DEXTER FINAL SEASON WTF EXTRAVAGANZA

[MyOneAndOnly]

mediocre ending was mediocre

[MyOneAndOnly]

So Dexter's punishment is self imposed exile? Because he hurts the people around him... kind of like he's a brooding, morose superhero.

[yo soy el mejor]

i didn't think it was so bad. it's way better than his dying (suicide or otherwise) or going to jail. at least now i can wonder if he ever leaves his self-imposed exile to one day be with hanner or take up a relationship with jamie for whatever reason. the world is his oyster.

and i am almost glad i came around to quinn in the final episode. i wonder if they meant to do that.

[yo soy el mejor]

and i knew what it was like for him to die because we thought he had for a minute.

[smashingjj]

what a supremely shitty ending. Wasn't expecting much more, but still, that was impressively and monumentally bad. I felt nothing when Deb died, it should have happened much earlier. How Dexter was able to turn her switch off without anyone even coming by to check what's going on was already ridiculous, but how he could just carry her body out of the hospital into a place that was crowded with hospital employees was beyond retarded.

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

mediocre ending was mediocre

is there ever going to be a day when people stop doing this

[smashingjj]

"Not watching Dexter? Well, who can blame you. At this point, the only people still watching are life-hating masochists like me who grimly cling on to each new arid, inert, incident-free episode just because they've already sat through seven and a half godforsaken years of this tripe and they feel a wrongheaded sense of duty to discover how it ends. Worse, like me, they may even still harbour a forlorn speckle of hope that Dexter will be able to come up with an ending that feels both satisfying and earned, even though nothing that has happened in the past four years has suggested that this will actually be the case."

this is me

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

i didn't think it was so bad. it's way better than his dying (suicide or otherwise) or going to jail. at least now i can wonder if he ever leaves his self-imposed exile to one day be with hanner or take up a relationship with jamie for whatever reason. the world is his oyster.

and i am almost glad i came around to quinn in the final episode. i wonder if they meant to do that.

what I found lame is that near the end Dexter seems to just stop having the compulsion to kill. Why? Because love. I don't buy the idea that a serial killer who killed 150 people would simply stop because he fell in love. The idea that Chuck Bartowski's girlfriend is a cure for psychopathy seems silly.

Also, Deb kicked the bucket off camera... why? She's the second most important character on the show and she died off camera? That felt kind of awkward and clunky.

The fact that Dexter committed murder in the police station and was allowed to walk out was also obsurd. The show has constantly presented silly situations that the viewer is supposed to not question. Like other serial killers walking into the police department to fuck with Dexter. Or Dexter having access to the evidence room to fuck with cases all the time, but never getting caught. Killing someone on camera inside police holding is just dumb.

I think the series may have ended better if they'd stopped at the end of season 7 with Deb Killing LaGuerta.

you would have been way more satisfied if it ended at season 2
unless you're a life-hating masochist

[MyOneAndOnly]

40 on the curb for Sgt Doakes

[Elvis The Fat Years]

it was driving me crazy when he was dumping debs body. hes out in the middle of the ocean, a huge storm is coming and it was calm as fuck out there. after he dumped the body it looked like he was driving in to the apocalypse and not ONE FUCKING WAVE

FUCK

[MyOneAndOnly]

My bad. I meant that the last time you see Dexter talking to her she seems like she's recovering. Then she "takes a turn for the worse," but it's all off camera. And the next time you see her she's a vegetable, ie. brain dead. They even tell Dexter that she'll never wake up. I didn't take him unplugging her as Dexter killing Deb. She was already gone.

Dexter dumping her in the Ocean felt really forced, and nearly as awkward as the terrible CGI "storm on the horizon" which itself was a horribly blatent metaphore. I assumed it was a way of showing that Dexter felt her death was directly his fault. That she ended up just another victim of his table.

Which is supposed to help us make sense of the fact that he banished himself to a logging camp in the Pacific Northwest as punishment.

