Dexter - The Final Season - The Thread

I've been watching the show from the beginning and I wanted something positive to happen to Masuka, then Niki showed up. However, knowing Masuka's luck there's a negative twist. Not going to assume she's a mass-murdering psycho just yet though. :)

Glad to see i'm not the only starting to fast forward.

Niki is the brain surgeon.

@dudeglove

That's why, basically.

I'm just happy they got rid of that spoiled rich douche-fuck Zach kid. There was no way I wanted to see him continue Dexter's code.

We DESERVED those tits after all these weeks of gut wrenching boredom, they can't rip us off like that, titless Dexter sex is NOT my idea of a good life. Grrrrrr.

This is really a horrible season, especially for a final one. They're just going through the boring motions, while a final season should be something like The Shield's or Breaking Bad's. This season is even more boring than Season 6, an all time low for the series.

Anyway, it's pretty obvious the brain surgeon is Cassie's boyfriend. Oh yeah, and Vogel definitely dies

At this point I think they should've just ended the series with Deb shooting LaGuerta. In terms of character development, I don't think there's anything they could do that would have more impact.

Hannah is not the killer, Vogel is. Dexter and Hannah are going to argentina. I just wrote the show, Dexter has become boring and predictable. I can watch Breaking Bad over and over not this show. I havent gone back to other seasons.

So... apparently Zack died? I don't remember that from last week's episode?

Who cares anyway, here's the only real reason I'm still watching <--

Just end it. If there is going to be a spin off, it will be terrible

"HEY GUYS, BTW I HAVE A SUPER SMART, SUPER CRAZY SON I FORGOT TO MENTION."

UGH, this freakin show.

Is it wrong to think that Burn Notice is now a superior show than Dexter? I have been watching both final seasons and I have to admit that Burn Notice's is so much better which is fucking crazy to think about. I actually look forward more to Thursday than Sunday (if you exclude Breaking Bad).

Auhg, really, it's her son that's the killer? This is the final season and the big bad guy winds up just being some guy, he is just some guy, him being Vogels son is meaningless because she was only introduced in this season so we don't really have much reason to care about her. Hell, why did the final season need a big bad guy for Dexter to go after? How about Quinn, this season could have been Quinn figuring out what Dexter was and going after him and Deb being stuck in the middle and I don't know, I know it's stupid but with the amount of time we've spent with Quinn it would at least add up to anything and he's been in the show for years so it's someone we have stakes in, but oh no, the big bad guy for this season is the son of the woman only introduced in this season and AUHG. I'm actually enjoying the show still because I still think the character of Dexter is great, Micheal Hall is a great actor and I like a bunch of the side characters but this is just hair pullingly dreadful.

@zolroyce: Yeah, Quinn would have probably been a pretty good antagonist choice for this season.

Last week i decided to watch Dexter first so i could be disappointed and follow with Breaking Bad so i could end the evening on a high note. This week i watched Breaking Bad first because that's what matters and followed with Dexter because whatever and hoping they would realize there's only 4 episodes left and maybe doing something remotely interesting wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Now despite having followed the show since the beginning and considering it to be some of the very best TV i've ever watched when it was at its strongest i'm seriously thinking about not watching the remaining three episodes.

This is something else entirely in how fucking piss poor this show is now. I've given up on shows i didn't like all that much anymore before but never after this long for something i've loved so much and this close to the end.

Yeah, with Vogel it was all the kind of misdirection that could have easily left her open to still be the killer. But no. It IS the boyfriend, a guy we've met for five seconds total in eight episodes of the final season. Maybe they wanted to try something new for the final season; it must have been an easy pitch:

"Okay guys, imagine DEXTER but without the tension. Think Miami Hills 90210 meets Nancy Drew, but instead of one final season we do like a bunch mini-plots in a row? Do we love it? Damn right WE LOVE IT!"

What should the mini-plots be? Oh I don't know...we could do 'Deb hates Dexter', or 'Dexter gets a protege'? Okay, but if you do those, make sure you scrub and reset so that they don't matter to the actual final plot okay? Perfect, that will cut down on our work hours - how many episodes do we have to actually write? Oh, I don't know, two or three sounds good, we're going off the air anyway so it's not like it matters.

There you have it people, that's how the pre-production planning meeting went down.

It's also quite obvious that Hannah isn't going to make it either.

This final season should have been about Dexter getting hunted and someone in Miami Metro knowing his secret, the way they decided to go with this season is just disappointing. The ending of season 7 had potential to change everything.

It is crazy seeing the massive difference in quality when watching Breaking Bad and Dexter on the same night. I'll continue to watch Dexter just because I need to see this through even though I really dislike this entire season.

Anyone else noticed every season where Dexter has pursued a love interest has been pretty bad?

