Rita Just Sucks!!
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brittannie19 — 9 years ago(April 27, 2016 02:23 PM)
Rita isn't happy that two guys are fighting over her, she's happy Dexter cares about her enough to do something. She loves Dexter and if he doesn't care that she kissed someone else than what does that say about their marriage?
Remember in the first season when Dexter said every time he has sex with someone they realize he's weird and missing something inside and take off? Rita didn't at first because she was missing something as well. Once she starts to recover from Paul she's able to see that part of Dexter that's missing. She loves him and wants a real relationship with him that has an emotional and personal level to it, not just something utilitarian about paying the bills and buying stuff for the kids.
When Dexter realizes she just wants to talk with him about normal every day things he couldn't muster up anything to say. She was lonely and wanted to know he truly cared about her. He never said he loved her.
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patronizing_bunnyrabbits — 9 years ago(April 29, 2016 05:03 PM)
Rita's a pretty sympathetic figure. She's a single mom and domestic abuse survivor who is conned by a serial killer who uses her for social cover and ultimately contributes to her violent death. If the story was told from the point of view of anybody other than Dexter, we'd feel horrible for her.
Instead Rita gets a bad rap because it's almost impossible to create a likable wife character for an anti-hero character unless she's his partner in crime. (Citation: Skyler White, Carmela Soprano, Margaret Thompson, etc, etc, etc.) Because either she, like Rita, is oblivious to her husband's criminal behavior and is used mostly to create obstacles ("Hey honey, could you stop and buy some milk?") to ramp up dramatic tension and/or illustrate the main protagonist's double life, and, OR she does know about the crimes, like Skyler and Carmela, and occasionally contributes to protect her family despite crises of conscience, and everybody hates her because she's a hypocrite.
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Darkdemonqueen — 9 years ago(June 25, 2016 04:43 AM)
Yeah, she kinda bugged me in the third and fourth seasons but nobody should have to die like that especially in front of her infant son. I always felt kinda bad about how she left the show. I get her death had to particularly brutal in order to help "fuel" the fifth season but still sad.
RIP David Bowie -
coolrvd — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 11:20 AM)
Whenever people complain about Rita's nagging, it's like they forget that Dexter gave her every reason to. Dexter did nothing but lie to her and deflected when she'd ask him to be open with her. People like the OP want to put the blame on Rita yet give Dexter a pass. The reason she was happy Dexter hit the neighbor was because Dexter showed no feelings about it when she was talking with him beforehand in their bed.
This OP's argument is dumb. "Rita should be thankful for Dexter and shouldn't complain at all since he's emotionless and doesn't care." -
StarsDie — 9 years ago(August 09, 2016 07:38 AM)
There were valid reasons to be upset with him, and some reasons weren't valid.
A good example of her being unreasonable was when Rita gets upset at Dexter for suggesting not to spend money on a funeral for Paul in season 2. It's understandable that Rita would DISAGREE with Dexter, but Dexter wasn't being demanding about his opinion. Just merely expressing it and she jumps down his throat over it. And then she expects him to ATTEND it as if Dexter has any reason at all to care about some dude who mistreated his girlfriend in the past.
However, him holding his apartment while being married Yeah, kind of a valid reason to be upset with Dexter in season 4.
She was a mixed bag with this kind of stuff throughout the series. They were just constantly trying to make her an "obstacle" so as to keep the tension in Dexter's life high. -
DusterJ79 — 9 years ago(October 20, 2016 09:40 PM)
that's called real life.. females have been doing that crap since the dawning of time.. Man goes to work, mother is stay at home mom.. She passes off baby the moment dad walks in the door.. Like seriously it's supposed to be co-parenting, not her stopping the moment dad walks in..