Dexter Discussion Thread *Spoilers*

[Kamandi]

As much as I hate to say it, I really don't care much about any of the characters on this show any more. I feel a bit like I'm reading a book that has gone to crap, but I'm almost on the last page.

Next week they'll pull a stunt to tease next season, and tons of people will go "OMG NOES!!!!" and I will be lucky if I don't yawn.

 

[Frank]

Deb and Dex have been bent way too far out of their established zones now that I really feel like I'm watching two different characters. My feeling is "careful code player" Dex would have gotten the **** out of Miami after season 4. He was way too enmeshed with Trinity's family. It should have been a major wake-up call.

 

[cokebabies]

final season:

quinn: hits rock bottom & tries to break bad by investing all his money into rolling meth lab..........fails.

We should set some odds on which happens first with Quinn: hair falls out in clumps, or shows up on set with teeth missing.

 

[crows]

What a stupid freaking episode. The real Dexter was never this stupid. After telling Hannah all of his secrets he is just going to let her be arrested???? Oh that's right...she loves him and surely wouldn't say a word to save her own ass....YEAH RIGHT.

Thankfully there are a few good/great shows on Sunday nights to fill the spot since Dexter has jumped the shark.

Dexter did not jump the shark, he literally jumped the "Lake of fire"

 

[Calcifer]

I'm still really shocked Deb never confronted Dexter and asked him if he actually killed Doakes! I mean laguerta wasn't doakes only friend! You would imagine she would have questioned him about that earlier in the season.

 

[die]

^ nice callback to last season!


I really didn't like last night's episode, I'm not sure I like where any of this is going now. The show seems to be going down a path where another season seems almost impossible. How can he still work at the station after all of this? What happens to Debra's career? I mean it looks like enough has been revealed to make the possibility of Dexter continuing to kill people be very slim and killing people is what makes Dexter Dexter. Have they passed the point of no return?

-Debra probably faked her accident as an extreme measure to save Dexter. Hannah will probably eventually prove to be deserving of what Debra did and Dexter will see Debra in a new light.

-Finding the kill room with the chainsaw proves that the BHB is still out there after Doakes is dead. It will also implicate Dexter in a way he can't easily escape. Actually if he does escape, it would've been better when he was escaping the scene itself, he probably should've been on skis hitting a ramp and going over Jaws.

I'm really wondering if this show will be looked back on as a show that should've ended at Season 4. The last episode of that season really felt more like a series finale than a Season finale.

I'm not giving up hope yet, but they better deliver the best episode ever for episode 12.

 

[crows]

^ nice callback to last season!


I really didn't like last night's episode, I'm not sure I like where any of this is going now. The show seems to be going down a path where another season seems almost impossible. How can he still work at the station after all of this? What happens to Debra's career? I mean it looks like enough has been revealed to make the possibility of Dexter continuing to kill people be very slim and killing people is what makes Dexter Dexter. Have they passed the point of no return?

-Debra probably faked her accident as an extreme measure to save Dexter. Hannah will probably eventually prove to be deserving of what Debra did and Dexter will see Debra in a new light.

-Finding the kill room with the chainsaw proves that the BHB is still out there after Doakes is dead. It will also implicate Dexter in a way he can't easily escape. Actually if he does escape, it would've been better when he was escaping the scene itself, he probably should've been on skis hitting a ramp and going over Jaws.

I'm really wondering if this show will be looked back on as a show that should've ended at Season 4. The last episode of that season really felt more like a series finale than a Season finale.

I'm not giving up hope yet, but they better deliver the best episode ever for episode 12.

The reason I didn't want the show to end in season 4 is because I just wanted to know what happened to both Dexter and Harrison after the death of Rita. I wanted to know how Dexter cope with it and just to see what happened.

I think if anything they should have skipped seasons 5 and 6 and just do something like season 7 while Dexter was coping with the death. Also they could have still have Lumen but they could have dealt with the Russian mafia being the ones killing girls and Lumen escaping. I mean, this 3 seasons feel like it could have been tackled in only one season. Season 6 was never needed, and season 5 and 7 could have been one season alone mashed up together.

