Nicko said he didn't like the ending either and if Nicko didn't like it, it must be pretty bad .

I want to get on and watch it (still working my way through Cobra Kai at the moment) but now I've lost the enthusiasm. Sucks when that happens.

Suck my cock.

I don't even remember season 6 but I remember thinking 8 was a disaster after pretty much everything past the season premiere, and I'll take this new season and new finale all damn day over that. I actually thought it was a quality last episode and good way to end it on a storytelling level but was a bit more tense than it was enoyable.

Mainly because I could sense the end was near for Dexter but was really hoping I was wrong cuz it would be such a waste as the possibilities were endless if they had decided to put the character on the shelf again. Plus, I just really love the character and I feel like it is far cooler and has more potential for longevity than the tv shows it has been part of, and they totally could have done Dexter movies, of whatever else, in the future. I would have preferred they keep going with more seasons but for some reason, they pulled the plug for good. So, aside from the all around direction, I thought it was good for what it was. But yeah, I'm fucking sad now.

One indication that he was gonna die was how gleeful he seemed at the thought of going on a killing spree with his son, indicating that he had probably lost what originally made him unique and was ready to become a regular serial killer, which he seemed oblivious to until the very end.

Maybe someday they can do a spinoff simply called "New Blood", following Harrison's inevitable L.A. massacre. You know the little fella's gonna have a change of heart on all that one of these days. Maybe they could have Dexter being the non existent person who gives him advice.

I hate the way they waisted the opportunity of Bautista being able to confront Dexter when he's finally caught. Harrison's first kill is.....?! I have no interest in following Harrison: New Blood. I prefer the ending of Dexter S8 where he's the lumberjack recluse torturing himself over the consequences of his actions over this New Blood ending personally.

I've had time to stew over the finale while I was tossing and turning in my daytime slumber, and my thoughts are in. SPOILERS, if you're too dumb to know it already:


As far as all things go, I'm not terribly mad about this finale. I was a little stoic when I was watching, but with all things considered, it's a more definitive ending than season 8's non-ending. I remember when the original run was nearing its end, everyone wondered how it could end and I think the most satisfying means was for something dramatic to happen, and that would be Dexter getting fucking CAUGHT. And/or dying. And in this case, both.

Sure, we all felt a little bad for him since he was finally feeling happy about things, and damn that Angela was a bitch. He did her a favor after all, helping solve her sister's death and avenging that murder (and many others), but leave it to annoying strong-woman police characters to have no sympathy in these situations. If he never got caught, we would always be wondering what that ending would have looked like otherwise.

And with that said, it played out pretty well. Well, for the most part. Dexter was keeping his cool pretty well until he decided to escape jail like an ass and make himself irredeemable to his son by killing an innocent. He was pretty sloppy in a lot of the season, but he could have held out and made for a potentially interesting follow-up series about Dexter on trial and everyone's reactions to the news that not only is he alive, but he may be the most notorious serial killer ever.

I'd love to see him try to explain himself to lawyers and old colleagues, and I also love that Doakes will finally be exonerated and all the dots will get connected. What would Cody and Astor think? No matter, they don't even exist.

The characterizations were a bit all over the place though. Dexter again was pretty sloppy. He never killed anyone truly innocent before as far as I can remember, and he started to veer back into the love of killing for the sake of killing. And Harrison was quite a hypocrite. He was hung up on "saving lives", yet he's the one who framed an otherwise innocent kid in a school shooting, and would have killed who knows how many regular people if his dad didn't step in, so fuck him. Sometimes, writers just got to write in some bullshit arcs for the sake of the overall narrative, and it is what it is.

I'm gonna miss Dexter Morgan. This was the first show I started watching that got me into tv dramas and I'll always have a special place for it in my heart. Even in the bad seasons, Michael C. Hall made them entirely watchable and he'll probably never have another character nearly as popular as this, so he'll be missed.

Spin-offs starring Harrison going nuts? No thanks.

Just done watching it. I don't see what all the hate is about. The 4.4 rating on IMDb is pretty ludicrous. It was perfectly fine, not brilliant but it satisfied me enough and I couldn't see any other way it could end really. The signs were there, fairly early on I thought.

I think I'd only watch a Harrison spin-off if, as Troma suggested, they have Dexter as the Dexter's dad/sister character that speaks to him. That might be interesting, for a one-off season anyway...

I don't think I could get into a Harrison show because the whole time, I'd be thinking that this guy is the reason there's no more Dexter! How dare!