Dexter Discussion Thread *Spoilers*

[Ryno]

He reminded me of T-1000.. Ugh.. so bad.

 

[Tornadoflame]

Probably because Jennifer Carpenter stopped playing Deb about three seasons ago.

Agreed. Her character has been awful since the divorce. MCH conspiracy theory #139

 

[averagejo]

Here's my take with a twist...

Walter White got in touch with Dexter in Oregon. Dex wants to redeem himself for the absolutely* ****ty ending of his show plus he's bored chopping wood.Per Walt's request, Dex heads out to New Hamphire on his twin engine snow mobile. He helps Walt with his chemo and feeds him steaks and Ensure til Walt's strong enough to go after Jack and get all his money and avenge Hank's death.They head to New Mexico after a birthday breakfast at a NH cafe.*Once in NM Dex and Walt head to Jack's compound. Dexter injects the lookout with a dose of m99 and they sneak past the security cameras and enter the compound. They see Todd in the lab and see*Jesse beaten and tied up. Dexter creeps up on Todd injects him in the neck with the tranquilizer and throws him on a table. He wraps him in plastic and Walt in full kill gear asks Todd where is his money. Todd declines to answer Mr. White, so he stabs him. Jesse is horrified but at the same time elated and satisfied with what Walt has done. Dex unties Jesse and tells him to be quite or he'll get the "axe". Walt asks Jesse if he knows where Jack hid the money. Jesse says he doesn't know. Dex injects Jesse with M99 to keep him quiet and still so they can proceed with their plan w/o any complications. Dex locates the tallest and widest tree near the house determines the trajectory of the tree fall using his red yarn and begins to chop. Walter in the meantime sets up his m60. Jesse wakes up and escapes, but as he's leaving he sees the barrels of money. He knows he cant take it with him, he knows Walt wants it and he remembers what Walt said about Jane. Meanwhile Dexter is still chopping the tree and just as it starts to lean exactly on the course Dexter set up with his yarn, Jack and his cronies hear the cracking sound of the giant redwood.*The moment Dexter yells "Timber"*they all run outside to see what the hell is going on. Walt has them in his m60 site and blasts them all to smithereens. Dexter heads into the house after everyone is killed by Walter, using his blood splatter analysis expertise and his special computing skills he is able to use Todd's laptop to hack the DEAs website and retrieves info on Hank and Gomez's blood type. Dexter downloads some*software onto his fishfinding device he saved from his boat and he is now can find the exact location of the stolen money filled barrels by detecting trace amounts of Hank and Gomie's blood.Walter takes an Ensure break and heads to the lab to see Jesse.He sees Jesse is gone and hears the whirr of a woodchipper outside. Walt runs outside to see empty barrels lying around on the ground and Jesse stuffing the money into the woodchipper. He yells "Nooooo", and grabs Jesse. They fight and Dex comes running with his axe. As they are rolling around on the ground Dex tries to chop Jesse in half but hits Walt by mistake. They separate and Dex shoves Jesse into the woodchipper.Dex sews up Walts wounds with his red yarn. They collect the remaining barrels of money and decide to go back to Oregon where its safe. Once in Oregon, Walt plans to buy out Gray Matter anonymously and dissolve the company.Walt succeeds in a stock takeover of Gray Matter and changes the name*"Lamberdexterious" .Walt and Dex decide to split the money and bury it in phoney companies. Dexter decides to leave Oregon and move to a warmer climate. Walt stays because he still is a wanted man.*Years pass and a much older Walter White is cancer free, wearing his pork pie hat, sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of a log cabin. He's smoking a cigar and reading the newspaper and sees the headline *"Meth Queen to Wed Flannel Tycoon On Yacht The Chunk O' Wood". Walt cant believe what he's reading and*becomes teary eyed then suddenly enraged that his*exwife Skylar has fallen in love with another man and they plan to marry and*sail to Argentina for their Honeymoon. "Stupid *****" he mutters. Walter gets up and goes to his room, he pulls out a cigar from his humidor. He then goes into his wall safe and behind the stacks of cash is a small vial.*I puts gloves on and opens the vial. He gently sprinkles the contents into the cigar leaf that he carelly unrolled. He rolls it back up and and puts the cigar band back on it, setting it aside. Walter gets a cigar tube and places the cigar into the tube. He writes a congratulatory note to the groom and puts it into a box. He addresses the the boxMr. Dexter Morgan,*Lenodor Place,Albuquerque,*NM*and takes it to the post office, and picks up a pizza on the way home.

 

[ShadowX81]

Agreed. Her character has been awful since the divorce. MCH conspiracy theory #139

Its not that unreasonable.

