# Dexter: Final Season On Showtime (SPOILERS!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355 "2013-07-01T15:34:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/181 "2013-09-23T16:48:19Z")
I actually thought he was going to throw Deb over the railing into the water at the Hospital. I also thought the stupid “Thanks fans!” before the episode started was really off-putting. “So we’re all wrapped up here - thanks for watching, fans! We’re thanking you in advance b/c this finale is a piece of shit!” ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/182 "2013-09-23T18:05:20Z")
> [@RainGrowsBrite](#): > > And the thing I hated THE MOST, was that he took Deb and dumped her in the ocean. The ocean that he has dumped all of those murdering bastards. I felt like she deserved better than that. AND, I think Deb would’ve been pissed about it. I thought it was the most “right” thing about this episode. He took Deb to where he dumps his victims. Dexter believed Deb was his last victim. - If we’re picking sides–I think Dex is done killing. Also, it was weird that Masuka didn’t even appear in this episode. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/183 "2013-09-23T18:17:01Z")
Sorry, but I think Deb would have had some inventive curses for that one. I think it makes sense in character and storyline terms that Dexter did what he did with her, but if the writers intended it to be a moving moment or poetic somehow they failed. It makes sense that a serial killer would consider that a fitting tribute. The audience shouldn’t share that view. As for the ending, the way a New York Times reviewer put it was apt: he received neither redemption nor comeuppance. To me, that was the big mystery of how it would end. Would he get caught, or would he change? They sure teased the change throughout the last season, that maybe he’d be able to hang up his knife set for good. They would have been better off with the unambigously happy ending. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/184 "2013-09-23T19:49:05Z")
As a onetime fan of Dexter, I quit after the ridiculousness of Season 6, and reading this thread and the reviews at the AV Club, boy am I glad I did. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/185 "2013-09-23T20:39:34Z")
A funny quote from Mrs. Morbo last night I just remembered: “There is no way in Hell they would be allowed into that room with all those other babies.” ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/186 "2013-09-23T20:53:05Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I never really wanted to be a forensic tech, I wanted to be… When most of your audience reacts to your Big Finish with an immediate and uncontrollable urge to sing a Monty Python-sketch song, you know you’ve failed at writing drama. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/187 "2013-09-23T21:08:43Z")
I also enjoyed that ridiculous **Front Page** headline from the Miami Herald: Forensic Tech’s Wreckage Found No Sign of Life Huh? What kind of bizarre wording is that? Where did they find the wreckage - Mars? ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/188 "2013-09-24T01:46:37Z")
This used to be my favorite show. It airs its last episode ever and I fall asleep. Later when I woke up and finished it up, I didn’t regret sleeping. What a waste. So horrible. I’m not unhappy that his ending wasn’t redemption or comeuppance, but that it just sucked. I wasn’t pulling for a particular outcome, just a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/189 "2013-09-24T02:42:44Z")
I didn’t hate it, but it was far from great. I think they were in a jam of their own making, a bit. Having to kill big bad #8, deal with the aftermath of Deb’s gunshot, and sort out Dex, Harrison, and Hannah’s fate while a hurricane approaches while running from Deb’s ex-boss was a lot for a single one-hour episode. Everything was rushed. They should have arranged things so this was 90 minutes or 2 hours. The writers copped out with the ‘neither redemption nor comeuppance’ ending. Too wishy-washy to be a very-good-to-great ending. I get the idea that Dex was done killing. If so, he was done being a threat to Hannah and Harrison, and once he made his way to South America, they could try for a normal life. It was Dexter’s murdering tendencies that brought everything bad down on those around him. If he was done murdering, he didn’t need to go be a lumberjack, sleeping all night and working all day. I didn’t even process how bad the newspaper headline was, both in the text and Dex’s disappearance being headline material. Within days of a hurricane, HE rates a front-page story? I wouldn’t think that rates above-the-fold front page acreage in Miami on even the slowest of news days. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/190 "2013-09-24T03:03:27Z")
> [@RainGrowsBrite](#): > > I hated the episode, aside from the scene where Dexter kills Saxon. It was nice to see his obvious intented kill be approved by Quinn and Angel. I agree that this was the best part of the episode. The look that Quinn gave Dexter was great. Sadly, the rest was pretty much total crap. “Hey, I’m going to stab you in the leg on a crowded bus and nobody will notice! Magically, you won’t even have time to let out an instinctive yelp that might alert them.” It’s always easier to pick things apart than to create them in the first place. I’ve pointed out the occasional problem I’ve had with small bits of “Breaking Bad”, for example, but I would never pretend that I could write a better show overall myself. Sadly, I think I probably could write a better show, myself, over a weekend, while drunk, than the last few seasons of “Dexter”. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/191 "2013-09-24T03:52:08Z")
