After a brief blogging hiatus, I am back! Been having a bit of a crisis with what I want to do in the future, but that is over now and surprisingly I have decided what I want to do thanks to a TV series.... No doubt, I will change my mind again but for now I have decided that I want to learn Toxicology and eventually work for a Forensics team... Slight change of career eh?
Anyway, I have to thank
Dexter for this specific change of career. Am now working my way through the third series of the show and am slightly obsessed. The idea behind it is so amazing and I am hooked. Now, don't get me wrong - I don't want to be a serial killer or anything but the work that they do within the office is amazing.
Taking the murder aspect out of the picture, I love the work that Dexter does with forensic bloodstain pattern analyst, however there is no need for this in the UK or if there is, I am certainly in the wrong area for it. Toxicology on the other hand is used quite a bit in my area - for those who don't know Toxicology is the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms. It is the study of symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people. Since I was little I have wanted to be able to help people and this would be a way of me fulfilling that.
Anyway, enough of my ramble. Back onto the point of Dexter. So the show has five seasons (which I am currently watching the third) and has been commissioned for a sixth, which I am very happy about. Michael C. Hall is the genius that plays Dexter Morgan who has inspired this blog today. Set in Miami, the show's first season was largely based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, the first of his series of Dexter novels.
Dexter structures his serial killing ways around "the Code of Harry", a body of ethics and procedures devised by his adoptive father Harry Morgan (who was a Miami cop) to make sure Dexter never gets caught and to ensure that Dexter kills only other killers. Harry also trained Dexter in how to interact convincingly with other people despite his dissociative mental illness, which Harry believed to be sociopathy, arising from Dexter witnessing the brutal murder of his biological mother, Laura Moser.
So that is a brief introduction to Dexter and I thoroughly suggest that anyone who hasn't seen this show before rents it or watches it in some way or another. It really is brilliant and has the perfect mix of suspense, fun and mystery.