Originally Posted by Goat3001 (Post 11837358)

There's some good in this season and it's too bad they didn't decide to flesh out the good to make room for the bad.

I actually liked this episode. Dexter's final goodbyes were nice and Dexter relinquishing the Dark Passenger and Harry would have hit with some great emotional punch if the rest of the season was good. Dex not needing to kill anymore is part of a good wrap up for the character.

I like Saxon as a villain. If they did the better thing and introduced him earlier he would have made for a great final villain for Dexter. Someone that is similar to Dexter but wasn't brought up with a code. Plus with it being the final season there was the chance that he could have made some big dents in Dexter's life.

Originally Posted by badlieut (Post 11837447)

Wow....Harrison had some miracle healing on his chin. No bandages at all!

Originally Posted by badlieut (Post 11837447)

Wow....Harrison had some miracle healing on his chin. No bandages at all!

Originally Posted by Coral (Post 11837498)

Yea, I noticed the same thing. When I didn't see the bandages I was looking for any signs of stitches, but he was unmarked. You get the feeling the writers aren't even trying when they let a continuity error this obvious slip by.

Originally Posted by windom (Post 11837602)

Only if Harrison killed Hannah via a treadmill. Then that could become his MO. He kills all his victims with an out of control treadmill. His dark passenger was born via treadmill.

Originally Posted by Sigh (Post 11837468)

So let's look at the first 30 seconds of this episode, shall we?

We left off last week with Dexter wearing GLOVES (important point) to avoid leaving fingerprints cradling some old hag getting her blood n' DNA n' shit all over himself and vice-versa.

This episode starts with him washing blood of his hands. Why the fuck does he have blood on his hands if he was wearing gloves? Okay, so the Trekkies will say maybe 5 gallons of blood ran down into the gloves. Okay fine... but then he proceeds TO TOUCH EVERY GODDAMN THING IN THE HOUSE WITH HIS BARE HANDS.

All in the first 30 seconds of the show.

Yeah, this show is shite.

Edit to add: And they had the balls to say no fingerprints were found. :lol:

Originally Posted by Throwing Copper (Post 11839094)

I thought the first several episodes or maybe first half of this season was pretty good. I had high hopes, but it has gotten terrible.

Granted, I think some of the nitpicking over small things is a bit much, but these last several episodes are pretty bad.

Originally Posted by Brack (Post 11839181)

Not sure why anyone would be surprised with Dexter having a happy ending. But I'm not 100% percent convinced it will. Dexter going back to killing and/or losing his family would be a good way to end it.

I agree that the show peaked with Trinity season. After that, it's like the show didn't know where to really go. Not that I don't like it, but am surprised Dexter didn't get worse as far as his dark passenger was concerned. It went from being one of my favorite shows to one where I was glad to know the show was ending, and in less than a year from the last season's premiere. I just hope it's not all rainbows and unicorns for the finale.

Originally Posted by Dave99 (Post 11839372)

It's not about a happy ending, I wouldn't expect that anyway. It's about having an ending that is vaguely connected to logic and reality. See I believe, instead, that the writers created a number of conclusion scenarios, and them put them on a mat which they put on the floor. They would then jump to them. And that's how we got this final story.

Originally Posted by outcastja (Post 11839382)

Clyde Phillips the showrunner for the first four seasons did an AMA on Reddit. He said he would reveal how he would have ended the show after the finale airs.

He pretty much agrees, the show went to shit.

Originally Posted by Neil M. (Post 11839598)

He also mentions that Showtime was involved in every big story decision. I'm wondering if we'll find out from the writers that they wanted to end it earlier but Showtime was the one that wanted to keep it going.

Originally Posted by Brack (Post 11839181)

Not sure why anyone would be surprised with Dexter having a happy ending. But I'm not 100% percent convinced it will. Dexter going back to killing and/or losing his family would be a good way to end it.