Dexter - Part 5

[Teelie]

We may also all be getting faked out here and this is a made up or intentionally leaked misdirection. They've never done that though so I'm going to guess it is real. Other spoilers have proved accurate so far.

 

[Ken-Kaniff]

Usually they prove accurate...

 

[georgec]

All those spoilers sound like terrible fan fiction.

In other words they seem accurate and match the quality of what we've seen thus far.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Dexter the character is like a gold ring in one of those trash barges. Such an amazing character. why's he got to got out like this.

 

[Teelie]

He was a good character and kind of the opposite side of the coin of police procedurals where we catch the criminal and instead we follow him but the past few seasons his "career" has kind of taken a back seat to more personal stories with uneven quality with this season being a let down.

We've had too much departure from his story to focus on other semi-related stories that don't appear to tie into his at all (Masuka's daughter is only now becoming relevant to Dexter personally).

 

[Reek]

if those reddit spoilers are true.... f*** me.

it just doesnt make sense... like WTF!?

Spoiler

so dexters victims wash up on shore? did the writers forget that season 2 Dexter learned not to just leave his victims on the ocean floor, but instead has them float north in the current?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

if that's really how this show goes out I will be very disappointed. I'm not sure I will recommend anyone watch this show after season 4

 

[Reek]

They have to be fake... it looks like someone looked at the promo photos and just wrote a bunch of BS... but given how this season is going... do we really have the balls to doubt it lol

also... Harrison is the soul reason this show has lost its way... ever since Rita got pregnant with that turd its been lackluster in comparison to season 1 an 2 (season 4 as well, but just because Lithgow is a god)

 

[Deserana]

Convoluted aspects of plots usually fly right past me. But if that spoiler is true (still haven't read the episode summary) that may be the most convoluted plot point in TV history.

I'm presuming the

Spoiler

Hurricane comes out of nowhere and washes the bodies to shore...

I still can't believe the hurricane is real. I thought it was like a metaphor. Actually I bet that is what the writers intended it to be like.

 

[Reek]

the bodies part makes zero sense.

 

[Roose Bolton]

They have to be fake... it looks like someone looked at the promo photos and just wrote a bunch of BS... but given how this season is going... do we really have the balls to doubt it lol

also... Harrison is the soul reason this show has lost its way... ever since Rita got pregnant with that turd its been lackluster in comparison to season 1 an 2 (season 4 as well, but just because Lithgow is a god)

Harrison could have been done really well. Basically they needed a season where Dexter was forced to become an actual parent, he could have carried Harrison around in a backpack.

Dexter ****ing Morgan!

 

[Teelie]

Instead we get a nanny and Harrison used as a plot device when it's suited.

 

[Keyser Soze]

This season of Dexter is truly devoid of any redeeming qualities. With each passing episode, they plumb new depths of crap. Every week I think they've surely found their floor, but against the odds they manage to keep on digging. The odds of wrangling together any kind of momentum to give us a series finale that feels like anything more than a mercy killing are becoming increasingly remote,

 

[georgec]

If those alleged finale spoilers are true, the digging will go much, much deeper.

 

[Reek]

Harrison could have been done really well. Basically they needed a season where Dexter was forced to become an actual parent, he could have carried Harrison around in a backpack.

Dexter ****ing Morgan!

'You have a child in the back pack?'

'Yea i threw some some lettuce in there in case he gets hungry.'

 

[Roose Bolton]

"I'm sorry I'm not carrying him around in a basket on my head like your people do."

 

[Maximus One]

Hahaha you gotta admit though, at this point it's entertaining just to see how ridiculously stupid it's going to get. I'm over it. I've mourned dexter. Now it's time to watch the rest of this gloriously bad train wreck.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Agreed. It is like Smallville for me. I just watched it to see how Superman gets violated. It got pretty hardcore.

The saddest part is I didn't even miss it last Sunday. Not one bit. I used to crave this show.

 

[lime]

The problem with Dexter is the same as House M.D. Both shows got greedy and finished couple of season too much.

The last two seasons of House were a mess, same with Dexter. I'm actually glad it will be over.

But the series totally worth it for Seasons 1,2 and 4.

 

[Keyser Soze]

The problem with Dexter is the same as House M.D. Both shows got greedy and finished couple of season too much.

The last two seasons of House were a mess, same with Dexter. I'm actually glad it will be over.

But the series totally worth it for Seasons 1,2 and 4.

I even enjoyed Seasons 3, 5 and 7. 7 flopped at the end a bit, but it's first half was arguably the best the show has been since Season 4. Even Season 6, which was so dumb I almost quit the show after watching it, managed to at least find some vaguely compelling threads to draw you back in week-to-week. This, however, is just dire.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I liked season 5 well enough, at least from a thematic standpoint.

 

[Teelie]

I kept watching expecting this to be the last season on both Dexter and House but they both managed to go that extra season a few times over. Neither was enough to get me to stop watching but both became noticably less enjoyable as they pushed on. Sometimes I think I should have stopped when I saw the decline becoming inevitable like Weeds or Desperate Housewives and Torchwood. But it would also feel like a mistake to quit a series so close to the end because in both cases of Dexter and House I expected it to be the last season.

 

[DyeLorean]

House MD was too too formulaic. Everytime something different happened -the character in jail or in a mental institution-, it only lasted for a couple of episodes, and then they went back to the hospital to do the same ***** over and over again.
Dexter took a couple more risks, some of them paid off, and some other didn't.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I enjoyed House for like 6 of its seasons. For me, the unforgivable misstep that sank it came in its penultimate season. Through the whole season, it seemed like they'd been organically building an arc of House's relationship with Cuddy making him a more rounded, healthy, well-adjusted human being, which would ultimately lead to him finding a kind of happiness at last and, presumably, the end of the show. But then it seemed like the writers panicked at such an arc being completed, so suddenly got cold feet and abandoned the storyline, reverting House back to factory default lonely-and-bitter. Only now it felt hollow and perfunctory.

I have up watching House a couple of episodes into the final season. I would surely have done the same for Dexter this season, if not for one key difference. It wasn't announced that House was finishing until after I quit. If I'd known going in that the show was going to be ending, I'd probably have felt compelled to stick with it to the end since I was so close to having seen it the whole way through. That's what has kept me watching Dexter, it's now the only thing keeping me watching Dexter.

 

[Teelie]

That was in part by the actress Lisa Edelstein leaving the series so they threw together that pretty much out of nowhere since I'm assuming they'd intended to go another direction with House only to do a "soft reboot" on him before the series ended.