Dexter - Part 5

[Travesty]

Ummmm, yeah, this was.......yeahhhhhhh......

 

[O'Haire]

In the final season, a show should be getting more interesting with each episode. This one is doing the complete opposite. Started out good with Deb losing her **** and possibly going against Dexter and maybe outing him as a killer. Instead they become best friends again suddenly and it goes straight to hell.

I can't wait for it to end.

 

[Reek]

I know that's why I put "first". The first one shown in the series that was in the pilot.

for god sake i hope not. that is just dumb dumb dumb. it might work (but wou;dnt lol) if it was Bineys 'freezer' or the cargo crate....

wtf is happening.

 

[Liam_H]

But why would he even choose any of those locations in the first place. Did I miss a scene where Harry goes like "you know Dexter you should go back to place at the beginning of this series to make it come full circle just cause". Throwing some symbolism in there to spice it up.

 

[Reek]

 

[The Demon's Head]

Did anyone else think Harrison falling off the treadmill was hilarious?

 

[Reek]

Did anyone else think Harrison falling off the treadmill was hillarious?

hilarious.

 

[Liam_H]

Yes, especially the way it was edited. How much older was the kid that actually fell.

 

[The Demon's Head]

Also, did Batista call Quinn a "stupid idiot"? In what way does that make sense?

 

[O'Haire]

Considering how *****y Jamie seems to be when she's not taking care of Harrison, I don't blame Quinn for finally calling it quits and taking another shot at Deb.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Man Deb has really been mellowed so much. 2 seasons ago Deb would not have taken that sh** from Jamie, or Elway. So sad.

 

[Project862006]

Also, did Batista call Quinn a "stupid idiot"? In what way does that make sense?

well he broke his sister's heart for 1 lol

 

[georgec]

There's a gift of the treadmill scene floating around various sites. That was possibly as low a point as Travis munching on Dexter's cereal. Just an all around horrible scene.

 

[Deserana]

Wow.

Where to start. The way the marshall discovers Hannah is so horribly convoluted, the set up scene at the beginning was laughable "Oh Harrison don't go on that treadmill!".

Actually to be fair if they had all the last 10 minutes of each episode put together to form one 120 minute episode it may be decent but by god how boring was that.

 

[TheBat812]

Is that where Dexter killed his "frist" victim in the pilot? If so I don't know what that has to do with anything other than Saxon supposedly being his "final" kill.

It's as simple as its a kill room and he hasn't used one in awhile...

I still have enjoyed this season. It reminds me a lot of seasons 1 and 4 in structure. As things seem to be slowing down and falling into place for dexter he continues to put his killing first, likely to the same tragic end if not worse than the end of season 4. I really wish the comparisons to bb would stop, as its obviously trying to purposefully take a different route. I can only imagine the out cry had they gone the same route as season 5.1 of bb, and the cries of copying. The tones are just so different, it's not a great comparison. I loved seeing dex revert back to his old self in the kill room tonight. Reminded the audience that he's still vey much that person still despite his hopeful wish to be somebody else who can survive on this romanticized notion.

And yes Harrison eating it was hilarious.

 

[Ken-Kaniff]

It's as simple as its a kill room and he hasn't used one in awhile...

I still have enjoyed this season. It reminds me a lot of seasons 1 and 4 in structure. As things seem to be slowing down and falling into place for dexter he continues to put his killing first, likely to the same tragic end if not worse than the end of season 4. I really wish the comparisons to bb would stop, as its obviously trying to purposefully take a different route. I can only imagine the out cry had they gone the same route as season 5.1 of bb, and the cries of copying. The tones are just so different, it's not a great comparison. I loved seeing dex revert back to his old self in the kill room tonight. Reminded the audience that he's still vey much that person still despite his hopeful wish to be somebody else who can survive on this romanticized notion.

And yes Harrison eating it was hilarious.

I agree, just because both shows end, doesn't mean they can be compared anyway.

 

[The Shape]

There's a gift of the treadmill scene floating around various sites. That was possibly as low a point as Travis munching on Dexter's cereal. Just an all around horrible scene.

Yeah, the treadmill thing was super lame and an obvious excuse for the writer's to get Hannah out in the open for a few minutes.

