Dexter Series Finale

fancynewbeesly

So I am half watching it--I HATE the anticipation, so I am buried in the computer as well. 

Rhomonk

What did Deb say to Quinn as she was being put in the ambulance?  I love you, who?

fancynewbeesly

I believe Joey

fancynewbeesly

I am just waiting for Deb to say something on pain medicine  

Rhomonk

Starearedkid said:

I believe Joey

Ah, that makes sense.

fancynewbeesly

Oh no...

theseaword

This is some terrible shizz so far.

fancynewbeesly

How does he not get caught in ANYTHING?

fancynewbeesly

It is....it so is. 

Rhomonk

Lumberjack Dexter? okkk

theseaword

....Horrible ending. How did they screw this up so badly?

fancynewbeesly

I did like the "self defense" alibi on Saxon. 

fancynewbeesly

Luhdashuh said:

Starearedkid said:

I did like the "self defense" alibi on Saxon. 

That scene was the first time all season that I felt like I was watching Dexter

It seriously made me long for season 2 and 4. 

theseaword

I can't even verbalize a

Luhdashuh said:

Starearedkid said:

I did like the "self defense" alibi on Saxon. 

That scene was the first time all season that I felt like I was watching Dexter

Yeah, I didn't realize how much I'd missed the creepy voice until that moment. Rest of the ep was just so, so wrong. I feel like the writers just didn't understand their own character this entire season.

fancynewbeesly

My DH disagrees about the ending. In season 2 apparently he says to Doakes that he wouldn't kill himself and 3 he made a comment to Miguel that he doesn't get a happy ending.

DH does think that the ending would have been better if when the panned the camera on him at the very end and him saying: "Tonights the night."

theseaword

I didn't want it to have a happy ending necessarily. From the beginning, I thought the show would end with Deb finding out and either her killing/arresting him, or him killing her and giving in to his dark passenger.

Him ending up with Hannah in Argentina was obvious fantasy. But this ending was the worst. Chickening out on killing him. Leaving Harrison with Hannah, a woman he barely knows and a fugitive, in a foreign country. Having the final villain be some random dude I didn't give a shit about. All terrible.

Sandy Cohen

This show went south as soon as Dex became a father. Serial Killers shouldn't have kids.

Sandy Cohen

I do agree that this ending is all for a spin off down the road where Harrison becomes a serial killer and looks for his father.

missyishere

Can someone give me a synopsis of what happened tonight?  Because I couldn't watch tonight's and last week's episodes.  I was so pissed how this season was heading, I couldn't bring myself to give up my time to actually watch it.  This season was soooo fucking terrible.

missyishere

OnederfulMother said:

Deb dies, dexter buries her at sea, sends Harrison to love with Hannah in Argentina, Dex fakes his death and becomes a lumberjack. I'm not kidding.

Gosh, I was so close at the ending.  I only had the Deb and Hannah thing flipped around.  Did anything ever come of the creepy Masuka's daughter?  

missyishere

FUCK YOU, DEXTER WRITERS!!!!!!!

missyishere

So there was no point to Quinn being around 2 more seasons than necessary and Masuka's daughter?! GDI!

theseaword

So, after Dex very expertly kills Saxon with the pen, is there any hope at all that it dawned on Quinn and Batista that Dex was tootally a murderer this whole time? I'm going with no.

Also, FL hospitals are just as terrible as FL police departments I guess.

ASmallWonder

Fuck this show!  I don't know how I wanted to end but it straight up pissed me off.  The only good scenes were Dex killing Saxon and then Angel's incredulous "Help me understand something Dex. You don't even work here...."  We LOL'd through that scene.

missyishere

At least we got a naked MCH ass out of this season.  Other than that, NOPE!

evaazalea

K, people are going to be looking for Harrison, pretty evil to just leave his step kids with zero clue as to where their brother is, essentially he is dead to them now. And I would think this would technically make Hannah a kidnapper. I think he wimped out on killing himself if he truly felt everyone was better without him. As for surviving the hurricane, it's become apparent that we are not allowed to ask questions this season and just assumed this is real lyfe.

NotSharknado

I feel robbed.

NotSharknado

There's so many ways they could have ended this show. The writers got lazy.

missymo

That series finale was just a pile of steaming shit. I mean, really Dexter writers? Really?

This might honestly be the worst final season of any show I have ever watched. I feel like all the good writers must have quit after season 5.

ASmallWonder

The more I think about this, the more pissed I get.  Dexter thinks being a serial killer is detrimental to his son so he does the obvious thing and  LEAVES HIM IN THE CARE OF A SERIAL KILLER.  Elway, after coming to, is going to be on Hannah's ass but quick and there's no way he's going to settle for Dexter as dead, especially once he finds out that Debra is dead and missing.  Which was absurd.  I know there's a storm going on but he can just unplug her and carry her dead ass out to a boat docked at the GD front door of the hospital.  He tosses her mummy-looking body in the back like *whistle whistle* nothing to see here!

Also, WTF is all his stuff?  Yes, he always had an emergency kit with another ID, money, etc. but the way it was written, it doesn't seem like he would have had all that shit with him. So WHO is he and what the hell did he do for money to start his new life?  

