Dexter Series Finale

missymo

I didn't consider it to be a red herring, because I never for a moment pictured Masuka's daughter playing a role in the main story line.  There was slight anticipation that something could be there when we first found out she needed money, but after that the writing was so insipid and boring that I zoned out  If red herring was the was intention than the writers failed miserably.  It just seemed like another boring Dexter side plot to me.  

The showrunner said he thought the audience wanted to see that Masuka wasn't sexless (who cares?), and that he didn't end up alone.  So dumb.  

The proposed execution ending would have been SO MUCH BETTER.  Now I'm sad it didn't end that way.   

BoatsNHoes

What a heaping load of nut butter that turned out to be.

BoatsNHoes

Also I want that 56 minutes of my lyfe back.

Rhomonk

Sandy Cohen said:

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.”

Rhomonk

Someone took the last scene and dubbed the Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song" to it.  HA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3XmjQySbL0

missymo

Another thing that highlights how shitty this last season of Dexter was, is how awesome Ray Donovan has turned out to be.  I actually cried at the end of yesterday's episode, whereas I was only rolling my eyes at my once beloved Dexter.  

fancynewbeesly

Buzzfeed summed it up perfectly:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/the-dexter-series-finale-was-unbelievably-awful

missyishere

Starearedkid said:

Buzzfeed summed it up perfectly:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/the-dexter-series-finale-was-unbelievably-awful

I love the ending bit, "But this was mostly obscured by audience members throwing shit at their TVs"  

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fancynewbeesly

DH is the only person I know adamantly defending the ending. 

fancynewbeesly

He says the more unbelieving thing is that dexter is ALWAYS able to get a parking spot right in front---he says that is the most unrealistic thing out there. 

Sandy Cohen

"Remember when Quinn was pretty sure Dexter was a murderer? Well, neither does Quinn, apparently."

-buzzfeed

Good stuff

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SandyClam

Dexter was my all-time favorite show. This season, I stopped watching after about 3 episodes. It was so fucking terrible. I'm just now reading this thread and in disbelief at the ending. What the motherfuck? How awful. How did Deb die? And Dexter seriously becomes a fucking lumberjack? What the shit?

I like that alternate execution ending. It appears this season sucked so much dick because that writer left.

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theseaword

From the writer interview , it honestly sounds like they didn't care what they did as long as it was
"Shocking" and
Leaving the door open to a spin off.

They decided not to have him be killed or go to jail because that was too "predictable". Yes, twists can be fun. But it's more important that the ending make sense in the context of the show. Just picking a random ending to be "shocking" is useless to viewers.

SandyClam

Thanks, @Speer06. Why is Dexter fleeing Miami? Did he get caught?

SandyClam

Oh, but why was he going to Argentina with Hannah and Harrison initially. Was it because she was wanted and not him?

Sandy Cohen

This whole season has pretty much been

The Nap Taker

When they showed lumberjack Dex I was thinking "Oh shit it's harrison, this is where the spin off begins, YAY"

Alas, I was wrong.

I'm confident I'm the only one who wanted Dex and Hannah to live happily ever after.....I do understand why he left Harrison with her. I think I would be less pissed if I myself was not a mom. Since I am I was all "why would he leave his kid, what a douche"

Smootchy

so sad Dexter ended so crappy. 

DH and I really got into it and watched all the seasons back to back. When this one came out we were so excited... Yeah, I haven't even seen the last few shows. Just read recaps on here and my fire and passion for Dexter is as dead the ice truck killer.