[teh b0lly!!1]

this episode was so terrible i don't even know what to say

[teh b0lly!!1]

i'm so glad i don't have to watch this show anymore

[yo soy el mejor]

people sure do expect a lot of television shows.

[Ol' Couch Ass]

Originally Posted by smashingjj

How Dexter was able to turn her switch off without anyone even coming by to check what's going on was already ridiculous, but how he could just carry her body out of the hospital into a place that was crowded with hospital employees was beyond retarded.

Yeah when he was carrying her out he looked at best like a date rapist, at worst like a corpse humper.

I feel like the few entertaining seasons of the show were dismembered, wrapped in plastic and dropped into the ocean.

[Ol' Couch Ass]

How the fuck did he survive the ending? I didn't see any fake wreckage on his boat when he was cruising out into the storm. Did he have another boat anchored out there or something?

[Ol' Couch Ass]

He must be a really strong swimmer (because he is a psychopath).

[yo soy el mejor]

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Ol' Couch Ass

How the fuck did he survive the ending? I didn't see any fake wreckage on his boat when he was cruising out into the storm. Did he have another boat anchored out there or something?

If batman can survive a nuclear bomb blast I think a serial killer can survive a stupid storm.

[reprise85]

i liked:

how dexter dumped deb, realizing she was another victim
how he didnt end up with a happy ending

i didn't like:
the implausible shit all through the episode... taking deb out of the hospital, killing saxon on camera, the bomb scare. shit there's so much of it

the big wasted potential here is that this last season had nothing to do with dexter possibly getting caught or having any punishment. throughout the series, the big sustaining drama was will dexter get caught? that was what was leading through so many seasons, and then in the end the season is all about hannah mckay and will she get caught and be arrested again. derp derp who cares about hannah mckay jesus christ

also why wouldn't people question where harrison is when dexter goes to the hospital without him?!

[reprise85]

at the very least they should have had deb die a while ago and made dexter freak out about it for half a season. he really didn't seem upset hardly at all. they could have had dexter purposefully plan out harrison going with hannah with no intention of following them, for example. i just dont understand how they thought this was a good season/ending

[mxzombie]

it's called...suspension of disbelief. because it's fictional. y'know.

i also thought about the wave thing though. but if they'd filmed it in a realistically choppy water tank then a bunch of viewers would get seasick and nobody would know what's going on.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by reprise85

at the very least they should have had deb die a while ago and made dexter freak out about it for half a season. he really didn't seem upset hardly at all. they could have had dexter purposefully plan out harrison going with hannah with no intention of following them, for example. i just dont understand how they thought this was a good season/ending

Real truth!

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by mxzombie

it's called...suspension of disbelief. because it's fictional. y'know.

i also thought about the wave thing though. but if they'd filmed it in a realistically choppy water tank then a bunch of viewers would get seasick and nobody would know what's going on.

suspension of disbelief only goes so far. like the hundreds of serial killers that apparently live in miami in the world of dexter. okay, suspend disbelief. he can look up forensic stuff on his computer and no one ever wonders why he looks up people who wind up missing. suspension of disbelief. but when you do things like make harrison go with hannah only so dexter has already gotten rid of his son so he can fake his own death... basically, if you use suspension of disbelief constantly to move the plot along, there's a basic problem in the writing. not everything has to make sense, but at least try to make it make sense most of the time. it's like the writers stopped even caring about making it at all coherent

the most implausible part is that enough people watched for this to go eight seasons

[yo soy el mejor]

you know what show really ticked me off? small wonder!

[Order 66]

well i expected it to be much worse. it ended as well as you could hope for, considering the post season 4 stuff. again, everything felt rushed and crammed in there

the exile thing was a little ehhh but it makes sense. maybe the epilogue could've been more fleshed out. like show old man dexter having come to grips with his past or something

i'm surprised i didn't take it harder than i did, the show has a special place in my heart because it reminds me of when i was first living on my own with a shitty tv playing my stack of dexter dvds on my ps2. but i've accepted the show isn't what it used to be so i guess i've made my peace a long time ago

[yo soy el mejor]

that was touching.

[yo soy el mejor]

...my bowels