 

[Calcifer]

I bet all those shots of him being in police custody are just dream sequences that will go along with the appearance of Doakes ghost, in order to make another season after this make sense laguerta will have to go, Dex will decide in the end to kill her but I could actually see her being offed by debs at the very end, maybe then for next season there will be an investigation into her disappearance and maybe Matthews will look back into the butcher case. ..i dunno something along those lines anyway.

 

[Kamandi]

Season 6.1 was very good. Season 6.2 sucks.

 

[crows]

I bet all those shots of him being in police custody are just dream sequences that will go along with the appearance of Doakes ghost, in order to make another season after this make sense laguerta will have to go, Dex will decide in the end to kill her but I could actually see her being offed by debs at the very end, maybe then for next season there will be an investigation into her disappearance and maybe Matthews will look back into the butcher case. ..i dunno something along those lines anyway.

I thought the same thing at first. That it was all a dream sequence and Dexter would not be in custody.
But Laguerta pretty much has the prove she needed to make sure Dexter is the butcher. I mean they were following that other guy and then they go to a container full of plastic. Pretty clear that was Dexter.

I do not understand why Dexter left the chainsaw behind, Why did he do that?

 

[Kamandi]

Maybe someone makes the mistake of leaving Hannah alone with LaGuerta in an interogation cell.

Yes, it's a crappy idea, but they're not above such things at this point.

Another thing is Estefan might call for police protection. He's seen Dexter's face, knows his name, and has a story to tell.

 

[Niltusk]

I'm still really shocked Deb never confronted Dexter and asked him if he actually killed Doakes! I mean laguerta wasn't doakes only friend! You would imagine she would have questioned him about that earlier in the season.

The writing is so far out there this season. tons of crap on screen thats unnecessary and tons needing said/done thats being neglected. I don't mind characters changing or being taken out of their element, but man this is ridiculous stuff.

I thought people were nuts earlier calling this season out, but I think Ray Stevenson's awesomeness was distracting me from the truth. Something this season just broke on the show.

 

[Kamandi]

One of the big problems on the show is they just can't bring themselves to write a scene where you hate Dexter.

I loved The Sopranos early on, but as much as the audience loves Tony they also get a healthy dose once in a while that he's capable of being evil.

 

[316what]

And no one has yet mentioned the quick copout to the Quinn storyline.....lazy ass writing.

 

[Kamandi]

This really has felt like a micro season following the Issac storyline. There's no time to follow Quinn's girlfriend, so magic wand it away.

 

[crows]

And no one has yet mentioned the quick copout to the Quinn storyline.....lazy ass writing.

I'm thinking maybe Quinn goes after her and he is out of the show?

 

[cokebabies]

On the bright side, we got to see Ula from Party Down topless.

 

[ShadowX81]

I think if anything they should have skipped seasons 5 and 6 and just do something like season 7 while Dexter was coping with the death. Also they could have still have Lumen but they could have dealt with the Russian mafia being the ones killing girls and Lumen escaping. I mean, this 3 seasons feel like it could have been tackled in only one season. Season 6 was never needed, and season 5 and 7 could have been one season alone mashed up together.

The sad thing is, early on that is what it looked like Season 5 would be.

The promos for season 5 were largely focused on the "Quinn suspects Dexter" scenes, making it look like that would be the main plot of the season.

Instead those scenes were pretty much the entirety of the storyline, and Quinn quickly tosses aside any legitimate concerns about Dexter (even when the evidence starts piling up) becuase he is banging Deb.
The audience is treated to a bizarre season about a il-defined pact of serial killers and a love interest that comes inappropriately soon after the death of Rita.

 

[Calcifer]

The sad thing is, early on that is what it looked like Season 5 would be.

The promos for season 5 were largely focused on the "Quinn suspects Dexter" scenes, making it look like that would be the main plot of the season.

Instead those scenes were pretty much the entirety of the storyline, and Quinn quickly tosses aside any legitimate concerns about Dexter (even when the evidence starts piling up) becuase he is banging Deb.
The audience is treated to a bizarre season about a il-defined pact of serial killers and a love interest that comes inappropriately soon after the death of Rita.

Ya I always found that odd, that quinn never pursued Dexter again, he's not even with Deb anymore!

 

[Mister D]

And no one has yet mentioned the quick copout to the Quinn storyline.....lazy ass writing.

One episode to go, and a season after that. I wouldn't count that as an official ending yet (though based on past practice it wouldn't surprise me)