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"I'd rather be a pig than a fascist"❤

I agree with the problems with the show, but I am a bit hesitant to blame it all on bad/lazy writers as is so often done. From what I've seen with interviews and bts material, the writers fully intended to have Dexter die in the end, but weren't allowed to by the studio. I wouldn't be surprised if such studio intervention had been a thing in earlier seasons too. A show like Dexter hinges on the protagonist being likeable enough that the audience kind of cheers for them, despite all the horrible stuff they do. In that sense, the Code was protecting the show's viewership as much as it protected the character, because killing innocents is one of the things that risks alienating the audience (I also suspect that audience alienation also was the reason behind the whole "asexuality plotline" from season one being dropped. Remember how one of the reasons he dated Rita in the first place was, that she wasn't expecting physical intimacy, and whe she started to want that, it was a problem? But that's a whole different topic). Personally, I think the whole Doakes-dilemma was set up to early in the show's runtime to have any chance of having it pay off in a satisfactory way. Murdering someone innocent who is just doing their job to protect oneself is the kind of event that signals the beginning of the endgame. They should have done that in Season 7, but Season 2 would have been to early. And once again I am wondering if maybe Dexter was supposed to kill Doakes and that was supposed to be the beginning of the end, until someone decided, that they would rather make a few more seasons.

me watching as a teenager/young adult - oh mark and her are just friends, this is totally fine with context. me as an adult - "that man should NOT be befriending a young girl like that". I also didnt like Vanessa when I was young, and as an adult I feel so sorry for her.

Porco rosso is about more than him being against fascism. The movie is literally “red pig”. Miyazaki was a communist who designed airplanes for a country he loved and watched fall into fascism. Porco is in a similar situation being pre war Italy. Fascists hate communists more than any other group. They are the first group the Nazis went after.

They murdered the show .

Avatar is not good...

In books Dexter is a much darker character, who likes to "play" with his victims for hours and not just stab them in the heart...

I stopped watching when Debra killed Laguerta!

the doakes dilemma was a breaking point

best opening credits: Dexter

Given the sellout the huge sellout of Dexter on the last season, I don’t care

I think what's most likely is if Dexter kills Doakes, he might get over it too easily. I think Dexter suspects this and fears it because it may be true. He only kills bad guys because his father told him to, but at his core, he can kill without feeling guilty.

As one familiar with the books, I'd say the only problem with the movie was its editing/pacing. If Stanton had been allowed the cut he wanted, there would have been adequate space in which to better appreciate the characters and the conflict. Of this I have zero doubt. As it is, knowing the books is a help but shouldn't have been necessary. I loved the movie version.

Ellen will never ever be a man. FACT!

Love how everyone thinks V is a psycopath when she obviously isn't: hannibal is psychopath, villannelle is a sociopath. Quick temper, easily offended and low self control are a couple of the obvious external signifiers.

It successively got worse.

Phoebe wrote 4 episodes only and would have worked on them with a team of writers who basically did all the work in terms of plot and she just wrote the scenes out with her comedy style. She's decently funny but no where near good enough as a writer to get credit for the whole show.

OMG I never knew the dubbed version of this was such trash.

Subbed after ten minutes of watching this video. Poor writing (no offence I’m sure it was just to pump it out quick) but the essence, the idea, the premise, the editing, but most importantly: **the philosophy** absolutely apex. Well done

I disagree that the main reason the action didn't work in extraction 2 is idiot plot. That's only part of it. The main reason is actually that the action sequence in the first was positively motivated by character and consequence. Getting the kid to trust him, navigating an action sequence and car chase with a dependent, fighting the guy who's supposed to be his equal, etc. all of it a means to show positive character growth and interaction. Then take the sequences from the second movie, and it's more just an excuse for action to happen. Why didn't the kid trust him in the first one? Because who the hell would trust a guy like that who just shows up out of nowhere after being kidnapped in the first place. He has no reason to believe he isn't being kidnapped again. Whereas, why did the kid in the second movie blindly idolise his father? So the action could happen. The dude repeatedly beat on him and his mother, and his adoration for his father is explained how? Well it's not, really. He just idolizes his father because that's what is necessary to create conflict. There's no reason for any of it. I think the dumb decisions are a symptom of the same problem - there's no character motivation for anything that happens. It only happens because it results in a cool action sequence. That leaves the whole movie feeling like a disconnected and frustrating mess. The first movie is characters reacting to a situation and forcing their will on the plot. The second movie is the plot forcing characters into circumstances that don't make sense.

As someone who adored the first two seasons of Dexter but never finished the show, I think there's a third option here. Change the code. Dexter gets by on a strict set of minimal rules because that makes decisions easy for him. The best way to show the mounting complexity of his life and emotional attachments is for him to try changing his code on his own, without Harry's influence. It gives him a chance to try to adapt to the situation, rather than only making one of a few decisions. He realises that Doakes presents a singular exception to his rules, and he needs a third rule. He's already 'caught' in a sense because there's someone out there who knows the truth, so he can't apply that rule. He has to either make up a new one, or decide whether killing someone who is innocent is actually justified if it means he can keep doing what he's doing ridding the world of awful people. That's how you create the moral dilemma. He knows what he 'should' do, which is release Doakes, but he knows that he also 'should' continue killing serial killers, because it provides a practical solution to an otherwise unsolvable problem. Practical being the key word. Instead of killing Doakes, he finds a practical solution, because that's how his brain works. He doesn't see the grey area, because that's too complicated for him in season 2, so he decides to force Doakes' hand by implicating him in the crimes. Doakes' decision then is to either go on the run himself, or join dexter. Season 3 becomes less of a game of cat and mouse, and more about what it takes to make a good man turn into someone like dexter. Doakes could have served as an insight into the things that would justify a staunch moralist like him becoming just like Dexter. Instead we got 'rocks fall, everyone dies.'

