I sort of expected the show to get better after the reasonably good season 7 with the awesome villain and the show to end on a good bang like Scrubs (ignoring you-know-what)...
Instead, we all got smallpox.
[QUOTE=Kendra;42033212]I sort of expected the show to get better after the reasonably good season 7 with the awesome villain and the show to end on a good bang like Scrubs (ignoring you-know-what)...
Instead, we all got smallpox.[/QUOTE]
Well the thing is, its the "Final season" of Dexter. When you're on the final season of any show, the main thing the writers should be focusing on is how to wrap things up. We don't need new characters, we don't need new plot devices. Look at Breaking Bad. Do you see them writing in stupid new characters and random new plot devices? No, they are working with what they have built up over the years.
The Dexter writers should have focused on one thing, Dexter's demise. This entire season should have been about the consequences of Dexter's actions.
Like I can't even believe the son of Dr Vogol is a real thing. Like you have 3 fucking episodes left, and you want it to be about this fucking jackass who appears out of nowhere? I'm so upset.
Thank god for Breaking Bad. It gives me faith that good TV can still exist on this gay earth.
You mean the jackass son of a woman that appeared 3 episodes ago.
No episode today, but the same amount of plot development.
wow, i almost feel like i watched it!!
[editline]2nd September 2013[/editline]
'i love u rita i mean lumen i mean deb i mean miranda' - dexter
*dexter does really dumb thing*
'fuckballs' - deb
'mmm hmmm' - sassy black policewoman
[editline]2nd September 2013[/editline]
'i love u deb i mean jamie... i mean deb' - quinn
I bet the Dexter writers would PM you for Rust keys.
[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;42039264]Well the thing is, its the "Final season" of Dexter. When you're on the final season of any show, the main thing the writers should be focusing on is how to wrap things up. We don't need new characters, we don't need new plot devices. Look at Breaking Bad. Do you see them writing in stupid new characters and random new plot devices? No, they are working with what they have built up over the years.
The Dexter writers should have focused on one thing, Dexter's demise. This entire season should have been about the consequences of Dexter's actions.
Like I can't even believe the son of Dr Vogol is a real thing. Like you have 3 fucking episodes left, and you want it to be about this fucking jackass who appears out of nowhere? I'm so upset.
Thank god for Breaking Bad. It gives me faith that good TV can still exist on this gay earth.[/QUOTE]
This is making me so mad right now. If this were just any other season, I wouldn't hate it so much. But these are supposed to be the end times. I absolutely cannot believe we are meeting our final villain with only 3 episodes left. It should've been someone we already knew, or they could have at least had him in from the beginning of the season. Giving us time to know him instead of shoehorning him in at the end.
So he is the final villain I was hoping for an Very Evil fuck like the guy's who where torcher the girls or dexter season 4 villain.
but This is there main Villain.?
this guy for some reason does not scream pure evil fuck just someone who's nuts
I'm still mad that Dexter's hot neighbor was killed.
She could have just taken Hannah's place and it would probably work somehow.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;42069770]So he is the final villain I was hoping for an Very Evil fuck like the guy's who where torcher the girls or dexter season 4 villain.
but This is there main Villain.?
this guy for some reason does not scream pure evil fuck just someone who's nuts[/QUOTE]
Well there's only 3 episodes left. So unless they introduce someone new(which wouldn't surprise me at this point), he's our villain. Maybe Vogel herself helps him, but I doubt she'd actually do it.
[QUOTE=ZF911;42071560]Well there's only 3 episodes left. So unless they introduce someone new(which wouldn't surprise me at this point), he's our villain. Maybe Vogel herself helps him, but I doubt she'd actually do it.[/QUOTE]
This is just sad a Show like this ends like this
[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;42039264]Well the thing is, its the "Final season" of Dexter. When you're on the final season of any show, the main thing the writers should be focusing on is how to wrap things up. We don't need new characters, we don't need new plot devices. Look at Breaking Bad. Do you see them writing in stupid new characters and random new plot devices? No, they are working with what they have built up over the years.
The Dexter writers should have focused on one thing, Dexter's demise. This entire season should have been about the consequences of Dexter's actions.
