[QUOTE="Neosword"][QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]Breaking Bad is SO much better, it's more believable in a sense, although neither are super far fetched. They have alot of similar aspects but i feel that Breaking Bad is more dark and i dig that.FrostyPhantasm
Really? I don't think I'd agree with that, though I guess "dark" could mean different things. Dexter hunts people down and kills them just to feed his addiction. Walter cooks rocks to support his family. Dexter is an inherently evil character (regardless of what he tries to tell himself), while Walter only does it because he loves his family, something Dexter isn't even emotionally capable of.
Yes, but the way dexter pulls it off doesn't seem "evil" or "dark" it just seems like hes killing people, when someone dies in dexter your either "Well i saw that coming" or "That was unexpected and is all about how the plot changes" breaking bad, when a character dies you go "WHAAAAAT?!" and feel bad after. Although ill admit dexter was very good up until he got that GF, im glad that [spoiler] they killed her [/spoiler] Yeah, I guess I think of "dark" as more of a tone. A character death that leaves you reeling is powerful, but I wouldn't say dark. There are plenty of shows far from being considered dark that have characters die, but it's the prevalence of death in Dexter, and how you get immune to the shock factor of it because there's so much, until you step back and really look at what's happening. Dexter is just an eerie, creepy serial killer with a loose moral code. For me, it doesn't really get much darker than that. Agree to disagree I guess.
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