Horror Dexter - Part 6

[Crosswind Ghost]

Just picked up on the whole lumberjack thing, pretty sure he chose that because of what deb mentioned about hiking. Just to be close to the mountains.

 

[The Shape]

And we as the audience saw Batman fly a nuclear bomb towards the ocean with 5 seconds to spare, all while he was still in the cockpit. Are we to assume that even if he had the auto pilot, that he could zip out of the miles of blast radius in 5 seconds?

Both are pretty silly if you ask me.

Yeah, I know you're not exactly fond of TDKR, but to even lump these 2 endings together is what's silly if you ask me. Despite your feelings towards TDKR's ending, there are at least a few possible explanations as to how Batman survived...the most common conception being that he was able to eject into the water before the bomb exploded. Also, as most people have noted since TDKR's release, the "5 seconds left" shot is more than likely an edit cheat on behalf of Nolan. He bent the rules a little bit to give the audience a real shock when the Bat exploded. Also, I hate to use this reasoning but it does hold up in this instance: He's Batman. He figured it out.

All of that is a little different and certainly more forgivable than what we saw in this Dexter finale, in which there was no edit cheat but instead, a pure logic cheat. There are a few reasons why this is the case. We literally saw Dexter steer his boat into the storm with no plan/motivation other than "I need to die now". Are we supposed to think that at the last second, Dex deployed his life raft and let his boat sail on without him in it, similar to what Batman did? No, because that would defeat the purpose of Dexter driving into the storm in the first place...

What are we supposed to think happened, then? Nothing, I guess. He just survived. The writers have said things like "We didn't have Dexter die because death wouldn't have been enough of a punishment for him" so they just came up with this absurd fake out. At least TDKR's fake out had drama and gravitas behind it, with a reveal that was rewarding for Bruce and the audience. When Lucius Fox hears that the autopilot had been fixed months prior to the bomb going off, we (the audience) immediately know how Bruce was able to survive...whether you buy that explanation or not. When I saw Dexter alive (after the redundant, second fade to black), I just said "What the ****?"

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

All this finale did was make me feel bad for Micheal C Hall. He gave a great performance in what was ultimately a badly written finale, and badly written entire season. It had some good moments, but overall it was probably the worst season of Dexter I've seen.

Worst season of almost any cable TV show I've seen.

miguel season was far worse

Of course that insanity would come from the keyboard of a diehard season 8 apologist.

 

[Reek]

season 3 was levels above 6 and 8...and even a level or two above 5... the series worst seasons, in this order... 6, 8 is a close second, 5........then 3...7 and any random combo of 1,2 and 4 ... and I think most fans would agree with that.

 

[Broseph44]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we didn't even get a dexter table kill/kill room this season. Horrible.

 

[Travesty]

All of that is a little different and certainly more forgivable than what we saw in this Dexter finale, in which there was no edit cheat but instead, a pure logic cheat.

The "edit cheat" is made up by fans who are trying to justify the silly ending. Like you said, "we as the audience" saw one thing, but for some reason, in TDKR, "it's not exactly that, it was just an edit cheat". It was the fictional character Batman, of course he figured it out! As for the fictional character Dexter? Nahhhhh.

Again, both are silly, if you ask me.

 

[lime]

Very bad season, and a dissapointing series finale. Yes, the Deb passing was emotional, but the finale was just bad.

It turned out the whole Massuca daughter plot, was just a filler. And I thought it was part of some secret plot twist.

 

[Ghostvirus]

The reason for no Voice over is because Dexter is dead. He is now no different than all the monsters he killed. He will kill again, but it will be just another monster kill.

Just watch the last scene again. It is all there. His entire body language is the way he always was when he was doing his dark thing. He is basically the Hulk in Avengers.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Dexter becoming a soulless husk lacking personality, passion, purpose or discipline is a perfect metaphor for the writing effort this season.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Jonny Lee Miller was great

 

[O'Haire]

This will never stop being funny to me.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

So, I just watched the season finale...

...**** you, writers. **** you.

 

[Ken-Kaniff]

What scene is this taken from? I don't recall seing it, maybe I missed it...

 

[Ken-Kaniff]

Showtime confirms "Lumberjack Dexter" as the continuation series!

