Horror Dexter - Part 6

[Reek]

am i ****ing crazy or something?

Spoiler

the dude drove into a hurricane (with curiously calm water) in a center console small boat... and survived the wreckage... really? that is ok with some of you? what the ****?

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

The boat was on autopilot

 

[Liam_H]

I've learned to accept it as many of the other implausible things that has happened on the show. I mean would people at the hospital really be distracted enough for Dexter to pull the plug ob Deb and carry her body out onto his boat? Could you really walk out of a police station after killing a suspect in holding?

I'm surprised they didn't have people still boarding after they have what looks like bomb scare at the airport.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I've learned to accept it as many of the other implausible things that has happened on the show. I mean would people at the hospital really be distracted enough for Dexter to pull the plug ob Deb and carry her body out onto his boat? Could you really walk out of a police station after killing a suspect in holding?

I'm surprised they didn't have people still boarding after they have what looks like bomb scare at the airport.

What they didn't show was that he had George Zimmerman's lawyer and used the ole stand your ground defense FL is known for

 

[Dude of Steel]

Also didn't Hannah make him human?

She did, but it didn't matter at the end. Debra died and he had to make one final kill. So, the Dark Passenger always gets in the way. In theory, that ending worked, but the execution was terrible. The fact that even the defenders can't call this a "great" finale shows how poorly it was written.

 

[The Demon's Head]

Terrible finale.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I didn't watch this. Did Robo-Doakes come back or what?

 

[Prison Mike]

I do feel better about the ending after reading the explanation from the writers/producers. The ending makes sense. Sure, a lot of the things seemed implausible in the episode and I personally would have ended the show a different way (probably similar to Clyde Phillips' version) but Dexter's ending seemed fitting. The more I reflect on that last scene, the more I like it. I think I just needed a few hours to soak it in.

 

[Dugath]

Ahhhh Dexter...

Spoiler

Always dumping his kids onto someone else

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[RetroNaz]

If only he'd given into his sisters advances.
None of this would have happened, and they'd instead be in hospital due to giving birth.

That would have been the best ending.

I would have preferred an end scene where Dexter steps into his lumber house and takes a lumber dump on a piece of paper that just has the word "audience" written on it.

 

[RemixNinja]

I wish I could take credit but I found it on Tumblr.

Spoiler

Daniel Vogel violently kills Dexter and Hannah while Harrison watches. He murders them similar to the way Dexter’s mother was murdered (and he could do that because he knows everything about Dexter/Dexter’s mom’s murder thanks to Evelyn). Harrison is carried away from the crime scene. We see the same over-the-cop’s-shoulder shot of Harrison’s face that we saw of young Dexter’s. Their expressions are the same. Daniel Vogel’s ultimate revenge on Dexter is traumatizing his son and turning him into a serial killer.

Deb raises Harrison and, once she realizes he’s a psychopath, teaches him the code and reveals to him who Dexter really was. The series ends with Daniel Vogel strapped to a table while a late-teen/early 20’s Harrison stands over him. The soft piano music (It’s called “House” by Daniel Licht jtlyk) begins playing. Dexter appears over Harrison’s shoulder revealing that he is Harrison’s “Harry”. Fade to black.

And to Be Honest I really like this ending better than what was given. Let me know your thoughts.

 

[Ken-Kaniff]

I wish I could take credit but I found it on Tumblr.

Spoiler

Daniel Vogel violently kills Dexter and Hannah while Harrison watches. He murders them similar to the way Dexter’s mother was murdered (and he could do that because he knows everything about Dexter/Dexter’s mom’s murder thanks to Evelyn). Harrison is carried away from the crime scene. We see the same over-the-cop’s-shoulder shot of Harrison’s face that we saw of young Dexter’s. Their expressions are the same. Daniel Vogel’s ultimate revenge on Dexter is traumatizing his son and turning him into a serial killer.

Deb raises Harrison and, once she realizes he’s a psychopath, teaches him the code and reveals to him who Dexter really was. The series ends with Daniel Vogel strapped to a table while a late-teen/early 20’s Harrison stands over him. The soft piano music (It’s called “House” by Daniel Licht jtlyk) begins playing. Dexter appears over Harrison’s shoulder revealing that he is Harrison’s “Harry”. Fade to black.

And to Be Honest I really like this ending better than what was given. Let me know your thoughts.

What's so special about it? It's "Dexter" all over again, even lazier writting than we already got this season. I don't like it, but of course, the Dexter Hate Squad will now hunt me down, since "EVERYTHING" is better than the finale we got...

 

[georgec]

Batista is officially the worst detective ever.

 

[Megaton Sun]

So is Quinn. Didn't he discover that Dexter was a killer a few seasons back? I think he still has the photos of Dexter and Lumen dumping bodies.

 

[PWN3R]

From season four:

http://imgur.com/a/A0Dl0

 

[Dugath]

So is Quinn. Didn't he discover that Dexter was a killer a few seasons back? I think he still has the photos of Dexter and Lumen dumping bodies.

I do not think Quinn ever found out about Dexter.

But I loved Quinn's reaction to watching the video..

Dexter could have pulled out meat cleaver and slammed it into Daniel's head and Quinn would have been.. "oh well".

 

[The Shape]

Now that it's all over and I finally read the rumored spoilers about Quinn sort of becoming the new "Bay Harbor Butcher"...I honestly think that would have been a better ending then the one we just got. The finale was awful and tonally different than the entire series. Hardly any of it made sense.

