Television Dexter

I thought that was a very good episode

I expected they'd kill Sam but was hoping he would last a few more episodes, although ice-truck killer coming back was cool and it seems Dexter might become more of a monster in the remaining episodes.

The chicago cop is a good character and like Doakes he is actually capable of doing his job. Quinn's become too annoying and needs to be dealt with.

Doomsday killer is now boring: Travis is too weak & after reading the theory from the Caf, I'm not sure if Gellar is real or not.
 
cina said:
Well that's what it's turned into. The plot lines are poor, but then they introduce a twist or shock at the end of the episode to keep you interested. I don't agree that this season is better than 5 so far, I think it's been really poor, and the main bad guy plot line is boring the shit out of me.

They've ruined a once great show.
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Just keep quiet and see what happens, this may be the best season yet.
The first 6 were just to keep people going, the next episode promises to blow you away.

If you want, just watch below
 
Why would I keep quiet? The first 6 episodes, i.e. HALF the season, have been poor.

They've also made every single trailer this season look like the next episode will be amazing. like I said, it was a good ending and will hopefully add something new to the show because the Doomsday plot is shit, as are Deb, Quinn, Angel, La Geurta. I do like the new Doakes though.
 
Cheers to thats hernandez for the help.
Right metaphors of Dexter turning to the dark side, lets hope we get to see him going all out right through the rest of the series. I've always wanted him to go bat nuts and i'd like to see him there for a while. Hopefully it won't turn out to be a one episode thing until we see Harry back.
 
cina said:
Why would I keep quiet? The first 6 episodes, i.e. HALF the season, have been poor.

They've also made every single trailer this season look like the next episode will be amazing. like I said, it was a good ending and will hopefully add something new to the show because the Doomsday plot is shit, as are Deb, Quinn, Angel, La Geurta. I do like the new Doakes though.
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Are you aware that you have almost being saying the same thing for nearly 3 years now? Great show turning shit, good episode but..... greating ending, but.....
Check the history of the thread.
See if in the grand scheme of things, this season is not put together nicely first before declaring it shite.
 
championo said:
Are you aware that you have almost being saying the same thing for nearly 3 years now?
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A year, series 5.
I never dismissed season 4 like this, I said that at the very start (like, 2 or 3 episodes in) it wasn't great. Other than that, not a fecking thing.

championo said:
Great show turning shit, good episode but..... greating ending, but.....
Check the history of the thread.
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I know the history rather well, you're welcome to go look. Like I said, never dissed the first, second or 3rd season (well, I said it was the weakest of them but agreed that it was still excellent). I critiscised the very early episodes of season 4 (which I stand by, they were poor), certainly not up until 6 episodes into it

championo said:
See if in the grand scheme of things, this season is not put together nicely first before declaring it shite.
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Hardly my point, there have been six crap episodes. So suddenly the series will redeem itself if the last few are good? How is that logical?
 
I think its starting to get better and better. I have a hunch this could get nasty for Dexter, his mask is going to start slipping imo, he doesn't have Harry to control him. The main criminal is a bit weak at this point I agree, but lets see where it goes first.

They needed Sam to highlight how close Dexter was to releasing his dark passenger. Now that Sams dead, Dexters dark passenger is going to be pushed out, mistakes will start to occur and shit will hit the fan. There must be a reason why this new Cop has joined the show, he seems to be an effective cop and more importantly hasn't been seduced by Dexters Acting.

This is where the fireworks start, canna wait!
 
RedSky At Night said:
I think its starting to get better and better. I have a hunch this could get nasty for Dexter, his mask is going to start slipping imo, he doesn't have Harry to control him. The main criminal is a bit weak at this point I agree, but lets see where it goes first.

They needed Sam to highlight how close Dexter was to releasing his dark passenger. Now that Sams dead, Dexters dark passenger is going to be pushed out, mistakes will start to occur and shit will hit the fan. There must be a reason why this new Cop has joined the show, he seems to be an effective cop and more importantly hasn't been seduced by Dexters Acting.

This is where the fireworks start, canna wait!
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For which they just created an alabi for him by bringing back trinity. It will explain any irrational behavior I think. Just my guess as it is what I will do if I was writing the script and intent on bringing back Dexter for another year.
 
cina said:
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They've ruined a once great show.
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cina said:
Hardly my point, there have been six crap episodes. So suddenly the series will redeem itself if the last few are good? How is that logical?
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When you said the above, it appeared to be all inclusive, there are bits and pieces to every season, they try to put all together. I judge a show in its totality.
All in all, you handle my harsh comments well. Lets move on and enjoy the show.
 