Divorcing someone and then having to continue to work closely with them can't be easy.

 

[CelticPredator]

Cancer and divorce ruin this show.

 

[averagejo]

 

[Chargersfan57]

Probably because Jennifer Carpenter stopped playing Deb about three seasons ago.

This post makes no sense.

 

[CelticPredator]

It makes perfect sense. MCH stopped playing Dexter mid season 5.

 

[Chargersfan57]

Yeah, but Jennifer Carpenter has been consistently good throughout all 8 seasons. So I can't get behind his post. Sorry...

 

[CelticPredator]

She's been pretty awful. The whole cast was. Bad acting all around.

 

[morbidaj]

It really was the worst written ending to a television series I have yet witnessed in my 35 years of couch potatoing.

 

[Chargersfan57]

She's been pretty awful. The whole cast was. Bad acting all around.

The acting has been 100 percent fine. It's the writing that sucks. I don't know how ANYBODY can hate on the acting.

 

[Chargersfan57]

She's has been classic Debra through and through since season 1.

 

[CelticPredator]

Dexter's 'acting' during Deb's killing scene was horrendus and hilarious.

Not to mention "WILL SHE RECOVER."

LOL. Carpenter is 90% rage and curse words. MCH is 100% scowling and monotone.

 

[a2themonster]

Ok seasons 5, 6, and 8 probably dont compare to the first 4 seasons...i feel 6 was terrible. 7 was a BIG boost up and was really good, and season 8 sorta slowed down and introduced us to new characters, but i felt specifically last nights finale wrapped up the show in a perfect way, thematically for what dexter established in those key first 4 seasons. Deb however, was often the highlight of most episodes, as that character overcame the ****ty writing in seasons 6 especially and this season to convey such realism and grit to the viewer about what her character was going thru

 

[CelticPredator]

Ok seasons 5, 6, and 8 probably dont compare to the first 4 seasons...i feel 6 was terrible. 7 was a BIG boost up and was really good, and season 8 sorta slowed down and introduced us to new characters, but i felt specifically last nights finale wrapped up the show in a perfect way, thematically for what dexter established in those key first 4 seasons. Deb however, was often the highlight of most episodes, as that character overcame the ****ty writing in seasons 6 especially and this season to convey such realism and grit to the viewer about what her character was going thru

 

[Chargersfan57]

Dexter's 'acting' during Deb's killing scene was horrendus and hilarious.

Not to mention "WILL SHE RECOVER."

LOL. Carpenter is 90% rage and curse words. MCH is 100% scowling and monotone.

She's been 90 percent curse words since season 1

 

[a2themonster]

Except this show already (poorly) established that he no longer has a need to kill, last episode. So there's no need for him to hide in the woods, killing stragglers or whatever.

well it established the idea, that he was finally rid of his dark passenger, that he could let it go and have a normal life, and do things the right way and let deb arrest him, etc. But deb getting hurt and dying woke dexter out of that idea and affirmed his original idea about himself (right or wrong) that he had, that he could NOT have that normal life without ppl getting hurt, and deb was the end of a long body count of ppl he cared about that died, that he blames himself for. He gives up on that fallacy (in his opinion) that he can have a normal life, that HE IS normal, and accepts himself and chooses the path he chose.

 

[a2themonster]

you seem to disagree yet havent spoken up as to why...

 

[SwedishHeat]

This sort of thing kinda tells me that Scott Buck has no idea what he is doing. Maybe this is just bad transcribing, but regarding the spinoff

David Nevins said he's looking at all avenues for a Dexter spinoff. Is Hannah and Harrison's story something you've talked about for a spinoff?
Absolutely. I love Yvonne Strahovski, she's a terrific actor and has brought so much to the series. Who knows? We may see her again in the future.
......
Where are you with the spinoff? Do you have an idea?
There have been no discussions yet on what a spinoff might be. Whether there is some other version coming out of the show in the future, it's always a possibility but there have been no talks about it at this point. We're just now finishing up Dexter.

First you say you've "absolutely" talked about Hannah and Harrison in a spin-off then later "there have been no discussions about a spin-off". Sooooo, which is it??



The weird thing about it for me is, the plot points they hit in the ending, I have no problem with, in fact I like them, but just the manner in which they were executed was just not good. The fact that Deb's death forced Dexter to re-evaluate his life and live in exile. . . I don't mind that ending, forcing Dex to take responsibility for his actions. . . finally, is a good thing.

I think they were on the right track as far as the overall character arc for Dexter as far as taking this man, who can't feel, then giving him feelings and giving him a normal life, and how that will affect a person. I just think they had to pad out that arc too much and it lost the 'character study' elements.