Rhomonk

I still can't believe Dexter left Harrison with a wanted fugitive that he banged a few times.  Heck, leave the kid with Jamie Batista.  Looks like she was basically raising the kid anyway since she was always babysitting. 

theseaword

I was literally up last night thinking about poor, fictional Harrison.
Also, DH said he read that they elected not to kill Dexter because they are considering a spin off for Hannah. I would not watch.

missymo

The writers of Dexter should have taken lessons from the team at Breaking Bad.

That is a show where the final season has been amazing. Every episode is packed with tension and "oh shit" moments. The contrast just makes Dexter seem that much worse to me.

theseaword

missymo said:

The writers of Dexter should have taken lessons from the team at Breaking Bad.

That is a show where the final season has been amazing. Every episode is packed with tension and "oh shit" moments. The contrast just makes Dexter seem that much worse to me.

Agreed. In bb, there's so much meaning behind everything that happens. With Dexter, it's so meandering and I get the impression the writers are just killing time. So many elements are introduced for no reason at all. Frustrating.

theseaword

And two more complaints, although I know they are beside the point. Why would Saxon go to the hospital? He's a wanted guy- we're told that serial killers are logical and practical. And what would he accomplish by finishing Deb off at this point, even if he succeeded? He's wanted for a whole bunch of murders. He would still have to leave Miami.

Second complaint...the lumberjack thing. I feel like the writers spent all of 30 seconds thinking of where he would go and what he would do. Lumberjack is so cliche and stupid. At least think of someplace original or clever.

[Deleted User]

Did anyone notice how calm the waters were when he was loading Deb into the boat?  Ummmm, hurricane.  

theseaword

Moidonna said:

I completely forgot about Masuka's daughter!  How weird.

I would have forgiven all of the stupid things that happened if Deb had lived, and Dexter had left Harrison to live with her.  But Deb dying and Harrison living with Hannah while Dexter becomes a lumberjack?  Nope.

How did he survive driving his boat directly into a hurricane?

I read the interview with the writer in the other post, and per the writer Dex didn't seriously consider killing himself. There was a safety raft on his boat he planned to use; he just wanted to am fake his own death. Fucking...what?? He planned on driving his boat into the middle of a hurricane and getting out on as safety raft?? That sounds pretty hard to do. And why would he need to fake his own death anyway? Hannah probably would have assumed he was dead when he didn't show up, and he'd already tied up his other loose ends.

The writer also confirms that Quinn and Batista did in fact remain knuckleheads until the end, even after witnessing that very expertly executed murder. And that Musaka's daughter was just there because they thought we, as an audience, would just genuinely give a shit that Musaka has someone in his life now. These characters were so dumb and pointless.

Sandy Cohen

I just read this article. I would have been very satisfied with this ending.


“I haven’t shared this with anyone,” Former Dexter Producer Clyde Philips told Kristin Dos Santos . “And I can tell you that this is what I personally would have done should I have stayed with the show. I chose not to stay with the show, and so everybody did what they did, and I had no problem with that…and I think they did a good job with the final episode. But here is what I personally would have pitched.”
"In the very last scene of the series," Philips explained, "Dexter wakes up. And everybody is going to think, ‘Oh, it was a dream.’ And then the camera pulls back and back and back and then we realize, ‘No, it’s not a dream.’ Dexter’s opening his eyes and he’s on the execution table at the Florida Penitentiary. They’re just starting to administer the drugs and he looks out through the window to the observation gallery.
"And in the gallery are all the people that Dexter killed—including the Trinity Killer and the Ice Truck Killer (his brother Rudy), LaGuerta who he was responsible killing, Doakes who he’s arguably responsible for, Rita, who he’s arguably responsible for, Lila. All the big deaths, and also whoever the weekly episodic kills were. They are all there.
"That’s what I envisioned for the ending of Dexter. That everything we’ve seen over the past eight seasons has happened in the several seconds from the time they start Dexter’s execution to the time they finish the execution and he dies. Literally, his life flashed before his eyes as he was about to die. I think it would have been a great, epic, very satisfying conclusion.”
THERE YOU GO. The perfect ending to Dexter that actually makes sense. I wish Philips had stayed for one more season & wrapped the show this way.
Brb forgetting the hot mess that was the actual finale & rolling w/ this one.
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Source: https://uk.eonline.com/news/461558/chills-former-dexter-producer-clyde-phillips-reveals-how-he-planned-to-end-the-series?cmpid=sn-000000-twitterfeed-365-kristin&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitterfeed_kristin&dlvrit=51396

missymo

TwilightMV said:

The writers of Dexter should have taken lessons from the team at Breaking Bad. That is a show where the final season has been amazing. Every episode is packed with tension and "oh shit" moments. The contrast just makes Dexter seem that much worse to me.

Agreed. In bb, there's so much meaning behind everything that happens. With Dexter, it's so meandering and I get the impression the writers are just killing time. So many elements are introduced for no reason at all. Frustrating.

Seriously! What was with all the dead end story lines? I don't know why the writers thought we would enjoy watching that shit. 

As for Masuka's daughter,  I don't know about anyone else, but he wasn't even an endearing enough character for me to care what happened to him.  Even after all these seasons. So, why would we care that he has a weird daughter if it's not going to tie into another plot?? Pointless. 

Sandy Cohen

I'm assuming Masuka's daughter was just a red hearring.

Sandy Cohen

Either that or she was a writer's daughter and they said, "Well, we are really going to fuck up the ending anyway, so let's give you some screen time".