How DEXTER Should Have Ended
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2017
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In all honesty, I loved the show up until the last episode. Most of it was great, but the ending just was like a big 'WTF' moment to me.
Same
Same
Commander Spyder same man thought I was the only one
Every episode on season 8 was a wtf and not the good kind 😅
Same I don’t know how people only like a couple seasons
I really hated the ending because he said he’d never want to abandon his son but then he literally does in the ending, when he could’ve had a almost perfect ending with the main consequence being debs death.
I hated more that he dumped Deb into the ocean ... like why ? She's not some criminal. She loved her dad and mom, she for sure would love to be buried next to them instead with killers in the ocean ...
@@michaela9967 I agree but Dexter loved the ocean, so I think he felt whenever he went to the ocean for now on, he'd be connected with the one person he truly loved
@@michaela9967 "killers in the ocean" 😂.
Michaela 99 it’s poetic though. Deb was Dexter’s very last victim. Meanwhile his other victims were in black bags, Deb was in a white one.
@@michaela9967 because he believed that she was her victim.. like all other kills
The scene in series 5 where he clubbed the guy in the bathroom out of pure emotion was one of my favourite moments in the whole show, exploring how dexters emotions have evolved.
Mine too
Ohh yeah buddy, I watch that scene anytime I am over charged with emotions, a nice way to let it out. This show gave me some important life lessons!
Yea that was AWESOME!!!!!
I literally just told my parents who are watching dexter rn that it was my favorite scene like yesterday
Iudex Slade ok but who asked
"Dexter had the worst series finale ever!"
Game of Thrones: "Hold my beer..."
Dexter finale was much worse. Despite it´s flaws, season 8 of GoT at least felt like the show was about to end.
Mr. Goldfinch - I disagree, I actually think the finale for Dexter works. It fits the context of the show, and the most human thing Dexter does is shield himself away from his family, and spend the rest of his days in a prison of his own making, living in misery. It’s sad as hell, but it makes sense. Every season of the show has Dexter directly or indirectly hurt someone. There are many examples but the big ones are much like In season 4, when Dexter’s missed opportunity to kill Trinity ended up killing Rita. Season 8, Dexter handing Oliver to Deb, which results in Oliver escaping and inadvertently killing her. Dexter spread chaos and misery without even knowing it until the final season, when he realizes how much pain he’s actually caused, directly or otherwise. GOT on the other hand was just rushed, the show runners completely tossed compelling dialogue and intrigue with bombastic set pieces and spectacle that felt tension less. A lot of people go into movies and tv shows with expectations, which is the biggest way to set yourself up for disappointment. While I didn’t hate the finale of Game of Thrones, I think it’s kind of poetic that the iron throne is given to a broken person, who now has to save a broken world. Beside that message, it didn’t fit the show and overall, it was rushed.
I thought this exact thing. Lol
No, Castle had the worst series finale ever. It was a complete mess.
Christopher Marlowe exactly, dude. You said it, hammer to nail.
i like this. dexters biggest fear was always that harrison would end up like him, but we never got to see if that happened. it’s also way more in character of him to leave harrison with deb rather than hannah who he barely knew.
well maybe you should watch new blood to see if harrison ends up like him
@@TheJoeBeshai guess what
The original writer left after season 4, she left to do twilight, what a waste. Who ever took over sucked
Candycane you do realize that the same guy that plays dexter is the one that wrote and directed the show right.... please get facts before commenting
Alex Garcia Music thats not true
That’s not even remotely true! Michael C Hall had nothing to do with the writing
Alex Garcia Music loool, he didn’t write the books. The actual Author didn’t even want Michael to play Dexter, until he heard him (Michael) read the first line.
@@alexgarciamusic5360 are you high?
Who finished watching in 2019? 😢. Bro the ending was so depressing and disappointing I was so dead in the end please god let them have a season 9 and or spin-off ‼️😪
SlimShady03 ! I end it today, and i cried alot when he dropped Deb’s body in the sea 😞😞😞
Eng Haya yes and when dexter gave up on Hannah and Harrison it made me mad and he said he was trying to protect them but he’s already been through this feeling before🤷🏻♂️😤 especially when Hannah saw that dexter was dead and when Batista heard about it too
Bro I finished literally 30 minutes ago
And they really need to do a spin off like with Harrison or dexter
Deb has moved on and is doing a great show on TV right now called The Enemy Within
Finished it last night. Idk what to do with my life now
I think the ending should’ve shown that he was still killing, why stop killing after your family is safe? I guess he was too depressed 😩
He probably was still killing!!
The whole show was about us actually morally sort of forgiving him for what he does, because he was killing the scum of society.
To end it on a "This is societal justice" note, seems a tad lame imo.
Who the fuck said that he wasn't killing anymore ?
The series finale never insinuated that Dexter stopped killing.
I think it was to show how isolated he had become/turned out in "the end"....
But the "Dexter revival series" is coming up in like 3 months, so he surely must not have stopped lol
@@MaryJane-zw5pv Turns out, he did stop.
I watched dexter season 1- 8 and I loved every minute of it
me too it was one of the only, well really actually the only show where i like the characters entire journey. i dont really like his ending but i agree 98 % :P
Everything but the ending was good ending was shit lowkey but everything else was 💯 top 3 best shows of all time for sure
It’s weird the first 4 episodes of season 7 are the highest rated on IMDB of all first 4 episodes from the other seasons. Yet everyone still hates season 7
SlasherPepper it’s not season 7 itself it’s the ending of it that’s all tbh I loves season 7 but the ending was booty cheeks aka the last episode
Same man.
You should have ended with him being inducted into the Justice League by Batman
Sweet reply!!
That's a cool alternate ending. Thanks.
This alternate ending will be cannon in my mind until and if season 9 fixes the ending
That stinks worse than the real ending.
yeah i really like his ending alot. I just dont like that dexter dies. But it makes alot of sense Maybe New blood will give us the ending we deserve now
No death at the end.
