Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
09-16-13 | 08:49 PM
#53
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
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.
09-16-13 | 08:53 PM
#54
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
09-16-13 | 09:44 PM
#55
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
Final episode will go like this. Dexter kills Saxon. Deb recovers. Hannah, Dexter and Harrison move to Argentina. Cut to a year or two later. The 3 of them are all living happy lives. Dexter no longer feels the need to kill. He comes home from his new job one day to find Harrison standing over Hannah with a bloody knife and Hannah dead. The end.
09-16-13 | 10:06 PM
#56
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
09-17-13 | 12:02 AM
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
09-17-13 | 12:34 AM
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
Actually Harrison was soaked in his mother's blood when Trinity killed her and left her in the bathtub.
09-17-13 | 07:43 AM
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
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.
09-17-13 | 09:02 AM
#61
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
rough season for sure, glad its winding up, if it was not the final season, I would have bailed weeks ago...
09-17-13 | 10:00 PM
#62
Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
I just caught up with the last few episodes tonight. Holy shit did this show fall apart! If cable networks ever owed fans a "do over" this is it.
Harrison is going to wake up from a 'bad' dream at the end. I wouldn't be surprised ....
Harrison is going to wake up from a 'bad' dream at the end. I wouldn't be surprised ....
09-17-13 | 10:28 PM
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
25 Ways “Dexter” Went Wrong
As the Showtime series comes to what looks like a disastrous end, let’s take a look back at some of the show’s bigger missteps. Sure, Dexter had some bright spots in its eight seasons, but there have been many mistakes that got us to the very low point that is the show’s final season.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzma...ter-went-wrong
As the Showtime series comes to what looks like a disastrous end, let’s take a look back at some of the show’s bigger missteps. Sure, Dexter had some bright spots in its eight seasons, but there have been many mistakes that got us to the very low point that is the show’s final season.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzma...ter-went-wrong
http://youtu.be/V6MsuNR2YkU?t=1m45s
Last edited by stingermck; 09-18-13 at 06:43 AM.
09-18-13 | 04:42 AM
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
Granted, I think some of the nitpicking over small things is a bit much, but these last several episodes are pretty bad.
09-18-13 | 08:28 AM
#65
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
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.
09-18-13 | 08:41 AM
#66
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
was decent to so-so for the first half..
now it's like "check please"
09-18-13 | 10:40 AM
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
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.
09-18-13 | 10:47 AM
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
too funny. I love Office Space.
09-18-13 | 11:06 AM
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
He pretty much agrees, the show went to shit.
09-18-13 | 01:13 PM
#71
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
A couple of highlights
"it's so frustrating because the show ends this sunday and if i tell you my ending, then you'll know that's not what's going to happen. i'll check this site on monday and tell you my ending. okay by you?"
"i think that the whole debra storyline was inevitable. the writers just couldn't keep her in the dark any longer. that said, i wasn't thrilled with her whole downward spiral into near insanity."
09-18-13 | 01:24 PM
#72
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
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.
09-18-13 | 02:07 PM
#73
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Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
yikes
09-18-13 | 02:25 PM
#74
Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
If you told me a year ago the show would end with Dexter no longer needing his dark passenger and running away to Argentina I would have been ok with it. I just would have liked them to set up that ending better than they have.
09-18-13 | 02:50 PM
#75
Re: Dexter -- "Monkey in a Box" -- 9/15/13
Just end already.
In my house we spend more time laughing at the show and all the stupid things they do.
I honestly feel like I am watching Heroes Season 3.
1) Deb knows that everyone is on to her that Hanna is in her house, but everyone walks around by the windows, there is no police survailance, etc
2) All of a sudden it is "OK" for Hanna to go to a hotel
3) Hanna goes into an airport - Full of TSA, Police, Immigration, etc officers and does not even wear a baseball cap, or put her hair back
In my house we spend more time laughing at the show and all the stupid things they do.
I honestly feel like I am watching Heroes Season 3.
1) Deb knows that everyone is on to her that Hanna is in her house, but everyone walks around by the windows, there is no police survailance, etc
2) All of a sudden it is "OK" for Hanna to go to a hotel
3) Hanna goes into an airport - Full of TSA, Police, Immigration, etc officers and does not even wear a baseball cap, or put her hair back