I wanna see what happens with Quinn & Deb and their suspicion. Also what happens with the kids. The show needed a shakeup, can't wait to see what happens next.
I really thought the finale was ho-hum until the final five minutes when I actually said "Oh Shit" out loud. I'm very curious to see where it will go next season.
When he walked into that bathroom with Harrison sitting in a pool of his mother's blood I just thought "no way, this has to be a dream or something, this just cannot be real." But alas no such luck. All last night after it was over I was thinking "not Rita, not Rita." Whatever you may have thought of her, it was a tragic scene. And what about Astor and Cody? I don't even want to think about what kind of effect this is going to have on them. And is Dexter going to try to raise the kids on his own, or is he just going to hand them off to their grandparents? I'm inclined to think the latter but that's because they were talking about "wiping the slate clean" in the Michael C. Hall / John Lithgow "sit-down" after the episode. And will Deb ever find out the truth about her brother? She got most of it, but with her skills, I'd be willing to bet she could eventually figure out the rest. A part of me wants her to find out about his dark passenger so he'll have someone who knows about it. On the other hand, she may freak out like he imagined her doing in season 2. So many questions left to be answered, I can't wait till season 5.
It was too much man, I knew from the boards that it was coming but to see it...man. "Born in blood" that poor kid, there's still a chance he won't be like his dad, but if he is, the code must be passed on.
Sadly, i had a feeling it was going to happen. I told my roommate what was going to happen in the finale around episode 4 or 5. the writers were actively making us dislike a certain character for that reason. it was a little transparent. i still said "holy shit" though. i didn't want to believe my hunch. i was actually much more surprised by the other main character that bought it earlier in the season.
My wife and I have been thinking about the finale all day....still can't believe. Have you seen the interview of trinity and dexter after the finale? Check it out
Yeah, I posted a lengthy blog post on my thoughts on the series so far. By the way, I think this is on the wrong board, since General Discussion is intended for games.
The real question is: Does he pull it together by next season? Is there anyway for Dexter to "move past" this event? Or will this be the event that totally destroys Dexter and everything he protects? The whole theme of this season was the question, "Can Dexter be a father, a family man, and a serial killer?" This episode seems to answer.... NO.There is no room in this world for the man with responsibllities to indulge in his self-proclaimed "needs". The show believes that responsibility, family, will always stand before the desires of the individual, that participation in society is key for social happiness, and that being a member of a community is as much about the people around you as it is yourself. Dexter refused to believe it, and "payed the price". This is, indeed, fate.
It was interesting for sure. Honestly Im a little bummed to find out it got renewed for 2 more seasons because I feel like with what's happened so far the only thing left, really is for ol Dex to die. So to summarize, I love the show, and I'm sad it's going to last 2 more seasons because I want Dexter to die.
No, I was specifically talking about that episode, not about the season as a whole. I know they said they decided to do it that way pretty late in the show, but the entire last episode was building up to and making the point that
Dexter realized that either his family life or his killing has come to a stop. Keeping in mind that there will be a fifth season, it became more and more obvious that really the only thing that could make Dexter go onto a new killing spree was the violent death of Rita. When they send the kids away "to Disneyworld", I would already have placed a bet on Rita's death. When very late in the episode Dexter and Ria had fairly pointless sex, it was even more obvious that she was going to snuff it. In the first twenty minutes or so me and my girlfriend talked about the fact that there are only two options for them to justify another season: Either Arthur getting away and becoming a Nemesis, or Rita getting murdered. This episode did a fairly bad job at "non-preparing" the viewer for this ending. It was a wrapping-up-a-character-to-get-killed by the book.
Well, there's been a bunch of pointless sex in the series without ever foreshadowing anything. The series could have just continued, she didnt have to die. All three seasons have been happy endings for Dexter so I wouldn't have been surprised with him killing Trinity and no consequences. All Rita's murder does is make Quinn's suspicions stronger and make the Kyle Butler thing more important. Those were still going to be problems going into next season no matter what. Arthur was there at the police station(Batista got a really good look of him) and his family can ID Dexter so some tension would still be there.
