What about 5 and 6. God damn those were terrible.

Show was going downhill ever since the start of season 5.

Good that it ended at least. Just wish the writers had more substance to deliver with a finale and climax of the end.

And it made perfect sense. Death would be too easy punishment for Dexter, and so he exiles himself to a place where he is isolated, without anyone, any love, any dark passenger, nothing. It is how he feels he deserves to be because everyone he loves he hurts in some way or another, and the best way he knows how to protect them from himself is to disappear and punish himself by living in complete isolation. In the final scene, there is nothing but silence. No voice over, no anything. Just silence. And that is now Dexter's world. All he ever wished was to be human, and when he got his wish, he wished he didn't. He hated how it made him feel. Helpless.

this guy right here understood the final scene i believe. I think it was a very complex ending but i do not think it was a horrible ending rather just a sad ending.

Going to be very sad to see this Series end...I want a spin off the way it ended. But hey..if it ends here..oh well was good.

for the love of god no.

Even if I philosophically agreed with the idea of his "code" (which I don't), that's not enough to make us like him. His standards of evidence are extremely weak (he generally uses one break-in as enough evidence to convict his victims of his permanent sentence... an archaic idea that our society broke away from with good reason). Weak enough that he actually killed innocent people before because of his screw-up for evidence gathering (a plot point that was actually addressed). Let's not forget that he kills tons of people outside the context of the code. For example, at the beginning of this season he stabbed some guy in the stomach who was - as far as he knew - just a jewel thief (no evidence of murder). He did it because their argument got a little heated and the guy seemed like he was about to use his fists. Okay... that's a reason to kill someone? ....... There are plenty more examples like that.

Anyway, the point is not so much whether or not he is a bad person (for some strange reason that's up for debate by some of the audience), but the fact that the writers seem to be clueless to the fact that he can be interpreted as such. They don't use it as a plot point for moral ambiguity. They constantly cast him as a knight in shining armor, in complete control of every situation he's ever in, and just straight up better at everything in every way than everyone around him. We're supposed to see him as this wonderful, amazing awesome guy, and everyone around him as just a bunch of stupid drones who don't know how awesome he is, and can never do anything nearly as well as he can. (It's also funny that a guy who trained in jiu jitsu a little when he was young - a martial arts form that's not nearly as useful on the streets as many others btw - seems to be able to win in just about every fight he's ever in.)



This wasn't Dexter feeling helpless at all. As with the rest of the whole show, Dexter was in complete control of every circumstance he falls into. He can kill whomever he wants and get away with it, and choose wherever he wants to go. He killed two people within, like, 10 minutes of each other, one that the entire Miami Homicide department actually saw!

This was Dexter facing the consequences on his own terms and by his own means, because the writers just feel that he's too awesome to face any real consequence that's out of his control. Basically, it was a cop out because some writer realized they have to make him suffer some sort of consequence or else the show would be completely dry, but they are still too in love with their main character to do anything too harsh. This ending just encompasses such a major part of what's wrong with this show... the stupidly unrealistic discrepancy between Dexter's capabilities and that of everyone else on the show.

This post was edited by AnomanderRake on Sep 23 2013 10:20am

Ending was decent. They really should have taken more time to give us a outstanding ending episodes and particular scenes.

Zach, he shouldn't of died the way he did or still be alive. I would have preferred it if he was the antagonist. It would have been a huge twist and blown the audience away. Zach should have been assumed dead. When Vogel died, Zach should of been in the background. Vogel caught a glance of him and is confused and says "the perfect psychopath?" before her son slits her throat. But we aren't shown Zach until the very last scene. After the storm and Dexter is presumed dead we see Dexter like we did but instead of going into his house he goes in an empty bar and gets a beer, and the television is on and the news report shows Zach being alive. Close shot up with Dexters face he watches, looks away straight into the camera with his stare and he gets a little smirk. / END



I agree

hm, probably cuze writers from season 1-4 very different. pretty much all creative staff (showrunner & writer, etc.) changed, they took over new series or left for other reasons.

former dexter showrunner (series 1-4) revealed here how he planned to end the series:

http://de.eonline.com/news/461558/chills-former-dexter-producer-clyde-phillips-reveals-how-he-planned-to-end-the-series?cmpid=tweol-manual

I was really disappointed with the last few seasons and the finale was total hogwash

So hes still alive , but a Truck Driver....wtf?

What he gunna do now - adminster his evil justice to the trees he might cut down?