Dexter

#77
#77
I've almost give up on this show at this point. This season started off promising, but it's tailed off in the last few episodes and is quickly going the way of seasons 5 and 6...which were both terrible by Dexter standards.

I might be in the minority, but I think they've just run out of directions to take the show and the plot lines come across as desperate at this point. It's god awful compared to what it used to be.
 
#78
#78
duckman398686 said:
I've almost give up on this show at this point. This season started off promising, but it's tailed off in the last few episodes and is quickly going the way of seasons 5 and 6...which were both terrible by Dexter standards.

I might be in the minority, but I think they've just run out of directions to take the show and the plot lines come across as desperate at this point. It's god awful compared to what it used to be.
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I don't really disagree. I guess I'm not as down on this season because I think it's better than last season. It's still inferior to the best seasons (which are IMHO 1,2, and 4) but last season was so bad I almost didn't come back.

I do think this season has lost a lot of steam after a very good start, and I still think the plot lines are all over the place. I'm going to stick with it though since last season is the confirmed last season, so I can put up with 18 more episodes.
 
#79
#79
VolsSportsFan said:
I don't really disagree. I guess I'm not as down on this season because I think it's better than last season. It's still inferior to the best seasons (which are IMHO 1,2, and 4) but last season was so bad I almost didn't come back.

I do think this season has lost a lot of steam after a very good start, and I still think the plot lines are all over the place. I'm going to stick with it though since last season is the confirmed last season, so I can put up with 18 more episodes.
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I like where it's going. Clearly, Deb is going to be upset that Hannah McKay slipped through the cracks and is going to determine that Dexter's version of justice has a place in the world. This is what Dexter wants but he's going to be less than enthused when Deb wants him to kill Hannah because . . . well . . . you know he's smashing that. I say "clearly" but this is obviously JMO.
 
#80
#80
Blah, I'm quickly losing interest in this season. I don't care for this wussified version of Dexter they've created who's now going against everything he's been about because he's into the chick he should have killed because she's a killer.
 
#81
#81
It was a little better. But yeah, it still sucked. This season (or the past two or three for that matter) just doesn't have the same great characters that the series did in its prime. The ice truck killer, Doakes, and Trinity were all very well written personas in the show and extremely worthy adversaries for Dexter. Heck, even Miguel in season 3 wasn't all that half bad.

Isaak, Hannah, the Doomsday Killer, and Lumen by comparison are nothing more than an embarrassment to the series.
 
#82
#82
I just do not understand why people don't love Miguel and season 3. Jimmy Smits was freaking awesome.

Not real sure how I feel about this season. I think it's better than Lumen and Hanks, but it's nothing like the first 4 seasons.

I will say Dexter's conversations with the Russian that's after him are quite amusing. I like when Dexter tells someone how it is.
 
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#83
#83
DrRosenRosen said:
I just do not understand why people don't love Miguel and season 3. Jimmy Smits was freaking awesome.

Not real sure how I feel about this season. I think it's better than Lumen and Hanks, but it's nothing like the first 4 seasons.

I will say Dexter's conversations with the Russian that's after him are quite amusing. I like when Dexter tells someone how it is.
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I do like the Russian portion of the storyline. I just don't like that they've thrown in this love story thing.
 
#84
#84
Dexter jumped the shark after Trinity...nowhere to go but down after that.

How LaGuerta managed to stay alive this long is a mystery...she adds little to the show imo.
 
#85
#85
I hate LaGuerta. Always have. She is just noise. Dexter so far this season has been interesting. I just hope the Isaac situation works out. I feel like they have drug it out to much. And one thing they haven't done a lot of is dex killing anyone. It's been a couple weeks since anyone has been on his table. He cut that one assassins throat but that was in my opinion just so they had a kill that episode cause its been a while. And the whole love with what's her face is pissing me off. They should have made her hotter and showed more skin for that to work. We all know dex is going to kill her.
 
#86
#86
Dool-Aid said:
I hate LaGuerta. Always have. She is just noise. Dexter so far this season has been interesting. I just hope the Isaac situation works out. I feel like they have drug it out to much. And one thing they haven't done a lot of is dex killing anyone. It's been a couple weeks since anyone has been on his table. He cut that one assassins throat but that was in my opinion just so they had a kill that episode cause its been a while. And the whole love with what's her face is pissing me off. They should have made her hotter and showed more skin for that to work. We all know dex is going to kill her.
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Now that LaGuerta is fishing around the Bay Harbor Butcher investigation, hopefully Dexter kills her off before she outs him.

LaGuerta is a conniving, filthy whore, and Deb should punch her right in the ovaries.
 
#88
#88
**Spoiler alert if you did not watch last night**




I was not a fan of how Isaak was killed off. The first half of the season built him up as a major force, a real boss, someone who was a legitimate threat to Dexter, only to be reduced to a love-sick puppy of a man shot by one of his underlings. I didn't mind that he had a softer side - I felt it gave the character depth - but the way he (and Louis) was written off made me feel like I was watching some daytime soap instead of Dexter.

I would have much preferred his character to stick around a little longer, possibly finding his way into LaGuerta's path...
 
#89
#89
I agree E, I thought it was meh how he was offed.

I still don't hate the season, but my goodness the writers seem to have A.D.D. this year; 3 episodes left and they introduce ANOTHER villain. How many has there been this year?
 
