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I came back after thinking about this some more. I had forgotten how the season opened with Dexter going to his high school reunion. I often feel that Dexter and Deb's story is about making up for lost time, as both of them were deprived of normalcy when Laura was killed, Harry took Dexter in, and Deb's mother died of cancer. That is why I felt season 4 (the trinity killer) was SO good, because the loss of Lundy and Rita amplified the justification for those two to find those missing parental figures they so craved from childhood and pushed their identities into adulthood forward.
Bringing Brian back into the mix also adds some weight here. In the last two episodes following Brian's death (Season 2's It's Alive and Waiting to Exhale) marks a Dexter flashback to his teenage years when he gets upset while at target practice that Harry had to cancel a trip of hunting due to work. Dexter is so upset he shots the gun at Harry. This whole scene mirrors not only the bigger plot of those episodes, but also "Nebraska", as Dexter has to prove to himself he can let go of the worse part of his dark passenger to choose the better part of himself.
This idea of connecting Harry to spiritual thought of moral ethics ties in nice to someone who has so clearly struggled, but then when you add Jonah Mitchell in the picture, you start to see it further that Dexter wants to save his 'youth'. --"What if this was my son?", Dexter says, making us all think about Harrison.
So even though for us, it might be better that Gellar is alive, for Dexter and the story I almost think it would be better if he were
not there...Travis then becomes the youth of Dexter...and Dexter might have to decide what 'his youth is worth'? ---He will be forced to think about his own dark passenger and be confronted with the inevital break down.
Michelle wrote:The question is why would the professor interact with anyone else? Remember he is in the front of the tabloids, he is a wanted criminal so it makes sense for him to only be interacting with Travis.
You make a good point, but don't you think it's strange that NO other witnesses have come forward to say they have seen him, or heard of him, besides for his other former student, who supossibly hasn't seen him in 3 years? I mean episode 9 is coming, and we really don't know much about him.
Really the only thing that supports Gellar's existence is the girl who got a way....she said she heard two vioces, one young, and one old. Now I am not saying it's not possible for a person to pull that off, but I think it would be pretty hard to have a voice so different...