Ugh. So bad. So so **bad**! Why did they have to completely ruin this show? _Dexter_ used to be one of my favorite shows, and the minute they first introduced Hannah was when the show completely turned to shit. This season was poor in general, and especially for a way to go out! Did they know, _for certain_, that this would be the final season when they filmed it? Because nothing about it feels like it was leading to an end. I know it’s not fair to compare this to _Breaking Bad_ because that show is in another pantheon completely… but compare the last few episodes of \*Dexter \*to the last few of _Breaking Bad_ and you really get a sense of the Dexter writers just saying “Fuck it, I don’t care what happens.” > [@BlackKnight](#): > > Sadly, the rest was pretty much total crap. “Hey, I’m going to stab you in the leg on a crowded bus and nobody will notice! Magically, you won’t even have time to let out an instinctive yelp that might alert them.” “Hey, I’m going to wheel a body out of a hospital, even though I am wearing regular clothes, and then pick the body off the gurney and casually carry it past all these doctors outside down onto my boat! No one can see me, I’m SuperDexter! Then I’m going to take lessons from Batman in how to escape from certain death while in the middle of the ocean, even though there is no rescue craft around!” > [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Also, it was weird that Masuka didn’t even appear in this episode. Oh, right that was another thing. The whole storyline with Masuka’s daughter felt like it was leading somewhere with no payoff. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/192 "2013-09-24T04:20:14Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Oh, right that was another thing. The whole storyline with Masuka’s daughter felt like it was leading somewhere with no payoff. Well, that is the story of Masuka’s life… ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/193 "2013-09-24T04:28:20Z")
In fairness to the writers, the last thing we heard I believe was that having Matsuka as her dad was awesome, which was easy to overlook, but I think does close out the storyline on a happy note. We can assume that they now have a healthy relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/194 "2013-09-24T05:38:13Z")
Smart, Dexter. Leave your son with the unrepentant murderess with the history of poisoning people who inconvenience her. After all, little kids \*never \*inconvenience anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/195 "2013-09-24T07:17:39Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > We can assume that they now have a healthy relationship. Hyuck hyuck… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/196 "2013-09-24T08:42:35Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > I didn’t even process how bad the newspaper headline was, both in the text and Dex’s disappearance being headline material. Within days of a hurricane, HE rates a front-page story? I wouldn’t think that rates above-the-fold front page acreage in Miami on even the slowest of news days. It was an article on the newspaper’s website that Hannah was viewing on the internet. Those often have a logo masthead at the top, much like the top of the page you’re looking at right now. It wasn’t revealed what the actual front-page story was that day. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/197 "2013-09-25T00:30:00Z")
Well, that was a big ol’ load of what-the-fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/198 "2013-09-25T05:08:58Z")
I literally LOLed watching this episode (specifically, when Dexter just carried Deb, wrapped in a sheet, to his boat). I loved several of the seasons, but WOW. This one did NOT turn around the awful of the past season or this current one. Some observations: 1. Miami Metro is the worst police department EVER. 2. Miami doctors are the most vague EVER. 3. Miami doctors can make huge overreaching prognoses within hours of a catastrophic brain event. 4. Miami hospital security is the worst EVER. 5. Miami hospital life support machines are the worst EVER. Even taking off the O2 sat on her fingertips would have set off alarms. Everything else? Bells, whistles, flashing lights, alerts at the nurse station… 6. Hannah McKay is the worst trying-to-hide-face-from-public fugitive EVER. Seriously, buy some red hair dye, or cut your hair, or wear freakin’ sunglasses. 7. Harrison is the most flexible and least opinionated preschooler EVER. Lesson to be learned: Don’t move to Miami. Although, when ridiculous things would happen, hubby and I just started saying, “It’s Miami!” Magical place, that. I need to go watch the first season to remind me of how awesome this show was, and why I was motivated to keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/199 "2013-09-25T08:25:33Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > It was an article on the newspaper’s website that Hannah was viewing on the internet. Those often have a logo masthead at the top, much like the top of the page you’re looking at right now. > > It wasn’t revealed what the actual front-page story was that day. Thanks. As I get older, I find my memory is getting worse, but hey, at least I still have my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/200 "2013-09-25T16:14:57Z")
> [@Ruffian](#): > > Lesson to be learned: Don’t move to Miami. Although, when ridiculous things would happen, hubby and I just started saying, “It’s Miami!” Magical place, that. Indeed. That place has more murders than the Oxford of Inspector Lewis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355.md?page=11)