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Dexter Concludes
12 years ago
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I've now watched all of Dexter. I've seen every episode, in order, during some binge-watching on Netflix. I have to say, it was excellent. I'm not entirely sure what everyone's problem with the ending is.
I mean, yeah, I can see room for improvement.
In the last episode, I'd have cut the last 2 minutes; just leave it with the single scenes of the phone call at Miami Metro and the other scene with the newspaper article. That would have been stronger.
But the existence of those last 2 minutes doesn't make the story any less good. Rather, I think that season 8 made up for some of the jumbled mess that was season 7. And y'know what? Even if season 7 was the worst of them from a story-telling perspective, it led the story in a fascinating direction allowing the resolutions (happy or sad, fulfilling or not) in season 8.
The best season was season 4 with Trinity. A close second were seasons 2 and 6 (with Doakes and Doomsday, respectively) tied at that position. These were the seasons with the most interesting, nuanced characters as well as the most interesting crimes and circumstances that Dexter found himself in.
Yes, there were plenty of tropes that made me wince in a few seasons and several egregious instances of Deus Ex Machina that bothered me (when it seemed like the writers were just aiming for titillation or thrills over comprehensibility and story) but those faded into the background to near non-existence during the good seasons. And season 8 was one of those.
The "Jump the Shark" moment? The moment when the show would never, again, reach the same heights due to something stupid or contrary to the rules of the show as set forth, previously, with inadequate explanation as to how it could be justified? For me, that had to be the "snow globe room" with Hannah in Season 7.
...And that's about all I can say without doing any spoilers. Those who know the show will understand where I am coming from while those who have not seen it, will still have plenty of surprises to come. Since I view the statute of limitations on spoilers to be about 1 year, the only spoilers I've specifically alluded to came 2 years ago.
Deal with it.
"Dexter" was a great show, one I will always treasure, and showed how "dark" can be very entertaining.
Yours,
Sylvan Scott
I mean, yeah, I can see room for improvement.
In the last episode, I'd have cut the last 2 minutes; just leave it with the single scenes of the phone call at Miami Metro and the other scene with the newspaper article. That would have been stronger.
But the existence of those last 2 minutes doesn't make the story any less good. Rather, I think that season 8 made up for some of the jumbled mess that was season 7. And y'know what? Even if season 7 was the worst of them from a story-telling perspective, it led the story in a fascinating direction allowing the resolutions (happy or sad, fulfilling or not) in season 8.
The best season was season 4 with Trinity. A close second were seasons 2 and 6 (with Doakes and Doomsday, respectively) tied at that position. These were the seasons with the most interesting, nuanced characters as well as the most interesting crimes and circumstances that Dexter found himself in.
Yes, there were plenty of tropes that made me wince in a few seasons and several egregious instances of Deus Ex Machina that bothered me (when it seemed like the writers were just aiming for titillation or thrills over comprehensibility and story) but those faded into the background to near non-existence during the good seasons. And season 8 was one of those.
The "Jump the Shark" moment? The moment when the show would never, again, reach the same heights due to something stupid or contrary to the rules of the show as set forth, previously, with inadequate explanation as to how it could be justified? For me, that had to be the "snow globe room" with Hannah in Season 7.
...And that's about all I can say without doing any spoilers. Those who know the show will understand where I am coming from while those who have not seen it, will still have plenty of surprises to come. Since I view the statute of limitations on spoilers to be about 1 year, the only spoilers I've specifically alluded to came 2 years ago.
Deal with it.
"Dexter" was a great show, one I will always treasure, and showed how "dark" can be very entertaining.
Yours,
Sylvan Scott
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