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YouTube has Dexter Season 6 Trailer posted on July 21st. The theme song, "Reach out and touch me" plays while presenting this season's theme,

"THIS FALL, HE'LL MAKE YOU A BELIEVER"

and the YouTube user "SHOWTIME" provided the following description for the trailer:

"Dexter Season 6. Has Dexter finally seen the light? Get ready for the most rapturous season yet."

Get Ready? or . . .Did Berwick beat Showtime to it's seasonal 'rapture'?

Given Showtime's concept of 'Dexter' as 'entertainment' it's understandable why I prefer to no longer watch tv. Unfortunately, too many continue to find such programming entertaining if not instructive.

Prayers go out to the victims of the horrors committed by Berwick and others who may have been self-admittedly inspired by Dexter .

[ZX12R]

I love Dexter too, and I haven’t killed anyone...yet.

[Vor Lady]

I enjoy the Dexter show as well and like the following poster haven’t killed anyone nor even seriously entertained the idea. Anyone who watches the show realizes that Dexter knows he isn’t ‘right’ and agonizes over his ‘dark passenger’. He spends most episodes wanting to be ‘normal’. The show is a study of human failings and how we deal with our own in a socially acceptable way.

[spetznaz]

I find it so confounding how someone can claim that some imbecile committed an atrocity due to something he watched, played or listened to. As if the person was some hapless automaton who had not control over his actions, and were it not for the odious catalytic effect of that show/videogame/song would have led a non-violent (albeit confused and latently dodgy) life. That the ‘analyst’ who decided the show/game/song was to blame managed to, so convincingly, empirically prove that the show was the deciding factor that caused a preponderance of events that led to the person shooting/stabbing/poisoning the masses. Yet, and this is the really amazing part, that same show/game/song has been listened to by millions of people (sometimes tens of millions, and across all sorts of geographical and socio-economic strata) …yet well over 99.99966% (basically a true six-sigma statistical rating) have never committed such a crime. The ‘analyst’ also doesn’t consider other factors that had a much greater influence than some show/game/song, real factors that had real effects towards making the perpetrator commit those offenses. Real factors such as the person’s mental constitution/wellbeing, upbringing or lack of, family background, set of peers, environment, location, situation, faith and general beliefs, various psychosomatic factors that could be drug-induced or maybe due to some psychological defect in the imbeciles mind. All sorts of issues ranging from nature to nurture. The basic fact that the person is just a sick kcuF!

But nooooo ….it had to be that rap song (or if it was the 80s, heavy metal song) they listened to. It had to be that movie or series they watched (I am sure even a connection to that silly Twilight set of movies can be found). It is that Harry Potter book they read 5 years ago. It is that hyper-violent game they played. Always trying to find a reason for the behavior, and picking on a ‘reason’ that is (almost) guaranteed not to be the right one.

Bad people do bad things. When caught, bad things should be done to them. If watching Gummi Bears and The Smurfs cartoon re-runs made them go on a hatchet spree, it really doesn’t matter.

I am also sure for a fact that this Oslo Shooter perp had a lot on his mind, and that Dexter wasn’t one of those things. Secondly, Dexter is a very popular TV show that is watched everywhere across the globe, and yet only a smattering of people who watch it have gone on killing sprees (that makes it a highly ineffective catalyst if you ask me …pumping laughing gas into the ventilation system would have a higher efficacy of turning ‘innocent sweet people’ into rabid ravening killers). Thirdly Dexter never killed by grabbing a mini-14 and shooting kids …maybe if he was killing suspected crooks one by one by wrapping them in jumbo size saran wrap we may have a hit, but Dexter never went after kids with an AK-47 (I say AK 47 because I am sure the media will say it was a kalashnikov …the media eventually claims every gun, knife, SUV is an AK 47, so I may as well get the ball rolling).

The imbecile was a bad guy, and he would have done this even if he had been watching Thundercats cartoons rather than some guy knifing a criminal.

[Texas Eagle]

Yeah, yeah. The question is, did he ever attend a Sarah Palin rally? Or had he ever heard of Sarah Palin.

If we can prove he's heard of Sarah Palin, well, there's your explanation right there.

[ansel12]

I like Dexter, and I check out the DVDs from the library, to watch it, so I have only seen the first four seasons.

The thing is, I can do without a show glamorizing serial killers, I can do without a lot of bad things that are enticing and seductive.

Just because something is well done and entertaining does not mean that we have to want it in our culture, if I could make the decision, even if my income came from it (which of course is contradictory since I would not have created it), I would cancel Dexter.