But you know you shouldn't, right? ;)

Every lab has their own criteria in regards to height and other physical, mental and health requirements, but in this country most seem to have a cutoff of 5'8".  C.S. Lee is 5'5".  Perhaps they're a bit flexible when it comes to sperm of an Asian persuasion? ;)

What was wrong with 4?  Most people would probably argue that either that or Season 1 was the show's best.

Except I don't know how thoroughly she planned it out.  It seemed pretty impulsive, as is her style with the other killings (where she left behind trace evidence that Dexter had to bury).  Even as a detective, Deb relied a lot on intuition (both Dexter's and her own), not meticulous planning.

Perhaps it was a Pulp Fiction homage? ;)

It's a show about the emotional struggles of a guy who kills other killers inside a plastic bubble before cutting them into little pieces and dumping them in the ocean.  It's a little late to start expecting "subtlety." ;)

She'd get about halfway through that speech before he M-99ed her, followed by a one-liner about her not understanding the concept of a rhetorical question.

Have you read the novels?  The show-runners get some credit with me based on an awareness of just how bad the show could have gotten if they'd stayed married to the books…

Yeah, it's definitely a foul that they've done such a poor job elevating her above red shirt status.  Heck, we knew Mike Anderson's name and that he was from Chicago before he ever even appeared, and they were consistently using both halves of his name and treating him like his presence actually mattered through the…

I seem to remember some character (I think it might even have been younger Dexter) throwing out the trope that psychopaths/sociopaths have a very low tolerance for frustration/denied gratification.  So in his mind, Deb is very much acting like a heroin shot.  Vogel's creepy and manipulative as hell, but she's not…

@Cutlass12 - yes, that's one of those things you probably shouldn't be able to "yada yada yada" over.

Concur, the "I'll kill us both" decision was pretty impulsive on Deb's part (or at least reached rather quickly), and while it makes a sort of poetic sense in the immediate aftermath of having seen the episode, I'm not sure a week spent mulling it over and THEN having her change her mind in an instant would have done…

Yeah, what do people think this is, Breaking Bad, where the editors can actually cut together a preview for next week without giving away the outcome of a cliffhanger? ;)

Cutlass12 - I don't know that this works.  One of their few overt examples of "dating" the show (i.e. not a calendar sitting around, possibly getting past a watchful prop/continuity person) in the real world came at the start of season 4, when he responded to a doctor's concussion test by saying that Barack Obama was…

Hey, some of us watch it and have earned the right to engage in well-informed hating! ;)

Nah, that wasn't a Korean war buddy, that was the private whose wedding he witnessed in the season premiere.

Castle's season finale is clearly going to pull a Newhart - a cliffhanger that Castle and Beckett can't possibly get out of, then smash cut to black, and Castle sits up in bed with a start, soaked with sweat.  Beckett opens the bathroom door and walks in, dripping wet and wearing nothing but a towel. "What's wrong?"…

Isn't it usually "forgive, but never forget?" ;)

Until you get better at it, it involves quite a few flying splinters and the occasional drawing of blood.  Compared against watching The Killing, I'd call that a draw.

Actually a lot of people didn't forgive the X-Files - the difference was that there was a lengthier "good old days" period (7 seasons) to look back on and remember fondly before mentally excising what followed.  And there was plenty of blame to go around - Duchovny leaving, Carter losing interest, Gillian Anderson…