I really enjoyed this show also. I had never seen it so I binged watched the whole series a few months ago. I felt the ending would have been alright if they were leaving it open to reboot the series at some point but that probably won't happen and therefore the ending seemed like a rip off. Oh well........it was a very good series up until then.

@browneyedgirl1973 said:

I really enjoyed this show also. I had never seen it so I binged watched the whole series a few months ago. I felt the ending would have been alright if they were leaving it open to reboot the series at some point but that probably won't happen and therefore the ending seemed like a rip off. Oh well........it was a very good series up until then.

Blame The Bean Counters...not the writers. The "word on the street" is that TBC wouldn't sign off on a definitive ending for just such a possibility.

As you say "probably won't happen"; but TBC wanted to ensure that the door was left open just in case....

That would be great..........here's to hoping!

I loved Dexter so much! I just couldn't stand the end! :-(

I realllllllly didn't want Deb to die. She should've lived! <3 I loved seeing her again in Limitless, however briefly it was.

I can't say Deb's death surprised me although I still think it was regrettable. I figured she would have to pay some karmic debt for having killed LaGuerta (not to mention covering up two other murders and advocating for one or two others), so it happened. I agree with the poster who said Dexter should have joined Deb rather than just dump her in the ocean like one of his victims (although I guess in a sense she was). I found it unlikely that Dexter would really just surrender his son like that. Not fully satisfying, but the show to me always vacillated wildly from the ridiculous to the sublime. I binge-watched it on Netflix for the first time and was ready to say goodbye when it ended.

Dex loved Deb in his own way, but he was still a remorseless killer who channeled it by taking out the wicked amongst us.

If anything I found it a fitting ending as most serial killers don't end up in prison or die. He vanished like the zodiac killer.

Also who could outsmart him? It would feel cheap. Remember how many fans were upset when Breaking bad ended with Eisenburg dying? Same thing.

@Strannger18 said:

Dex loved Deb in his own way, but he was still a remorseless killer who channeled it by taking out the wicked amongst us.

If anything I found it a fitting ending as most serial killers don't end up in prison or die. He vanished like the zodiac killer.

Also who could outsmart him? It would feel cheap. Remember how many fans were upset when Breaking bad ended with Eisenburg dying? Same thing.

The man was “dying” when the show started; hence his decision to hurriedly augment his income/build a nest-egg.

It's not as if the writers sprang some huge surprise on fans. I thought Heisenberg demise was fitting-- AND DAMN WELL-DONE!

Tell it to stubborn fans. They even had petitions to make the show support him being alive.

Internet videos on theories. They went nuts

@Strannger18 said:

Tell it to stubborn fans. They even had petitions to make the show support him being alive.

Internet videos on theories. They went nuts

I think the key word here is "nuts".

But, seriously, the truth is I did not know that.

I watched the show (religiously); however I didn't post on any of its Boards, check out any of its Forums/or follow it in any way on line.

When I really, like a show I make it a point to stay-within-my-on-thoughts about it. I avoid all articles, interviews, and the hoopla that invariably reeks up the place like stench on a corpse.

I didn't like seeing Deb die, but I understood it from the writer's point of view I think. Things were never going to work out well for Dexter, and he always knew that. He sewed plenty of death in his life. And though many of his killings may have been considered just, his killings were murders.

The basic premise of the show is that Dexter was damaged goods, imprinted almost from infancy in tragedy, and kind of doomed to never have a normal life. People liked the idea that Dexter's condition and training seemed to help deliver justice to bad people who had escaped it. Yet Dexter was breaking laws, literally acting as judge, jury and executioner. As a society we don't condone anyone having that kind of power over others. We believe in the rule of law and due process. Dexter did not always restrict himself to "the code" either. There was at least one rage killing, and the case of LaGuertaa (who Deb actually shot, but Dexter was about to). So it was sort of fitting that things would not work out well for Dexter.

I really, really, liked Hannah. To the extent that I identified with Dexter, I wanted him to make it to Argentina and find a way to be healed inside, and live a good life with Hannah and Harrison. But it wouldn't be right for karma to allow a serial killer to have things work out for him. Dexter was trained to be a serial killer, which was a kind of child abuse. And he wasn't to blame for that. But what kind of message would it send if Dexter were allowed to make it to freedom and live a happy life with his son and beautiful girlfriend?

It was a better message to have Dexter realize that he was taught the wrong things, that he was raised wrong, that his sickness had never been treated, but made worse, and that he was therefore unfit to be a father to his son.

(Sucks for Miami PD though, Dexter was an excellent blood spatter guy.)