[QUOTE=Frisk;38700457]Watch this season finale be a repeat of season five when he was almost caught. Whatever LaGuerta finds will somehow be brushed under the rug and we'll never see it brought up again.[/QUOTE]
The reason why I still like this show is because the inevitability of Dexter being caught. Its going to be exciting and I hope they do a fitting end for Dexter in the next season.
[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;38700606]The reason why I still like this show is because the inevitability of Dexter being caught.[/QUOTE]
what makes you think that? i'm not so sure
[QUOTE=JesterUK;38689312]new episode feels like [sp]Issak[/sp] never even existed[/QUOTE]
As much of a cool guy as he was, I think Dex is pretty happy he's gone and doesn't really want to think about him anymore. [sp]Chances are he'll get a reference later in the show like all the other antagonists.[/sp]
i don't want to see dexter killed. I'd rather see him ride into the sunset on his boat with deb or something.
I want a whole season of Dexter in prison continuing his work
[QUOTE=GoldenBullet;38704306]I want a whole season of Dexter in prison continuing his work[/QUOTE]
Kill the entire prison
I just want it over rather than dragged on.
[QUOTE=GoldenBullet;38704306]I want a whole season of Dexter in prison continuing his work[/QUOTE]
or how about a whole season about his prison escape and he tattoo's the blueprints of the prison on his body so he can break out his brother
wait
[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;38696902]Last episode was alright.
[sp]The "The dark passenger doesn't really exist, you're responsible for your own actions" symbolism was way too obvious.
For example, when Dexter was giving the monologue to the arsonist killer. Dexter freezes before delivering the killing blow and pretty much says "He is just like me! He is blaming someone who doesn't exist for his actions! Does this mean the dark passenger doesn't exist???"
I thought Dexter was being ironic when he was telling the arsonist to take responsibility for his actions, and I also thought Dexter already knew the dark passenger didn't exist.
But I guess not.
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[sp]I agree, I thought Dexter was always aware that he was being metaphorical. But I guess it just means that he thought he had something wrong with him that he couldn't control, and his true realization is that he is in control and it's just something he wants to do. I don't think they're implying he thought he was possessed this whole time or something, at least I hope not. That'd kind of be a retcon of Dexter's character altogether, since he is supposed to be a very logical, realistic individual.[/sp]
[sp]I was under the assumption that the dark passenger was his personification of him being fucked up at a young age due to his mother and all. He just accepted that it was something he would have to live with.[/sp]
[QUOTE=venn178;38704992][sp]I was under the assumption that the dark passenger was his personification of him being fucked up at a young age due to his mother and all. He just accepted that it was something he would have to live with.[/sp][/QUOTE]
At the end of the season he realizes it's the writers that came up with the Dark Passenger bullshit, then proceeds to kill them, consequently making the series end. It'd be so meta you will be giving the screen a blank stare for hours after the final episode ends.
Oh I fucking love the retired cop (can't recall his name now) and LaGuerta doing some case work together. One of the few remaining interests in this.. shit of a series.
It was almost like they check up their fan mail before writing new episodes or something.
[QUOTE=Marden;38704594]I just want it over rather than dragged on.[/QUOTE]
We shouldn't have to miss out on Dexter just because you want it to be over. It could go on for 100 seasons for all I care.
I agree with Rusty, S01 was the best, afterwards it gets worse, not really really shit like people are saying here, but not as good as 1
[QUOTE=laylay;38707416]We shouldn't have to miss out on Dexter just because you want it to be over. It could go on for 100 seasons for all I care.[/QUOTE]
Nah I think it should come to an end. Maybe Dexter finally takes responsibility and has to choose between the lethal injection and the electric chair.
Or significantly improve the writing and quality of the show. Whichever works fine for me.
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inb4 neither
But what's the point in an ending, the series is fucked beyond repair anyway. Just keep making seasons for people like me that just want something to watch on a Sunday.
I agree that Dexter has lost some of that unique flare it had in its debut series.
The brilliant musical score along with real visual finesse made it really exciting to watch, not to mention the plot and characters.
But with this taken into consideration you have to give the writers credit. This is a series with a primary focus on a killer who works in a police station. Not really something easy to pan out. But they have arguably managed it.
Put it this way. The only time I would not want to watch Dexter, is when it turns on itself, and becomes something entirely different.
It is not, all the base elements are still there. Just not as good as they once were.
Great episode apart from the horribly shoe-horned twist at the very end, jesus christ that was dumb.
I dont think it was shoehorned in, alot of the episode was building up to it, showing how he [sp]provoked dexter, asking for money, and threatened Hannah, and then with his realization about the DP, it was a great way to show how he would have killed Jensen because he's a killer, but instead Dexter wanted to kill Clint more even though he doesnt meet the code[/sp]
I think they painted Dexter as way more naive and stupid in this episode than he is and should be.