Like I can't even believe the son of Dr Vogol is a real thing. Like you have 3 fucking episodes left, and you want it to be about this fucking jackass who appears out of nowhere? I'm so upset.
Thank god for Breaking Bad. It gives me faith that good TV can still exist on this gay earth.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget there's also other shows like Mad Men and Homeland as well which are pretty much up to par with Breaking Bad. It's a damn shame Dexter has degraded so much, in fact I'm actually reading this book right now on all these great new dramas that have popped up from the beginning of 2000 to now and the author stated that Dexter would have been up there with The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Wire, and many other great shows if it hadn't gone downhill as soon as season 5 started. Here's the book for anyone who's interested.
[img]http://www.iheartnola.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/difficult_men_book_cover.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=VagueWisdom;42074056]Don't forget there's also other shows like Mad Men and Homeland as well which are pretty much up to par with Breaking Bad.[/QUOTE]
uuuuh nope no sorry.
mad men is a wank and homeland is great but not even close to bb in terms of writing
[editline]4th September 2013[/editline]
i wish dexter only had one season
i could hold it so high. gaze upon its memory with nothing but reverence. like firefly. something that will remain eternally fantastic. but no
this happens.
Well "pretty much" up to par is not up to par. Which is what he was saying. With that said you still have to admit, Homeland is "pretty much" the only thing that'll be worth watching when Breaking Bad finishes. At least until Game of Thrones comes back on if you like that.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;42074841]Well "pretty much" up to par is not up to par. Which is what he was saying. With that said you still have to admit, Homeland is "pretty much" the only thing that'll be worth watching when Breaking Bad finishes. At least until Game of Thrones comes back on if you like that.[/QUOTE]
I thought Boardwalk Empire returns next week? I think its better than Homeland and somehow similar to Breaking Bad in terms of story.
Shows I enjoy right now that are still going would be Homeland, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy and Boardwalk Empire.
They are all pretty good with nice twists and turns. Sons of Anarchy can be hit or miss for some people though I just enjoy it.
So when the show started, Dexter was a pretty good liar. And was able to balance a fake(but shallow) social life with his hobby. By season 4 he was able to balance a family and his hobby, and he was a much better liar. It takes a lot more skill to lie to your wife than it does to a girlfriend you don't even live with.
So what if by now, he's gotten so good at pretending to be normal that he's even fooling the viewers of the show. And in the finale we'll see the truth. Maybe towards the end he'll go "Just kidding," and slit Hannah's throat. And he'll take a blood slide of her and add it to a box full of thousands just like it. Showing that this whole time Dexter has sneaking out at night murdering people, and he's so good at fooling people that we just never caught on.
I can dream, right?
We all know that won't happen, and even if it did, the end result isn't what we entirely watched the show for to begin with, so we'd pretty much realize the writers wasted all that potential the past 4 seasons.
[QUOTE=ZF911;42083468]So when the show started, Dexter was a pretty good liar. And was able to balance a fake(but shallow) social life with his hobby. By season 4 he was able to balance a family and his hobby, and he was a much better liar. It takes a lot more skill to lie to your wife than it does to a girlfriend you don't even live with.
So what if by now, he's gotten so good at pretending to be normal that he's even fooling the viewers of the show. And in the finale we'll see the truth. Maybe towards the end he'll go "Just kidding," and slit Hannah's throat. And he'll take a blood slide of her and add it to a box full of thousands just like it. Showing that this whole time Dexter has sneaking out at night murdering people, and he's so good at fooling people that we just never caught on.
I can dream, right?[/QUOTE]
Fuck that, I want my new villain every episode routine.
[QUOTE=Marden;42086737]Fuck that, I want my new villain every episode routine.[/QUOTE]
While procedural format would be an overkill, I was totally OK with "one main villain per season", that was a serial killer - both mysterious, unique and on par with Dexter. We had only two instances of this - in Season 1 and 4 (Doakes while not being a serial killer was an amazing antagonist, Sirko was just gangster, no matter how badass).
I miss Doakes.
So I only discovered last weekend that the new Dexter season started back in June. Caught up now.
