I am guessing any follow up season will be called Harrison, with Dexter being the voice in his head.
Dexter Morgan…a man barely alive.
Haha! Talk about beating a concept to death (so yo speak). It was already weird without Harry this season, though Deb made for an interesting substitute. I think the series ended where it needed to, with Dexter finally getting caught and having to be exposed as a serial killer. He had been getting away with it for far too long and who better than his son to be the one that ends Dexter’s spree. When Dexter tries to say that he can change, you know there’s just no way. It would have been cool for Batista to confront Dexter, but it wasn’t really necessary. Batista ID’d Dexter from the photo. All in all, I liked the finale, but most of the reviewers on IMDb sure didn’t. It got a rating of 4.6—the lowest for the whole nine seasons.
Harrison: Newer New Blood
I assume Hall told the producers he was done playing Dexter. Same as Gandolfini with Tony Soprano.
Well, we finally got around to watching the last 2 episodes.
I have to apologize because my memory in general sucks and it gets worse when I see a couple of episodes and then it’s two or three weeks later I see more, but – what was going on with those cabinets with Kurt’s “trophies”?
I was assuming those were the bodies of Kurt’s victims, but couldn’t figure out how they were preserved so well. Mr. Middon had a recollection that Kurt made masks of the faces of his victims, so that’s what we saw in the cabinets. He also said that he saw Iris in a cabinet (which would verify the Mask Theory), but I didn’t catch that.
If the cabinets held mannequins with masks, what did he do with the actual bodies?
As a side note, all in all I liked the final episode. Although at the beginning of the season I would never have guessed how it ended, I did think the ending made sense. It formed a very twisted circle: Dexter killed Kurt’s son, Kurt tried to kill Dexter’s son, Dexter killed Kurt, Dexter’s son killed Dexter.
They were embalmed. I don’t recall if there were any clues, for example, embalming fluid or equipment lying around in earlier episodes, but that’s why they’re preserved so well.
Off the top of my head, there was an autopsy/exam/embalming table involved at one point. Dexter may have mentioned how convenient it was, but I don’t remember if that was before or after we saw all the bodies (after, right? it was in the same room as them).
Does embalming prevent the corpse from deteriorating? I thought it just slowed it down – else, why is the Italian Bride such a big deal? (I thought Cecil talked about Petta, but I couldn’t find it.)
At any rate, clearly some of his victims died many years earlier. Wouldn’t their bodies be showing decay?
As far as I understand, yes, they’ll still decay. I think embalming is really just meant to buy you a few days/weeks so you have time to arrange a funeral/viewing. You might just have to suspend your disbelief enough to assume that Kurt did a really good job embalming them and perhaps whatever they’re being displayed in is designed to make them last even longer.
On the other hand, given that they were propped up in positions natural for a living human, but not so natural for a dead one, it could be possible that they were taxidermied (“stuffed”) or maybe even plastinated (like the Body Worlds exhibit).
ETA, but I think the official answer is that they were embalmed.
Were those display cases perhaps refrigerated?
Or vacuum sealed.
I’d think vacuum sealing a human, even a dead one, would be a bad idea. Now, removing as much of the O2 as possible and replacing it with something inert like argon (which also wouldn’t draw any attention when buying it since it’s a common welding gas) may be a better idea.
I saw a headline that someone is remaking the season finale?? I don’t know who but I think enough is enough. I thought the first and last episodes of new blood were awful, but it’s time stop.
Check the date on that article- April 1st. So, probably not.
IIRC there was one episode where he drained the body with artery tubes. And the only one he attempted a mask for was the one girl he accidentally shot in the eye.
IMHO the only way to preserve a body in pristine condition long term would be a combination of Egyptian organ removal followed up by freeze drying. Then some makeup to remedy the dry appearance of freeze dried tissue.