If you haven't seen Season 4 yet avoid and and all articles or discussions regarding this.
I recently came about another casting article for S5 that contained a major spoiler for S4 without any warning. I usually don't mind spoiler, but that one had me stumped.
Serious S4/Mild S5 spoiler:
The article mentioned that Julie Benz has been cast for S5, despite being killed by Trinity in S4.
If you haven't seen Season 4 yet avoid and and all articles or discussions regarding this.
I recently came about another casting article for S5 that contained a major spoiler for S4 without any warning. I usually don't mind spoiler, but that one had me stumped.
Serious S4/Mild S5 spoiler:
The article mentioned that Julie Benz has been cast for S5, despite being killed by Trinity in S4.
Maybe for flashback scenes...or maybe Dexter is going to flip out a bit and see her ghost or something.
Maybe for flashback scenes...or maybe Dexter is going to flip out a bit and see her ghost or something.
Most likely. The article also mentioned that she was killed on screen, i.e. there is no doubt about her being really most sincerely dead.
With "stumped" I meant frustrated. I wish I wouldn't know that particular fact before watching S4.
I can certainly sympathize with you Mathias. It's a shame you stumbled across that article. It's one of those spoilers that is hard hide for any length of time though. Still, the writer of the article should at the very least get slapped around a bit. :voodoo:
Something similar happened to me a while ago. It had to do with the series 24. I watched season 2 before season 1 without realizing Nina, who was a bad guy in S2 was a good guy until the last episode of S1. Pretty anti-climatic knowing all along who the mole was. :slaphead:
I can't remember exactly what it said, but it was something about Dead Dexter Actress Resurrected on Desperate Housewives...and there was a big picture of Julie Benz. That's how I found out she died.
I'm not really sure if I'm going to miss Rita. She has become a bit clingy in the fourth season.
It is. There have been a lot of stories about it..and even the cast is talking about the show ending.
Even though I haven't seen all the seasons, I do know the basics of what has been going on.
In one of the stories I read, one of the writers or producers said that they have known for a while that this would be the final season. Once Debra found out the truth about Dexter, they have been heading toward the end of the series. They figure there is only so much more than can do with her knowing.
They pulled a "Fight Club" with Travis Marshall and Professor Gellar turning out to be one and the same person. WTF? Unless I'm totally misremembering things, Dexter and Travis sat in Dexter's car, watching Gellar go into the school building.
But since you said Season 7 is better, I guess I'll get that now.
They pulled a "Fight Club" with Travis Marshall and Professor Gellar turning out to be one and the same person. WTF? Unless I'm totally misremembering things, Dexter and Travis sat in Dexter's car, watching Gellar go into the school building.
Thanks to accidentally reading the beginning of the spoiler (not your fault whatsoever), I know the spoiled thing right away. Well, at least this way I could pay attention if things would hold up and make sense "on second viewing" and for the most part they did. Unfortunately I forgot about the one instance you describe in your spoiler :bag:, so I cannot comment right now.
Maybe he was just seen from behind? So it was actually another random person at that very moment? I think it made sense to me at the tome of watching it... :headscratch:
I watched season 7 only because Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck) was in it but didn't get to the end because other stuff got in the way. So when the last season came out I decided to wait until it's over and watch it all together.
But then I learned about the actual ending and decided not to bother with that show anymore.
Many places mention that the ending of Dexter was rather terrible. I just finished season 7 and am no facing the final season; I'll watch it and already prepared myself for the worst.
As for season 7, I think there is no harm that you never finished it. It's not really very good. I always got excited when something potentially good happened
like when it seemed that Dexter and that criminal might end up working together and maybe part on good terms at the end
The whole season was not very focused. I think they were trying to get away from the standard formula, that there is some sort of nemesis who is then dispatched in episode 12, but they did not quite pull that off. Instead they went all over the place, especially during the second part of the season. Again, I am prepared for the worst going into season 8 now...
I am now 4 episodes (of 12) into the final season :yucky:
Well, that didn't get any better. In fact, it got worse!
I don't want to get into details. But as an ending for a series that went for 8 seasons this is really rather pathetic. Not only was it terrible just how they wrapped up some of those story lines, but the characters also behaved rather inconsistent and just generally stupid throughout.
Gonna mention a few things I absolutely hated:
- Debra dies from a complication after an operation, after the doctor first says things should be fine. This works as an arc, but not within a few minutes...
- Hannah is a high-profile fugitive and the marshal office is closing in on her, s why isn't changing her hair color the first thing she does...? Was the actress still doing Chuck at the time and couldn't do that...? Ridiculous.
- Dexter's final decision not to get a different life with Hannah, but instead to leave his son with her (this is very out of character) and go start by himself in Alaska or somewhere...
I always wondered what the fuzz was about and, sadly, now I know and understand.
Dexter is a great series for four seasons, a good one of the fifth and then simply does a nose dive. I think where they went wrong was a) not to stop after season four or five and b) try to make Dexter more human (and then just reverse that in the last few minutes of the show :slaphead:).