A fitting end to Dexter would have been not bothering to produce last season.
They started breaking the rules they established for the general back story and the writing was sloppy.
If you're producing and writing a show like "Lost," you can break the rules because the rules have been set up to be broken. The supernatural/science fiction nature of the story itself almost begged for the rules to be broken.
I started to watch the previous season of Dexter at the beginning of August and I still have disk #2 sitting on top of the DVD player. The only reason we didn't return it to Netflix yet is because there is a debate between the younger rabid Dexter fans in the family (who agree with my opinion) if we should continuing watching it just because we've gone this far.
I say stop now before our intelligence is insulted any further. There's a good chance we will never get to this current "ending" season.
(I put "ending" in quotes because your title for this thread implies they left the show open for a "revival" or a future movie or something like that.)
In defense of the writers.....(read the interview with producers/writers/actors)....the NETWORK
put them into a "crunch" situation because Showtime wanted/needed/PUSHED for a timeframe
that would be advantageous for their NEW series Donovan......THAT put the writers into a
no win situation with ATTEMPTING to appease Showtime and STILL being true to the characters
of the story....the FINAL end/story line to Dexter was ALWAYS going to be Deb's demise and
the "sketched out" story board was pretty solidly KNOWN for at least two years....the UNFORTUNATE factor for the writers was TWO years worth of work crunched into ONE year
because SHOWTIME WANTED what they wanted/when they wanted it and something had to
suffer.....they did the best they could under the time constraints imposed upon them by
SHOWTIME.
The issue of Hannah's lack of "disguise" was also addressed.....in reality, there are THOUSANDS
of fugitives on the streets at a given time, there is NOT enough man-power to pursue each nd
every lead and bring fugitives in.....thus they felt, in real life, her presence would be "as is".....
homeagain wrote: In defense of the writers.....(read the interview with producers/writers/actors)....the NETWORK
put them into a "crunch" situation because Showtime wanted/needed/PUSHED for a timeframe
that would be advantageous for their NEW series Donovan......THAT put the writers into a
no win situation with ATTEMPTING to appease Showtime and STILL being true to the characters
of the story....the FINAL end/story line to Dexter was ALWAYS going to be Deb's demise and
the "sketched out" story board was pretty solidly KNOWN for at least two years....the UNFORTUNATE factor for the writers was TWO years worth of work crunched into ONE year
because SHOWTIME WANTED what they wanted/when they wanted it and something had to
suffer.....they did the best they could under the time constraints imposed upon them by
SHOWTIME.
The issue of Hannah's lack of "disguise" was also addressed.....in reality, there are THOUSANDS
of fugitives on the streets at a given time, there is NOT enough man-power to pursue each nd
every lead and bring fugitives in.....thus they felt, in real life, her presence would be "as is".....
And Showtime can eat any of the viewers they lost... to Dexter and possibly to other shows, old and new.
Certainly as a playwright, actor, magician and sometime producer of live theatre and other forms of live entertainment I fully understand that this is a business and decisions are made, not always with the viewer in mind but surely with the bottom line in mind.
But a good producer will know where his break point is and not force the story into a way that diminishes the quality. A series ended sooner rather than later by the producer and not trying to simply wring every last dollar out of the story is an intelligent producer.
GOOD writing.....Dexter's ultimate sacrifice was loving Harrison/Hannah enough to NOT bring
tragedy to their lives....his sef-imposed solitude/exile/punishment was his ultimate act of "humanness".
Deb's demise was the ultimate act of love....altho, it's questionable what they were thinking
about the exit from the hospital/boat slip availability/and in general, the PRACTICAL nature of
getting Deb to the open sea.....BAD writing there....
Somewhat disappointed in the final show....BUT, ultimately, it appears that IF Showtime
wants to "continue" Dexter's life, it's possible,tho the writers felt this was the fitting end to
Dexters' diabolical dual exiistence.......lots of surprises, lots of WTH moments, and I guess
somewhat sad to see the saga completed.....JMO
JMO...(AGREE with younger generation, IF you come this far.....GO THE DISTANCE WITH DEXTER)
it is a lesson in life.....Dexter's learning arc is both profound and pitiful....and THAT was what
the writers TRULY intented.....viewing the progression of Dexter's decisions and how those
choices shaped his life/his evolution and his soul.......(because in the end, his SOUL journey
was the point.)
I can agree, with in the premise of the show that this was all about Dexter's learning arc.
But only if I suspended my beliefs in life issues in general (which I was able to do). Other than that this show was about a serial killer, nothing more and he deserved life in prison in the least.
I wonder possibly how many mentally unstable folks may have got a slight shove from this show no different than some players possibly have from Grand Theft Auto? Same thing? Yes/no?
Here's my take....YES, I believe you are correct in the inclusion of the "fringe factor" in society,
I think that ALL combative/military/"learn to kill efficiently" games/videos only play into the
"fringe factor" of a fubared society......with Dexter, you see an EVOLUTION and an "awakening"
of what it is to NOT live in fantasy/indulgence and you begin to witness the transformation of
a "monster" to a caring,loving,all tho dysfunctional being......his ATTEMPT to improve his
life and become "normal" is at first foreign to him,then as the series unfolds he realizes his
humanness.....BUT, the end result is a pain filled profound epiphany........he then realizes his
life of "destroying" has, in fact, destroyed everything he held dear......and his ULTIMATE
self sacrifice is to "let go" of the remaining life he held dear......prison/incarceration was a
clique conclusion.....making the CHOICE to eliminate "love" and become an isolationist.....is
the ultimate penalty....the life he STRIVED to construct becomes the "victim"........
NOT!!!