RedSky At Night said:
I think its starting to get better and better. I have a hunch this could get nasty for Dexter, his mask is going to start slipping imo, he doesn't have Harry to control him. The main criminal is a bit weak at this point I agree, but lets see where it goes first.

They needed Sam to highlight how close Dexter was to releasing his dark passenger. Now that Sams dead, Dexters dark passenger is going to be pushed out, mistakes will start to occur and shit will hit the fan. There must be a reason why this new Cop has joined the show, he seems to be an effective cop and more importantly hasn't been seduced by Dexters Acting.

This is where the fireworks start, canna wait!
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it looks like his dark passenger is going to take over next week. All egged on by his brother, of course. Excellent writing to bring him in as an antidote to Harry
 
championo said:
When you said the above, it appeared to be all inclusive, there are bits and pieces to every season, they try to put all together. I judge a show in its totality.
All in all, you handle my harsh comments well. Lets move on and enjoy the show.
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Like I said, that was posted after 3 episodes, and those 3 episodes were very weak, but I did get it wrong. This time we're six episodes in though and it's pretty inexcusable, considering all 12 episodes of season 5 were utter muck.
 
EricaNo7 said:
it looks like his dark passenger is going to take over next week. All egged on by his brother, of course. Excellent writing to bring him in as an antidote to Harry
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Yeah but the dark and light metaphors do feel like they're using a sledgehammer to execute them.
 
This show has deteriorated faster than Prison Break. Now I'm only watching it because there's nothing else on.
 
Psmith said:
This show has deteriorated faster than Prison Break. Now I'm only watching it because there's nothing else on.
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I agree it has gone a bit down, but not by that much. It's still one of my favourite shows, Michael C. Hall is a big factor though, he's a very good actor.

Prison Break got ridiculous after the 2nd season.
 
Psmith said:
This show has deteriorated faster than Prison Break. Now I'm only watching it because there's nothing else on.
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I think this season is better than the last one and it is always going to be hard to top one or two of the truly brilliant earlier series.
 
Psmith said:
This show has deteriorated faster than Prison Break. Now I'm only watching it because there's nothing else on.
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It's not as good as it was, but it's still an excellent show. The only reason people are complaining about it is because some of the previous seasons were absolutely incredible. As far as I'm concerned it's still one of the best shows on, despite going a bit downhill. Last season wasn't great, but I think this one is quite good and has potential to become great.
 
That'sHernandez said:
Brilliant episode!

I think you lot are right about Travis now, especially after the scene where he visits his sister at her school or wherever. I wonder if the Brother Sam storyline is the beginning of the end for Dexter? Perhaps he turns him away from his dark passenger? Next week's episode looks really interesting, can't wait for it. The show's really heating up now
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Yeah, where she said that

he was a good painter or something - fits in with what we've seen where it shows Gellar painting pictures. Another enjoyable episode and looking at the preview for the next episode it certainly looks like
Jonah is the "new" Trinity. Heard a theory that he might have been the one who killed Rita and not Arthur, though I'm not sure about that.

And again Travis continues to look like he's "ill" but it seems that Gellar's grasp on him is loosening. If our theory is right about Travis, what will that mean for the expected Dexter/Travis showdown? Will Dexter still kill Travis if Gellar is his
dark passenger?
as it doesn't seem that Travis is entirely evil but Gellar is and obviously if our theory is right,
"Gellar" can't truly die until Travis dies.

Also heard another good theory about the doomsday numbers and how they're
counting up from the time Travis killed Gellar *if it's true*. The numbers on the paper in the episodes were in the 1200's so that would work out to be about 3.5 years ago (and they said that Gellar's been missing for 3 years so that could fit).
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Great to see the return of Brian :D Maybe that's why Ryan was brought into the show: to remind us of the Ice Truck Killer before Brian returned as well as being a red herring.
 
gambit28 said:
Cheers to thats hernandez for the help.
Right metaphors of Dexter turning to the dark side, lets hope we get to see him going all out right through the rest of the series. I've always wanted him to go bat nuts and i'd like to see him there for a while. Hopefully it won't turn out to be a one episode thing until we see Harry back.
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And unfortunately it was a one episode thing. Still an enjoyable one, but I would have liked to see Brian stick around a bit longer too.

