You've just made me look through again for that one guy, and I still can't see him.  So I remain shocked pending un-shocking.

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I am shocked shocked SHOCKED that nobody's mentioned that the video is a reference to Fellini's 8½.  Mind you, I'm not sure how that affects the meaning of it, if it does.

Yeah, I can agree with this.  I like it musically, but the bluntness of it annoys me.  It doesn't help that on the next album thyn did a musically very similar song about stalker-level unrequited romantic obsession, which is a much better subject for an R.E.M. song.

Yeah, Embryonic was stunning (I think The Terror is too, mind).  Not sure what their antics were during and after it, though.  I don't pay much attention to antics.

I read Watchmen recently and had a hard time with Rorschach, at least initially.  The way it opens with his diary, and it's in such a completely overblown parody-hard boiled style… not easy to take seriously.

But how can she do that while Dexter's neighbour is falling in love with him and Accepting Him For Who He Is?  Are we building up towards an Acceptance Triangle?  The potential for organic, long-term growth is off the charts!

I was actually OK with not being surprised.  There was a nice buildup from that moment and we got to see Dexter being completely clueless, which was nice.  I was expecting just a suicide as well, and didn't see the steering wheel grab coming until they were beside the water, so… there was an element of surprise to it,…

Ha, I can muddy these waters with a third option.  I'm not rooting for Dexter in the sense that I want him to get away in the end, but I also don't feel that his 'value is being crammed down our throats'- mainly because I think Vogel is nuts.  Mind you, I'm actually OK with the idea of him having been to some extent a…

Oh gawddammit, you reminded me of that neighbour bit.  My brain had safely filed it away under Terrible Potential Upcoming Dexter Subplots, locked the drawer, and thrown it into a mental river.

I think you've got it with the second paragraph.  She's been through her confess-and-admit-you-fucked-up phase, now she's on to her just-get-it-over-with-with-the-minimum-of-fuss phase (insert obligatory joke about how the viewers can empathise here).

I'm just hoping against hope that that scene was an entirely random attempt-at-comedy skit they used to fill an unexpeced two-minute gap in the episode.  Because otherwise it means Masuka's daughter is going to be a whole subplot.

Credit where credit's due, Quinn's 'I've never been so happy to get a positive test result' was a great line.

I was actually OK with the whole attempted murder-suicide thing.  Most of the episode was boring to the point that I was seriously tempted to just give up and turn it off, so to feel that build-up to what Deb was obviously going to do was a nice break.  She got a decent if very sped-up character arc, too- although I'm…

PolarBears, that's given me an idea for the final scene.  Deb standing in a busy Miami street, one hand around Vogel's neck, another holding a knife, and Deb raises her gun, hesitates for a second… and fires.

Ha! With you 115% on this.  Although I'm not actually sure if any of that list is pointless, because I really don't know what it does, and I extend this sense of complete confusion to Twitter too.

Right now the only directions I can see that going in involve hypnotic suggestion/induced psychosis, and that feels… too silly.  Even for Dexter.  But it's got to be in there for some reason…

Yeah, "…at the mall" is the best competitor so far this season for a successor to "Hello, whore".  Granted, it's clearly inferior, but it's early days yet and I'm confident this season can build on this early success.

Yeah, I was trying to think of a way it could still be her.  The alternative idea to keep her as the bad guy is that she's been encouraging a whole bunch of patients to keep on killing.  It would help explain the 'serial killer on every corner' world Dexter takes place in…

I like that Rex Reed is apparently completely unaware of the concept of pickling.