He unties the FBI agent (Ben foster) and says "I can't, I only kill murderers"
Then we find that's what the agent wanted to hear all along.
During the manhunt it had been spoken a lot about dexter stealth killing ability and he is recruited by the FBI as an assassin with a new identity.... he can never see his family or return to Miami but has a vessel for his dark passenger
I like
Keep going.... Im listening
Nah
That's ridiculously lame and unrealistic. Probably even worse than the actual ending
FootyCrazyM8
Not worse, but not good either
Your ending was precisely what I was expecting... and then they fucked up.
They have to understand that sometimes a happy ending isn't the right ending-- leaving Dexter alive isn't necessary to a good ending.
The truth must have been revealed. You can't create such a mysterious character and not reveal his true self at the end.
Francisco Gonzalez agreed. So anti-climactic and ridiculously unsatisfying. Such a disappointment
At least it gives a chance to continue the series.. they have to i dont think they dont want to keep it that shit
Best ending wud have been dexter happy retirement with hannah .. n instead killing zack
Let him take the place of dexter bcoz we need someone having dark passenger inside him to take care miami from serial killers
The Absurd Hero to make it good it can be semi- bad, but not that bad
The Absurd Hero exactly. the ending of breaking bad is perfect. note i said breaking bad, not the breaking bad TIMELINE. the ending of the timeline ends in el camino when jesse is free. which is happy. the end of breaking bad was sad because we for whatever reason wanted walt to get away with it. it was a great ending but still sad.
I thought the first 4 seasons were really well done. I like your pitch way more than what happened. Good stuff Jordan!
Thanks so much man! I really appreciate it!
I think the entirety of the show was really good and I particularly enjoyed the last couple seasons up until the last two episodes. The ending was insane and I was sooooo upset. It was heartbreaking but it was fitting. They started it off with him saying he’d be alone and he’d never have a family. They gave him Rita and it still wasn’t right. He found Hannah and he finally had hope. He had his family. They ended it with him being a lonely lumberjack without family and in his solidarity, like he always thought he would. He lost his sister and it was the straw that broke the camel’s back and he realizes he needs to be alone. It was fitting but it’s not what the viewers wanted.
Honestly, they could have rewritten the last 2 episodes with him simply killing the guy that ultimately kills Deb & she goes on to thrive in her role at MPD & Dexter goes to Argentina with Hannah & Harrison & boom. Done. The ending was SO BAD it literally deters me from going back & watching again
@siv_mist only its not only very fitting, BUT we told you EXACTLY how it was going to end back in season 6
thank you for speaking the truth person from the past, some nuts can't seem to understand the ending and want either a happily ever after ending like in fairy tales or a dexter dies on the chair ending which contradicts the show's whole purpose of never forcing morals on you, the viewer; and are mad the series ended on a cliffhanger (they would hate so many more stuff, plenty of stuff got cliffhanger endings) but hey apparently we're the bad guys for not hating on the later half of the show ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@rymikai that’s the thing though. It wasn’t the END. There’s a new season coming out. I don’t remember when but there will be a whole new ending. Maybe they will give him that
You are right, one can't get all they want everytime, that too after being serial killer it was inevitable that his end would be nearly same. Else he would be god. He has the curse of whomever he loved got punished hence him staying away from Hanna and Harrison is very much logical.
Why would Harry be against killing the fbi dude? Number 1 rule: don’t get caught
Harry was always against killing someone who wasnt guilty or fit the code
You must not have watched the show. The female doctor who helped Harry create Dexter admited she came up with the first rule, not Harry. Harry was always against killing innocents
The number one rule is not to get caught, but never at the expense of an innocent life
Uh, Harry advocated killing Ramone Prado, who was innocent. So...wrong
@@LucianUchiha He wasn't really innocent....so you're wrong.
I would like a dexter movie picking it up where it left off, and give him a better ending.
d t I wonder if that was the plan after the series ended...? Maybe we will still get the Dexter movie for closure kind of like El Camino for Breaking Bad.
this is your lucky day
@@marcosishes not after seeing that horrible ending 🤣
I hated the ending. Still thinking he abandoned Hannah and harrison.
HAD ANOTHER thought about the ending of Dexter in the final views. I feel Dexter feels he finally will never stop hurting the ones he really loves. He needs to isolate himself, Drop out. But I feel he shall never rid himself of the Dark Passenger until his death. So I like your ending except for Harrison seamingly at age 10 taking on his father's Dark Passenger, as if it was inherited. LOL I need a "happy" ending. But I suppose your ending is more in keeping with the series.:) Dexter's death was necessary in my view too.
Cleome Jewell i assumed the dark passenger was coming out because Harrison had his mother murdered in front of him and set in her blood as well, , just like Dexter did. I feel like they made Harrison go through that for the purpose of inheriting a dark passenger from his father's murderous way of life. at least trinity didn't murder or take baby Harrison.
Why did hannah even come back it messed everything up
@Steezy Mac Hannah made him weak
I just don't understand why he dumped Debra's body into the ocean. Like I get it kinda had an emotional effect but it also like disrespects her as well. The sister you loved so much, I going to just throw her carcass in the ocean. But it sucked that she kicked the bucket. She deserved to have a decent life. Like her and Joey. And I know he felt that he was protecting Harrison but he should of went to them. I mean you're lumberjack now, it looked like you probably stopped wasting people. So abandon the son who now has lost both parents as well as his siblings with a poisoner
Damn good philosophical ending about him finally feeling! I saw what you did with the pork sandwiches and YES I would definitely would have done something w/ Harrison at the end to show the cycle on-going.
I don't like the cycle of Dex where Harrison wants to kill like Dex. Deb teaches Harrison not to kill. She teaches Harrison to be a lawyer that gives justice to the bad guys. He puts them away for life legally.
