Dexter 0609. "Get Gellar". The ultimate turning point until the climax?

What better turning points than Gellar and Travis becoming the former the victimized product of the latter's imagination --up to a certain extend predictable even though I admit it caught me by surprise--, and even better, Batista's sister ending up going to bed with the nerdy intern who may turn to be a paranoid serial killer! Only three episodes left, and even if they don't persue this second story further, plenty of excitement is waiting for us.
One of the crazy things about this show is how the actors or directors don't know the whole story, therefore the producers have to struggle to make things coherent with what they have in mind for the end of the season. If you haven't seen the short program that they played right after this week's episode, I encourage you to watch it at the Showtime website here.

Dexter s06e08. "Sin of Omission".

Sorry, Dexter's fans. This week I'm committing "sin of omission". Tomorrow double posting for this week's and next week's episode.

Mariano Rajoy is the new Spanish President.

That's what I'm talking when I said, they are going to need a miracle!

Elections in Spain

The conservative party has won the elections in Spain. In fact, it has not given a chance to the other "right wing" party in the country, paradoxically called Socialist Party. I want to give PP ( the winning Popular Party) a chance to prove they can change something, but to be honest, they are going to need a miracle.

Dexter s06e07. "Nebraska". A reminder of Dexter's insanity.

This series is so good that keeps the audience in a constant suspension of disbelief about Dexter's insanity. Dexter, if we think for a second, is a complete lunatic psychopath who believes he can take justice into his own hands by doing exactly the same his victims are doing... and that is precisely why we love him! We love Dexter because he makes gruesome gory killings look cool! Anything that he does is forgiven since he follows his code, Harry's code, to the extreme. The code gives him a sensation of sanity that disappears the moment that code is broken.
Trinity has come back to haunt him. Harry's code is broken, and therefore Dexter is taking a joyride with a new copilot, his brother Brian!
Dexter must restore the code to recover his stability.

Mario Vargas Llosa in St. Louis II

I have to say that the more I think about the talk by Mario Vargas Llosa with professor Olga Arbeláez, the better job I think she did. When I was there I kept complaining in my head about the lack of profundity in her questions. My colleague and fellow blogger Clarissa explains in her blog  what the "interview" consisted on. In fact, we chatted for a while after the talk, and we both agreed that professor Arbeláez could have done a better job. Every scholar there probably had the same opinion.
However, I was incredibly lucky to be invited to the cocktail that followed the talk, and there my opinion changed. As Clarissa said, "Vargas Llosa is an easy person to interview because he is a great story-teller and a skilled public speaker. In response to every question, he launches into a fascinating, detailed discussion that the audience follows with bated breath." This is the reason,many of us that were there came out of the interview a little disappointed for the simple questions, but at the same time happy to have heard the eloquence of one of the best writers alive in a language that is not his, but that he managed pretty well to deliver a highly entertaining  monologue (after each questions he gave lengthy answers full of anecdotes).
Realizing that this was a time for Mario Vargas Llosa to enjoy the prize was the biggest achievement of Dr. Arbeláez. Deeper, more complex questions (as much as I would have like them)  would have deprived the Nobel prize of delivering a joyful speech such as the one he gave us. Also, in the cocktail party I realized that basically nobody of the attendants were literature experts, and some of them hadn't read more than one book by Vargas Llosa (if they were saying the truth), so nobody complained about the questions.
Would have I enjoyed better a different set of questions? Absolutely. Did professor Olga Arbeláez fail as an interviewer? Not exactly, she just didn't do the job that we as academic nerds would have loved her to do.

Mario Vargas Llosa in St. Louis

The controversial and magnificent writer Mario Vargas Llosa visits St.Louis tomorrow to received the 2011 St.Louis Literary Award from the St.Louis University Library Associates. I will have the chance to see the 2010 Nobel Prize of Literature, and I'm planning on telling you how it went! But that will be tomorrow, or rather in a few hours!

Dexter s06e06. "Just Let Go". Impossible by nature.

Somehow, Showtime and HBO specialize in shows that take off around the middle of the twelve episode season into a downfall spiral of frenzy enjoyment. Dexter couldn't be less, and brings us in this chapter the beginning of what it appears to become the darkest Dexter ever.
Brother Sam's death, and Dexter's struggle to come to terms with the former's last desire of forgiving his killer vanishes all of the sudden when Nick (the killer) laughs when he realizes that nobody will be able to link him to Brother Sam's murder. At that time, Dexter, who is delivering the message of forgiveness, lets loose his dark passenger. Dexter (at his best) has no other option than strangle him right in the spot.
Immediately after, the voices inside Dexter's head transforms from the protective father figure to the encouraging brother one. Let's see how far he can push a Dexter in despair.

Yes, the ice truck killer is back, and now, the stealing of the hand by  Masuka's  intern starts making sense.
Masuka fired his female intern after the incident, and substituted her by the computer nerd male intern, who, nevertheless, had the honor of participating in the best delivery of the episode.
Intern (after seeing Dexter explaining Brother Sam's shooting by just looking at the blood): Wow, Dexter is fucking awesome.
Masuka: Of course, we are fucking Miami metro.

Mmm, now this sentence doesn't sound that good, I may not be remembering it exactly, but if you have seen the episode you know what I'm talking about.