One small criticism - the text on screen needs space to be read and processed. If you put up an editor's note while talking at your usual pace, it can sometimes mean viewers need to rewind to read it, or rewind to listen back to the part of your video it distracted them from. Maybe that's just a me/ADHD/attention span problem, but it's possible it affects others, too.

I don't know that I'd call it a moral dilemma to be honest. The whole point of the character was that he didn't have morals or feelings and instead imitated morals/feelings to fit in. The code was an extension of that in some ways, but also to make it less likely for him to get caught. Targeting the people he targeted was less for moral reasons and more for not getting caught reasons. Similar to how many serial killers with high body counts targeted people that society doesn't care about like the homeless.

It is my favourite Miyazaki movie because I also cursed myself more than 20 years ago.

OH OH ~ *if you want a masterpiec revolving around guilt* - WATCH 'FRIEREN' ... my god~ it hits gently but it leaves a mark

4:36 was that the original englisch line?! please tell me it was you dubbing Oo (she sounds fine though The german version sounds just right. Deep, manly, sorrowful... - it really has a Clark Cable feel. 8:25 okay now that sounds much better. not unlike the german I brought up. it has gravity

One of my favorites too. It brims with atmosphere and character. Its not whimsical. Its silly. but the details it gets right it nails well. I am also a fan of detailed machines the likes we don't see often in animes these days

I honestly think that the show would have worked better if season 1 was not season 1. There should have been kind of a prequel to that which lets the audience know the character and what he's about. Then hit you with the Ice Truck Killer that knows him as well as the audience does. This really has nothing to do with the subject of the video but you know.... Also, the show should have ended with Rita's death. I'm not saying this because the show went downhill after that, I'm saying this because it is the perfect ending. Full circle for the character. Finally his actions had consequences that bit him in the ass on a personal level and he literally put his own son in the same situation that fucked him up in the first place, all because he was trying to prevent that from happening.

U could have spared the spoilers of the tv shows u mentioned asshole

When I first watched this movie when it was released I had the exact same opinion that about an hour could be cut out of it. After 10 years it's great to have some validation. Just discovered your channel, congrats and thank you for the good work.

Hans Landa was better

The greatest character intro ever (imo) is Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds. He’s utterly charming, cunning, erudite and menacing throughout, I couldn’t take my eyes off him.

Hayao Miyazaki often draws himself as a pig so Marco might well be a bit of a self-insert. It was obvious to me watching this movie that this project was dear to his heart.

my phone is so creepy. i just switched apps from hulu watching this….

Beautifully done ❤

I dug up this movie once when I had covid, it was a scratched DVD and didn't play. Really cool to see that it has layers of nuance though. I like that the title easily wraps up not only the movie's themes, but the thesis of the video. June is a good movie not because it is linear but because it upholds inevitability and surprise. Cool.

Dexter pissed me off so much. He became so selfish that I just hated every time he was in the screen tbh

I fucking hate lyla's accent

😂 Why you pronouncing "episodic" like that? Good video but that stuck out like a sore thumb

you should watch barry

These are not moral dilemmas they are intellectual dilemmas.. Dexter was a psychopath. P is that ever changed.. to the best of our knowledge you cannot change. This is what made game of thrones rate until it ended at season 5. Characters faced consequences for their choices. Add a very bad things could happen to fan favorites. Once Dan and Dan took over Jamie became the misunderstood p Prince charming the female audience wanted. Every single character just became what the fans wanted or what the plot require

Epicsaaaaaawdic * is the word you are looking for my dude

The last 2 seasons were quite poor

I think there's definitely a bias that a lot of us have against small volume art. Feature length films are almost always considered superior to short films, in my experience. Novels are almost always considered to be more meritorious and prestigious than short stories. Even when it comes to books, big chonky ones like Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones seem to be much more highly regarded than shorter ones in the public consciousness. Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else feel that? I've even had to teach a lot of my students that making an essay/story longer doesn't always make it better (and in fact often makes it weaker haha).

Now that you present it this way, he could have turned himself in and been a Rorschach in Prison type character. "I'm not locked up in here with you - you're locked up in here with me" They might have even gotten a season out of cat and mouse with the warden while plotting to take out the monster that runs cell block B, while using his talents to do something something drama, something something....

Agree with your breakdown of Villanelle's scene. But also, it shows that she actually doesn't know how to make a child smile. She's a psychopath, she's not capable of human connection, she needs to copy the vendor's actions but it's all a performance. Also the fact that the scene contains a little girl - rather than a tryst seeking couple - suggests to the audience that there was significant disfunction in Villanelle's childhood.

First three seasons were some of the most brilliant television I have ever seen. Last two are some of the most horrible.

With or without Lila, he would have killed Doakes. Dexter is so afraid of being caught. He would have also killed Laguerta.

You using the 2010 version of Murder on the Orient Express actually kinda hurts the video essay as Poirot's character is favorite logical and that version of the story was forced to make the dilemma seem difficult by making him religious.

Villanelle is also hedonistic. She loves the good things in life. We see her often eating delicious food, wearing designer clothes, her flat is beautiful and full on wonderful things. She stops in the middle of an assasination to ask about a quilt. I still remember her eating a cracker/tomato thing before she breaks into someone's house and murders them. We get a little bit of this in the intro, with her dressed in designer clothes and eating ice cream. Usually media shows women in coffee shops. But Villanelle is both childish and hedonistic, so she is eating ice cream.