Agree. They had no idea where to go with Dexter or what to do with the story. Not a clue.
I loved LOST. Sure, season 3 and some of season 4 were terrible, but I'm one of those who loved the ending and was fine with a lot of questions going unanswered. I always thought the last few seasons were great because they had a definite story that they wanted to tell and they knew where they were going with it. Dexter had none of this. After multiple episodes of this season there was nothing hanging out there that we cared about. Nothing. No story. The only story was Hannah trying to catch a plane, and they cared so much about that story they cuoldn't even put her in a wig. lol.
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It's just amazing how they had really nothing driving the last few seasons of Dexter.
I found that it wasn't so much that they had nothing driving it, but rather that they had no sense of where they were going. They were driving, just kinda aimlessly. Like, Season 5. It opened with Dexter FLAGRANTLY breaking The Code. Just offing some dude in a bar that he stopped by in his boat. And....no repercussions whatsoever. And yet, think of all the bull**** they did season after season with Dex killing a guy and then worrying about a blood spot or a stray body part of oh-no-Rita-called-on-the-phone-and-he-just-can't-let-it-go-to-voicemail-for-5-minutes. But the guy in the bar? Meh, no biggie.
Season 5 had him and Lumen getting closer, her connecting with Harrison, and then...whoops! She skipped town and hit the road! Oh well. Tehre were other things in Season 5, too, as I recall. Some plotline with the Santeria killer that just got dropped altogether and ignored. Then there was the Season 6 time shift that had Laguerta and Batista MARRIED when there'd NEVER been anything going on between them romantically, then divorced the next season...it was just all over the freakin' place...and in the end, none of it mattered.
I had a similar reaction to Michael C. Hall's last show, Six Feet Under. Characters just kept seeming to flounder through seasons aimlessly for no real purpose. Except that show had an amazing ending, or at least an amazing 10-ish closing minutes.
I dunno. I just don't see a point in watching shows like this. I gave up on Dexter after Season 5, really. I continued to watch just to kill time, but I'd kinda hoped that they'd go somewhere with Season 8. I still have four episodes to watch, but that's four hours of my time I just don't care to spend on a show like this anymore. Same deal with the Sopranos, same deal with Six Feet Under, same deal with Vikings. I hit a point with the shows where I just say "Oh who the hell cares" and move on, and I blame the writers for that.
That's the other thing. This show has consistently had an AMAZING cast. But it's a cast that has been consistently undermined by crappy, directionless writing. I'm not even up for the ending that the former show-runner had in mind.
I guess the way I see it, Dexter should've been a one-season show. Yet another argument for UK shows, I suppose.