I "get" what they were trying to do. I "get" what the last shot of Dexter himself means...the silence, the lack of voiceover, the fact that he's exiled himself from social interaction. And you know what? That wouldn't have been too bad if he hadn't DRIVEN HIMSELF INTO THE CENTER OF A HURRICANE AND MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED DESPITE HIS SHIP BEING COMPLETELY DESTROYED. The biggest problem with the finale and this season overall is that for every good idea the writers had, they also had one or two bad ideas to balance it out. "Hey, let's end with Dexter living alone with no voiceover or Dark Passenger with him any longer...but first let's show him driving into the hurricane so everyone thinks he's dead!" "Hey, this is shaping up to be a good final confrontation between Dex and Saxon...but first let's beat the audience over the head with the fact that Harrison loves Hannah!" "Hey, it's only fitting that Dexter's final kill with be Deb. He'll take her off life support as one final gesture of true love...but after that let's have Dexter single-handedly remove Deb's body from the hospital, put her on his boat, drive out to sea, and then dump her body in the ocean in a slow motion sequence that's reminiscent of when Leo DiCaprio sinks down into the ocean at the end of Titanic!"

Oh, well. It's all over. I'll try to only remember the good times with Dexter, and there really were some great times. Great episodes, great seasons, great characters.

 

[Ramsay Snow]

am i ****ing crazy or something?

Spoiler

the dude drove into a hurricane (with curiously calm water) in a center console small boat... and survived the wreckage... really? that is ok with some of you? what the ****?

What was wrong with this? It made perfect sense.

 

[The Shape]

What was wrong with this? It made perfect sense.

Yeah, perfect sense. Didn't you guys know Dexter is a world class swimmer?

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Well I'm dissapointed for sure.

On an overall note, it was simply badly written, and the lead up too it was badly thought out.

Also, I don't buy Hannah Mackay's turn around. They took a character that murdered innocent people in cold blood, and tried to make her fit as a better caretaker for Harrison than Dexter? Uh, yeah, okay then... Cause it's not like everyone around Hannah doesn't die too

Deb's death just deflated me TBH. She'd always been the one thing in Dexter's life that was solid, and I really wanted her to be the one thing in the series that still stood solid at the end... I wanted her to be back on the force working at her redemption one bus full of nuns at a time. That would have felt right.

Also, personally ever since season 2, I've felt like Dexter should end with him finally being revealed as the Bay Harbour Butcher.

And what a great opportunity it would have been to see some old faces back (in the form of witnesses).

Whether or not he died in the chair, was shot by police, escaped and went into exile... I don't care.

Deb would have taken care of Harrison (with the help of his Nanny, Batista and even Quinn). Yeah, it would have been hard for the kid, but then he's always going to have his future be a question mark in terms of childhood trauma.

But hey, that parts just me personally.

 

[RoboAmish]

This Ending was so sad & terrifying. To know that Dexter is gone & the DP is unleashed. He is like the perfect killer, goosebumpskies. Batman gone darksided!!

I don't think that's what they were going for. The writers said Dexter is now basically in "shutdown" mode. I don't think there's a Dark Passenger there. I don't think there's even a "Dexter" there. He's just a husk.

The entire EW interview is worth a read to try and rationalise some of the decisions they made in the finale and season in general. I can't say I agree with any of them but it is what it is...

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/23/dexter-interview-series-finale/

Hmm... apparently they didn't go with Miami Metro finding out because it felt "predictable" and "non-interesting"

 

[RoboAmish]

Oh and their explanation for his miraculous boat escape:

Hopefully it’s not a question that will be examined too closely. The show has always been a half step away from reality; it’s a hyper-reality. We established there is an emergency life raft with an outboard motor on the boat. He could have gotten in the raft and made it safely to shore.

 

[Angelus_Darko]

Well... yeah, it didn't do it for me either, and not in a "It didn't end the way I wanted all these years" kind of way. As you say, the whole boat thing, Deb and the "Now I'll work at the same place as Wolverine in X-Men Origins did, right next to the bar where Superman destroyed the truck"... It all just felt so... out of place. It was normal that Dexter got away with a lot of things, even though the problems he was facing were quite difficult. For example, I hated that in Season 4, when Rita saw him destroying the neighbor's security lights, instead of questioning him, the next episode they just go for a ride.

I accepted the moments when Dexter loses balance and makes mistakes, most of them are justified, but here... the whole Dan Vogel thing on the last episodes... such mistakes for the sake of ending the series as soon as possible. I repeat, it's not that I wanted something like "Yeah, in the end, the hurricane releases BayHarborButcher-Sharktopus, made with the pieces of all his victims, with the voice of Christopher Lee", it's that it just had a couple of good ideas, poorly executed.

 

[Teelie]

What's so special about it? It's "Dexter" all over again, even lazier writting than we already got this season. I don't like it, but of course, the Dexter Hate Squad will now hunt me down, since "EVERYTHING" is better than the finale we got...

I see that finale as a coming full circle ending. It shows that Dexter's legacy will be his son following in his footsteps. If they did it appropriately instead of the hamfisted way this season was treated it could have been on par with the one we did get.

 

[Ramsay Snow]

Yeah, perfect sense. Didn't you guys know Dexter is a world class swimmer?

OK, look. Put it this way: It was Hurricane Laura, right? Laura Moser, Dex's mother, has been reincarnated into this hurricane and instead of killing Dexter, she protects him and helps him fake his death.