Thursday, November 02, 2006

Flashbacks and Voiceovers

I'm writing my column, partly about Showtime's Dexter, and I realize that quite a lot of the show is done in flashbacks and voiceovers. Now we're told by just about everyone that both of these tricks suck and that almost everyone should avoid them. But it's hard for me to imagine the show working any other way. How can we empathize with a monster with no feelings unless we can get into his head and understand his motivations and stimuli?

Weirdly I just got a call from a "national opinion poll" company I've never heard of called Call, that was supposed to ask me about how I was going to vote. But because I work for National Mortgage News I'm disqualified. What sense does that make?

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