Dexter - Part 3

[Reek]

interesting interview with scott buck regarding the next season

Spoiler

Angel Batista (David Zayas) is retiring, but I’m assuming he’ll have a role?
Buck: He announced his retirement. The finale took place just before he filed his papers. The situation has suddenly changed a great deal.

Hannah (Strahovski) wasn’t killed off, which surprised me since usually guest stars tend to only last one season on the show. Will she be back next season?
Buck: I certainly hope so, yes. I can’t elaborate because we’re just at the beginning of figuring out next season and deals have not been made yet. But I’m very interested in having Hannah back.

Is there a concern that viewers will no longer sympathize with him and Debra? Or are we supposed to be turning on him in the home stretch?
Buck: I don’t think we’re supposed to be turning on him, necessarily, but I think we want people to understand him a bit better. The more human he becomes the more responsible he becomes for what he’s done and that’s something we’re not trying to shy away from. It makes the character more interesting and complex and even more culpable.

In terms of Deb’s romantic feelings for Dexter, you dealt with those feelings head-on part-way through the season. What are Debra’s feelings for Dexter now that she’s killed LaGuerta?
Buck: She’s so overwhelmed by everything I don’t think she can even process what she’s thinking. But she’s going to be in a very different place than we’ve ever seen her before next season. I think she’ll always love Dexter in her own way but I don’t know she’ll continue to harbor romantic feelings for him.
Will LaGuerta’s death bring them closer together or drive them further apart?
Buck: A little of both. It bonds them in a unique way, but it’s a very tragic way. They will always have that connection but it’s not necessarily the most positive way of being bond to someone.

Will there be a Big Bad villain next season? Do you even need one given all the drama you’ve set up among the main characters?
Buck: It will be a different incarnation of that sort of character. We’re not thinking of it in terms of a Big Bad. But there will be people for Dexter to go up against.

But it won’t be another serial criminal that police are tracking at the same time?
Buck: It won’t be the traditional Big Bad, no.

Next season has been called a likely final season. Is that still the case? What conversations have you had with the network about that?
Buck: That’s a Showtime decision and I’m not aware a final decision has been made. But we’re approaching the season as if it’s a final season. If we’re told otherwise, we’ll redirect.

So terms of the story, you’re taking it toward a satisfying series conclusion next year and not a cliffhanger?
Buck: Absolutely.

Do you have a clear ending scene in mind?
Buck: Yes, absolutely. We’ve always had various was to end the show and they were always quite similar. It was more a matter of landing on exactly how we want to end this and that’s the direction we’re moving right now.

Is there a chance of this show having a happy ending?
Buck: A serial killer story can only end so many ways and none of them are particularly happy.

 

[Maximus One]

Well that last bit is quite foreboding

 

[Golgo-13]

Interesting interview. The big bad is probably going to be Miami metro the way Buck words it. Glad Hannah might come back.

Am i the only one surprised Hannah actually did poison Deb?

 

[Reek]

Am i the only one surprised Hannah actually did poison Deb?

I thought it would have been better, and shown Deb is getting a dark side of her own, if Deb poisoned herself to make Dex turn on Hannah.

Not many other routes they could have gone than what they went with... just on a possible returning role perspective.

The flowers she left on Dexters doorstep were interesting..i couldnt tell if they were black or a deep blood red.

 

[Maximus One]

If I'm not mistaken those warrants Dexter found in Laguerta's house were already signed by judges. That means that unless those are the only copies (very ****ing doubtful) the trace of their gps signals will still happen

 

[Reek]

hell i didnt even know they could find their gps history like that lol

 

[georgec]

My ideal Dexter ending would be Deb killing Dexter. Then, we get a first person view of the Dark Passenger, revealed to be a demon spirit like in the books, leaving Dexter's body. It floats around for awhile, examining prospective vessels, until focusing on one particular person whom we can't yet identify. The spirit moves closer, honing in on the new killer-to-be. A rapid flurry of colors washes away everything until it's all white.

Then, we see Masuka working diligently at his desk. He jitters for a moment, looks around, then goes back to work. The camera slowly zooms in on his face. When we have a full close-up, Masuka slowly turns his head to look directly at us. A subtle grin begins to form on his face. After a beat or two, Masuka lets out his patented creepy laugh, and a quick cut to black.

End.

 

[Crockett]

I thought it would have been better, and shown Deb is getting a dark side of her own, if Deb poisoned herself to make Dex turn on Hannah.

Not many other routes they could have gone than what they went with... just on a possible returning role perspective.

The flowers she left on Dexters doorstep were interesting..i couldnt tell if they were black or a deep blood red.

Yeah, it would've signify how deep Dex has dragged Deb to the darkness, starting from helping burning the church, planting evidences etc but alas, what's done is done, and those were black orchids Hannah left, there's a few symbolism for it, for an example it can be link to death and evil connotations or be a sign of power.

 

[Travesty]

and those were black orchids Hannah left, there's a few symbolism for it, for an example it can be link to death and evil connotations or be a sign of power.

