Board 8 > Dexter: New Blood ending

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No spoilers as I didn't watch it yet but I looked up the score on IMDB and....

Fucking 5/10
Why? how can you fuck that up? this season was literally made as an apology for the terrible ending of S8. All they had to do was think up of a ending that would satisify the viewers.
And up until now (I still have to watch E9 and E10) it looked very promising

This is fucking annoying

How do you hype us up for an amazing ending the twist is it's actually a super meh ending

Down to 4.7
Only 0.1 more to go to be tied to S8E12 :|

No spoilers, but when you tell us something all season long, and then in the end have something happen that would absolutely do the opposite of what you have been trying to do the whole season, it makes no sense.

Watched episode 9
Will watch 10 tomorrow
But 9 was really a great episode and knowing that they shat the bed is heartbreaking

Jukkie posted...

No spoilers, but when you tell us something all season long, and then in the end have something happen that would absolutely do the opposite of what you have been trying to do the whole season, it makes no sense.

Welcome to the last season of How I Met Your Mother.

The memes on r/Dexter are out of control right now.

I have no major issues with what ultimately happened in the episode but the way it was done was just, so so bad. We needed maybe another episode or two to let things stew before it ended.

The more I think about the ending the more angry I become

I just looked it up and holy shit these writers should not be allowed to write tv shows anymore

The funny thing is, recently i was "skim watching" (only watching best parts/like 25% of an episode and skipping subplots and filler) the later seasons of Dexter that get panned, but even the atrocious 6 and 8 really have their moments, I always liked 5 more than most people, and 7 is pretty good too (whether it's good in isolation or because it follows 6...)

They hold up really well on a "skim watch". But in anticipation of the New Blood finale I was skim-watching the season to-date and man... I can't see New Blood being a season of television I'd ever fully sit down and rewatch, even before seeing the finale. Just so bad in so many areas. The magic of the original series was well and truly gone.

Waiting until Nanis watches last episode so the spoiler tags can start flowing.

Dexter New Blood screamed to me that it was going to end the way it did.

Im really happy he didnt just get arrested though and go back to Miami.

My preferred ending wouldve been him not killing coach and having the female cop let him go after realizing he was a good guy like she did with his son. Then both of them heading into the horizon together, opening an avenue for another season maybe even.

Finished it

Yeah that was bad. Like very very bad, what the fuck actually?
The episode was okay-ish up until the last 15 minutes when Dexter met Harrison and then what the fuck was that?
What was that stupid change of heart?? Even more, Harrison just killing his father like that? what? this is his first and he just...did that so easily? even for a fucked up kid, that's out of character

yeah, as a casual fan reading the wikipedia summary I was like "that doesn't sound too bad," but I imagine it is executed poorly

Spoilers (tired of black bars)--

What annoys me that most is that I enjoyed the season. I felt like it was up to par with the first three seasons (4 is still better)
I wanted to recommend it to my friends (who were super pissed about the ending when S8 ended) and wanted to tell them how they managed to redeem S8
But now I can't

I am willing to let Dexter killing Logan slide
I am not sure it was out of character because it was done in the past (with La'Guerta) and as they said - the first rule of the code is don't get caught
I am even willing to let slide how stupid killing Logan was - even though we saw how much he is following protocol just 10 minutes before. What happened to "go to the back of the cell" when you give the prisoner something? I will ignore that..I don't mind..

But that Harrison bit? come on. Did the writers think they were clever? because it certinally looked like that when they read the letter out loud
Did they think it was poetic that by killing Dexter they make Harrison free?

junk_funk posted...

Dexter New Blood screamed to me that it was going to end the way it did.

Im really happy he didnt just get arrested though and go back to Miami.

My preferred ending wouldve been him not killing coach and having the female cop let him go after realizing he was a good guy like she did with his son. Then both of them heading into the horizon together, opening an avenue for another season maybe even.

He could have just..I dunno, cut a deal with her or something :|

It's also kind of annoying that they brought back Bautista for some glorified cameos. I was really hoping there was gonna be more to that than what we got.

BlackDra90n posted...

It's also kind of annoying that they brought back Bautista for some glorified cameos. I was really hoping there was gonna be more to that than what we got.

Yeah I really wondered how a scene of him meeting Dexter would be like...but it never happened

Also what was the point of the old rich guy? just being a red herring for like..3 episodes?
Again - I can let that slide. I can let a lot of things slide. I don't need a perfect show. :|

I haven't watched a single episode yet since I was waiting to binge it but hearing they botched the ending yet again (was this the original writers?) in a supposed "apology" season is actually pretty fucking funny

IMDB scores of previous episodes dropped a little (like E9 dropped from 9.7 to 9.6)

People shouldn't do that. Don't downvote episodes because the finale sucked. Downvote the finale so it shows how much it sucks compared to the rest of the show

Nanis23 posted...

I am willing to let Dexter killing Logan slide
I am not sure it was out of character because it was done in the past (with LaGuerta) and as they said - the first rule of the code is don't get caught.

Man, that was established way earlier. It was established all the way back in S2 with Doakes!

kateee posted...

(was this the original writers?)

The showrunner from seasons 1-4 came back and was in charge of this one.

https://twitter.com/DexterDaily/status/1481066370603311107?t=Nm0p3d_0hQ-0vsUji1uP-g&s=19
.:/

well i finally got around to watching the first episode. did not care for it and i am disappointed but not surprised by that. guess i'm going to just look everything up to avoid spending more time on this.

hahaha

kateee posted...

well i finally got around to watching the first episode. did not care for it and i am disappointed but not surprised by that. guess i'm going to just look everything up to avoid spending more time on this.

kateee posted...

hahaha

You know what is sad? if you read a summary without watching the show, some things sounds very stupid, but they actually make sense if you watch the show and they are not as bad as it looks just from reading about it
But if you read the summary of the finale, some things still sound very stupid, but they are even worse if you did watch the show, because you know how out of character it was for both of them and how everything that led to this is contradictory with what would actually supposed to happen

Nanis23 posted...

IMDB scores of previous episodes dropped a little (like E9 dropped from 9.7 to 9.6)

People shouldn't do that. Don't downvote episodes because the finale sucked.

i know next to nothing about dexter but i disagree with this. if the finale of a serial show sucks, this can make the episodes leading up to the finale worse in retrospect. for example, in loki, i like all of the episodes where sophie played a major role less now because i now know the way the loki/sophie romance was executed in the finale was dogshit.

I really enjoyed the show, but the last twenty minutes of the finale converted everything before it into ****.