@@cheri7054 yea cause that’s a t.v. show people would like to watch. Wack.
season 1: great; wanted to see more of dexter
season 2: great how they handled bay harbor butcher storyline; wanted to see even more of dexter
season 3: great season but I think its underrated
season 4: one of the best seasons; ending left me in shock
season 5: bland
season 6: last scene was good; rest was eh
season 7: revival for the show; great season; had hope for the final season
season 8: ending was disappointing
Yeah you’re drunk asf lumen was great
Donald Smith bruh what 4 was like the best season
I think lumen was great. I wish she had more than just 1 season tho
I couldn't agree more. Season 3 & 7 were my favorites (in that order).
@Munk hands down
An ending you hate is a realistic one
But just imagine if Breaking Bad ended with Walt in prison and all the money was lost...
Goddamn at least they should have kept Debra alive, that’s the only problem i have with the ending
EDIT: I no longer agree with this statement, fuck I sound dumb
Naw it ended like shit let’s be honest it was lazy because the show sucked past season 4 so they just ended it I like the idea of dexter being hunted and found out the whole idea of collapsing to his dark passenger and his brother leading the way, dexter became to perfect never making a mistake and that made the show to predictable he should have been led up to the point were we think he’s never making a mistake then boom he slips he’s fallen to far to his dark passenger and he’s found out. The rest of the show from that point could have gone any way but I think instead of the theoretical FBI agent deb should have been the one that is persuing him and that leave him no choice to put deb on his table he kills deb and has the same emotional realization he had on the theoretical death bed where he feels emotion and sadness and his dark passenger is gone he then has the 10years later cut and he’s a lumberjack yada yada having to live out the rest of his life now feeling emotion and pain for what he did. Something along the lines of that I also do really like the prison ending of where he has that emotional realization moments before he dies and he leaves his legacy with his son not all tv shows have to end with a so called happy ending keeping the character alive leaving the fans wanting to know what happens to him now that he’s ‘safe’ putting a definite end to dexter is what I thought would have been and should have been the end of him dexter is the angle of death and now it was his turn to die
Season 5 was great and better than season 4
Facts
It wasn’t realistic at all. It’s like they purposely made it unrealistic
Debra was the worst in season 8
I've only just watched the entire series of Dexter and I loved every single episode! The ending made me cry so bad though! 😭 So I don't think it needs an alternate ending... But I loved the part about Harrison burying the neighbours' pet! Goose bumps!
I thought season five wasn’t that bad! Not as good as seasons 1 to 4 but way better than seasons 6 to 8!
If you cut out S6 and S8, I think most people would be quite satisfied with the whole series. Just slap the S6 ending on S5, make S7's ending the final one and the recipe would have been perfect.
In my dream ending Dexter kills the whole of Miami.
That'd be one big table
I like the way they included his human qualities and how he has love and I just don’t like how they shifted from a funny and dark show to JUST being dark but if they were to change ONE thing it would be the season finale where if he was to fake his death, he would still be with Hannah and Harrison . They showed how he had this HUGE love for Hannah and Harrison and it doesn’t make Since why he would leave them and exile himself because they were his whole world and I understand why he felt like he needed to do that but if he went to South America it’s a whole new life and would be a happy ending for him Hannah and Harrison but still that dark feeling for those in Miami
I hated seeing Deb die. She should remain. She was the one to watch over Harrison and Dex goes into hiding. Deb teaches Harrison it's not ok to kill. She raises Harrison in a better way then Harry taught Dex. Fast forward Harrison becomes the best lawyer to put bad guys away forever
@@cheri7054 thanks for giving good laugh😂
@@susharmaks3897 Your welcome
i still love the ending the show gave us. dexter got punished in all the ways he feared most: he not only let his sister down, he got her killed. when he finally was able to have human connection in a selfless way, he realized how dangerous he is to the people he cares about. the show ended with him living by himself, living with what he has done and what he had to give up. (not to mention, the shot of deb sinking in the ocean wrapped in the white sheet, then dexter speeding into the hurricane is some of the best television i’ve ever seen).
Ryan McClure yea but he legit looked at the camera and smiled it would have been cool to have Harry in the back of the room and him looking really sad OR have blue and red sirens in the back with a swat team coming back
This should have totally been the ending!!! Specially Harrison becoming a murderer and Deb having to take care of him , my thoughts exactly!
I would think for when dexter is strapped to the gurney before they inject him that he turns and sees everyone he ever killed in the viewing room and then he turns his head forward and his last words before he dies he says
"I'm sorry" with a tear rolling down his cheek then he closes his eyes and then goes to black and credits roll.
You're hot!!
@@tomaguilar4647 Dex mainly killed killers. I wanted that to continue. Instead of him being caught. Would like to see flash forward that Harrison wants to kill but Dex does opposite of Harry. Dex teaches Harrison to be the best lawyer who convicts these killers and puts them behind bars forever
Was casually listening to this and then your last part caused me to put my hands in the air. Well done sir.
Your ending sounds super interesting. The only thing I'd miss is what they did with Deb. I love Deb and how she changed throughout the series. She went from a self-conscious cop to becoming a confident detective, then became Lieutenant, then being destroyed by finding out about her brother, to accepting it and even understanding it, to hating herself and wanting to turn herself in to trying to kill herself/brother, to eventually reconciling with her own story, accepting her love for Joey and ultimately dying. She really went through a lot. Fucking love Debra.
???? She aids her brother in his escape and takes Harrison in as her own. It would be the final season of DEXTER, it should be focused on him. Just saying 😂
the ending was amazing and realistic, i don't know if people didn't understand it or what.
Explanation : when deb dies dexter realised that his need to kill is never gonna stop and he will kill people forever which will turn bad for the people he love and the people that love him, like harry, rita, deb.
And that hannah, harrison will be killed in the future because of the situation dexter will create because of his need to kill.