Season 7 was good, but would have been better without that Chuck floozie. This season started off all right, then she came back, and now it's a shit show.

I think the best seasons were 1-4, they were all fantastic. I especially liked Miguel Prado.

Thankfully there is only two episodes left. The writes really phoned this one in. I can't wait to see what a train-wreck the last episode is however.

i am so sad how bad this has been season 7 had promise for the first time since season 4 and they fucked it. good night sweet prince...that was good for 3 seasons

For the first time in five years, new Dexter episodes are coming out and I'm NOT WATCHING THEM.

I feel like a badass, you don't wanna fuq wit me ;]

Show's over, goodnight sweet price indeed! It's been fun, mostly.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, it DID. At least Vogel is gone.

All this Argentina bullshit is the fucking worst. Dexter acting like a 15 year old who met a girl on World of Warcraft.

The scene with Harrison and the treadmill was so bad i wanted to punch the fucking TV! Actually i wanted to punch myself for still watching this bullcrap.

I very rarely quit a show in the middle of a season but managed to do so this year with The Walking Dead so i should be able to again but nooooooooo... then again TWD was never great to begin with.

At its best Dexter was amazing, some of the very best TV ever done. This though is just insultingly bad.

So I'm like 4 episodes behind this season (because I kinda don't care. The first few episodes were AWFUL). Should I catch up? I've watched all of Dexter and really liked it but I have had no desire to watch it. Not to mention the other show I am watching that is also ending soon (Breaking Bad) has seemed better in every way possible for the season thus far.

Really sad about what's happened to Dexter. Season 7 made it seem like the show would end with a bang. Apparently that is not the case.

The only way the end of this series will be satisfying will be if Dexter is in a cafe in Argentina and you hear a gunshot and the screen fades to black, Sopranos style...

... But then comes back in and shows Robo-Doakes standing over Dexter's corpse.

"Surprise motherfucker"

@ben_h: No, it will just make you angry. Wait for the finale, read a synopsis, and watch the finale. If there weren't only 2 episodes left I would do the same thing. It's so bad.

@pr1mus: I know the feeling, I just want this series to end so I can be done with it. Which is sad since it used to be one of my favourite shows on TV.

Also did they ever explain how Dexter ended up on a bench in the street after Hannah drugged him? I know this was a few episodes back but it's still bothering me. Did she drag him? In broad daylight? I know i'm just supposed to accept this, like when Dexter took Travis to the church without anyone noticing, but still.

And shoudnt Vogel's son have an english accent? I know prolonged time in the states (or anywhere else) can effect your accent but it shouldnt wipe it out completly. I get that you can fake it but why would he force an accent when speaking to his mother?

Anyway, that's my plot hole bitch for today.

Yeah, don't watch this season if you can avoid it. It's the most disgusting web of pointless plots, egregious plot resets, and 'tween fan fiction quality writing I've ever forced myself to endure. But I kind of have to finish 'cause I liked even the "bad" seasons before this.

Two more episodes to choke down, I can do it. The upside is that after looking forward to Dexter every year, now I could really care less about it going off the air, so it's really no loss. Is that an upside? What soap opera trash this is.

If Doakes did come back to finish the job, it would actually fit right in nicely with the rest of the season. It's one thing for a show to ignore inconvenient plot elements from past seasons - but this season itself is a collage of half-written filler, false-starts and blatant resets. Ugh.

Dr. Vogel is such a bad character, you guys.

NOT ANYMORE!

This final season has been the writers saying "Hey, remember when this thing happened in a past season? Wasn't it awesome? Let's do that thing again!" over and over. It's nowhere near as bad as Season 6, (the Edward James Olmos season,) it's just mediocre at best.

Seasons 5 and 6 were so boring. It's the only time I've ever skipped episodes of a show I watch. It just had no momentum. Season 8 has been just as bad as those seasons, but it still moves along at a faster pace, probably because I just want to see the ending now. Writing has hit rock bottom though. Season 8 is easily the worst season in that regard.

Soap opera with serial killers.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh

I'm so ******* disappointed with this season, they didn't just drop the ball, the ball broke the floor and Dexter dropped down right with it. This show officially sucks right now. Kinda. It wouldn't surprise me if the spin off they've been talking about is Dexter in Argentina.

So I guess it's looking like the spoilers that have been floating around are probably true.

Uh, don't mouse over the following if you don't want to know.

Debra dies after being shot, Quinn figures out what Dexter is, they take Saxon out together for Deb, Dexter escapes the country, Quinn becomes the new Dexter, gives the "Tonight's the night" soliloquy to close out the series.

I just want to see that last part happen so bad. It's a really weird turn for that specific character, but I guess it kind of makes sense given the circumstances-- and I think the past couple of seasons have been leading somewhat in that direction, especially last season.