Buck also clarified to TV Line that the black orchid that Hannah left on Dexter's doorstep was meant to be taken "as an ominous goodbye" that signified her plans to take revenge, and told THR that he's hopeful Yvonne Strahovski will return to the show next season, although her contract has not yet been signed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/dexter-season-8_n_2316546.html?utm_hp_ref=canada&ir=Canada

 

[Project862006]

The awfulness of season 6 summarized in one gif.

nah this is better
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[Crockett]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/dexter-season-8_n_2316546.html?utm_hp_ref=canada&ir=Canada

I see, I wouldn't oppose to her re-appearing again but in that case hopefully it'll be integrated to the main plot more organically rather than just become a side-show for a single episode.

 

[Reek]

My ideal Dexter ending would be Deb killing Dexter. Then, we get a first person view of the Dark Passenger, revealed to be a demon spirit like in the books, leaving Dexter's body. It floats around for awhile, examining prospective vessels, until focusing on one particular person whom we can't yet identify. The spirit moves closer, honing in on the new killer-to-be. A rapid flurry of colors washes away everything until it's all white.

Then, we see Masuka working diligently at his desk. He jitters for a moment, looks around, then goes back to work. The camera slowly zooms in on his face. When we have a full close-up, Masuka slowly turns his head to look directly at us. A subtle grin begins to form on his face. After a beat or two, Masuka lets out his patented creepy laugh, and a quick cut to black.

End.

Can Denzel Washington be a guest star and continuously listen to the rolling stones?

 

[georgec]

John Goodman and Donald Sutherland will also guest star.

 

[Liam_H]

Deb getting her own Dark Passenger or at least heading down that path was already implied by killing LaGuerta in the container. Same as Dexter.

 

[Reek]

I still can't get over LaGuerta... "Put him down!"

so awesome

 

[Golgo-13]

Deb getting her own Dark Passenger or at least heading down that path was already implied by killing LaGuerta in the container. Same as Dexter.

Yeah, it's a nice touch that Debs dark passenger was born in a similar setting as Dexter's was.

 

[Reek]

Dexter is Debs dark passenger, IMO. (in a sense)

 

[flickchick85]

I still can't get over LaGuerta... "Put him down!"

I think that line may have been her undoing, tbh. If she had been trying to reason with Deb, urging her to arrest Dex for the sake of his family, etc, she just might have gotten through to her. But urging her to kill her own brother was just too far, and too much for Deb to handle in that moment, imo.

 

[Reek]

yea definitely.. the way she said it was what made deb say ok **** you *****.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

There's too much Doakes in this thread.

 

[georgec]

Sorry for more image spam, but this was actually interesting on reddit. The magic words one must speak to avoid death...

Spoiler

 

[TheAQU4M4N]

My ideal Dexter ending would be Deb killing Dexter. Then, we get a first person view of the Dark Passenger, revealed to be a demon spirit like in the books, leaving Dexter's body. It floats around for awhile, examining prospective vessels, until focusing on one particular person whom we can't yet identify. The spirit moves closer, honing in on the new killer-to-be. A rapid flurry of colors washes away everything until it's all white.

Then, we see Masuka working diligently at his desk. He jitters for a moment, looks around, then goes back to work. The camera slowly zooms in on his face. When we have a full close-up, Masuka slowly turns his head to look directly at us. A subtle grin begins to form on his face. After a beat or two, Masuka lets out his patented creepy laugh, and a quick cut to black.

End.

I actually ****ing love this.

 

[Reek]

There's too much Doakes in this thread.

 

[Golgo-13]

The running theme of this show has been Dexter getting away with 'it'. He escapes every situation that 99% of any normal person wouldn't. He's a damn serial killer that abducts people in all hours of the day, in a society where there's some sort of camera on every block, and he does this without wearing a mask and doesn't get caught.....?

I'd like to see the show end with Deb either taking the fall for Dex, or dying and Dexter ending up with Hannah in South America, as they discussed. I had liked Lumen, but Hannah is Dexter's true soul mate and they're still in love with each other.

 

[Ken-Kaniff]

My ideal Dexter ending would be Deb killing Dexter. Then, we get a first person view of the Dark Passenger, revealed to be a demon spirit like in the books, leaving Dexter's body. It floats around for awhile, examining prospective vessels, until focusing on one particular person whom we can't yet identify. The spirit moves closer, honing in on the new killer-to-be. A rapid flurry of colors washes away everything until it's all white.

Then, we see Masuka working diligently at his desk. He jitters for a moment, looks around, then goes back to work. The camera slowly zooms in on his face. When we have a full close-up, Masuka slowly turns his head to look directly at us. A subtle grin begins to form on his face. After a beat or two, Masuka lets out his patented creepy laugh, and a quick cut to black.

End.

Interesting, I had no idea the books are like that, but in all honestly, I highly doubt we're gonna see something supernatural in the TV show, just my 2 cents.

Btw, the spirit could very well enter Deb! So we'll get a new serial killer TV show after season 8, called "Debra"!

I still can't get over LaGuerta... "Put him down!"

so awesome

In a way, I kinda liked that part as well, the whole ending was quite epic tbh.

There's too much Doakes in this thread.

No way, there is NOT ENOUGH Doakes!!!!