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Doakes is too good to lose, Masuka is only comic relief.
Really? I would come to the opposite conclusion. Doakes would be easy to replace by an equivalent, whereas there is something uniquely icky about Masuka that I wouldn't want to give up. Don't get me wrong, the tension between Dexter and Doakes is great, but I think that at some point you want to resolve that tension and move on to the next obstacle. (God, lets not have another X-files.) Masuka, on the other, is great as a background presence that makes an interesting example of "normality" for Dexter and the audience to reflect on. Dexter is a monster and Masuka is an average guy, after all, but really Dexter is by far the more sympathetic even though Masuka is an amusing grotesque; the whole show is about that kind of moral ambivalence. |
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