 

[Eggyman]

Such a sad and empty way to end this show. A bad season, a bad ending. Just very poor, and the few good moments are only able to show you how bad the rest of it is. I don't have any anger, just disappointment. Such a mess. Terrible.

 

[AnneFan]

So that was Dexter. An uninspiring finale. Nothing really epic in there. The death of Saxon, with Batista and Quinn watching the CCTV footage was more of what I was wanting, them getting the hint he’s more than what he seems. But it didn’t eventuate. Dex just goes missing with a beard, never to be known as a mass killer.

I knew what was coming with Deb and I wanted to cry my eyes out, leading in to the episode. The flashbacks to Harrison’s birth sort of got me there, but not really. I found her dumping at sea upsetting, going out like all the other of Dex’s victims - which I get was sort of the point. Not even wrapped up, just her body. But even then it sort of just happened.

Again, this series could have been so much more. As Eggyman has said above, it feels empty. But oh well.

 

[Teelie]

Uh? No, it wasn't actually a dream. It's like, Dexter would open his eyes, making us believe it was a dream, but it was actually him in the lethal injection room (presumably after being caught), and seeing all the people he'd killed, kind of like his life flashing by his eyes via the people he'd killed.

I meant it was all in his head... that's what St Elsewhere was like (the kid imagined it, not dreamed it, that was Dallas and Newhart) and very similar to the story Ambrose Pierce wrote. Everything we'd just witnessed had happened already. Besides I said it was like that, not the same thing as that.

 

[Teelie]

I didnt hate it either... i loved it TBH... him just full on dark passenger and just has nothing left... its the ****ing hurricane part! i mena there was even wreckage

It's not even that. There's nothing. No Dexter, no Harry, no Dark Passenger. Just a body with nothing in it.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

This was a series afraid of taking any chances. It would have been an infinitely more interesting season if Miami Metro was on his ass during this last season. But this show was so risk-adverse that it became boring and predictable. Harrison took bigger risks on the treadmill.

 

[RetroNaz]

I dont think the writers were talented enough to come up with a satisfying conclusion involving threads where miami metro knew who he was.

I mean that in the nicest possible way, I seriously think it was just too hard for them.

 

[AnneFan]

It's not even that. There's nothing. No Dexter, no Harry, no Dark Passenger. Just a body with nothing in it.

Yeah, pretty much. Going over it, they left Dex as a complete blank canvass with future options. He's down at the moment as you say, and will no doubt stay that way for some time. But, if he gets out of it one day, Hannah and Harrison are out there somewhere for him. Or the visions of Harry could return at some point as well and his hunger to kill.

 

[Teelie]

Or his brother Rudy returns as a hallucination/manfestation of his Dark Passenger. I think they really missed an opportunity there to have an Angel/Devil shoulder thing going on with Dexter.

Harry: Don't kill
Rudy: Kill them all

 

[Maximus One]

Yea I'm not really getting the whole "He's full on Dark Passenger" thing. He seemed more like just a complete automaton. I think if he were still killing it would have shown that because that is a bit vital. Would've been better too. Showing a somewhat aged, bearded Dexter in his kill room talking to his victim about I dunno, pick your subject there. But they showed us Dexter just living a normal, boring existence. I get that they were trying to be poetic and basically give Dexter the same kind of end Vic Mackey got but still, piss poor is piss poor. Best part was Dexter killing Saxon and then Angel just be like "duh huh ok ok" I started laughing my ass off there. You could tell Quinn knew though. So stupid though! Ugh! How could they have ruined it all this drastically??!! Man, **** this show! Least we still have Hannibal

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

My biggest beef with it is that it doesn't seem final to me.

I get that he's supposed to be a husk, now. But he looked to be the same age, which means everything that happened is probably still recent. So, who's to say his Dark Passenger won't awake in a year or two? Maybe, if they'd shown him thirty years later, having not killed anyone since Deb...living in complete isolation, then maybe his penance in exile would work.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

This will never stop being funny to me.

That was pretty funny. It drove me crazy when I first saw it, because he's not even trying to hide.

But, I think sarcastic Dexter, this season, had to be the funniest thing for me this season. It made me wish we had gotten way more of him like that.