Dexter Season 7 and 8

I can't believe after 8 seasons they give us this craptastic series finale. Unreal


This finale made the Soprano's finale look like a masterpiece
 
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PotionMistress said:

Oh Jeez...get a grip!
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It's ok it's ok, I have it together *I didn't literally cry :p there were some things I liked about it don't want to spoil any details but the most disappointing part for me was the very end .... Hate to say it but at least the writer's of breaking bad have got it right.

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I actually thought this was the best episode of the season, granted that isn't really saying much. I've never liked the Hannah character and did not like the way things ended up with her and having her end up with Harrison is just wrong on so many levels. Of the 2 characters whose lives were changed the most, I really thought it would end up the other way around, which is probably why they did it that way.
 
Rbeato said:
Not impressed by a lot of that finale. I get certain aspects of it, but it was just too way over the top. Sorry writers for the show, Chris Nolan beat you to that ending for the most part.
I guess Dex managed to also fix the autopilot on the slice of life....
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Ha, well said!

A lame final season for a very good show. Ah well on to the next series!
 
Soooo, I'm about 4 episodes from finishing the season...and from reading what's here, I kinda think I'm just gonna skip it. I'm not, however, surprised at the reaction to the show. Basically, Dexter was an AMAZING first season, a decent 2nd season, a really good 4th season, and everything else has been crap or mediocre at best. The writers, especially after Season 4, were just not up to the task.

This is a shame, because the cast is INCREDIBLY talented. I actually do think that Desmond Harrington could carry his own show, but probably not as Joey Quinn. He's a TERRIFIC actor, though, as evidenced by his performance on this show in years past. They guy definitely has range.

At any rate, much like the Sopranos, this show seemed to start strong, then fizzle. I never watched the second half of the Sopranos Season 6, and I doubt I ever will. I think I'll just skip the end of Dexter, given what I've heard. There's other, better TV to watch.
 
I've always felt like, deep inside, Deb was still in love with Dexter. And for me it was the most depressing part about it. She had died before even realizing that.
 
Another stupid gripe withe the finale even though there are tons...

So after he kills Deb, he brings her to his boat without anyone noticing :rollyes: he just tosses her into the ocean with all of his other victims. What a nice way to treat your sister, so no one will ever find her.....stay classy Mr Morgan.
 
.:MirrorminD:. said:
Another stupid gripe withe the finale even though there are tons...

So after he kills Deb, he brings her to his boat without anyone noticing :rollyes: he just tosses her into the ocean with all of his other victims. What a nice way to treat your sister, so no one will ever find her.....stay classy Mr Morgan.
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I can see one brain-dead patient with little hope for recovery getting lost in the chaos of an evacuation, especially with the storm that close. I don't think he expected to survive the storm himself, so I think his intent was for both of them to go to the bottom together - buried side by side, after a fashion. I think he was attempting suicide, and the last scene was supposed to let the viewer know that he wasn't getting off the hook that easily. His punishment for all he's done is to learn how to love and feel remorse, and then to live alone with both. After all, we can't have a serial killer get away with countless murders, get the girl and ride off into the sunset. This ending is without mercy.

I wasn't satisfied with the ending at all. Ending up like the Tooth Fairy, growing old alone in purgatory could have been a brave way to end the show, but it's the same card they've played a few seasons running. Dexter seems to experience some growth over the course of the season, his circumstances change, and then at the end the mash the RESET button, and he ends up scowling off into space as the music fades in. We've seen this too many times for it to have any impact now.
 
As much as I didn't want Dexter to die in the series finale, I really thought this would have been the only way it could have ended.

I really wasn't nuts about the very end. I understand that the best way to protect his son was to keep Harrison from himself.

I think to truly end Dexter's story that it should have either been they all left together and gotten away, or that everything came full circle and Dexter's life sacrificed.

I think Deb's end was inevitable as she was an absolute wreck and miserable after what she did for Dexter. I can live with that.

I really don't know how I feel about how everything wrapped up. I think i'm a lot more underwhelmed than excited about it. I'd call it more of a THE END.....?

Season 4 will forever be THE BEST Dexter season ever made.
 
Shendorion said:
I can see one brain-dead patient with little hope for recovery getting lost in the chaos of an evacuation, especially with the storm that close. I don't think he expected to survive the storm himself, so I think his intent was for both of them to go to the bottom together - buried side by side, after a fashion. I think he was attempting suicide, and the last scene was supposed to let the viewer know that he wasn't getting off the hook that easily. His punishment for all he's done is to learn how to love and feel remorse, and then to live alone with both. After all, we can't have a serial killer get away with countless murders, get the girl and ride off into the sunset. This ending is without mercy.

