# 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:** 9
**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 17, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/161 "2013-09-17T17:59:17Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > I think the most jarring thing for me at this point is that Hannah continues to go out in public without any attempt at a disguise. Not even small stuff like a hat or sunglasses. > [@DMark](#): > > I thought the same thing - really, a red hair wig or at least a hat and some sunglasses or something? > > Geez - if the entire city of Miami has seen your picture, you would think at least a baseball cap and sunglasses might be in order. To say nothing of the fact that she’s **drop dead gorgeous**. I’d remember seeing a woman like that for days afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/162 "2013-09-18T14:41:23Z")
I did find it amusing that they brought back Miguel’s wife from season 3 as the real estate agent handling the sale. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/163 "2013-09-18T16:14:49Z")
_That’s_ who she was; thank you! I always recognize Valerie Cruz right away (from _The Dresden Files_, where she played Murphy), but I felt like she’d been on _Dexter_ before and I just couldn’t place how/when. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/164 "2013-09-22T15:55:40Z")
Well, tonight is the grand finale of this series! I have no idea how it ends, although I did read an article in the Hollywood Reporter with members of the cast that sort of hinted at who dies and who doesn’t (as they were suggesting spin off series - and several said their character would be ideal for a spin off series, leading me to believe they do not end in a pool of blood tonight.) Then again, perhaps they were just trying to lead the reader away from what really happens tonight. Yeah - time for this show to end - but still, I am going to miss my Sunday nights with Dexter. A few seasons have been weak (Colin Hanks anyone?) but some of those seasons have been classic TV (hello John Lithgow, deserved winner of Emmy!). Looking forward to seeing how it all wraps up tonight, and my guess is there will be a few comments later on this evening in this thread! Here we go… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/165 "2013-09-23T02:23:24Z")
I never really wanted to be a forensic tech, I wanted to be… ---
**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 23, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/166 "2013-09-23T02:54:45Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I never really wanted to be a forensic tech, I wanted to be… and thats ok - ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/167 "2013-09-23T04:14:35Z")
Weaksauce ending. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/168 "2013-09-23T04:18:01Z")
Blech! ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/169 "2013-09-23T04:59:41Z")
Well…that was ridiculously stupid. ---
**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/170 "2013-09-23T05:00:41Z")
I don’t say this often, or lightly, but… “lolwut?”. This series that started so great really… ends with green-screens on a Boston Whaler? Well, that was a waste of time, during which I could have been re-watching the penultimate Breaking Bad. Off to go do that! ---
**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, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/171 "2013-09-23T06:59:03Z")
Eh… I thought he was going to wrap his arms around Deb and sink with her. When he didn’t, I knew they would cop out and have him fake his death. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/172 "2013-09-23T06:59:50Z")
Sigh… The title of this thread clearly states SPOILERS! so I am not going to put my comments in a spoiler box, but I will skip down a bit if you want to quickly close out of this thread. This was more of a non-ending, and could just have easily been the season finale instead of the grand series finale I was hoping for. So Dexter is now in a colder climate, and back to his old tricks, and Hanna and Harrison are learning to tango in Argentina, mourning his death. Deb says her very last “fuck” and lights out. Come on - they had the entire year to write this season and get the series finale off with a bang and they pretty much wimped out. Was it the worst series finale in the history of series finales? No. But it did feel like someone ripped out the last chapter of a really good book and you wish you could read the ending instead of being left hanging out to dry. So, despite the great premise of a true serial killer, the one thing they didn’t kill was the final episode - of all the times to pull in the reigns, this was not the moment to do so. Shame on you Mr. Hall -after being a part of Six Feet Under and that legendary, fantastic series finale, you should know better. The only question this really answered is who is more important - the actors or the writers? With one fell swoop they proved that writers really should have control of a show and NOT the lead actor/executive producer. ---
**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, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/173 "2013-09-23T10:45:49Z")
Well, this had none of the feeling of a final season and the final episode didn’t feel like a final episode. It does seem that they wanted to keep their options open. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/174 "2013-09-23T13:26:08Z")
What a load of crap. I knew they were gonna pull this….they kept him alive because they’re going to make a movie. If he had just driven into the storm and it ended there, that would’ve been a little better, but how on earth did he survive that storm? I mean, he didn’t plan this ahead of time so there was no rescue boat or anything like that waiting for him. Terrible writing. Just pathetic. What a waste – this series was so good at times; it’s a shame it ended on such an awful note. ---
**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 23, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/175 "2013-09-23T14:23:17Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > What a load of crap. I knew they were gonna pull this….they kept him alive because they’re going to make a movie. If he had just driven into the storm and it ended there, that would’ve been a little better, but how on earth did he survive that storm? I mean, he didn’t plan this ahead of time so there was no rescue boat or anything like that waiting for him. Terrible writing. Just pathetic. What a waste – this series was so good at times; it’s a shame it ended on such an awful note. He clearly installed a bigger beer cooler and used that to survive. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/176 "2013-09-23T14:44:12Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > I mean, he didn’t plan this ahead of time so there was no rescue boat or anything like that waiting for him. He told the prospective buyer that it was equipped with an emergency life raft. A damn good one, it would seem… ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/177 "2013-09-23T15:36:11Z")
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. 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 wouldve been pissed about it. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/178 "2013-09-23T15:42:08Z")
Well that wasn’t supremely awful like I feared but it was not good. The main problems: 1. The current writing staff bought into the idea that Dexter was some kind of super hero. He wasn’t ad never was. He was a murderer pointed in a slightly more palatable direction (most of the time). The show itself had an episode about this whole idea and how it is wrong. 2. They completely missed the fact that the arc of the series was supposed to be Debra and not Dexter. Throughout the show Debra was only half a person who always leaned on her brother. She should have realized that she has the strength to be her own person, that her brother is a time bomb waiting to go off, confronted him, put him in prison and come out whole. For you Dragonlance fans, she was Caramon to Dexter’s Raistlin and she needed a similar arc. Instead we got her forgiving Dexter for destroying her emotionally and her absolving him of his sins. 3. They were way more invested in the Hannah/Dexter romance than anyone else was. Mostly because she was an attractive (also good) actress who was available. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/179 "2013-09-23T16:13:02Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > So Dexter is now in a colder climate, and back to his old tricks By “back to his old tricks” I assume you mean “killing people.” I didn’t get that from the last scene – it seemed to me that they were leaving it up to us to decide whether he was actually done with killing or not. Was there something I missed? ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355/180 "2013-09-23T16:15:17Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Eh… I thought he was going to wrap his arms around Deb and sink with her. When he didn’t, I knew they would cop out and have him fake his death. Ditto [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-final-season-on-showtime-spoilers/662355.md?page=10)