Yeah, I shouldn't be allowed to watch TV, really. I had NO idea that Rudy would turn out to be Dexter's brother. No clue. Oh, well.

Dude, neither did I until I read the book, and I had to sit on it when I was talking with people because I couldn't spoil! Couldn't! But that whole gorgeous setup, of Rudy ingratiating himself with Deb in order to fully supplant her as Dexter's sibling, gyah. I can't wait to watch this season all the way through again; I just loved it.

The way Dexter looked sort of forlornly at Deb when she was saran wrapped to the table and said, "I'm very fond of her," was a little heart-breaking.

Amazing. Watching MCH break Dexter's trusty facade into little pieces was just incredible. This is really my favorite of the shows I've watched this year. It's just...amazing.

The relentlessness of Doakes' distrust and dislike of Dexter is/has been so funny and fierce. Their tussle at the cargo container was fantastic.

I loved that moment when Doakes said, triumphantly and smugly, "Not the little lab rat after all!" Fantastic. Though it says very interesting things about Doakes, like Dexter pointed out at the beginning of the season--"He's the only one who sees me as I really am." But why is that?

Erm, I'm not sure if this is kosher, but I'll whitefront it and delete if it is, but in the book Rudy doesn't die, he escapes, and thereby leaves the door open for his return; so it was a huge shock to me to watch Dexter kill him. I think I would have preferred it if Rudy was left alive. It would have been more interesting in the long run.

I can't wait for next season. This is just my favorite show.

Speaking of things coming back, I am so stoked that Rome is back in January. I *loved* it when I watched it the summer before last, and while I am pleased that taking so long for them to produce a new season is a nod to the extent to which they are putting work and creative energy into it, the five year old in me wants it NOW!

So, History Channel is showing Franco Zeferelli's 1977 mini-series Jesus of Nazareth, and who should be playing Judas but our very own Al Swearingen!

I keep wanting him to call somebody a cocksucker, and refer to the pious rabble as hoopleheads.

If he did, I'd totally buy the video. Kingman looks like sunny Deadwood. I expected to drive past the Gem.

I just have to hoist a virtual 'Bo in honor of our man Gus, who, as far as we know, *didn't* die on a fucking Stairmaster, but did survive a fucking monkey bite, and hung in with us despite being a product of a different era. And because the Bitches probably think I'm a mental patient posting "He was as big a pain in the ass as the rest of us," at such a moment, but I meant it fondly, much as Jay Landsman must have, and those of you here in cable Hamsterdam probably understand that sort of thing better than most.

and those of you here in cable Hamsterdam probably understand that sort of thing better than most

And god knows Gus would have.

I think he would have appreciated it. I hope I didn't wig out his lady friend too badly. We probably seem odd enough without that.But at least I didn't lead off with "special kind of asshole". I only hope that my Wire chatter really did enliven some of that time in the hospital that he was kind enough to minimize, that I'd have little idea of the seriousness of the thing, and therefore not feel like an idiot chattering fannishly about the redemption of ol' Bushy Top and related things. Maybe it was a relief to have a few people*not* ask "How you feeling?" If that's so, then some of the creative block I had earlier this year served some purpose, because I had time for that.

Nah - she loved Gus, so I have every confidence she'd get that he'd appreciate it.

Well, people don't always get me, with Jay Landsman being my co-pilot and all. But that's probably so.ETA: I'll stop short of sending the projects in flowers to Madison, though. Good plan?

I'm also sad that I didn't get to watch Brotherhood in time to talk about it with him, either(It's in fact still in my queue.) Could this be like the fruit punch speech? Except butch, with more crime. He'll never eat*tight* McNuggets again. Dag. Never have to carry a toothbrush in case he gets arrested. None of that. (I'm so happy to post with three other people that might get where I was going with that.)

Oh, erika. I'm not a Wirehead (yet), but I know Gus is laughing at every little trubute you're making to him, and he'd get it.

I'm all fucked up too, bunk.