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Showtime dictated what Dexter's fate would be in finale? (Spoilers)
Posted on 10/7/13 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 10/7/13 at 3:52 pm
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“They won't let us kill him,” Goldwyn said of the network’s constructive note for the show that was once thought to be predicated on the suspense that its character might end up dead or in jail, until we all realized it was really about the suspense of whether he’d get to be in love or in the lumberyard. “Showtime was very clear about that. When we told them the arc for the last season, they just said, 'Just to be clear, he's going to live.'” With this creative suggestion in the form of a network mandate—which is definitely in keeping with Showtime’s insistence that Dexter is Batman, and its attendant hope he could similarly just go on forever—the producers were forced to find some other ending for what Goldwyn called its “very core loyal following,” one that provided the only logical conclusion to the story they'd been watching.
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Posted on 10/7/13 at 3:56 pm to BluegrassBelle
It still sucked
Posted on 10/7/13 at 3:57 pm to BluegrassBelle
I can believe that the suits were making demands like that but there were still a lot of different directions they could have gone that would have sucked less.
Reading that, it now seems like they threw a hissy fit and screamed in the writer's room "Oh, so you want him to live????? Well, HOW BOUT THESE APPLES!!!"
Reading that, it now seems like they threw a hissy fit and screamed in the writer's room "Oh, so you want him to live????? Well, HOW BOUT THESE APPLES!!!"
This post was edited on 10/7/13 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 10/7/13 at 3:58 pm to Trout Bandit
having that and the BB finale so close together was quite the contrast.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 3:58 pm to BluegrassBelle
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BluegrassBelle
Just when I thought the finale was out of my mind.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 4:01 pm to Walking the Earth
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Reading that, it now seems like they threw a hissy fit and screamed in the writer's room "Oh, so you want him to live????? Well, HOW BOUT THESE APPLES!!!"
That's pretty much what I thought when I read it.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 4:02 pm to LasVegasTiger
I keep wondering if I'm going to finish this show or not. I think I got through 4 or 5 seasons of it.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 4:04 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
I thought the Edward James Olmos season was OK. Last season was pretty bad, worst of the series.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 4:10 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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I keep wondering if I'm going to finish this show or not. I think I got through 4 or 5 seasons of it.
Stop. Honestly.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 4:22 pm to LasVegasTiger
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That's how the show ended? Wow, that's pretty terrible. I've only seen a few episodes, and never really cared to get deep into the series.
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Fortunately, it found it in an ending where Dexter’s secret dies with the character whose body he unceremoniously dumps into the ocean—leaving every single other person who cared about her haunted by her disappearance forever, yet still believing that Dexter was super cool, despite his always being really weird and aloof (because donuts)—and Dexter is at last able to pawn off his son for good on some other poor woman, this time a fellow murderer. Meanwhile, he goes off to live in the woods, having officially learned nothing, but definitely a little sad. This satisfied Dexter’s very core loyal following of total masochists.
That's how the show ended? Wow, that's pretty terrible. I've only seen a few episodes, and never really cared to get deep into the series.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 4:43 pm to BugAC
thanks for this thread reminded me to call direct tv and cancel showtime
Posted on 10/7/13 at 4:45 pm to CE Tiger
Posted on 10/7/13 at 5:05 pm to BluegrassBelle
I'm not familiar with how the chain of command works, but what would happen if the writers were like "uhhh, noo...we already have an end in mind and he dies" and shotime said "no, we'll say again, he will live".
What could happen? If the writers said "frick yall, we're the writers" there's no way shotime would have the audacity to just not air a finale right? Would they fire them immediately and bring in some ragtag group of writers to make an ending to their satisfaction?
What could happen? If the writers said "frick yall, we're the writers" there's no way shotime would have the audacity to just not air a finale right? Would they fire them immediately and bring in some ragtag group of writers to make an ending to their satisfaction?
Posted on 10/7/13 at 5:15 pm to BluegrassBelle
And we wonder why Showtime is, and always will be, HBO's retarded little brother.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 5:20 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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I keep wondering if I'm going to finish this show or not. I think I got through 4 or 5 seasons of it.
yeah. the last season i saw was the one where he saved the girl who only dates black guys in movies from a self help guru
Posted on 10/7/13 at 5:59 pm to Maximus
Good thing Breaking Bad wasn't on Showtime.
I wonder if HBO gave Chase similar marching orders a la Tony.
I wonder if HBO gave Chase similar marching orders a la Tony.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 6:02 pm to ColaTiger
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And we wonder why Showtime is, and always will be, HBO's retarded little brother.
umm...yeah that's why they keep taking all the Emmys.
Posted on 10/7/13 at 6:03 pm to BrownBear
dude showtime is second rate shite. if they cant make it to hbo, they settle for showtime
Posted on 10/7/13 at 6:06 pm to Carson123987
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showtime is second rate shite
WHAT??? Showtime is CBS premium. Have you seen Homeland? Ray Donovan? House of Lies? Episodes?
I'm not saying HBO is less awesome, I love GoT and The Newsroom and The Sopranos, and Entourage..haven't watched em all, but getting there. Okay, Weeds and Dexter turned for the worst. But the rest of Showtime..solid shite. Absolutely not second rate.
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