#90
#90
VolsSportsFan said:
I agree E, I thought it was meh how he was offed.

I still don't hate the season, but my goodness the writers seem to have A.D.D. this year; 3 episodes left and they introduce ANOTHER villain. How many has there been this year?
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That's exactly why I felt I was watching a soap. I don't hate the season either, but there is very little continuity. There has been too much time spent on the background for non-essential characters (Angel and his restaurant, Joey and the stripper, Louis/Isaak since they were apparently non-essential to the story line, LaGuerta's search for the Butcher, etc.), and not enough time spent on Dexter sneaking/finding unique ways to satisfy his dark passenger.
 
#91
#91
I have a feeling the LaGuerta stuff is all set up for next season, which is going to be the last. I believe the cliffhanger at the end of this season will be her figuring out Dexter's secret right at the end.
 
#93
#93
Interesting finale to say the least... I have about 5 different theories of how they will go forward, but I'm sure they're all probably wrong, haha.
 
#96
#96
Wow, I didn't think they'd go through with it so soon. Deb is now completely gone over to the dark side.
 
#97
#97
I thought that it was a somewhat lazy ending. This kind of thing had to happen at some point, but I think it's gone way out there.

Having the flashbacks to Doakes made me realize how much more I genuinely enjoyed the first couple of seasons. I will say that this season was entertaining, to say the least.

I did like where things were going about halfway through the season. There were like 4 or 5 people coming down on Dexter at once, it looked like Quinn was in over his head, they had introduced all these dynamic characters. That's the thing about these writers and this show, they know how to build the anticipation, they know how to write in all these great characters and drama, but I feel like they've lost their ability to end the season with a bang (Season 2, Season 4).

I know that LaGuerta got shot, yeah yeah. The second we saw her meddling in Dexter's business I think we all knew it was only a matter of time. She was an annoying character, but never enough to make me truly hate her as a main villain. Louis would have been a MUCH better villain throughout this season. And they built up this rivalry between him and Dexter and casually killed him off early in the season.

Isaak also had ridiculous potential as the season moved along but he got written off quickly as well. All of this season's subplots felt like filler given the ending of the season (LaGuerta finally catching up to Dexter). Really, NOTHING that happened this season had any sort of effect on the end. LaGuerta catching Dexter was in the works for a while, and nothing else that happened really added value to the overall cat and mouse game that she was playing with (what turned out to be) Dexter.

Sure, Deb got involved, but that's not even that exciting of a concept given the previous seasons and the plots that moved along progressively, resulting in some amazing finish season after season.

All that said, not to take away from the overall success and entertainment of the show, because I'll still watch, I think I got my hopes up when the season really got rolling.
 
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#98
#98
I also believe that they've dumbed this show down A LOT. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but they basically shoved the notion of Quinn as a dirty cop down the viewers' throats before episodes aired. There was a 5 or so minute mini-special diving into Quinn's character that would air before the show started with the actor explaining that it's been implied in the past that Quinn was a dirty cop, etc etc. They did this 2-3 weeks in a row until we saw that his loyalty could be bought, then they backed off. In my mind, that was the writers/producers basically telling the viewer what to expect, and explaining themselves as they went along.

I know that a lot of shows do this now to add depth to the viewing experience, but the 2nd time that I saw that segment air (they ran it before and after every episode) I realized that Quinn was about to get into something stupid, and it made his romance with the stripper very cheap to me. I felt like I was watching the producers say "Quinn is a dirty cop, he sure is dirty. Look at that! What a dirty cop! Can you believe that he's doing this? Well he should, because he's been a dirty cop before, he's so dirty."

I don't appreciate this insight into his character that they were laying out. His appeal as a dirty cop was a lot better when it was simply implied and he was this guy that rode the fence on whether or not he could be trusted.

Once Deb broke up with him his character has lost most of its value as a consistent source of mystery and interest in regards to his relationship with Dexter throughout the series.
 
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#99
#99
BigSteve09 said:
I also believe that they've dumbed this show down A LOT. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but they basically shoved the notion of Quinn as a dirty cop down the viewers' throats before episodes aired. There was a 5 or so minute mini-special diving into Quinn's character that would air before the show started with the actor explaining that it's been implied in the past that Quinn was a dirty cop, etc etc. They did this 2-3 weeks in a row until we saw that his loyalty could be bought, then they backed off. In my mind, that was the writers/producers basically telling the viewer what to expect, and explaining themselves as they went along.

I know that a lot of shows do this now to add depth to the viewing experience, but the 2nd time that I saw that segment air (they ran it before and after every episode) I realized that Quinn was about to get into something stupid, and it made his romance with the stripper very cheap to me. I felt like I was watching the producers say "Quinn is a dirty cop, he sure is dirty. Look at that! What a dirty cop! Can you believe that he's doing this? Well he should, because he's been a dirty cop before, he's so dirty."

I don't appreciate this insight into his character that they were laying out. His appeal as a dirty cop was a lot better when it was simply implied and he was this guy that rode the fence on whether or not he could be trusted.

Once Deb broke up with him his character has lost most of its value as a consistent source of mystery and interest in regards to his relationship with Dexter throughout the series.
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The F***
 
#100
#100
I'd still give this season a 7/10 or somewhere around there, but I think that the season had a lot more potential earlier on.
 
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