The way they have the episodes set out so that Dexter goes after a different person each episode is interesting, but it doesn't feel like the main story itself has progressed much further than it was a few episodes ago.
It does look like that'll change next week though judging by the preview.

Dexter said on the voiceover that Travis had a dark passenger that could be killed. Does this mean Gellar IS alive or is it another red herring? When the girl was talking about Gellar putting blood down her throat, she was blindfolded at the time and she said that she didn't hear him speak so it could easily have been Travis who did that.

For now I'm still going by the theory Gellar is dead though.

Would be nice if we do see Brian Moser again but I can't see it happening. It's a shame as there was a lot more they could have done with "crazy Dexter".
 
Poor episode imo

Really disappointed dark Dexter only lasted 1 episode, I think they had the opportunity to have him get reckless with his kills with Debra starting to suspect him as a killer.

The doomsday killer hasn't progressed for a few weeks although next week looks good.
 
ha_rooney said:
Poor episode imo

Really disappointed dark Dexter only lasted 1 episode, I think they had the opportunity to have him get reckless with his kills with Debra starting to suspect him as a killer.

The doomsday killer hasn't progressed for a few weeks although next week looks good.
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I'd have to agree

When Brian returned at the end of the previous episode I honestly thought he'd be the main influence for Dexter's actions for the remainder of the season.

They've been doing that for almost all the episodes - Dexter has a radical personality change at the beginning of the episode...only to revert back to his normal self at the end, rinse and repeat. Getting a tad bit predictable now.

On the other hand I'm beginning to slightly doubt that The Professor is just in Travis's mind, I'm starting to toy with the idea that he might be real....that should at least keep me interested.
 
What should have been the defining episode of the season, the one we were all waiting for ended up being filler.
It was hamfisted metaphors that I can sum up the whole episode like this.
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I'm beginning to get really disappointed in Dexter.
 
Damien1990 said:
And unfortunately it was a one episode thing. Still an enjoyable one, but I would have liked to see Brian stick around a bit longer too.
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It wasn't interesting it was predictable to the point that Dexters journey to the dark side was boring. We shouldn't have seen Harry until the end of the season on the final clip at least.
 
Disappointing anti-climax to what could of been a decent season arc. Back to the religious killer, who is boring. And shit. And boring.
 
Thought that was one of the worst episodes in the whole of Dexter, unfortunately. :(

The bit with Quinn and Deborah, the shooting at the sign scene (what the feck was that?!), the lack of plot development, the underwhelming return of the Trinity saga, etc...

They really didn't pull off the whole brother return/completely ruthless Dexter thing very well, either. It was a very poor episode - thought they would've made more out of Dexter losing the plot. I think it's getting to the stage now whereby Dexter will have to be found out just to bring about another good storyline. Unlike in all the other series, there is no real interaction or connection with the main killer in this one, and it's made the main plot a bit dull. Started well, but it's not really kicked on at all.
 
Rubbish episode yet again and this time even the end wasn't good enough to make up for the rest of the dross.
 
Thought that was rubbish, tbh.
The episode just meandered along, not really going anywhere. They obviously wanted to tie up the loose end of Trinity's son knowing who he was given that Quinn had had doubts previously, and now that he isn't with Deb so may start digging again, but the whole episode felt rushed.
 
Dire, dire dire dire dire dire. Probably the worst episode of the show I've ever watched, and this is from someone who hated season 5.

It needs to fecking end.
 
Brophs said:
Thought that was rubbish, tbh.
The episode just meandered along, not really going anywhere. They obviously wanted to tie up the loose end of Trinity's son knowing who he was given that Quinn had had doubts previously, and now that he isn't with Deb so may start digging again, but the whole episode felt rushed.
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Yeah, it's a strange way to tie up a loose end though. Now Jonah knows Dexter killed Trinity and also killed his own mother... I mean I guess it's tied up in the sense that no-one probably has any desire to see Jonah again... but who did anyways?

The Brian thing was just a pisstake.
 
Loved Dexter in the beginning but this season has been the worst yet. They need to end it, they seem to have run out of ideas and it's so mind numbingly dull now.
 
i kinda notice that ^^^ :D

Meh i was slightly disappointed by this episode the teaser was excellent but I love the programme too much to even think about it being dull or boring. I enjoy and look forward to every episode
 
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