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Dexter (Final) Season 8

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I have been a Dexter Fan until this season. It has been horrifically bad. Last night's episode sealed it for me. It was supposed to be the second to last episode EVER. SO sad to see a great show with great actors wrap up with such a bad final run. Sopranos is probably going to have a better ending than this show haha.
 
drbrock said:
I have been a Dexter Fan until this season. It has been horrifically bad. Last night's episode sealed it for me. It was supposed to be the second to last episode EVER. SO sad to see a great show with great actors wrap up with such a bad final run. Sopranos is probably going to have a better ending than this show haha.
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In retrospect, while the final season of the Sopranos was not great (it felt like the whole thing was about Vito, who we hardly knew), I don't mind the actual ending of the show. Hopefully we'll be able to say the same about Dexter, though its final season is considerably weaker than that of the Sopranos.

Meanwhile, what Vince Gilligan has done with the final season of Breaking Bad is really unprecedented - this is not only the greatest final season of any of these shows, but maybe the best TV ever broadcast.
 
Don Vito Corleone said:
In retrospect, while the final season of the Sopranos was not great (it felt like the whole thing was about Vito, who we hardly knew), I don't mind the actual ending of the show. Hopefully we'll be able to say the same about Dexter, though its final season is considerably weaker than that of the Sopranos.

Meanwhile, what Vince Gilligan has done with the final season of Breaking Bad is really unprecedented - this is not only the greatest final season of any of these shows, but maybe the best TV ever broadcast.
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I try to not even compare shows to Breaking Bad anymore. That is such a superior show to anything else currently on that it is unfair.

Dexter was/is on the same level as Mad Men for me. Dexter has fallen from grace this season. Hopefully they have some amazing ending that we don't see coming.
 
I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes of Breaking Bad (because other people insisted) and could not continue. Should I be jumping to the 2nd season or something?

As far as Dexter, I agree this season has been absolutely terrible (I've watched every season of Dexter). I can't wait for the show to end at this point.
 
Tweak155 said:
I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes of Breaking Bad (because other people insisted) and could not continue. Should I be jumping to the 2nd season or something?

As far as Dexter, I agree this season has been absolutely terrible (I've watched every season of Dexter). I can't wait for the show to end at this point.
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I didn't get sucked in too quickly. I watched a couple seasons and then stopped, before continuing because the girlfriend wanted to start watching. It's gotten better/more serious.
 
Tweak155 said:
I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes of Breaking Bad (because other people insisted) and could not continue. Should I be jumping to the 2nd season or something?

As far as Dexter, I agree this season has been absolutely terrible (I've watched every season of Dexter). I can't wait for the show to end at this point.
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I find that hard to understand, but obviously everyone's tastes are different. I would, at least, watch the entirety of the first season (which is only 7 episodes) before giving up on BB. I don't think it's ever a good idea to skip episodes of such a heavily serialized show, but it's particularly problematic with BB, since the show is SO dense and interlocks so tightly - there are often callbacks to things that happened seasons earlier.

Because BB has a predetermined arc (as Vince Gilligan says, seeing Walter White turn from Mr. Chips to Scarface), it snowballs over the various seasons in its pace and darkness, and the current episodes are almost unbelievably compelling. I could make a case for last night's BB as being the finest episode of episodic television ever broadcast. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but I am not given to hyperbole, and I think it's warranted here.
 
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Tweak155 said:
I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes of Breaking Bad (because other people insisted) and could not continue. Should I be jumping to the 2nd season or something?

As far as Dexter, I agree this season has been absolutely terrible (I've watched every season of Dexter). I can't wait for the show to end at this point.
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Yeah... the first 4 or 5 episodes are pretty boring. It's setting everything up. Once you get past that, it gets really good. I felt the same way as you at first.
 
Tweak155 said:
I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes of Breaking Bad (because other people insisted) and could not continue. Should I be jumping to the 2nd season or something?

As far as Dexter, I agree this season has been absolutely terrible (I've watched every season of Dexter). I can't wait for the show to end at this point.
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Me too. I watched the first 2 episodes and it was boring. But people keep praising it.
 
I just watched this week's penultimate episode and dear God is it boring, and these dialogues with Dexter's dad Harry are just painful. At this point I'm hoping the final episode ends with every character on the show being crushed by a giant meteor that strikes Miami.
 