I loved how it ended. Tragic and made sense to me. But I also LOVE your ending too!! Good job. Thank u for making me feel better cause I'm so sad about finishing it I want MORE
The only problem with this ending is that you completely skipped over Debra and Dexters relationship(not talking about the romantic one). Throughout the show it is shown so many times that neither Debra or Dexter can live without the other, they are connected. Debra would protect her brother even if it meant going against all her morals, so If a manhunt were to occur she would most definitely help him and try to prevent the police from catching him. Dexter and Debra Morgan's names refer to the law of "Demorgan" which basically means one cannot live without the other. This is why at the end of the show Dexter can't move on with his life after Debra dies.
He says in his video at the end of season 5, Debra draws a gun on him but then says go, she clearly aided him and allowed him to escape.
I like this idea. I've always hoped they'd bring Dexter back for a one-off fixer, or short series or movie, something to end it properly. That said, I think the chance is gone. I like your ideas, would have been cool if they went down this route.
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Would anyone watch a Dexter sequel about Harrison being a serial killer?
OMG, I think for once in a long while that someone has finally done justice for the way the show ended. This would have been amazing to see unfold on-screen. It felt more realistic than the crap they tried to make us watch and accept as an ending. This felt truer to the characters and was more thought out. Kudos to you for your writing skills, too bad you weren't in the writers room.
It was so annoying that they kept giving him love interests especially when he dated Rita for like 6 months without sleeping with her because he was so not into sex. He only enjoyed sex with Rita because of his "feelings" for her. I'm rewatching it at the moment and so much of the show past season 4 is so dumb.
Gday mates he only hated sex in the past because those women viewed him as an emotional robot.
I feel like all of the love interests were done at the best okay, but yeah it was over done.
Lila, rita, lumen, hannah now Angela.
I'm so glad Dexter went 8 seasons. I loved this show so much, I enjoyed every second of every episode, except for those final 5 minutes of the finale obviously but it was such a good show from 1-8. I've seen it all the way through 7 times.
Nice but I just wish they would do it again and start a new one. Your wrong they did great with every season
I actually get confused by people who say the last 4 seasons are progressively bad. Like sorry, 7 is no where near as bad as the other season. In fact, I think it truly stands out among the last 4 seasons as a breath of fresh air.
I literally watched your version in my head as you described it. So much better! Thanks for helping redeem one of my favorite shows.
It was planned by the creators to kill Dexter but the Channel told that Dexter should be alive at the end. But still your version is much better👍
I loved seeing Dex give Justice to the bad guys. Would love to see as an ending where Dex still kills killers but at the same time teaches Harrison not to be another Dex. He teaches Harrison to be a the best criminal prosecuter
I recently just rewatched Dexter and your alternative ending literally gave me chills
I absolutely love this ending and you explained it so I can see it in my mind. Thank you!! I'll definitely be replacing the other ending with yours!
Not bad overall, but I don’t like the notion that Dexter would want Harrison to be like him in the end. He’s made that very clear throughout the show
your ending was more predictable than the actual show tbh
Lol yes
@siv_mist Yeah. Knowing Harrison would grow to be a serial killer just kind of ruins it for me. No one would’ve liked that
"Dexter had the worst series finale ever!"
Game of Thrones: "hold my throne burning dragon"
I love how well thought out this was...yYou talked in depth about the angles of the camera nd all...Intriguing mind ya got
This gave me CHILLS ! They ended the show so horribly I was so in love with the entire show but somehow I knew deb & Rita would both die , I just knew from the beginning. Your ending is so much better and I truly wish this is what happened honestly . The ending tore me up .
God this would be so much better. Jesus Christ, I hope Dexter comes back for a TV movie or mini series. I want it to be in like how many years from now and it's Harrison looking for Dexter, kind of like he's an FBI agent and he's hunting his own father. Or something like that, anything really
Ace Breao I know what you mean , that actually would be pretty cool
Wow. That actually works man! Well played 👏🏼👏🏼
And then he realises that he's become one of the killers he spent his whole life haunting is such a sensiinalised statement when it comes to Dexter's personality. It makes it sound as if he actually had a conscience and wasn't a conventional Psychopath who kills for pleasure even though this is the whole theme of the show and he clarifies that all the time that he isn't motivated to bring justice to society . If one thing makes this show do controversial as it was was the fact that the protagonist isn't meant to be a hero ever to anyone or anything other than being this misfortune into people's lives good or bad.
If only it played off that fact that Dexter was caught and that the whole 8 seasons was him confessing to everything and remembering what he has done all while doing it in the electric chair which explains the monologue he does since the very beginning. Which at the series finale in this ending it shows the camera panning out while he’s strapped in the chair and basically letting the whole seasons be displayed as a confession. I hope this makes since and to bad Dexter did end, even though it was getting repetitive, hopefully they make a spin off series
So wat happens if hanna ever gets cought does his son end up alone
I think Season 5 isn't about a new love interest, but it's about forget, a false redemption. Due to Lumen, Dexter have the chance to save a woman, and help him get over the past. Lumen didn't love Dexter (not in romance-romance way) and neither Dexter. They love each other because at that time in their life, they were each other life saver. That's why their relationship ended at the end, that she had helped him to move on. That's also why I like season 5.
The antagonist in season 7, is so cool and passionate, I hope they could be frenemy
Wow that was really good especially the last line with the manila envelope, actually gave me chills!
