Some thoughts so far. And also one thing I wish they did cinematography wise for last episode

One of last posts I made was me hoping that they would go in a direction where dexters near death experience would all of a sudden cause a shift in his brain somehow where he loses his urge to kill, and doesn’t know what to do with himself, cause then he’d be too far into it and still has to kill to protect his son

I kinda have feeling now though they’re keeping him in same direction as he’s always been in with having the urge and trying to balance family life and killing.

But these recent episodes though gives me hope that maybe they’ll go in the opposite direction and Dexter embracing it more, pretty much like a more controlled version to the headspace that ghost Brian almost lead him to. Seeing Dexter being mad/jealous that doakes is taking his credit (not that doakes would want that or chose to have that happen) and seeing Dexter feeling like the top dog killing Gemini, I forgot the line he said but when he knocked bim out and said “whose number 1 now” or something like that. And also seeing him threaten Batista. Also him just saying most messed up stuff to geminis brother, it just felt like Dexter wants to show for himself that hes above them and the “alpha” I hate that term now but I just mean him being better than all the other killers

Last episode there was one moment though I wish they just filmed a bit differently. When Dexter and Batista is in the car, I kinda wish when Dexter was going dark on Batista and threatening him, I wish they had like a close up of Batista from the side, and seeing dexters darkened silhouette on the side of him/behind him. Just feel like it’s give a whole other look to Dexter and give us a more direct/ish POV of how Batista sees Dexter. Hes not the man he completely thought he was, hes someone completely different and hes seeing this dark side in person for the first time. Idk I just think it would’ve looked good especially with David Zayas facial expression and Michael C Halls line delivery, I would’ve loved if they shot that scene a bit differently like how I was saying.