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jesus fucking christ. i hated TDKR so fucking much. but to see the ending replayed (in a fashion) on an equally-annoying and mind-numbingly dumb tv show sucked even more. every complaint i have u guys have already touched upon, as did that wonderful article above. im not sure if the writers themselves are inhabiting this same self-described "hyper-reality", but reading the interview with the showrunners made it clear these guys either had NO clue where the fuck to take these characters and this story in a meaningful & suspenseful way, or just didn't have imagination enough to think of something BETTER. i mean these idiots were planning movie-of-the-week soap operaish subplots in the final season, while the protagonist goes happily trotting around a Miami which apparently consists of ppl with no eyeballs, meanwhile his girlfriend, a wanted fugitive, DOES ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOTHING TO ALTER HER APPEARANCE. i dont care what DEGREE of wanted fugitive she is, her face and deets were out there. this is how the nurse at the hospital recognised her. stands to reason others would too. stands to reason that idiot would've dyed her hair, AT THE VERY LEAST. thus, the writers laziness infects the character. i cant blame the character. she/it is an empty vessel. populated by the writers words turned manifest. it's been a very sustained and clear WRITING problem on this show. doesn't matter if they can convincingly conjure up an entire storm, nothing on screen means a damn thing if the words on the page are sorely lacking. in terms of goin for a lowkey ending, considering the shitty quality of the show post season 2, it had no right to opt for the soft finish. this shit is so off the rails already, they could've at LEAST raised the stakes. ie. EXPOSING DEXTER. this whole "it was really about Dex finding that human connection", the show has REPEATEDLY shown that this is IMPOSSIBLE for Dexter. so instead of moving on and getting REALLY dark with it, we get yet another retread. and when they do finally follow through with that plotline, it's stale, boring, and has NO impact whatsoever.
ykno what? gimme a fucking writers job. and i will sell u on this proposition with my idea-i-had-just-now for an alternative final season of Dexter, in which: Dex loses Deb pretty early on in the season in some horrific way. he has no one to blame but himself. he fully immerses into his dark passenger, and instead of battling a 'big bad' all season, he BECOMES the fucking big bad. and it's Miami Metro vs Dex all season.
now thats not the BEST idea i can think of, but its the only i could come up with within a 2min timespan. and it sure as SHIT sounds a helluva lot more entertaining than the shit we had to put up with in the end.
i dont think ive exhibited this much hate for a show before, specifically the ending of a show. and it was hard to feel any kind of nostalgia or sorrow that it was ending. id have to go back and watch seasons 1 and 2 again to remember WHY this show was must-see tv. and seeing all that has come since those first 2 perfect seasons of television, tells me the show shoulda told one GIANT interconnected story that was ongoing and only escalated and escalated. so instead of ending Dex's imminent threat of exposure at the end of season 2 and him starting fresh on some tangential storyline in season 3, the investigation into the Bay Harber Butcher shoulda just gone UP a notch until we get back to my final season plot.
then you'd have 3 seasons of unforgettable tv instead of 2 unforgettable seasons and 6 largely forgettable ones. but, tis of course all too little too late. im definitely not sad to see it go, and i still hold a high place for the first 2 seasons, which is the only reasons i kept watching. i just wish they woulda done these characters, not to mention the ACTORS, some justice.
to put succinctly? the entirety of the showrunners idea for the final season that he'd been sitting on for years was: Deb dies, Dex leaves Miami and becomes a lumberjack. the end. but i guess for a show that displayed a low IQ not just in its fictional universe, but in the writers room, it's really just par for the course.
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