What the FUCK happened to this show.
[QUOTE=Clavus;42091856]So I only discovered last weekend that the new Dexter season started back in June. Caught up now.
What the FUCK happened to this show.[/QUOTE]
Welcome to the past few pages of the thread
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;42069770]So he is the final villain I was hoping for an Very Evil fuck like the guy's who where torcher the girls or dexter season 4 villain.
but This is there main Villain.?
this guy for some reason does not scream pure evil fuck just someone who's nuts[/QUOTE]
No, according to the script in the final episode Harry is revealed to be alive. Apparently the ghost of Harry that Dexter sees is actually the real Harry.
Dexter finds out because Harry accidentally brushes up against Dexter's shoulder. Harry then tells Dexter that he has been manipulating him this whole time.
Dexter gets enraged and tries to get rid of harry once and for all.
[I]"You should have killed yourself!"[/I] exclaims Dexter.
Dexter attempts to do a Judo throw.
But Harry is too fast and he knocks Dexter back with a super punch. As Dexter falls to the ground he notices his M99 tranquilizer fly from his pocket and land just out of arms reach.
The camera zooms pans to focus on Dexter as he attempts to reach for the syringe. But Dexter is too slow and Harry steps on his hand.
Suddenly Harry's head explodes.
-Deb enters the room holding a gun-
Debs face is scrunched up and full of tears "Fucking Jesus Christmas Christ on a fucking fuck christfuck tree, Dexter....fuck!"
Dexter embraces her and says "Its finally over"
They both leave and the credits roll.
[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;42092593]No, according to the script in the final episode Harry is revealed to be alive. Apparently the ghost of Harry that Dexter sees is actually the real Harry.
Dexter finds out because Harry accidentally brushes up against Dexter's shoulder. Harry then tells Dexter that he has been manipulating him this whole time.
Dexter gets enraged and tries to get rid of harry once and for all.
[I]"You should have killed yourself!"[/I] exclaims Dexter.
Dexter attempts to do a Judo throw.
But Harry is too fast and he knocks Dexter back with a super punch. As Dexter falls to the ground he notices his M99 tranquilizer fly from his pocket and land just out of arms reach.
The camera zooms pans to focus on Dexter as he attempts to reach for the syringe. But Dexter is too slow and Harry steps on his hand.
Suddenly Harry's head explodes.
-Deb enters the room holding a gun-
Debs face is scrunched up and full of tears "Dex!"
Dexter embraces her and says "Its finally over"
They both leave and the credits roll.[/QUOTE]
Deb doesn't say "Fucking Jesus Christmas Christ on a fucking fuck christfuck tree, Dexter....fuck!"
0/10 would not watch
[QUOTE=VagueWisdom;42074056]the author stated that Dexter would have been up there with The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Wire, and many other great shows if it hadn't gone downhill as soon as season 5 started[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the advice, I might wanna read that.
Anyway, while I concur that Dexter has gone completely downhill the last few seasons, I find it still difficult to compare even the first two, genuinely good seasons of Dexter to big quality series like The Sopranos, The Wire and such... It just doesn't seem to me there was much of a concept to begin with, it was too much of a monocentric fiction, while every big tv show has always shown great attention to a specific setting or idea, other than the depiction of a single main character (like Dexter).
watched the first 4 episodes of season 1
this show is awesome holy shit
are all the seasons good, theres 6 on netflix so I'm tempted to keep watching :V
[QUOTE=Suttles;42117210]watched the first 4 episodes of season 1
this show is awesome holy shit
are all the seasons good, theres 6 on netflix so I'm tempted to keep watching :V[/QUOTE]
5-8 are bad.
[QUOTE=Suttles;42117210]watched the first 4 episodes of season 1
this show is awesome holy shit
are all the seasons good, theres 6 on netflix so I'm tempted to keep watching :V[/QUOTE]
The first two seasons and select parts of the fourth one are good, the rest sucks. Learned this the hard way.
I wouldn't say season 5 is bad, it just marks the beginning of the downfall. While it was nowhere near as good as season 4 or 1 I don't think it can compare to the shitiness of season 6 or 8.
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