The Dexter panel took place from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m.
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I have to say, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to a lot of the goings on at Comic Con, but one thing I've been dying to see is the "Dexter" panel.
And so, it starts.
First, the season three trailer is screened. After the trailer, the crowd is a wave of cheers and applause.
So what's new on "Dexter?" There's a new character: Someone the creators mention as being a "friend" to Dexter, despite being the new District Attorney of Miami. And the loveable serial killer is starting to throw the "Code" to the wind.
Enter Michael C. Hall, who plays the psychopathic serial-killer with a vigilante edge, and the crowd loses it again.
The rest of the panel includes Julie Benz (of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fame), who plays Dexter's girlfriend Rita, executive producer Clyde Phillips and writer Melissa Rosenberg, with Kristin Dos Santos of E! Entertainment Network as moderator.
For a series about a serial killer, this is the funniest panel I've been to all day. Of course, maybe it's just because this is one panel where I get all the jokes.
Hall is doing a lot of double takes, mostly in response to accolades for his singing and dancing talents; also, for hoarding the Hershey's Kisses. He also gets the fans laughing with the faces he makes in response to certain questions.
Most of the talk is revolving about Dexter's evolution. He's coming into his own, leaving the "Code of Harry" at the door. Michael C. Hall does mention that Dexter is "closing the door on his father."
Q&A
Was it hard playing such a dark and disturbed character?
Hall: "It's an occupational hazard... You have to find ways to shake it off, but that's also the fun of it. It's fun to get away with it."
Has Dexter's attitude toward sex changed because of emotions or because of physical urges?
Hall: "He's come a long way" (the audience laughs). "My first impulse is to just let it be confusing. I think we're led to believe that there's subterranian emotions there."
They say great actors draw from their own lives. Playing a homicidal sociopath, where do you draw from?
Hall: "Well, I think there's a place where research ends... And I don't think it'll hold up in court. I don't feel the need to kill killers, chop up their bodies and throw them in the ocean, but I do understand compulsion."
What were the factors in killing off Doakes?
Phillips: "Doakes automatically had a short shelf life. It's always been "I'm on to you..." It was a natural evolution of the collision of their characters."
Hall: "I miss him, too."
What were those scenes like shooting with him (Doakes) in the cage?
Hall: "I think Erik (King) and I always enjoyed the toe-to-toe testosterone driven scenes between Dexter and Doakes."
Who's been your favorite kill so far?
Rosenberg: "In the show."
Hall: "Oh, thank god you said that... It's hard to say. I enjoyed them all."
Hall thought about this one for a bit. Finally he decided on "Little Chino," because he was "a challenge," and Jimenez, the man who murdered Dexter's mother.
And what do you think of Dexter and Rita's relationship?
Benz: "Every man needs a hobby." As long as it's not a golfing vacation, Benz added. She went on to explain that Rita could very well be blinded by her love for Dexter, to the point that, even if DNA evidence was provided that proved he was a killer, she might not believe it.
After the Q&A segment, special guest Mark Echo took the stage to talk about the new "Dexter" video game he is working on.
"Dexter" is "one of the most relevant pop culture shows," Echo said.
Echo believes the "Dexter" game will be released in a "game changing" way. Made exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch, the game will "aspire to enhance the 'Dexter' brand" and stay true to the show's "serial" nature, Echo said.
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