I wasn't satisfied with the ending at all. Ending up like the Tooth Fairy, growing old alone in purgatory could have been a brave way to end the show, but it's the same card they've played a few seasons running. Dexter seems to experience some growth over the course of the season, his circumstances change, and then at the end the mash the RESET button, and he ends up scowling off into space as the music fades in. We've seen this too many times for it to have any impact now.
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Your last paragraph sums up my critique of the show since Season 4. Each season was poised to show growth. Each season seemed to. And then each season said "Nah" and hit the reset button. Every. Freakin'. Time. I just got bored with it. I stopped taking the show that seriously, which was the only way I was able to enjoy Season 6 and Season 7. This season was kind of eyebrow-arch-inducingly interesting, but only up to a point, and then it just went off the deep end.

I really do think that the writers of the show have never had a good sense of balance for the show since about Season 4. From that point forward, the show was consistently uneven in its execution. Some episodes would be good, but they'd fall back on the same tired emotional beats, and other plotlines were just...sloppily forgotten about.

All that said, I do question how this show could've ended in a way that would satisfy the vast majority of people.


I guess the way I see it, the show is really only worth watching for Season 1. Past that point, it's all optional to me, even with Season 4 being as good as it was. I gather the books got crazy, too. Whatever. Not much point in fussing about it. I've just gotten to a point with TV shows where it's EXTREMELY rare that I'll get so emotionally invested as I have in others, and I now have very little problem just...walking away from a show rather than sticking it out to the bitter, unsatisfying end.
 
So he jets off into the hurricane. He's clearly miles (5-10 or more) from shore - hurricane gets the boat and he somehow miraculously survives it and floats back to shore? Perhaps a little bit somewhere in the last couple weeks something about another boat would have been nice - seems like a huge hole to me.

I felt the whole thing was dissapointing. Deb can't even go out in a positive way - she has to get shot, survive, stroke out from a clot, be brain dead, and then unhooked from a ventilator - which no one seemed to notice even though alarms would have been sounds all over the nurses station.

I realize you can't give a serial killer a happy ending, but a satisfying one would have been nice. Not a WTF was that?

So what's the spinoff possibility they mentioned? Don't see a Quinn spinoff, or Miami metro. Only options seem to be Dex in the great northwest or Hannah/Harrison. Nothing else there really.
 
cboath said:
So what's the spinoff possibility they mentioned? Don't see a Quinn spinoff, or Miami metro. Only options seem to be Dex in the great northwest or Hannah/Harrison. Nothing else there really.
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If it has anything to do with Hannah, I'm not going to be watching it. I hated her character and I hate the fact that she is the one who got away in the end. I can't believe the writers thought having Harrison end up with her was something we wanted to see.
 
It almost seemed to me that they couldn't figure out which ending to keep, so they stuck them both in. Somehow, I would have been less disappointed had they just had Dexter sail off into the hurricane for us to assume he was dead. When it faded back in to the shot of the truck, I was thinking "Oh man, I swear Dexter better not show up as a lumberjack with a beard." Womp womp.
 
jlee562 said:
It almost seemed to me that they couldn't figure out which ending to keep, so they stuck them both in. Somehow, I would have been less disappointed had they just had Dexter sail off into the hurricane for us to assume he was dead. When it faded back in to the shot of the truck, I was thinking "Oh man, I swear Dexter better not show up as a lumberjack with a beard." Womp womp.
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But that's the prequel to Man of Steel, so now it all makes sense.
 
Seeing as the spoilers are now flowing.

It had nothing to to with Debs death for me, it was the only good part!! The whole ep was boring.

IMO Dex should have gotten the electric Chair as the bay harbour butcher, Doakes should have had his name cleared. The realisation it was Dexter should have been flooding back to Quine and Batista. The Anticipation of dexter almost getting caught would have been satisfied with an "OH ****, Dexter got caught?!?" moment Or
Vogels son could have offed him....the killer that beat Dexter.....maybe? Maybe not. I just wish we got something/ anything other then what we got, hell I may have liked it better if he was sitting infront of a blood slides box, with that whole "i know what I truely am now speech."



Imo the ending was way to happy.


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