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SLOPPY, LAZY Finale

posted 2 years ago by Diddy1111 (374)
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I didn’t mind that he died. I could live with that. It was the vehicle that led to his death that didn’t make any damn sense. Killing an innocent so they could have his son turn the gun on him? That’s what they come up with? Sloppy. Lazy. Total character departure. Made no damn sense at all. And he wasn’t even remorseful about killing Logan? No “oh my God what have I done” moment?

What in the hell? Awful. And no meeting for Dexter and Batista? No face to face? It’s as if the writers just said “let’s get the hell out of here”. I’ve come to realize Michael C Hall WANTED Dexter to die but I can’t believe he was ok with it being in THIS manner? Where his character literally does the one thing he would never do. Kill an innocent with his own hands. Yes innocents have been killed by association but never by his own hands or his own want.

[–] KCurmudgeon (249) 2 years ago

Reminiscent of the end of Game of Thrones. “Yeah, this totally goes against years of character development, but we got other sh!t to do so F it”

[–] KCurmudgeon (249) 2 years ago

Reminiscent of the end of Game of Thrones. “Yeah, this totally goes against years of character development, but we got other sh!t to do so F it”

[–] maximmm (3152) 2 years ago

I agree - in fact, it would have been better and more of a poetic justice if Batista were to take him out.
Still - up until that last episode, the first 9 episodes were great, reminiscent of the the dexter of old.
Game of thrones had an entire final season that sucked, while the final season of dexter only had the final episode that sucked. So.... I don't mind it. The key take away is this - they wanted to kill off dexter - the lead actor wanted to finish it as well (it was probably a precondition to him signing off to playing this role again). If anyone wants a happy ending without character departures which occur in the final episode, they could just end with episode 9 for a great series.

It is funny though that they could have ended it with the same conclusion, but without any major clusterfucks by rewriting only a few scenes - lol

[–] greentimemusic (852) 2 years ago

The only word that should of come out of Dexter's mouth the entire last episode is .... LAWYER. LAWYER LAWYER LAWYER LAWYER LAWYER LAWYER!

[–] LetoAtreides (494) 2 years ago

The quality of the flight doesn't matter if the plane can't land. The final episode made the 9 others instant crap.

[–] maximmm (3152) 2 years ago

An interesting analogy.
How about, 'the journey is more important than the destination'?

Can you truly discount 7 great seasons of game of thrones because of the last season fuck up?

In many ways you are right though - TV series is split up into episodes/seasons, but what if we saw it as a single movie? How would our perceptions change? I've seen a number of films which were great until the very end, and had me discounting the film as garbage just because of that major fuckup in the last ten minutes.

The truth is, I've seen so many fuck ups that I now have to mentally 'direct/censor' shit. How many series are great for the first 2-3 seasons and then turn into a pile of garbage in the next 2 when the creator runs out of ideas, but the money keeps coming? Some series you got to stop watching after 2-3 seasons and consider it having ended, especially if it had, what could be considered to be, a natural ending at that point. You can ignore fuck ups, if you know where to stop.

[–] mtxmind (3296) 2 years ago

And no meeting for Dexter and Batista? No face to face? It’s as if the writers just said “let’s get the hell out of here”.

There really should have been a couple more episodes so they could play out a confrontation with Batista & come up with a more plausible scenario connecting him as the BHB, other than Angela's flimsy "suspicion". It's like they came up with how they wanted to end it first & then worked backwards from there.

[–] Cognoscente (2502) 2 years ago

The finale of Grimm was lazier.