for the moment and safely resolved the situation to put him in a circumstance where he could have the moment to sort through the mental revelation. It's like going into fight-or-flight mode then only thinking about what's happened once the situation is done.


This episode was just so all over the place. If I understand correctly, Travis had multiple identities. One of them was cold, conniving, murderous, violent and manifested as the deceased Professor Gellar trying to bring about the end of the world. The other was poor old Travis who was "too weak" to kill someone and more importantly had too much doubts of Professor Gellar's prophecy. But in this episode, the second Travis turned a whole 180 in character. I understand that he was affected by the reveal that Gellar was dead, but how did this remove the doubts he had in the first place? And how did this make him hate Dexter, the very man he plotted to take down Gellar with? I understand he's crazy, but are we just supposed to go along with it? The Travis we've got to know would have broke down in tears and started smashing tables while Dexter tried to explain he killed Gellar. Instead, he locked Dexter up... but why? He still hadn't had that conversation with "dead Gellar" and he still hadn't figured out what was going on. He just out of the blue decided he's on board with Gellar and ran away. Obviously, this was done to prolong the chase, but it is just really poor storytelling.