Dude I love this version. Especially because New Blood came back, ended even worse than the original series, and basically sent us into an all new version of idealistic endings. I’ve heard a dozen ways that other people would’ve ended new blood, and I liked almost all of them more than the actual ending. But I haven’t actually heard many revisions of the series proper. This one is great because it’s more realistic, takes outside of Miami for once, and leaves Harrison in such a better situation with his aunt Deb caring for him rather than Hannah who ends up dying in New Blood leaving Harrison an orphan. We would get to see all of Dexter‘s coworkers’ reactions which is something that everybody was begging for in New Blood. And we get to see the ghost of Rita and Harry as Dexter passes, which would be very heartwarming and fitting. Seeing all of the characters in a scene where Dex finally dies, along with the series, would have been so much more satisfying than just seeing him die in the snowy woods because HIS OWN SON SHOT HIM!! What a travesty the real ending was 😪
Season 6 was pretty bad and the ones after are so forgettable
Zz 7 was actually pretty good, at least compared to 6 and 8
He didn’t go to Argentina with Hannah and Harrison because he loved them so much and knew no matter what he did, they’d be hurt.
Exactly. How do these peasants not understand that?!
Yeah, but he said he wanted to "protect them" so they "wouldn't get hurt." But making a child grow up without his father and putting them through all the grief of him dying IS hurting them.
Thanks imaging this new ending is much more in depth and better
You earned a like
I know I'm late but I cant get over dexter abandoned his son and his love. I can't forgive that!
Dude, that was such an incredible rewrite. You are gooood
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT ENDING.
I don't want to see Dex in jail. he doesn't deserve that. I prefer Dex maybe hiding out. Deb has custody of Harrison. She teaches Harrison that killing is bad. She trainees Harrison to change the Justice system and killers end up in jail forever. Killing ends
Good idea but nah. I loved every second of Dexter right up until Deb was basically a vegetable. If Deb lived and ended up moving to Argentina with them and Dexter actually felt the love from Hannah, Deb, and Harrison somehow with a happy ending. That would have been memorable.
Yeah, I agree. I liked it all except the last episode. I could see him writing out a confession and then faking his death... as long he still goes to Argentina with Hannah & Harrison! Leaving his son without a father is crazy selfish. Even if he's not a perfect father.
@@jennhoff03 Exactly! Well said girl!
@@DirtyD218 Aww! :D Thank you! :) Back atcha!
@@jennhoff03 Thanks! Great minds think alike!
Deb was the ugliest thing I ever saw. Only negative about the show was having to watch her facial expressions.
I've never been so disappointed in an series finale... this is exactly how I wanted it to end. I especially wanted to see that single tear roll down his face at the very end of the real finale
YES! Me too! I was actually kind of expecting it. And the series finale was very sad and not in the good kind of way. Really wanted a happy ending for the show considering how much unhappy events took place.
Dexter should of killed Saxon before he killed Debra, sent Harrison to live with his grandparents and step-siblings and disappeared with Hannah. Dexter was destroyed the moment they decided to give him feelings, I also hated Rita and her kids they were good as cover and nothing more. Also Dexter having a kid made no sense as it meant he could be manipulated by enemies really easily etc.
Rita and the kids were more of a reality check for him. At first they really have no development but towards the latter 2 seasons of the first half they become his anchor while he battles with the aftermath of discovering his background. They give him meaning beyond his dark passenger and couldve eventually been rid of it but rita died
As a Dexter Fan, even the way it landed, I loved your alternate paradigm of rewrite. It all fits and really leaves it open for little boy to be another instant success. So cool.
Besides the Harrison Part at the end that ending was really good
Bobby Wilson I don’t know what your talking about it makes since Harrison as a baby in the blood gives him the passenger so I don’t see how that didn’t go into the original
I'm sorry i don't speak wrong
The other way around the harrison part was good nothing else was
The harrison harry code thing
i think with the ending they were trying to go for a breaking bad sort of thing, where he falls off the grid and starts his life over in a cabin... but at least walter white got that incredible final showdown
final scene cuts back to him about to kill saxon, then he doesnt hesitate and kills him straight away, preventing debbs death, his self isolation and then thats it maybe.
or dexter gets imprisoned like hannibal, or dexter dies via lethal injection
This is worse than the actual ending in the show.
This is where you must have slept through the last 2 seasons , Dexter was learning to feel emotions more and more and as a pyscopath isn’t meant to feel empathy Dexter was starting too , him saying goodbye to Harry and giving Oliver to Deb also showed he no longer had a hunger to kill and was looking forward to his new life with Hannah , his killing of Oliver at the end was an act of vengeance for Deb and the end showed him a completely different person which is what he was looking forward too however the circumstances of his new life were different to what he and the rest of us imagined and that look he gave at the end wasn’t a look that he would keep killing it was a look at the start of a different path he was about to take
That was way better than the ending we got. Cheers!
Awesome take Jordan that would have been so much more satisfying. I always had this final confession scene where Dexter unburdens his kills to a shocked Deb and police colleagues learning the truth. Such a waste of an amazing potential. Take care x
That ending up to your part about Dexter's death was already a vast improvement over the real one, but the extra part about Harrison was amazing.
JOEY PRETTY MUCH FIGURES IT OUT THEN JUST DROPS IT AND FORGETS ABOUT IT AFTER LIKE SEADON 5 WTF?!
Because he did him a favor and of Quinn's feelings for Deb. He exonerated him of the Liddy murder which Miami Metro had pinned on Quinn because of the blood on the shoe and phone calls.
YES!!!! I thought about that every episode! He knew Dexter was a killer and kept silent because of Deb. But then Deb broke up with him and he got crazy depressed and went on a bender.... and still never said anything? And then LaGuarda thinks Dexter's a killer and Quinn still doesn't say anything? And then, and then, and then.... there were about a 100 times he would have brought it up irl.
This is such a better ending. I just wanted Dexter caught somehow someway.
Still mad that they basically forgot about the blood slides the last two seasons. Not as if they were important to his characterization or anything....
Why does everyone think Dexter should have a negative ending. I like every part of the series except the ending. Either Dexter should have showed up in Argentina. Or with your alternative (minus him killing an FBI agent), after Dexter gets caught, he becomes an employee of the FBI. Or the CIA pardons his crimes and gives him a license to kill while getting information on underground criminal operations.
