It's a problem that's been going on since at least the first episode of Season 4.  The writers spread themselves way too thin with a ton of stories, not all interesting, but all getting short shrift.  I can't possibly be interested in Quinn's downhill spiral, the goofy/adorable antics of Masuka's too-old intern (or…

I thought this was a much better episode than any other this season — if only for the reason that there was interesting stuff going on with the Dexter-Deb relationship.  The scenes between Dexter and Travis were also a step up for the whole DDK plot.  Travis finally has a glimmer of being a real person with real…

I'm confused… What was it exactly that gave you even a little bit of hope that these writers would do something that interesting?

For the scene to make any sense at all, we have to believe that this man had no other priorities, no great loves of his life, no family, no true friends — nothing that was more important to him in the last moments of his life, than to teach Dexter a lesson about forgiveness.  Which: bleh.  I don't buy it.  We're set…

To me, all these "character moments" feel like they've been driven by where the writers want Dexter to end up.  As if, at the beginning of the season, they said, "Wouldn't it be cool if Dexter had, like, a huge crisis of faith, and went to the dark side?  Okay, what would motivate that?"  And they realized they'd have…

Yeah, and it bugged me how, earlier in the episode, Dexter explains that killing Kenney in his apartment would be perfect — even though the storage unit was much more secluded and much more Dexter-appropriate as the killer's "lair".

Ah yes. The pagan holiday celebrating kitchen appliances.

+1 @JLRoberson

Yes!

He will *not* kill an innocent just to protect himself. Rule One does *not* supersede the rule about killing just the bad guys.

I just can't see Lumen falling into the same Miguel Prado trap — it would be repetitive and unsurprising. She's been an apt pupil of Dexter's, and has really fallen in line as his apprentice. The only way she does something that crosses Dexter's code, is if she does it by accident, or in a temporary rage (maybe…