Dexter is insanely smart - he's genius levels of smart. Or he was, anyway. He may not have a whole lot of self insight, but I'm willing to bet he always knew his dark passenger was just a part of him, not a separate entity. What kind of retarded idiot ACTUALLY thinks there's something completely seperate inside him controlling him? He always knew they were just his own urges, but because they were urges that were outside of a social and normal spectrum, he gave them a nickname because of how abnormal and kind of evil they were. He always knew it's all just him, he never meant 'the dark passenger' literally. In the books he may have, because doesn't that turn out to be aliens and shit? But in the show, early on, it was very clear he knew he was pulling the strings - just that he had overwhelming urges that he couldn't help but give into because he enjoyed it. He's always been clear that he enjoyed killing.
This whole 'Whoahhh my dark passenger IS made up!' thing is fucking retarded. He ALWAYS knew that it was made up, it was just the moniker he gave to his 'bad side' and killer impulses, a bad side he knew was just another part of himself. Nobody, especially not Dexter, would think they literally have a dark passenger inside them, pulling half of the strings totally out of your control. Like, he knew he was 'not in control' to the extent of the urges being way too hard to fight and too enjoyable, but he never LITERALLY meant not in control. The dark passenger was always just his metaphor for being scarred as a child, 'it' getting into him. 'It' being sociopathy and killer urges, which he called a dark passenger. Not a literal thing. Just a term to describe his lust for blood. God the new writers are so fucking stupid.
something is wrong with the whole thing when the fucking writers can't into their own character
I thought it was pretty clear that it was more of him realizing that he can't blame his childhood experience and thus his DP for his urges, that they're a feeling he has because he likes to kill, and hence why he [sp]abandons Jensen because he doesnt need to meet the code for his kills anymore, choosing clint to satisfy his urge just because he wanted Clint dead[/sp]
[QUOTE=ababs362;38709342]I thought it was pretty clear that it was more of him realizing that he can't blame his childhood experience and thus his DP for his urges, that they're a feeling he has because he likes to kill, and hence why he [sp]abandons Jensen because he doesnt need to meet the code for his kills anymore, choosing clint to satisfy his urge just because he wanted Clint dead[/sp][/QUOTE]
He can't BLAME his childhood for his urges, but childhood trauma is still responsible for them. It's not an excuse, but it's a reason. And if it wasn't his childhood trauma that 'broke' him, then why does he faint when he sees the room of blood that reminds him of the shipping container?
Yeah that's what I thought - that shit IS responsible for him being a killer, even though it's not an excuse for continuing to kill. It left a permanent mark on his personality.
I actually didn't find it that bad honestly. I don't think Dexter ever viewed his "dark passenger" as an actual entity or something, but rather as a sort of multiple personality. A part of him that cancels out his normal self, controls him, and gives him this incredible need to kill. A scapegoat, to deal with his guilt, to differentiate him from the killers he hunts.
He's blaming it because he thinks he's only killing because of this strong need the "dark passenger" gives him. The realization he has, is that the dark passenger is only a matter of "holier than thou". He can't blame the passenger for giving him a need to kill, because the need only exists because he wants to kill.
[sp]is it me or did dexters dad stop appearing to him in this season[/sp]
[sp]i mean it seems to me that his dad would be going 'wtf are u doing stop dating this bitch ur making a mistake' over and over and i havent really seen much of that, also dexter seems to be lost and kind of naive, doubting his actions when before he would just relate to the code and it would seem just[/sp]
um he has talked to his ghost dad plenty of times dude
[QUOTE=Kwaq;38712365][sp]is it me or did dexters dad stop appearing to him in this season[/sp]
[sp]i mean it seems to me that his dad would be going 'wtf are u doing stop dating this bitch ur making a mistake' over and over and i havent really seen much of that, also dexter seems to be lost and kind of naive, doubting his actions when before he would just relate to the code and it would seem just[/sp][/QUOTE]
Ghost people don't adhere to logic.
Note: Rudy from the Arkansas episode.
[QUOTE=Frisk;38713071]Ghost people don't adhere to logic.
Note: Rudy from the Arkansas episode.[/QUOTE]
That was a low point in the writer's careers (even for them, yes) and we don't count that episode as real tyvm
I dont think it was saying that the Dark Passenger was an entity that didnt exist, it was more of him recognizing his need to kill as a "feeling like any other" like Hannah said, and him just abandoning the code and his "Dark Passenger" altogether, since he's been carrying it even before he named it the DP
I've said it a bunch of times I think but it was his personification of a tragic event and how he handled it.
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Not like in the books the dark passenger is a superhero.
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