Dexter doesn’t have to die, or leave his son, or be miserable. It could have been a great ending along with a great show.
this show was purposely written for you to root for him. i imagine those that want him dead or suffering in jail, are the egotistical self righteous ''do gooders'' who have no better solution and have less sympathy then he ever did. it is written that due to his journey/ choices to be more human, that people around him got hurt. he was consistently tragic, the writers constantly fucked him over. in the end, i think he finally deserved a break. dexter was always unique, he was never the monster harry thought he was
Tell me what you think of this idea, and nitpick the hell out of it. This is just a synopsis. It'll be six seasons, not eight. Season five is about our favorite monotonous, unblinking serial killer recovering from Rita's murder and being a father to the kids. In this AU season, it's Cody who blames him for Rita's death, because he always saw Dex as a hero. Him failing to protect Rita shattered his dreams of a perfect family. Astor, however, clings to him as the only parent she has left. She ends up being "the only girl he'll ever need in his life" and really form a bond. She sorta becomes a miniature Deb to him, only he's more protective of her since she's his daughter. The kids stay with him and do end up calling him "Dad". They, along with Harrison, are the ones keeping his Dark Passenger from taking control. They move to a townhouse elsewhere in Miami.
However, despite these four rays of light in his life (Deb being the fourth), Rita's death makes things worse. The Dark Passenger manifests itself in the form of Brian, the Ice Truck Killer. The bad guys in this season are al-Qaeda operatives, their leader being Abu Issa al-Qatari (real name is Harun Rashid), a Qatari-American Sheikh based on the late Anwar al-Awlaki. Before, he's just been recruiting people to AQ via internet and TV, but now he's orchestrating a string of attacks in the Southeastern US. Second in command is a white engineer convert named Salim O'Flaherty. Then you have a young Pakistani college student named Hamza Javadi (played by the Slumdog Millionaire kid), who is the most radical of the lot.
It starts with a chemical bombing of American Airlines Arena (leading to an estimated 7500 deaths (in the initial blast, more die from their wounds and chemical poisoning), including the Secretary of Defense and all the Miami Heat and New Jersey Nets players). Then there is a shooting in a mall. It's a series of bombings and shooting, seven each. With the FBI and the military having a presence all over Florida, it'll very hard for Dexter to kill people, and he wants these three on his table.
What stays is Deb and Quinn falling in love, a Santa Muerte-like situation (only with white supremacists attacking innocent Muslim citizens in response to the attacks) where Deb is thrown under the bus by Laguerta, and Quinn suspecting Dexter of knowing more about Trinity than he let on, but gets nowhere with it.
What does cast suspicion on Dexter is him giving in to his "Dark Passenger's" goading to break the Code. He goes after pedophiles, rapists, and child abusers as well as killers. They were all under investigation by the police. Another thing is a six-year-old girl who survived a kidnapping by an elderly couple who had been kidnapping little girls, holding them prisoner until the age of 18, and then killing them. The girl recognizes Dexter as "hazel-eyed angel" who saved her, but there is no evidence of Dexter ever being in that house, and she was dazed when it happened. Only Laguerta finds any credibility in her statement. The man was killed by Dexter, and the woman was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder.
More and more criminals under investigation disappear, and that catches Laguerta's attention. She goes under the radar, and sees a connection between these disappearances and the Bay Harbor Butcher killings. She hopes against hope that Dexter isn't her guy, but she's doing what she must. O'Flaherty is killed by Dexter via electrocution (a torture method he used in Iraq), and that angers al-Qatari.
Meanwhile, Laguerta is finding more and more evidence pointing to Dexter, yet it's all circumstantial. She doesn't even confide this in Angel. Then she discovers that Brian is Dexter's brother, looking through Harry's files. She also finds out that the cabin Doakes died in had belonged to one of the killers of Dexter's mom. Now she does confide in Angel (but doesn't show him the file), asking him if Dexter has been acting strange and if he'd seen him talking to anyone suspicious. It's then Angel remembers the Trinity Killer talking to him the day before Rita died, and it made Dexter leave the station in a hurry. Dexter looked very tense throughout their conversation. In tears, Laguerta tells him that she believes he's the true BHB, and Angel is horrified and flat out doesn't believe her. Laguerta is sure that he didn't kill Doakes, because that would be against his MO. Ultimately, Angel asks her that if it turns out she's right, which he doubts, how will she go about it? She says she will talk to him first, show him what she had found out, and try to get him to turn himself in, at least just to clear his name.
Quinn and Deb are falling more deeply in love with one another, and we see that the former has bought a beautiful platinum engagement ring with three clear diamonds. Yes, he wants to propose and invites Deb to dinner in a really fancy restaurant with dancing and live performances. This season takes place over the course of ten months. So, that night, he pops the question to which she yes with tears of joy and very creative usage of the word "fuck".
Of course, they announce it first to Dexter and the kids, who are all very happy (even if Dexter doesn't care much for Quinn) and later to the office. It's all nice until Laguerta asks Dexter to meet her for lunch in a Cuban restaurant. It's here that she starts easing her way into the subject, asking about Dexter's past, talking about the criminals who had disappeared without a trace since Doakes died, etc. She says that if somebody had killed them, then she hopes they rot in hell, but if there was a vigilante serial killer out there, then it was the job of the police to bring him to justice. Dexter feigns ignorance until Laguerta hands him the files she has been collecting of her investigation. Almost in tears, she asks him straight out, "Are you the Bay Harbor Butcher?" Completely cornered now, he nods. After a long silence, she says that she's known him for years. She knows he had his reasons for doing what he did, that he hadn't killed Doakes, but she does inquire about Brian, the Skinner, Trinity, and O'Flaherty, to which Dexter confesses. Sighing, Laguerta says he should turn himself in. She could get him a reduced sentence, that he could plead insanity and be out once the doctors believed him cured, but before he can respond, another shooting is carried out, this time by Hamza himself. Hey, Deus Ex Machinas were big in this show. He guns down Laguerta, but Dexter is eventually able to wrestle the rifle away from him and bludgeons him to death.
