Just finished the season finale of Dexter. What is up with the incest, for real?! I....I was about to write that I normally don't have a problem with incest, but let me elaborate on that instead of going straight on to why I am creeped out by the storyline on this show. Okay, so one bit of fiction that has done incest "right" I felt was Angel Sanctuary. I remember back in the day...haha! if 2001-2003 can be back in the day, I really felt for the main character of that story and that he was in love with his sister and that it was mutual and forbidden for obvious reasons by their parents. Their love for each other transcended the lives they were living, since it is a story about reincarnations and angels, it just made sense in the world that was created.
I was inspired by that story and the ability to make something controversial seem real and even give a measure of acceptance to it - so I made that one of the central conflicts in my own story. The incest in my own story, like Angel Sanctuary, was between a brother and sister that were separately raise, or nearly so. In AS the siblings are literally raised away from one another - my characters are raised together but age difference and personality clashes keep them from being close. You can't have kids who are raised together and are close end up together. That is the issue I am having with this new storyline in Dexter. It may seem like splitting hairs, but I seriously think it makes all the difference in the ability to accept those kind of feelings.
It probably also helps that in AS it is established from the beginning that Setsuna has feelings for his sister and he is pretty torn up about it. I can't speak to how accepting an audience is toward the way I have portrayed my storyline as it is the one I have failed to write because, aside from that plot line which is pretty strong, the rest resemble wet noodles. It was painful - hilarious that is - watching some of the scenes tonight. Just so awkward and unnecessary, Deb analyzing Dexter "staring" at her and touching him while he is half-shirtless. Ugh....no. Stop it!
I was inspired by that story and the ability to make something controversial seem real and even give a measure of acceptance to it - so I made that one of the central conflicts in my own story. The incest in my own story, like Angel Sanctuary, was between a brother and sister that were separately raise, or nearly so. In AS the siblings are literally raised away from one another - my characters are raised together but age difference and personality clashes keep them from being close. You can't have kids who are raised together and are close end up together. That is the issue I am having with this new storyline in Dexter. It may seem like splitting hairs, but I seriously think it makes all the difference in the ability to accept those kind of feelings.
It probably also helps that in AS it is established from the beginning that Setsuna has feelings for his sister and he is pretty torn up about it. I can't speak to how accepting an audience is toward the way I have portrayed my storyline as it is the one I have failed to write because, aside from that plot line which is pretty strong, the rest resemble wet noodles. It was painful - hilarious that is - watching some of the scenes tonight. Just so awkward and unnecessary, Deb analyzing Dexter "staring" at her and touching him while he is half-shirtless. Ugh....no. Stop it!
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