I have recently been thinking a lot about Dexter. Its a pretty brilliant show actually, if you think about it, (and on many levels). It's is a show about a serial killer who has always had the desire to kill and has no empathy or emotion towards other humans. He has learned to control it, and through lessons from his "dad", has very strict rules, (the "code") he follows and only kills bad people, (people who have murdered someone). In the show, Dexter learns to have some emotions, and learns different things about himself, as well as his duel-human nature. He is with a really nice and sweet single mother, who at first gave him a cover, making him appear like a normal guy to others. But throughout the seasons he starts to have more emotions for her. He seems to become more human the more he spends with her. He also does things like puts himself in dangerous situations to get his heartbeat to beat faster to make him feel human. The whole show seems to be about making people understand what it'd be like for someone without human emotions and empathy, and the struggles they go through to connect with the rest of humanity, (as well as their human self).
I'm sure many people have heard of the grey and the reptilian extraterrestrial theories/conspiracy theories. That we have been secretly visited, and infiltrated, by them throughout history, and that they have been abducting people and making hybrid races with humans. Whether this is done because they are having fertility problems as a species, or just because they want to engineer human qualities into themselves, is not known. This hybrid being would have less emotion because greys are rumored, (and the reptilians), to not have any, or have a different kind, of emotion. That process of coming to terms with "the Dark Passenger", (as Dexter says), would go similar to major themes that are seen in the show. The show is filled with metaphor, and double entendres, and has many themes that are operating on a surface, as well as a deeper level. It's not much a stretch to think the writers went even further, and it's a sly 'wink of the eye' nod to the Grey Human hybrid program. They might be trying to seed this information subtly to the MSM. Putting it into their heads, that "people" without emotion aren't necessary bad people, and that they can learn to control their "appetites" and actually be of use to our society. Or it could be a warning. Bio-engineering two different species together is probably a lot like synthesizing two different personalities. On one hand Dexter has an innate need to kill, and cant relate to people in the typical emotional way you'd expect, but on the other hand, he's not as bad as most serial killers, he controls it and finds a way to use it for good, he doesn't let other killers, like the "Dark Passenger" part of him, (i.e. his long lost "brother") treat the humans bad or take advantage of their (seemingly) disadvantage of having empathy and affection, (which puts them at the whim of a sociopath and therefore vulnerable to people who don't get hung up on petty things like caring for people). He is really good at his job as a blood splatter analyst, and has brilliant hunches on different serial killers and murderer cases. Also his lack of empathy allows him to see the big picture, and maintain objectivity more so than his peers.
I think Dexter ushers in a new forum, where humans are going to be "evolving" in different ways, and that we need to start thinking about the fallout of these programs and scenarios. It also could just as easily be dialog on what it would be like if the greys and the humans met, and interacted on a daily basis. How would two different species of intelligent beings relate and interact with eachother, when they have so many core differences? And how could a being, so emotionally vapid, learn to find that inner spark of what makes us human? What makes people care for one another? It really brings so many potential topics of intrigue and debate in my eyes, as the psychology alone in this show, is quite clever. How a person can find a way to reconnect to their fellow humans, on a personal and subjective, emotional level, and evolve past their initial upbringing, or origin, (being left in a room full of blood for days after witnessing his mothers brutal murder). It also examines the ways of evolving- how one can follow in their fathers footsteps, finding ways to minimize their damage, but not really ever trying to change themselves. OR- to actually try and change. To rebel against their upbringing, and find out who they are, and try to change their destructive tendencies.
Has anyone else noticed this possible connection?
Another obvious extraterrestrial theme in the show is the ritual in how Dexter kills his victims on the table. He puts them on a sterilized table, tied up with seran wrap thats wrapped around their body. He has a completely sterile room, (puts clear plastic tarp over everything, all over the walls and ceiling surrounding him), which makeasier to leave no trace or evidence. He has a bright light pointed at them from above. He places the pictures of their victims around them, and makes sure to tell them why he is killing them. During this conversation that takes place between him and his victims, it almost feels like he's inside their mind and rooting out their innermo secrets and pain. They always end up telling him the truth about their crimes, which some might think is just normal redemption or guilt for their crimes, but it seems like something more to me. What he says, and how he says it, as well as how much he gets these people to open up about their innermost darkness, makes it seem like he can see through them. Like he can get inside their heads and mess around with them. It reminds me of a conversation someone might have when they died. For example, if they were talking to some type of gatekeeper to the other side, & weighing their sins, & having their whole life flash before their eyes.
But what it mostly reminds me of is an alien abduction. How the ETs will put their abductees on a shiny metal medical table, in their ship, and shine abbright white light at them in a strange foreign sterile like room, and perform experiments on them. Many abductees report this type of situation, and that the greys will cut them open with weird tools, & sometimes take body parts out of them and then put them back in. Many also have reportedthat they communicate telepathically and will get in their head and replay experiences theyve had in life and sort of mentally manipulate them.