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!”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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?
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.
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.
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”.
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.”
“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!”
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…
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.
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.
Hyuck hyuck…
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.
Well, that was a big ol’ load of what-the-fuck.
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:
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.
Thanks. As I get older, I find my memory is getting worse, but hey, at least I still have my memory.
Indeed. That place has more murders than the Oxford of Inspector Lewis.