Dexter - Part 5

[kguillou]

So, guys, tell me, I've watched up to episode 5 this season and it didnt really compell me to watch week-to-week (unlike Teh Breaking Bad). I figured I was gonna binge watch the remaining episodes the week of the finale...sounds like I haven't been missing much?

 

[Teelie]

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.

Nope, you missed the point totally. This season has been so dull, so random and pointless that people read spoilers who normally wouldn't (like me) hoping it would get better. It won't get better in most of their eyes so rather than quit now they are going to watch to the bitter end.

This is an excellent example of the train-wreck metaphor. It's going to be bad and you know it but somehow you cannot look away. You can only hope that what you know is going to happen won't actually be as bad as you know it will be.

 

[BatLobster]

Ah, the hyperbole continues.

Last night's episode was pretty good actually. I'm starting to finally get a climactic, everything coming to a head feeling. I'm excited for the last two.

I also really enjoy how the series has come full circle to where now it's a showdown between Dexter and his "spiritual" brother. And the guy who plays Saxon is really creepy. He's got a creepy Ryan Gosling thing going on.

Yeah, I can safely say I'm enjoying this season. Not in a "OMG HOLY SH**" sort of way, but in a slow-burn, "I'm intrigued" sort of way. I realize that puts me in a 10% minority at this point, but I couldn't care less.

 

[Broseph44]

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

Hysterical! I hate that kid so much. It sucks that one of my favorite shows is annoying me so much this season. And disappointing me.

 

[Teelie]

Ah, the hyperbole continues.

Last night's episode was pretty good actually. I'm starting to finally get a climactic, everything coming to a head feeling. I'm excited for the last two.

I also really enjoy how the series has come full circle to where now it's a showdown between Dexter and his "spiritual" brother. And the guy who plays Saxon is really creepy. He's got a creepy Ryan Gosling thing going on.

Yeah, I can safely say I'm enjoying this season. Not in a "OMG HOLY SH**" sort of way, but in a slow-burn, "I'm intrigued" sort of way. I realize that puts me in a 10% minority at this point, but I couldn't care less.

For me last night it had its moments but it just felt like another episode, not the build up to a climatic finish. A few scenes stood out as building up but most of it just drifted along...

 

[Deserana]

Yeah the episode was the best of a poor bunch. It feels like its building to a standard finale but not a finale that suits the end of the whole show.

I love shows that are slow burners, the kind of shows where it is all gradually put into place. Hannibal was a perfect example of that this year. I loved that show and it's my favorite new show of the year, it built and built and built till all of Hannibal's chips was where he wanted them to be and it ended in a wonderful last few episodes full of twists and revelations.

Dexter has not been that. To me it hasn't been setting up anything, instead throwing ideas at the screen and wiping them away just as quick. It's been slow and sluggish to the point where if I had the chance I'd actually skip scenes like the Quinn/Jamie stuff in the last ep cause you know where it is heading. I don't see this season as the writers gradually building the plot. As I was getting into one plot like Zack it would then just end it. The Saxon guy is creepy but I don't give a toss about him.

 

[Liam_H]

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

So its just that random?

 

[BatLobster]

Yeah the episode was the best of a poor bunch. It feels like its building to a standard finale but not a finale that suits the end of the whole show.

I love shows that are slow burners, the kind of shows where it is all gradually put into place. Hannibal was a perfect example of that this year. I loved that show and it's my favorite new show of the year, it built and built and built till all of Hannibal's chips was where he wanted them to be and it ended in a wonderful last few episodes full of twists and revelations.

Dexter has not been that. To me it hasn't been setting up anything, instead throwing ideas at the screen and wiping them away just as quick. It's been slow and sluggish to the point where if I had the chance I'd actually skip scenes like the Quinn/Jamie stuff in the last ep cause you know where it is heading. I don't see this season as the writers gradually building the plot. As I was getting into one plot like Zack it would then just end it. The Saxon guy is creepy but I don't give a toss about him.

You can't really say that for sure until you've seen it all. Zack still had relevance in this episode, his death affected Dexter and it affected Vogel to the point where she was willing to turn on her son. And Vogel's death will fuel the last two episodes.

I see an interlocking web thing going on here. I don't think it's all random. But I won't be able to know for sure until I've seen the whole thing.

The Hannah/Deb thread is about to unravel too, which probably will connect with both Quinn and Elway's storylines.

The only one I can't put my finger on is Masuka's daughter.

 

[Broseph44]

You can't really say that for sure until you've seen it all. Zack still had relevance in this episode, his death affected Dexter and it affected Vogel to the point where she was willing to turn on her son. And Vogel's death will fuel the last two episodes.

I see an interlocking web thing going on here. I don't think it's all random. But I won't be able to know for sure until I've seen the whole thing.

The Hannah/Deb thread is about to unravel too, which probably will connect with both Quinn and Elway's storylines.

The only one I can't put my finger on is Masuka's daughter.

Yeah I'm still wondering what the point of his daughter is. If there's any point to her at all.

 

[Teelie]

She is there to confuse everyone, audience and characters alike as to what her purpose is. She showed up this episode literally for less than 30 seconds only to be told to go home.

 

[Liam_H]

How hilarious would it be if she is revealed to be an accomplice of Saxon all along.

 

[Travesty]

Her purpose will be to show Harrison how to properly run on a treadmill.

 

[Teelie]

How hilarious would it be if she is revealed to be an accomplice of Saxon all along.

That would be a twist to make up for her otherwise useless presence. Although it would be fitting seeing as Saxon had less screen time in the first half of the season than she did.

 

[TheBat812]

So its just that random?

The point of the scene is to remind dexter and the viewer of just how different he's become and the vast difference between the lives he thinks he wants. The actual location of that kill room is much less important than acing the dichotomy of his two selves. I honestly don't know if they showed us which space he was using for the room, but it was much less consequential than the implications presented.

 

[Reek]

 

[Reek]

just saw a super spoilery 'hey we are forcing you to accept that everything is connected' picture.

wow lol

 

[The Navigator]

Where?

 

[Reek]

spoilertv.com

 

[The Navigator]

...well.

 

[Reek]

hilarious right lol goodness.

 

[Matt]

It is looking like those reddit spoilers are going to be true. Sad to see this show end on such a low note.

 

[Broseph44]

It is looking like those reddit spoilers are going to be true. Sad to see this show end on such a low note.

What were those spoilers?

 

[Matt]

What were those spoilers?

Long story short (warning MAJOR SPOILERS):

Spoiler

Dexter, Hannah and Harrison escape to Argentina and live happily ever after. All of the bodies of Dexter's victims are washed onto the shore by a hurricane which allows for Batista to realize that Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher, but too late. Deb dies at Saxon's hand. Quinn kills the Saxon as retribution, much like Dexter would and basically becomes the new Dexter

 

[Travesty]

Wow, if that's true...

 

[Matt]

I didn't think it was until I re-read it in light of last night's episode and everything about Vogel was accurate. Plus the promo for the final two talks about a hurricane. And all of the promotional material for this season has involved storms of blood. So it all fits.