Dexter: Comic-Con panel

July 26, 2010 by Lance Carter

The Dexter panel at Comic-Con is always a fun one to attend. Michael C. Hall is always funny and the way he answers the sometimes ridiculous questions are classic. It was also great to see him looking so good after his cancer battle.

This season, it looks like Dexter will have to deal with the suspicions of his co-workers (Quinn! Watch the trailer below) Also, look for guest stars Julia Stiles, Johnny Lee Miller, Shawn Hatosy and Peter Weller.

Here are some nuggets from the panel plus a portion of Showtime’s panel (which I wasn’t able to attend) and the trailer for Season 5!

Michael C. Hall:

* Who was your favorite Guest Star? ” That’s hard. I’ve enjoyed all the people I’ve killed.”

* “Being a serial killer is like acting. If you feel like you have to do it, then do it.” (He got a huge laugh on that).

* On the death of Rita: “He’s motivated by a desire to make amends for that even if he doesn’t consciously know it. He needs to make things right, even if it feels impossible.”

* “An appetite remains for killing and I think there’s an inexpressible unquenchable vengeance alive in Dexter now because of the fact that he killed Trinity and allowed himself to express a sense of kinship and a sense of mercy, only to discover that the guy had murdered his wife. He can’t bring Trinity back to life and kill him again, so he has to find other victims.”

Chip Johannessen, a producer on the series gave some good tidbits on the upcoming season:

* “This season is not so much about Dexter’s sheer body count, but that he’s in a much more emotionally ragged place than he’s ever been. And this thing that always calmed him and brought him peace doesn’t work anymore.”

* “We have very different adversaries for him and pressure in ways we’ve never seen before. We see a new type of relationship that he’s never had before, too, at the center of the season.”

* “We wanted to get away from the single serial killer. We’re not doing a serial killer of the week thing. We just have more balls in the air.”

Dexter premieres on Sunday, Sept. 26 at on Showtime.