First and foremost, AJ Yates, or the Brain Surgeon, is gone. Dexter shoved a stake through his body and now we are left without a surface layer antagonist. Honestly, the Brain Surgeon gimmick didn’t pan out nearly as well as I was hoping for. I was excited by the prospect of a new serial killer adversary but the show never really decided to make anything special out of Yates as a character, wasting all of his potential. It was almost if, right after introducing the character and his traits, the writers grew bored of him and couldn’t find anything for him to do. Yates’ scenes with Charlotte Rampling were a bit overacted and melodramatic, but the camera work was pretty interesting and made the scene memorable. Now we wait for a new villain to arise, I suppose, but the show doesn’t seem to interested in giving Dexter someone new to be frightened off. The new direction the show seems to be heading is having Deb, Vogel, and Dex be some sort of bizarre family. With Yates gone, Vogel out of danger, and Deb beginning her “recovery,” it seems the show can head in any direction with its remaining eight episodes, and it feels strange saying that. In the final season, I was hoping we’d be building towards something, it shouldn’t feel like episode six could be the beginning of a new season. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
