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Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:42 pm
by Pandemonium
creep wrote:i just started watching this season and it's an ok series....not great. i will still watch though. when his sister was being so nice it was obvious shit was about to go down.

if you want to see a better series watch ray donovan right after dexter.
I really liked the first two seasons and the one with John Lithgow as "Trinity." The last two seasons, especially last season pretty much were rock bottom for the series, this season is better in large part because *finally* Dexter and Debora have been backed into a downward spiral with no way out and it's all gonna end with this season.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:25 pm
by JOEinPHX
Pandemonium wrote:*finally* Dexter and Debora have been backed into a downward spiral with no way out and it's all gonna end with this season.
Maybe.

Showtime is now considering bringing it back for Season 9.

With season 8 already totally filmed, that means Dexter obviously doesn't die. Thanks for the spoiler, Showtime.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:52 am
by Pandemonium
Six7Six7 wrote:
Pandemonium wrote:*finally* Dexter and Debora have been backed into a downward spiral with no way out and it's all gonna end with this season.
Maybe.

Showtime is now considering bringing it back for Season 9.

With season 8 already totally filmed, that means Dexter obviously doesn't die. Thanks for the spoiler, Showtime.
That conflicts with what Showtime announced this past week regarding a couple pricey "Dexter Complete" Blu-ray or DVD sets that contains the "final" season 8 and the rest of the series:

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/32438 ... ome-video/

"Blood Slide" Box
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"Head Trauma" set
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Re: Dexter

Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:30 pm
by JOEinPHX
Who knows. Maybe they've made up their mind after all. :noclue:

That is a pretty sweet looking box set.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:07 pm
by Essence_Smith
Six7Six7 wrote:
Pandemonium wrote:*finally* Dexter and Debora have been backed into a downward spiral with no way out and it's all gonna end with this season.
Maybe.

Showtime is now considering bringing it back for Season 9.

With season 8 already totally filmed, that means Dexter obviously doesn't die. Thanks for the spoiler, Showtime.
Nah, it's dead...no next season in the air, and I got that from a very reliable source at Showtime...

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:59 am
by blackula
Is everyone still watching?

Throughout the series the story required you to overlook obvious holes and play it off to poor decision making by characters or luck or whatever. Nothing too crazy, but still walking a line at times. I think last night's episode went over that line. I don't want to go into detail for anyone that hasn't seen it yet. I understand they're painting a picture of Dexter losing his grip on everything and his web is even more tangled, but some of the story telling is a little thin and far fetched. Anyway, still excited to see how it ends.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:10 pm
by Juana
I thought with the way this season is going that its going to be more of we'll fine out that Dexter was just dreaming basically.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 2:42 pm
by chaos
Dexter was one of my favorite shows but I hate this season. I am so disappointed. I'm hanging in there to see how it all gets wrapped up. I am preparing myself for an underwhelming finale.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:42 pm
by Pandemonium
chaos wrote:Dexter was one of my favorite shows but I hate this season. I am so disappointed. I'm hanging in there to see how it all gets wrapped up. I am preparing myself for an underwhelming finale.
Yeah, especially the last few episodes have blown goats. I dont expect a series closure that will rank among the greats like the final MASH ep.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:03 pm
by blackula
Juana wrote:I thought with the way this season is going that its going to be more of we'll fine out that Dexter was just dreaming basically.
Yeah, I'm thinking that might be the only way to tie the story up without killing him.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:11 pm
by chaos
Based on the previews for the last two episodes, my suspicions that the finale will be a dud have been confirmed. :lol:

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:12 pm
by creep
i just started watching this season. i will take everyone's word for it that it used to be good because it is pretty dumb. better than true blood though.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:27 pm
by Hype
creep wrote:i just started watching this season. i will take everyone's word for it that it used to be good because it is pretty dumb. better than true blood though.
After the first few seasons (after they stopped following the plot of the books), they (literally...) lost the plot. Each season was sort of like House, where the same things would happen... The show got interesting again when John Lithgow did an excellent job playing evil/creepy. Now, I watch just because I want to see how the writers manage to end it.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:31 pm
by Pandemonium
Adurentibus Spina wrote:
creep wrote:i just started watching this season. i will take everyone's word for it that it used to be good because it is pretty dumb. better than true blood though.
After the first few seasons (after they stopped following the plot of the books), they (literally...) lost the plot. Each season was sort of like House, where the same things would happen... The show got interesting again when John Lithgow did an excellent job playing evil/creepy. Now, I watch just because I want to see how the writers manage to end it.
Yeah, I really enjoyed the first two seasons and the Lithgow season was genuinely great, especially the ballsy ending. The show hit rock bottom two season ago with the imaginary Edward James Olmos character and his religious nut killer. The last two seasons has a few decent episodes and interesting characters like the Russian mob boss but more or less it's treading water with stupid little plot twists that more or less look like keeping HBO's options open for a followup series with some of the characters in a different setting.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:07 pm
by blackula
Pandemonium wrote:
Adurentibus Spina wrote:
creep wrote:i just started watching this season. i will take everyone's word for it that it used to be good because it is pretty dumb. better than true blood though.
After the first few seasons (after they stopped following the plot of the books), they (literally...) lost the plot. Each season was sort of like House, where the same things would happen... The show got interesting again when John Lithgow did an excellent job playing evil/creepy. Now, I watch just because I want to see how the writers manage to end it.
Yeah, I really enjoyed the first two seasons and the Lithgow season was genuinely great, especially the ballsy ending. The show hit rock bottom two season ago with the imaginary Edward James Olmos character and his religious nut killer. The last two seasons has a few decent episodes and interesting characters like the Russian mob boss but more or less it's treading water with stupid little plot twists that more or less look like keeping HBO's options open for a followup series with some of the characters in a different setting.
Yeah, the plots gone all over. I think showtime views Dexter as its big show so it demands new seasons every year to act as the lead in show for the new shows they debut at 10 after Dexter. Last season ended in December? and this new one started in July? I read that it was because showtime wanted the lead in audience for Ray Donovan. Perhaps the pressure of having to write a new season in less than than a year, every year, caught up to them?

I liked the Jimmy Smitts season as well. Even that stupid, predictable from the get go Deadward James Olmos (get it) season had a decent story with the ex con who had the car repair place. Point being, I think they cram too many twists and lost their way by forcing the annual season.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:32 pm
by Pandemonium
blackula wrote:Point being, I think they cram too many twists and lost their way by forcing the annual season.
Compared to True Blood, Dexter is a model of economic storytelling.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:17 pm
by farrellgirl99
This season is awful. I thought they had a good bounce back season last year after the horror that was six, but then it got really bad again. Even the first few episodes of this year were okay/good.

But bringing Hannah back feels so inauthentic and the writing is AWFUL. going to argentina? deb magically being okay again? having the brain surgeon be vogel's son who we knew nothing about and then turning him into the big bad that needs to be killed? none of this makes sense for a final season!

The final season needed to be either a deb/dexter showdown (what i thought they were gonna do after the first few episodes) or a dexter/miami police dept showdown, especially after laguerta got killed (and matthews didnt give two shits when she had just told him she thought dexter was the bay harbor butcher?!!!!)

Sorry, I could go on forever bitching about this show. I used to love it and it has turned into the biggest pile of shit with terrible writing. Even the acting isn't as good as it used to be. So many pointless characters and sideplots (which admittedly, the show always had trouble with, but it was forgiven because of very solid main plots/characters)

Ugh!!!

Especially after you watch breaking bad, its just rough

Re: Dexter

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:50 am
by Hype
Well at least Quinn and...


No.. no... that doesn't make anything better. :lol: It's The OC, but with murders.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:23 am
by Pandemonium
Adurentibus Spina wrote:Well at least Quinn and...


