No Dexter thread? (spoilers for sure)

[Sarah_Jayne]

Damn! Now, that was a season finale!

What now for Deb?

[woj]

I thought it was a bit lame, certainly not even in the same ballpark as last season's finale...

[BIGTYMER]

It's on my dvr. Gonna watch it tonight.

[John-ACWM]

I hope it will get better, one of my favorite shows.

[kane]

I liked it. There was really no other way out for them but to do what they did otherwise at the very least Dexter was screwed and likely Deb as well.

It will be interesting to see how they finish it off next season.

[Sarah_Jayne]

I liked it. There was really no other way out for them but to do what they did otherwise at the very least Dexter was screwed and likely Deb as well.

It will be interesting to see how they finish it off next season.

Yup, she had to do it really how Maria's death will be explained will be interesting. It is interesting to see Dexter get real human feelings - even if it is for another killer - and started to unravel.

[woj]

Yup, she had to do it really how Maria's death will be explained will be interesting. It is interesting to see Dexter get real human feelings - even if it is for another killer - and started to unravel.

It will be explained exactly how Dexter planned it? Estrada + LaGuerta shot each other?
He had plenty of time to clean up the scene and he will be the one investigating it the next day... and no one has a hardon for Dexter anymore... so probably no one will suspect anything... Debra is now the highest ranking person there, so she can probably find and destroy that video...

it seems the series kinda reached a dead end... there is no suspense anymore...
I was kinda half asleep last night watching it, so maybe I missed some critical detail?

[Sarah_Jayne]

I am still with it as a show. I mean, I could foresee a little bit more than I could at other times but I was still very much along for the ride.

[korke]

there should be one more final part for all the explains, season was one of the best bus final wasnt so good...

[Far-L]

The whole "Kashka" plotline to start the season was a super huge red herring that pretty much dead ended into nothing but a foil for what? Showing Dexter that he can be a serial killer and have feelings about people too? (ground already covered in previous seasons) Still, Ray Stevenson was the best antagonist since Lithgow, imo, but that is probably because both those guys can act their way out of a paper bag to say the least.

However, now they have pretty much painted themselves into a corner.

Instead of going for a shark jumping season 8, the best thing would've been for Deb to kill Dexter, then LaGuerta, then go crazy and start seeing, talking to the Dad like Dex did, while getting promoted to Captain... close up on her expression, the same sinister smile Dexter always sports... roll credits. THE END.

But of course, that is not how these things work in Tinseltown, where the last drop of creativity must be dehydrated to a speck of dusty remembrance for what used to be good.

[woj]

I am still with it as a show. I mean, I could foresee a little bit more than I could at other times but I was still very much along for the ride.

the show is still good, still one of the better shows on tv now, the last episode was pretty good too... but I just think they blew the ending, they could have put a better twist in the end, create some suspense... do a better job of setting up the next season, etc...

[kane]

The whole "Kashka" plotline to start the season was a super huge red herring that pretty much dead ended into nothing but a foil for what? Showing Dexter that he can be a serial killer and have feelings about people too? (ground already covered in previous seasons) Still, Ray Stevenson was the best antagonist since Lithgow, imo, but that is probably because both those guys can act their way out of a paper bag to say the least.

However, now they have pretty much painted themselves into a corner.

Instead of going for a shark jumping season 8, the best thing would've been for Deb to kill Dexter, then LaGuerta, then go crazy and start seeing, talking to the Dad like Dex did, while getting promoted to Captain... close up on her expression, the same sinister smile Dexter always sports... roll credits. THE END.

But of course, that is not how these things work in Tinseltown, where the last drop of creativity must be dehydrated to a speck of dusty remembrance for what used to be good.

Part of the mobster storyline was also to allow Dexter to realize that he kills because he wants/needs to and he doesn't need The Code to justify his actions.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Yes, the mobster stuff was to get Dexter to break the code which makes him a real serial killer even to the viewer's eyes. It is going to be interesting to see how we as watchers come to think of him by the end of the series. When he was killing bad guys we could all sort of still like his non-killer persona and even root for him with his killings. Now though, without a code and having brought his sister into it, I don't know.

Though, I am sure the Deb love thing isn't over...that is one of the story lines I think they didn't actually play out well. If they were going to go there then GO there.

[Far-L]

Yes, the mobster stuff was to get Dexter to break the code which makes him a real serial killer even to the viewer's eyes. It is going to be interesting to see how we as watchers come to think of him by the end of the series. When he was killing bad guys we could all sort of still like his non-killer persona and even root for him with his killings. Now though, without a code and having brought his sister into it, I don't know.

Though, I am sure the Deb love thing isn't over...that is one of the story lines I think they didn't actually play out well. If they were going to go there then GO there.

Yes, I get that, that is in essence what I was saying too... but I still say that this part of Dexter was pretty much already covered... even as far back as in the first season where Dexter kills not just for justice as a way to curb his pleasure for killing but for survival, which is why they employed all of those Dokes flashbacks to send that message home in a pinewood box with neon flashing lights that say "Kiss me before I kill again". Thus, at this point, he has killed for love, survival, pleasure, anger, revenge, etc., which is why I say that the point really didn't need to be made again that he is falling from "the code".

At this point, the tougher story to tell would be the love story between him and Deb - and how he comes back to honoring the code, with Deb fulfilling the moral compass role of the Dad to come full circle, imo.

[BIGTYMER]

Loved it!

Gonna be hard to watch next season knowing its the last..

[Sarah_Jayne]

Loved it!

Gonna be hard to watch next season knowing its the last..

Between Dexter and Breaking Bad finishing next year, I might be at a loss for must watch tv.

[MontrealDave]

It will be explained exactly how Dexter planned it? Estrada + LaGuerta shot each other?
He had plenty of time to clean up the scene and he will be the one investigating it the next day... and no one has a hardon for Dexter anymore... so probably no one will suspect anything... Debra is now the highest ranking person there, so she can probably find and destroy that video...

it seems the series kinda reached a dead end... there is no suspense anymore...
I was kinda half asleep last night watching it, so maybe I missed some critical detail?

It's more complicated than that. Laguerta was shot with Deb's gun, forensic will find that out. Unless Dexter removed the bullet and shot her with Estrada's gun...

[UniqueD]

It's more complicated than that. Laguerta was shot with Deb's gun, forensic will find that out. Unless Dexter removed the bullet and shot her with Estrada's gun...

Also they'll know Deb discharged her weapon. I think they'll try to make it seem like Maria was doing something shady, trying to further frame Dexter or something, then Deb catches her in the act and kills her.

[Choopa Phil]

Dexter is going to have to shoot deb with laguertas gun

[MontrealDave]

Also they'll know Deb discharged her weapon. I think they'll try to make it seem like Maria was doing something shady, trying to further frame Dexter or something, then Deb catches her in the act and kills her.

I think that would not go well for them. I vote for Laguerta and Estrada disappearance à la Dexter...

[Sarah_Jayne]

Yeah but Laquerta isn't the sort of person that can just vanish without question. Unless they do suicide/go back to Cuba notes to explain a vanishing.