In one quick word....CRAP! The episode was so poorly rushed it made me sick. Dexter turning of Debs life support I understood but then wheeling her dead body outside during the hurricane evacuation while no one says a word is ridiculous. Then load her body on his boat in front of everyone and still nothing. Then dumps her body into the ocean like all of his victims? I'm sorry thats so disrepectful to a sister he claimed to be the light of his life. But then he drives his boat out in the ocean in the middle of a catagory 3 hurricane and survives? I guess he swam back....Then decided to become a lumberjack! Next I also understand him killing Saxon but when Batista and Quinn watch the security tape with him they just believe his self defense claim...Sorry but no veteran cop would ever believe that after watch the tape, sure he set up Saxon to stab him with the pen but then stabbing him in the neck with such ferocity would send up a red flag as well as calmly pressing the panic button to alert the police. Seems though Quinn knows but decides to just let it go....Sorry but Batista at least (being the good cop he is) would easily put it all together right there...La Guerta, Doakes, and even Quinn all suspicious of Dexter and wind up dead. And of course sending your son away with a killer (Hannah McKay) to Argentina is a little silly. Yes I get the fact he finally realized he cannot ever have a normal life and that everyone he cares about he winds up inadvertently destroying. I personally would have liked to see him arrested or actually killed himself driving his boat into the hurricane. His sister is dead because of him, His son is fatherless and motherless because of him. His punishment is being a lumberjack somewhere in the northwest being alone? I'm sorry what a WEAK ending to a once terrific series... Your thoughts?
OK, let's try this: Eh, I can't agree with that entirely... Agreed... I had no issue with that scene until he picked her up off of the bed outside... The wheeling through the lobby, and even outside, could've been seen as part of the evacuation, but, yeah, when he picked her up went to the boat ramp, somebody would've noticed...lol OK, here's how I feel about that... I think that Dexter feels ultimately responsible for her death... In that, she is, in his mind, another victim who died by his hand, in a way... As such, he decided to do it the way he always had... I got nothin here...lol Ok, my theory on that is that: A: Quinn has known for some time, but let Dexter be because Dexter saved his ass a couple of seasons ago when he was gonna go down for Lundy's murder... B: I think Batista let it slide, but he kinda knew that Dexter set that up so he could kill Saxon... Maybe, he felt like Dexter deserved to have the opportunity to do away with Saxon... But, yeah, in the end, it's more or less some creative liberties by the writers... Yeah, not the way I would've gone about it either...lol I thought, in all, the finale was one of the best written episodes of the season, TBH... Was there corn in it? Yup... Was I waiting for some resolution to some of the newer storylines introduced this season, i.e. Masuka's daughter ( )? Yup... Did I get it? Nope... But, I thought they did OK... BTW, here's something you may find interesting: http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/70...-been-former-showrunner-shares-his-vision-end Very interesting indeed...
I actually would have really like that ending he suggested! I always thought in the end Dexter should be caught simply because he's done too much bad to get away.
What about this? http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dexter-spinoff-update-showtime-boss-630904 Showtime entertainment president David Nevins wants to keep the Dexter franchise in business. The executive, who oversaw the conclusion of the series that helped the cable network on the map for original programming, has been fielding questions about whether the Michael C. Hall-Jennifer Carpenter-starrer would continue on in a new form since Showtime confirmed that its current eighth season would be Dexter's last. "We're nowhere yet, but I do feel like Dexter is such a core franchise to Showtime," Nevins told The Hollywood Reporter at a September Paley Center event celebrating the series. "Arguably, Dexter is to Showtime what Spider-Man is to Sony or Batman is to Warner Bros., so I think it's going to be important for us to keep it alive."
I'm out of sync because I thought the ending was appropriate. I don't mean the business with Deb and going out to see in a hurricane. I mean the very last scene. Did you see his eyes? He is never going to see Hannah and Harrison again. He knew that and it showed in his face, his eyes. In a sense he will be in purgatory, a place he put himself by his own actions. It was a bleak ending for him, the realisation that his loved ones are all lost to him now. Regarding the alternative ending and the reference to Ambrose Bierce's story, something similar was in "Pincher Martin" by William Goldsmith. I think though once a device like that has been used then it's pretty much heading into cliche territory to use it in television.