It's going to be interesting where they're going to take the next season. Do we continue having Ice truck killer's and trinity type characters? Or is there going to be more plot development in terms of dexter dealing with the death of Rita and the well being of the kids, all the while he's still chasing down criminals who've slipped through the cracks? This could be a chance for a clean start without the kids, perhaps they go live with grandparents or something of the sort. What is Dexter without his dark passenger? I think all this finale shows is that he can't have things both ways, but it does bring a sense of suspense to the seasons. In any event the next season is going to be highly anticipated and they've kept this show alive. It's not a traditional route in terms of most of the shows on HBO and SHOWTIME.
Next time I will put SPOILERS in the thread, my bad. But I think everyone's done an awesome job of not spoiling a single thing about the ending...so.........
" It was interesting for sure. Honestly Im a little bummed to find out it got renewed for 2 more seasons because I feel like with what's happened so far the only thing left, really is for ol Dex to die. So to summarize, I love the show, and I'm sad it's going to last 2 more seasons because I want Dexter to die. "
It's renewed through the 5th season, only one more to go. Why would you want Dexter to die?
The fifth season probably will be the last, even though I'd like it to continue on. Dexter just needs to come to terms with what Harry in flashbacks and his internal monologue has always tried to tell Dexter, you can't have it all. I'm hoping that we'll see a more vicious out of control Dexter, with a much higher body count. He'll make a mistake and Miami PD will be on his tail once again, with Dexter questioning the reason for even trying to hide anymore, just go go go till he gets caught by Deb herself.
" It was interesting for sure. Honestly Im a little bummed to find out it got renewed for 2 more seasons because I feel like with what's happened so far the only thing left, really is for ol Dex to die. So to summarize, I love the show, and I'm sad it's going to last 2 more seasons because I want Dexter to die. "
It's renewed through the 5th season, only one more to go. Why would you want Dexter to die? The fifth season probably will be the last, even though I'd like it to continue on. Dexter just needs to come to terms with what Harry in flashbacks and his internal monologue has always tried to tell Dexter, you can't have it all. I'm hoping that we'll see a more vicious out of control Dexter, with a much higher body count. He'll make a mistake and Miami PD will be on his tail once again, with Dexter questioning the reason for even trying to hide anymore, just go go go till he gets caught by Deb herself. "
and endangered his sister by involving himself with serial killers to begin with. He's also partially responsible for the death of Doaks and he's killed two people who were basically apprenticing his same style of justice on others, so apparently "justice kills" only count when he does it. And he's certainly not being eaten up by guilt at these facts because he's only concerned with self preservation. If he wasn't, if he was actually capable of guilt, he would have lept off building after finding out he murdered an innocent man. He's not a good person and he can't "beat" his desease. He has to die eventually, so his past dies, or he'll ruin the lives of all three children.
Honestly I didn't see it coming from anywhere. I was mostly hoping that Dexter would finally be able to juggle everything in the end, or hell give up his "needs" altogether. Even now I think it would make for an interesting season for Dexter to give up killing and watch him try to struggle to stay away from it.
Two innocent? He killed Oscar Prado in self defense. The guy lunged at him with a knife as was going to kill him, not so innocent. As for the photographer in season four, Dexter did indeed feel guilty about killing him and said as much to Arthur during their roadtrip. The code is designed to basically do two things, keep Dexter out of jail and being killed on death row, and to only kill those who truly deserve it.
Killed two apprentices? Lila wasn't apprenticing Dexter she was stalking him. At the end Dexter realizes that Lila wasn't just dead inside like him, but an emotional vampire. She deserved to die by the code for the two murders that we know of, her dealer boyfriend and Doakes. Miguel Prado really was an apprentice, however he didn't follow the code either, killing the scummy yet innocent defense attorney Ellen.
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