As you may or may not know.... Dexter Ended this year...
If you haven't seen the last season DO NOT CONTINUE READING. I'm about to spoil the $h!t out of it and I don't want you to get caught up in this if you haven't watched it for yourself.
IT wasn't bad.....per se, just the execution. (I have the same problem with M. Night Shylamon-a-ding-dong endings though.... ) If the setup to the ending and the whole Hannah Angle in general and all that had been set up a season before the previous one (so beginning in the background during Season 6. The Tom Hank's son season), it would've worked out better....There'd be character development and a build-up. But instead they throw me all these people I could careless about and drop them through the ringer all for a Dark Knight Rises ending (NOt really a spoiler its metaphorical).
First off:
You have Hannah McKay - Which is a GREAT plot device. She knows DEXTER, she knows his dark secret. There's Tension between her and Deb. That makes for great interaction and conflict.....
How they fu$&eD it up:
So Deb and Hannah HATE eachother. I mean HATE, they are caught in a Dexter Triangle between sibling, lover and the brother/BF and in season 8 WITHIN ONE F%&k!ng episode they get over it for Dexter's sake and get all chummy. Why? Because he's decided that since she came back (which was soo contrived because she could've been hellbent on revenge or scorned but instead she uses Dexter to escape her double-life she created to escape Dexter... I don't know....DUMB) he 'loves' her and wants to be with her in Ecuador or some S@!t. Can you say crazy-teenage-love? I thought Psychopaths can't do the whole relationship thing (Again it would've worked it they fleshed it out over a season or 2. That way he could slowly realize that maybe he isn't psychotic or maybe he's changing.....but THEY DIDn'T
Second:
Dexter and Deb's relationship- So Season 7 ended on a definite WTF moment. (I'm assuming since I'm talking about the last episode you've seen every previous one) Deb chooses Dexter or what's right (which IS NOT like her character at all. I mean it is but it isn't. She's super-freakin-righteous and cares immsensly about law and order but also LOVES Dexter.. Even so much as physically/physiologically/mentally/weird/whatever. Then to have her choose Dexter and SHOOT la Guerta, that's some heavy $h!t weighing heavily on her conscience and it's no wonder we find Deb where she is, in a living-hell when season 8 pick up
How they F^<k3D it up:
So you have Deb hitting rock bottom, her relationship with Dexter is non-existent (she forced her hand in making that decision and she resents him and compromised herself and her beliefs. Not a good place to be) and she is no longer a COP. She's become freelance, a bounty hunter who is working for half of the boondock saints (sean Patrick Flannery) so that's cool. That could be fun to play around with, it certainly gives her character some new territory to run around it. It also takes a few episodes for that to go away. Dexter and Deb have serious problems but somehow after attempting to kill her brother everything goes back to normal. WTH???!!?? They didn't even play around with that at all. Not for one or two episodes... it goes from "Ok Dexter I hate you and I shouldve killed you when I had the chance" to "OK we are past that, let's work on patching things up because the show is ending and oh.....remember Hannah, well yeah...she's back in down and also DRUGGED US but no that's cool she just wnated to get your atention we are BFFs now"
It's cheap cheap cheap! Again....why didn't something like this happen at the end up season 6 (and moved deb finding out to season 5 and completely remove Lumina, or Luma, or Lumen whatever her dumb name was...)
Third:
Doctor Vogul- I actually liked this character and have no qualms about her being introduced (well maybe. For the sake of having her son as a main BADDY for the last 2 seasons we COULD'VE introduced her last season but it would be necessary) when she was. She was what she needed to be, a guiding star for Dexter when he needed some guidance. Plus it was cool to hear about the code and how it came to be. I thought that was a good idea. I liked her charatcer like I said, and even her death was upsetting, but that's because she's a good piece to the puzzle. It wouldn't be necessary to introduce her last season but if anything it could go like this:
In season 7 Vogul's son could be introduced by dialogue only, making him be the cause of a bizarre string of murders mid-season to season finale. Then you introduce Vogul being who she, and even EXACTLY how they did in season 8, except she is secretly investigating her son (I feel like if she knew WHO he was and kept it a secret that would make for greater development between her and Dexter's characters. ) and it isn't revealed until mid season of season 8 that she's looking for her son and then an episode or two later you can reveal he is the KILLER from the 2nd half of season 7 AND that he is VOGUL's son......don don don.... then you kill her and give dexter more convicting motives.
How they f##ked it up:
I just hated how good or a character she was and how they didn't play around with that more. See the above statement ^
Fourth:
Psycho/Sinister Vogul's Son-
He was sinister and menacing but I wanted MORE. YOU introduce this guy in the last 4 EPISODES C'MON WRITERS! He'e almost a good match for Dexter and you just give him the shaft. If anything he could start out as a trinity type killer then when Dr. Vogul turns up to investigate a string of murders (You don't know that she is there to find out IF IT IS HER SON yet but you know who she is what she does just not the why until season 8) it's more heartwrenching that she's given us all (the viewers and cast) the runaround. But Dexter would understand cause of Deb and whatnot.....but THEY DIDN'T!
How they f&*%3d it up:
Again read above...
Maybe I'd care if it wasn't crammed into the last 3 episodes. That's just me though. from a writing stand-point its hard to end a series and you're gonna piss people off no matter what you do nowadays. But that's my two cents. It comes off maybe angry or troll-rific, but that's just my opinion. If I could do it differently I would but I can't so I write....
(their 'Dark Knight Rises' ending doesn't work so well...
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