No.. no... that doesn't make anything better. :lol: It's The OC, but with murders.
Was there something going on health-wise with the actor who plays Quinn last year? He started the season looking rail thin with an almost shaved head and now he looks almost "normal" again.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:07 pm
by chaos
I just assumed that he was supposed to look like that since his character was pining over Debra, drinking a lot, and not taking care of himself in general since he was miserable over their breakup. :noclue:

Re: Dexter

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:28 pm
by chaos
http://www.dexterdaily.com/2012/12/desm ... about.html

Monday, December 3, 2012
Desmond Harrington Comes Clean About His Weigh Loss


Dexter co-star Desmond Harrington -finally- comes clean about his weigh loss: "I didn't have any plastic surgery, I'm not sick it's called running and eating better! You understand? I'm in my 30s now. All these ridiculous stuff that I read "He's sick, he's on drugs", get a life! I just changed how I ate and begin to run!"

Listen to the whole -hilarious- Dexter Wrap-Up Podcast by clicking here http://www.dexterdaily.com/2012/12/dext ... nolds.html

Re: Dexter

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:21 pm
by chaos
So any predictions for next week's finale. I am sure they will all be better than the actual show. :lol:

Re: Dexter

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:12 pm
by Pandemonium
chaos wrote:So any predictions for next week's finale. I am sure they will all be better than the actual show. :lol:
No doubt Dorxter decides to stay in Miami more revenge-driven than ever since I bet Deb croaks. Bug eyes Saxon probably goes after Hanna and the kid at the airport and probably kills Hanna or at least the private detective closing in on her in some ridiculous fashion of course leaving no remaining links back to the Dinkster. To make it a complete comedy, Dexter teams up with a now grief-stricken Quinn to kill Bug Eyes for the love o' Deb. The dynamic duo catch Bug Eyes in his hospital kill room and Dexter, no longer hungry to murder people lets Quinn do it. Quinn kills Dexter too because he knew Dexter was a supah-killin' freak since day one. The last scene is Quinn loading the Morgan family corpses on Dexter's boat, sending it off in the sunset where it catches fire like a viking funeral. The last scene is on Quinn, now the new Miami Metro Punisher looking for bad guys to murder on his PC as Nine Inch Nails new song "Everything" plays into the end credits. Simultaneously, hundreds of thousands of viewers heads explode in a wtf moment of epic proportions.

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:34 am
by farrellgirl99
Pandemonium wrote:
chaos wrote:So any predictions for next week's finale. I am sure they will all be better than the actual show. :lol:
No doubt Dorxter decides to stay in Miami more revenge-driven than ever since I bet Deb croaks. Bug eyes Saxon probably goes after Hanna and the kid at the airport and probably kills Hanna or at least the private detective closing in on her in some ridiculous fashion of course leaving no remaining links back to the Dinkster. To make it a complete comedy, Dexter teams up with a now grief-stricken Quinn to kill Bug Eyes for the love o' Deb. The dynamic duo catch Bug Eyes in his hospital kill room and Dexter, no longer hungry to murder people lets Quinn do it. Quinn kills Dexter too because he knew Dexter was a supah-killin' freak since day one. The last scene is Quinn loading the Morgan family corpses on Dexter's boat, sending it off in the sunset where it catches fire like a viking funeral. The last scene is on Quinn, now the new Miami Metro Punisher looking for bad guys to murder on his PC as Nine Inch Nails new song "Everything" plays into the end credits. Simultaneously, hundreds of thousands of viewers heads explode in a wtf moment of epic proportions.
:lol:

I think the writers should have a black screen with the words "We're so sorry" on it.

I watched dexter last night because i wanted to laugh after being so freaked out by breaking bad. When you have to watch Dexter to laugh, you know things are horribly wrong

Re: Dexter

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:33 pm
by creep
how does it make sense that he left that dude alive? he knows about dexter and would tell the police that he is a killer. am i missing something? not killing hime made no sense at all. i hope that hurricane hits and kills everyone that was ever on the series.