The incident gets rid of the BHB case reopening idea for now, but Dexter has to be more vigilant than ever. A funeral is held for Laguerta who has the street the station is located on named after her. Angel becomes the new Lieutenant. Completely in denial about Dexter, and with no knowledge of how much physical evidence Laguerta has found, does not pursue Dexter further. Dexter is forced to finally "defeat" Brian and only listen to Harry, going back to the original code.
Over the next few episodes, preparations are being made for the Quinn/Deb wedding and the focus now is on capturing al-Qatari. al-Qatari wants to make his ultimate attack a dirty bomb. Miami Metro is placed on high alert, the FBI patrols every possible location in Florida where there are large gatherings of people, and the military is looking desperately for his hideout.
Deb and Quinn marry in the second to last episode, and move in together to a beach house. Quinn chose Angel as his best man and Deb took Astor as her maid of honor. Meanwhile, al-Qatari oversees the building of his dirty bomb somewhere with paneled walls.
The last episode has us on edge for the police, the feds, and the military to find and destroy al-Qatari's bomb and hopefully capture or kill al-Qatari. Deb and Quinn (both have the name Quinn now, but nobody but Deb and Masuka call him Joey) still need to be there to stop al-Qatari too, so no honeymoon yet. Dexter still wants him to himself. We find out that he plans to detonate the bomb in the Magic Kingdom theme park, possibly leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths and rendering Orlando uninhabitable for decades. al-Qatari is fortified in an abandoned maze of a factory, guarded by many terrorists and booby traps. You'd think this would make Dexter think twice about trying to get al-Qatari for himself, but no, he can still get him. Finally, the bomb is defused by an Army EOD unit accompanied by the FBI and several Florida police forces there to evacuate all the Disney World parks and resorts.
That night in Miami, a SEAL Team is sent into the factory compound, taking out nearly all the AQSE fighters, but al-Qatari escape through a tunnel to a waiting getaway truck, where he is caught by Dexter, who is disguised as one of the AQSE fighters. Of course, he M99s him and takes him to the mosque he frequented, and set up a kill room there. We get a conversation where al-Qatari promises that killing him won't stop al-Qaeda, that even killing bin Laden (remember, season 5 aired in 2010) won't stop the Islamic Jihad. Dexter counters while that may be true, al-Qaeda's operations in Florida are now over. Knowing that his death is imminent, he recites the al-Fatiha prayer (first chapter of the Quran), the declaration of faith, and an Allah hu Akbar before nodding to Dexter as a signal. Dexter stabs him in the chest, just as Deb walks in looking on in horror as she points her gun at Dexter.
Critique, nitpick, say what you like. That's it for now. Still have to think up a final season.
thesamuraihobbit 1)
Why would Dexter electrocute someone it doesn’t make sense, he needs his routine to feel complete 2)Mosque couldn’t make a kill room as it is a public place like a church
3) It would seem like the terrorist would be distracting the FBI away from Dexter’s “hobby” ; why would Dexter put himself in the center of attention by going after criminals that the FBI is interested in.
I see where you are going but your plot and ideas are a mess
Thanks, but could you possibly elaborate further? Like if you were to take this path, how would you clean up the mess? Also, what do you think of the Dexter bonding with Astor and the Deb/Quinn relationship?
1. Dexter doesn't always stab. He electrocuted those two EMTs. He bludgeoned Trinity. He slit Brian's throat. For a big time killer/torturer like O'Flaherty, he'd want to give him a taste of his own medicine.
2. He killed Travis in an abandoned church. A mosque in a high crime area of town wouldn't really be on anyone's radar. The FBI and military would more likely think that al-Qatari would be in bigger, safer mosques.
3. AQSE committed terror attacks in Dexter's own state, and those three al-Qaeda bigwigs were able to avoid the feds and military. It'll require suspension of disbelief, but I think Dexter could get them with a little false information and quick thinking to stay a step ahead of the FBI.
thesamuraihobbit valid points
Thanks, but if you have time, could you give me a critique on those other aspects? Oh, if you didn't guess, AQSE = al-Qaeda in the Southeast.
thesamuraihobbit I think The Deb and Quinn relationships is great and it’s funny how Quinn and Dexter have their little on and off disagreements and i think that Astor and Dexter are still cool with each other ; As for Dexter I think the best way to get rid of ASQE to track down the leader and end him while the FBI takes care of the minions
I like some of the ideas in your ending, though I think a season-long manhunt and dexter turning himself in would be kind of dumb. I think the best option they could have gone for would be to have dexter finally actually lose and gets officially caught. Maybe half-way through the season miami metro uncovers evidence linking Dexter to the bayharbor butcher, and then he goes into hiding. It might be cliche, but it would make the most sense from a story perspective for it to be deb who finally catches him, where he's faced with the dilemma of breaking the code to kill his sister or giving up.
The actual ending isnt all around bad, there were some parts that were truly great, for example, Dexter killing Saxxon might be one of my favorite dexter kills. But i think the execution and certain choices the writers made were terrible. Killing deb was a poor decision imo. Sending Harry away with hannah to argentina felt forced and rushed. The whole "im gonna make a snap decision to go to the hospital and euthanize deb and then take her to my boat while a hurricane conveniently distracts an entire hospital from seeing a man wheel a dead person out of the building" thing made absolutely no sense, dex driving into the hurricane, destroying his boat yet somehow surviving, was extremely confusing and weird. Literally no reaction or expanding on the people of miami metro finding out debs body disappeared and dexter being lost at sea is really strange. And then on top of that, they throw in that dexter is actually still alive living another life? Like why? I feel like they had too many ideas and no direction, so the final 20 minutes of the finale was just a jumbled mess of trying to wrap too many things up as possible.