I still think it's funny that 90% of the people posting in this Dexter thread have read spoilers that are supposedly quite extensive and proving to be completely true. I've seen everyone bash the spoilers as being truly awful (I haven't read them), and yet everyone seems to still be watching despite knowing exactly what will happen. Are you just waiting for more things to hate on? Honestly, how could the end of this season even have the slightest chance at being remotely compelling if you already know what happens in the finale...and you already have your mind up that you hate it? Just seems like a strange way to watch television, if you ask me.

And before anyone jumps on my case, yeah, I agree that this season has been surprisingly whack for a final season. Sloppy writing, not enough plot development, characters making stupid decisions, and way too much filler. However, the only thing that's still exciting for me (after watching this show for years) is not knowing what happens next. It's my main reason for tuning in each week now. Take away that element of not knowing what happens and I'd feel as if I was completely wasting an hour of my life each week. Reminds me of when, for some odd reason, I chose to skim through the ending of one of the Harry Potter books before I actually started reading it. Jesus, it was tough to actually get through the whole book after that because I kept thinking to myself, what's the point? And that was an AWESOME book, so I can only imagine how some of you feel watching a ****** TV season hit all the story points you have known were coming for weeks.

 

[georgec]

I think people gave up on hoping for a proper or satisfying conclusion, so they indulged in the spoilers. Many viewers aren't as personally invested anymore, so they don't mind knowing what's coming. Reading the spoilers was like validating one's worst fears.

 

[Teelie]

I still think it's funny that 90% of the people posting in this Dexter thread have read spoilers that are supposedly quite extensive and proving to be completely true. I've seen everyone bash the spoilers as being truly awful (I haven't read them), and yet everyone seems to still be watching despite knowing exactly what will happen. Are you just waiting for more things to hate on? Honestly, how could the end of this season even have the slightest chance at being remotely compelling if you already know what happens in the finale...and you already have your mind up that you hate it? Just seems like a strange way to watch television, if you ask me.

Look at it this way: You watch 90% of a 2 hour movie and know what's going to happen at the end and it's going to be a bad ending. Do you get up and leave the theater when the last 10% is left to see? Why leave after you invested all that time in it to know but not see that it ends exactly as you've discovered how when you've seen 95% of the movie?

Take that and magnify it by 96 hours (the sum total of Dexter). There's your answer.

 

[KenK]

Harrison has become a pain in my ass since he started talking! I hate that kid!

 

[kguillou]

Oh man...are the spoilers THAT bad? Maybe I'll indulge myself...

 

[The Shape]

Look at it this way: You watch 90% of a 2 hour movie and know what's going to happen at the end and it's going to be a bad ending. Do you get up and leave the theater when the last 10% is left to see? Why leave after you invested all that time in it to know but not see that it ends exactly as you've discovered how when you've seen 95% of the movie?

Take that and magnify it by 96 hours (the sum total of Dexter). There's your answer.

Eh, you lost me when you compared a 2 and a half hour movie to 96 hours of serialized television. Also, your example is a solid answer as to why a Dexter fan wouldn't give up on the show and stop watching with only a few episodes to go. That much should be obvious, but you failed to mention the bit about reading spoilers of the ending weeks before the show ends.

Try this. Look at it this way: You invest roughly 90 hours of your life, spread out over the course of several years, on a television show. Why give in to read spoilers of the final episodes of that TV show when there are only a few hours to go? Why spoil yourself by reading the ending of those 96 hours of television that you'll have invested...rather than simply watching for yourself?

Make sense? That was my original point, anyway.

 

[The Shape]

Harrison has become a pain in my ass since he started talking! I hate that kid!

Instead of ****** Zack Hamilton this season, one season of Dexter should have focused on Harrison, Astor, or Cody developing a Dark Passenger of their own, as it happens in the books. Would have been a lot more compelling to watch Dexter try to figure out how to pass the Code onto a kid he was close with rather than watching him teach Zack a half-assed version of the Code for one episode.

Without that element, Harrison has proven useless as a character.

 

[Maximus One]

Why do people care so much if people read spoilers? That's what's ****ing puzzling here. Worry about yourself. Who cares if people wanna read spoilers. It's different with something on the level of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones and at one time I'd have said the same about Dexter but not anymore.

 

[Maximus One]

I read the Half Blood Prince knowing the exact page Dumbledore dies on due to a tshirt. Didn't stop me from enjoying the book at all