Dexter

Jordan_S said:
I thought the final episode was very good.
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I thought it was a train-wreck, which I am sure was partially caused by the decision that Dexter must not have a happy ending for moral reasons. ( we can't have killers getting away with it )

Personally, I kind of wish that Dexter had ended with a sort of "Dark Knight Rises" ending, where Dexter has regained his humanity and is able to finally enjoy his life.
 
I liked it quite a bit. I thought the final brush stroke, when Dexter looks at the camera and the audio cuts before the video goes to black, was a pretty powerful way to end. To me it basically put us inside Dexter's head - really inside - for the first time in all 8 years. He was completely devoid of any feeling or emotion. He was alone and not needing to put on any kind of false pretense of being a normal person (a person with emotions).

We saw him for who he was - a real nightmare.
 
TheDingo said:
...But he wasn't like this with Deb, Hannah, or his son. And his need to kill seemed to have evaporated to the point where he could not kill the "brain surgeon".
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Let me express it like this then. He reverted back to who he was before.

To me that's what the audio before video cut at the very end conveyed. Not depression or sadness, but utter lack of any emotion or feeling. I suppose it could alternatively mean that his inner voice, his dark passenger, was gone. But I feel it's more like Dexter - the guy struggling to be normal was gone and the dark passenger is all that was left.

That's my take anyway. I love endings like this where it's left up in the air.

Love the Sopranos ending for example, although after a lot of thought I'm firmly in the on the "he's dead" camp.
 
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