Also, in your alternate ending, what was the point of mentioning the white supremacist antagonists and mentioning a specific actor who plays the leader and stating the specific actor who would play the serial killer hunter lol?
Holy shit. Reading your comment made me think of the ending in a different way. Sorry I just binged watched it. But he narrates through the whole show till that scene right? Although it know it was rushed, maybe they were trying to say (kinda poorly) was that Lumberjack Dexter was narrating the whole story. Thinking about what he life could have been with people in his life & all scenarios always go to shit. Idk. It's a long shot.
Don't like the idea of a killer who kills bad guys getting caught. Would love an ending where Dex sees Harrison following in Dex's foot steps but stops him from becoming the killer that Dex was. He teaches Harrison to become the best lawyer and never lets a killer go free
Whoa, you would have made a great writer for the show! I got goosebumps! Your ending is so much better!
My ending would be:
Dexter goes back to Miami, but got recognized by some people.
I mean, he was slipping... and while in the past he was flawless in the things he did, the accumulated stress from sustained life or death situations as well as severed relationships begin to gnaw at him.
All of Miami is now after him... and the idea of surrender looks more and more attractive as the moments go by.
So he goes out of his secret cabin in the Everglades... but as he opened the door to go out, a man stood before him.
“My name is Michael Westen. I work for the CIA, and have been tasked to whisk you out of the country.”
“I am Dexter Morgan. You might have heard of me in the news. Tell me, why is the CIA trying to protect me?”
“You and I... we’re weapons. For as long as there are things there that need to be done, someone is always bound to take us out to play.”
I think 5 and 7 were amazing. Especially the Deb-Dex relationship in season 7! Great to hear your ideas man. Russell hunting David haha. Ben Foster is an exceptional actor!
Thats about the best alternate ending I have ever heard. I would have added that when the curtains are pulled back before he is executed, all of his victims are there watching his execution, then he blinks hard and sees his sister crying and the others.
Seasons 5-8 were good but not as great as the first 4.
@@NelsonReyesJr writers shouldve got ideas from you this is so good
Sick alternate ending!
At first I was like dexter had the most disappointing ending!!!???
Then I saw the time stamp and thought poor guy haven't seen game of thrones ending yet
they didn't want dexter dead, they needed him to do season 9 10 years later
This gave me so much anxiety but it was truly an amazing ending. Thank you!
I don’t know why everyone hates ending so much.
I really LOVED the actual ending of Dexter. I really felt like it captured the tragic theme of the entire show. Because all of Dexter’s life he’s running around trying to keep the people that he cared about safe. And he realizes (as he had before) that in order to keep his son safe has as to leave.
Katelyn Siegel I see what you mean, but think of it this way: Dexter stays away from Hannah and Harrison because he thinks it’s to protect them from himself, but by abandoning them he has hurt them even more which further proves his destructive nature. He meant to protect them but ended up hurting them by leaving them. Just a thought.
I loved the ending, it was suprising and emotional, could have been waaaay worse.
yeah the ending itself is something i didnt mind but i feel like there was just a lot of useless stuff after season 4
I 100% agree
The ending was good. But the season as a whole.. really sucked.
Idk about this story as an alternative. ......but I can say your idea about Harrison following in Dexter's shoes does truly make sense. And it's why the "reboot" ....or "continuation" of Dexter will eventually happen. The
only exception will be that the new show, aptly named 'The Code' takes place 20 years from Deb's death. And a now 22 yr old Harrison, who goes by HARRY, is struggling with his own internal Dark Passenger.
With this setup .....the show can go in a couple different directions. Maybe Dexter has a limited role , where he mentors Harrison much like Harry mentored himself, or .... they can bring Dexter's character back Full-time and have an actual father/son relationship that could go in a lot of epic directions. The sky is the limit with what they could do.
Your ending is chilling! I love it, but it’s so sad.
Only one change I'd make to your version is ending with Dexter's death. I think it should end there and never reveal what was in the envelope so it's like a Pulp Fiction type thing that fans can theorize over
BIG MACK no I’d rather just know what the hell is in the envelope it’s closed closure
I'm happy with season 4's finale. It shows that the cycle will repeat with Harrison as it did with Dexter, in a pool of his mother's blood.
If it had to have more seasons though, I like your ideas
That was a MUCH better ending than the one in the show. I wanted so badly for dexter to get caught and for the whole Miami metro to be shocked and revolted and amazed that such an accomplished killer with over, what, 400 victims? Could have been right under their noses. It's not that I didn't like dexter, I just wanted more closure than that. And the truth always finds a way to reveal itself.
Correction, dexter killed approx. 135 people
Loved your ending! It made me cry a little!
Hey,that's pretty good
I loved every season of Dexter. Yeah maybe I wasn't happy with the very last episode. But was all great to me.
I always wonder why writers feel the need to destroy endings. This was a much better ending
Kind of ironic but Dexter’s finale is the one episode in all tv shows I’ve ever watched that made me tear up. He found happiness but was made clear to him that he would never be able to maintain it
Lumen's character was completely useless!!! Ending was less than climactic 😡
I hated Lumen so much. I could easily binge a season in two days, it took me a week to drag through her season because it was so BORING and Lumen is just annoying and she was always in the way
"But he raped me!"
"Where's your proof?"
".... 🤷🏻♀️ ...."
But then they reward her weirdo ass by having the dentist just decide he's going to call people and say "that last girl that none of us killed? She's alive. Toss in 'bitch' so I can be more evil."
Hey good job can you get animated
After all these years just got done re watching Dexter. I’m okay the ending. It took guts to make an ending so sad and horrible. Most shows always give a happy ending. Dexter didn’t. As time goes on it makes for a unique way to end a series
I watched the last episode of the dexter today and I'm crying now because what will i do now in my spare time .