re: Dexter series finale

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I am actually okay with the general idea behind the ending (Dex realizing he can never live a normal life and that he kills everyone closest to him... so he runs away to isolate himself).

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Me too. In theory, it wasn't terrible.

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It is just the execution of it was pathetic. The acting and writing were laughable at times. For that ending to work you really have to feel the anguish in Dex which was impossible with his acting and the ridiculous scenarios that were happening everywhere (hurricane etc).

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I kind of think you are just supposed to take the last 15 minutes as symbolic. They have been abandoning the confinements of technology and logistics for so many seasons now, that it must have made more sense for them not to even try.

As posted above the general idea of the ending was a good one. It's the fact that the incredibly shitty writing was still present and their was no moment of holy shite what's going to happen next at any point of the final hour. It might be cheap, but I was hoping that we got a closing scene of Hannah catching Harrison mutilating a cat or something with a big smile on his face alluding to a future serial killer.

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While I was not a huge fan of large swaths of the previous few seasons, I was invested enough to stay put. When they introduced Vogel this season and immediately told us that she was the architect for Dex's Code, they set up a great potential climax. If you remember, they had her specifically make mention of how his relationships weren't real because he was incapable of them...and then seemingly saw them as real as time went on. Rather than bringing in the whole idiotic son of hers, they story could have revolved around Vogel realizing that she (and Harry based an her call) had turned a troubled (but not sociopathic) kid into a serial killer. Dex had, as you suggested, seemed to come to this conclusion on his own in one way or another over the course of the past few seasons...they should have completed the circle. Now...they could have upped the ante and had Vogel do it because she was simply a psycho herself and was just running long time scale tests on these kids she treated pitting Dex against her and placing him in the position of having to kill her to keep her from testifying against him for all he had done despite the fact that he now knew he had no excuse for killing or allow the police to arrest her and let the chips fall. By going this route, you could have seen Deb's fall from moral grace as even sadder because she compromised herself for a lie. This track would have taken balls...it would have REALLY been dark, and would have seemed more real.

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This would have been a great ending with a court drama debating the dominance of inherent nature/genetics vs environmental influences. Was Dr. Vogel's code the cop-out of a sick psychiatrist when a true code against violence might have cured or at least controlled Dexter's seemingly inherent need to kill calling into question the very premise of the series.

Possible twists:
1. Dexter's testimony implicates Deb (she violated the code) and she is found guilty of murder.
2. Dexter is found guilty but the jury recommends a commuted sentence and the judge agrees.
3. Dexter visits Deb in prison and through the 2 way phone and plexiglass screen: Deb you should have never violated the code.

I know the feels bro.

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I just watched it...I've got nothing.

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I was telling someone about it who had stopped watching the series years ago... I almost couldn't believe what I was describing AS I was describing it to her.

"So then he waltzes into the ICU and unhooks a police officer from life support, wheels her dead body out of the hospital and to the boat which he has docked about 20 yards from the front door. Oh...sorry. He actually picked her body up while covered in a sheet and carried her down the dock, where he dropped her on the back seat so he could pilot his boat into a hurricane. And then he became a lumberjack. Scene."

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I was telling someone about it who had stopped watching the series years ago... I almost couldn't believe what I was describing AS I was describing it to her.

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I explained it to my wife who quit watching after season 5. She didn't believe me..

A nice little review of how bad the last few episodes really were.

That finale really sucked. The writing and subplots this season were terrible and the ending seemed as though they just conceded the series.

That was seriously one of the worst things I have ever seen; movie or TV show.

Can't believe how far this show fell after season 4. Really wish they could have just written a season 5 where Dexter goes crazy and gets caught or dies and ended it on a high note.

Another thing: Why in the flying frick did they waste our time with Masuka and his daughter? It had nothing to do with anything and now seems to have only been a filler. That is just terrible, pointless, and sloppy writing. I mean did the actor playing Masuka beg for a bigger part and the wrote it in last second as a favor? TERRIBLE.