Dari said:
Me too. I watched the first 2 episodes and it was boring. But people keep praising it.
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Yep. I wasn't sold on it either at first. I mean I could see it was well done, but I had no clue that it was going to turn into the best TV series of all time.

I don't know a single person that's watched the entire first season that didn't like it. And that's not even getting to the really amazing stuff.

By Season 3 Ep 12, it was literally making me say 'Holy SHIT did that actually just happen?' out loud, in a good way.
 
Fuck you, "writers".
Here's a recap of the finale for those who don't want to bother sitting through the BS.
Hannah and Harrison are living in Argentina together.

Deb is dead after Dexter pulled the plug on her while she was on life support and dumped her before heading into the hurricane.

Batista sees Dexter kill Saxon, and that he planned it, but he's so dumb he can't see it. He probably goes on to be the Chief of Police because his stupidity would be a good choice to run that organization.

Nothing really happens with Quinn, he was just upset that Deb was on life support.

Nothing came of Masuka and his Daughter.

Nothing came of Matthews.

Dexter is living alone as a lumberjack after faking his death/surviving driving his boat into the middle of a hurricane.

The following is how Clyde Phillips (showrunner for seasons 1-4) wanted it to end.
In the very last scene of the series," Philips explained, "Dexter wakes up. And everybody is going to think, 'Oh, it was a dream.' And then the camera pulls back and back and back and then we realize, 'No, it's not a dream.' Dexter's opening his eyes and he's on the execution table at the Florida Penitentiary. They're just starting to administer the drugs and he looks out through the window to the observation gallery. "And in the gallery are all the people that Dexter killed—including the Trinity Killer and the Ice Truck Killer (his brother Rudy), LaGuerta who he was responsible killing, Doakes who he's arguably responsible for, Rita, who he's arguably responsible for, Lila. All the big deaths, and also whoever the weekly episodic kills were. They are all there. "That's what I envisioned for the ending of Dexter. That everything we've seen over the past eight seasons has happened in the several seconds from the time they start Dexter's execution to the time they finish the execution and he dies. Literally, his life flashed before his eyes as he was about to die.
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I don't even know what to say.

It's always great watching a show for 8 seasons to have have an "ending" like that... D:
 
Soundmanred said:
Batista sees Dexter kill Saxon, and that he planned it, but he's so dumb he can't see it. He probably goes on to be the Chief of Police because his stupidity would be a good choice to run that organization.
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You're joking, right?
Of course Batista and Quinn realized what actually happened. Did you need him to actually say out loud "Ok Dex, I understand why you wanted to kill him, I wanted to do the same thing, but how are we going to report this?"

The following is how Clyde Phillips (showrunner for seasons 1-4) wanted it to end.
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I realized that the ending tonight is not what most people would consider as a 'good' ending, but as bad as it was, if what you quoted is true then I guess we dodged a bullet. I'm glad that's not how they ended the series. That's just cheesy as hell.
 
I'm just going to write it, because anyone who hasn't seen the finale and is dumb enough to open this thread now, deserves the spoiler 🙂

Dexter did not kill Deb, the show writers killed Deb. They are the ones to blame.

I understand if serial killers are not supposed to win in the end, but you don't end a show by making all its fans feel like dumb idiots for rooting for Dexter all these years.
 
Lol, as much as this season has sucked, people are overreacting. I could have envisioned it ending even worse. Sure, I was laughing at the episode last night, but it really could have been worse

This season was really bad but that's only because people remember the show when it was really good. I'm sure this season was still better than something like NCIS(who watches that shit??).
 
I think they just went "Well, we're not getting another paycheck! Screw it!"

The whole season was boring and the ending sucked. He didn't even "talk to his dad" once which was pivotal throughout pretty much the entire series. That's how he was kept in check most of the time.
 
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This season was really bad and it featured a lot of unneeded cast members. I don't think the people who died needed to die. The last scene was a fitting punishment for his past transgressions but he is basically leaving his son out in Argentina to fend for himself. When they were saying goodbye on the bus I knew it was game over for the family. How did Dexter just remove Deb from the hospital? You are telling me that no one noticed him just walking around with a patient and getting on his boat. Hall did well with what he was given writing wise but I think they failed the character.
 
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