Original Sin Episode seven was the inevitable dropoff.
Dexter’s scene researching other serial killers’ disposal techniques on microfiche was awful. I assume finding the relevant films is a huge pain in the ass, way more so than just going to the library and finding books about Bundey and Gacy. That Gacy scene was something else.
(Leaving aside that his original disposal method was nonsense - let’s just assume animals eat the parts if I leave them in a pond)
Dexter’s realization about the kidnapper being the police chief was pretty flimsy. Overall, low tier villain.
I still think that everything to do with Dexter’s biological family was Original Sins’s big misstep. Harry was way too involved with Dexter while Laura was an informant which makes the continuity weird (Dexter calling Harry “daddy” while he was just the guy fucking his mom was too much for me). It seems to be implied that Harry’s playing with Dexter is what blew Laura’s cover? At least, they didn’t show a reaction from the guy tailing her until he took Dexter to the swings.
The five dozen police officers spreading out through the shipping yard to find Laura and the boys was nonsense. Harry has a hunch so they pull every cop in the city in to walk around until they hear something? They have officers putting stethoscopes up to shipping containers for God’s sake. The Mosers got more manpower looking for them than the judge’s kid.
I hated Brian’s involvement. He found Dexter 15 years before Season 1 and is obsessed with them, then is convinced to just kind of leave it be. He doesn’t kill Harry when Harry tries to convince him to leave Dexter alone, which is ironic because he killed his shrink for suggesting the same thing, AND Harry was as responsible as anyone for splitting them up. Harry identifies Brian as a particularly vicious serial killer and then drops it because it’s inconvenient to him personally.
They couldn’t really take Brian much farther without completely fucking continuity (though the final shot suggests they were going to try), but he was mostly wallpaper in the flashbacks when they could have given him some character. The scene of him comforting Dexter with the three little pigs was cute, but you could have kept that and dropped the rest. I’m curious what exactly caused Dexter to suppress his memory of Brian if it wasn’t the shipping container.
Speaking of Harry being too involved with Dexter, I wonder how they’re going to go from Harry being proud of his vigilante project to being so horrified by what he’s created that it kills him. Dexter saving a drowning child is a nice nod to Harry’s first child drowning, but I honestly forgot his first child the moment that flashback ended. It feels superfluous.
Camilla tells Harry she’s made sure there’s no mention of Dexter in the Estrada file, but isn’t this file how Deb found out about Brian being Dexter’s brother?
Angel gets little screen time in OS, relative to his coworkers.
I know it’s impossible to resist throwing in little winks to the audience in a prequel series, but I’m joyless and wasn’t tickled by it. Slice of Pie, no more dating older guys, etc.
The minute the blood drive started I knew the gay cop would have an HIV issue, just because there had been nothing else related to him being gay. I assume they planned to go somewhere with this in a later season.
