Dexter and Transmedia — Part II

 

This is the sec­ond (and last) part of our Trans­me­dia and Dex­ter infor­mal “sur­vey.” The first part is here and the orig­i­nal arti­cle about “Trans­me­dia and the future of sto­ry­telling” can be found here. All the answers are unedited.

Ques­tion: Besides watch­ing the series and even­tu­ally hav­ing a Dex­ter fea­ture film, how else would you like to inter­act with the series/characters/plot?

• Dex­ter feel’s his killings are serv­ing the jus­tice that the police/law falls short of, there­fore leav­ing a pos­i­tive impact on soci­ety. Besides jus­tice, there is also an eco­nomic impact. I won­der how much he is sav­ing the tax payer money. Would be inter­est­ing to see the account­ing bal­ance sheet. One col­umn that shows the con­victed mur­derer going to prison and spe­cific amount of $$ that it would cost to keep prove their guilt and keep them in prison, ver­sus the sec­ond col­umn that shows the cost in labor and mate­ri­als (plas­tic wrap, trash bags, knife sharp­en­ing, boat fuel) it takes Dex­ter to kill and dump that same mur­derer off the coast of Miami. With that com­par­i­son it would be easy to see the “bar­gain” that Dex­ter is giv­ing the pub­lic. (PC)

• I would love to see odd con­ver­sa­tions between this two like Lynch used to do in Twin Peaks. (GD)

• I don’t really want to manip­u­late it myself. It could be cool to see outtakes/bloopers or hear the actors talk­ing about their char­ac­ters and how they react to the plot. I don’t want to inter­act with the char­ac­ters or plot because that’s up to the writ­ers to make that call. At least that’s what I feel. (EO)

• It would be inter­est­ing to know how they did some scenes and what tech­nol­ogy they used in the cre­ation of the shots and sets. Other than that, I love the sus­pense and the plot swings,  that’s the enter­tain­ment value of TV. (RN)

• I would like to have intel into var­i­ous objects that are part of the series, eg. be able to read one of the char­ac­ters notes from a crime scene od access files that are stored on Dexter’s com­puter. It may be irrel­e­vant to the plot but may enable to expe­ri­ence char­ac­ters more deeply. (DN)

• Since I live in the city he patrols, I would like to be part of an episode, maybe as a com­puter geek or con­cealed ser­ial killer that has access to Dexter’s work­place. I want to hang out with Sergeant Batista, going out to Cuban places and mess around with Masuka. I would love to be part of the set as I watch with great trep­i­da­tion as Dex­ter takes out the “trash.” (AL)

What about you? How would you inter­act with Dex­ter? Add your thoughts below.

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