DEXTER

[anais.jude]

It was a great episode. I should probably change the note under my beautfiul pic of the late Swayz......no, I still hate them. HOW DARE YOU KILL FRANK!

[Piobman]

Just saw the season finale. Holy SH**!

[iv3rdawG]

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I had a feeling that it couldn't just end with Dexter killing Arthur and then having him go meet Rita, but I really didn't expect that to happen at the end. Yeesh.

[Russell]

Oh man... I understand why, but I am really sad that they

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killed off Rita. She was a great character and could have contributed so much more to the story. I do see the irony though. With Harrison's mother killed before his eyes he is supposedly going to grow up just like Dexter thus continuing that cycle and parallels the cycle that Trinity killed in. I wonder if in season 5 Debra will know Dexter's secret finally?

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[Piobman]

Oh man... I understand why, but I am really sad that they

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killed off Rita. She was a great character and could have contributed so much more to the story. I do see the irony though. With Harrison's mother killed before his eyes he is supposedly going to grow up just like Dexter thus continuing that cycle and parallels the cycle that Trinity killed in. I wonder if in season 5 Debra will know Dexter's secret finally?

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The ending was...

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predictable if you think about it though. Nearly every main character in this season lost someone they loved. Cop lost his girlfriend, sister loster her boyfriend(s) and now dexter last his wife. They even hinted at this scenario earlier in the season when he killed the cop lady who murdered her family. At the time her story seemed a little out of place, but makes sense as a whole with the season. Talk about some superb writing! I was never really a huge fan of rita.... but I was really sad to see her get murdered. Gut wrenching to see such a main character die in such an abrupt and gruesome manner.

[Russell]

I can never watch that scene ever again. I know it's insane for me to be so emotionally moved by the death of a fictional character, but this really gets to me for some reason.

[D.B. Barnes]

I can never watch that scene ever again. I know it's insane for me to be so emotionally moved by the death of a fictional character, but this really gets to me for some reason.

That was a bit of a disturbing surprise. Although if they had to kill off any female character, I really wish they would have killed off Deb. I know they would never do that because she's too essential to the storyline, but I find it hard to look at the screen when she's on it. I don't know if it's the actress or the character, but I find her cringe-worthy. She always looks like she's on the verge of tears, whether she is or not. And, does that actress have a speech impediment? Not that there's anything wrong with that but I can't  figure out why her mouth moves in such a funky manner.

Sorry if I offended any Deb fans. I love the show but she's like a dentist drill to me at this point.

[gbeenie]

Although if they had to kill off any female character, I really wish they would have killed off Deb. I know they would never do that because she's too essential to the storyline, but I find it hard to look at the screen when she's on it. I don't know if it's the actress or the character, but I find her cringe-worthy. She always looks like she's on the verge of tears, whether she is or not. And, does that actress have a speech impediment? Not that there's anything wrong with that but I can't  figure out why her mouth moves in such a funky manner.

Our roommate has this exact complaint.

[SJP]

Just watched it myself.  I normally can see stuff like this a mile away, but that ending escaped me.  Crazy.

So, for Season 5, let me just ask: How, exactly, do you top an ending AND a serial killer like that?  Almost seems like they've set up an ending so twisty and wacky that they'll be hard pressed to write out of it.

I guess now it's official that Season 3 (in my book) is the least of the series, even though I still like it a lot.  Me and a friend had a running joke with Jimmy Smits, that every time he got thwarted he would look up at the sky, shake his fist, and yell, "Dex-TERRRRRRRR!"  I miss his character.

[Russell]

I like Deb a lot. I think we have too much invested in her for her to ever be killed off.

[torgosPizza]

Plus the actress who plays Deb is currently Michael C. Hall's main squeeze. So she has that going for her.

But yeah that ending almost made me sick, it was so incredibly well done.

[ThatGirlWithTheFreckles]

Even though they had alluded to Dexter losing his family throughout the entire season,

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I was not expecting Rita to be killed off so abruptly.  I fluctuated on my feelings toward Rita from downright hating her (season 2) to finding her tolerable in this season. 

I'm really going to miss Lithgow next season though.  He's not in nearly enough stuff, and he was REALLY good in Dexter. 

As for Harrison ending up like Dexter simply because he witnessed his mother's murder and sat in her pool of blood, I don't see how that is very likely.  I mean he is significantly younger than Dexter was when this happened to him (I mean, Harrison is what like 6 months old?) 

I agree about Deb, also, though.  I like her character well enough, but sometimes she does get really annoying.  Her mouth does move in an overly tight lipped, strange manner.  I thought maybe I was the only one who noticed it.  I suspect that soon Dexter will tell her the truth about himself.

[Russell]

I have to also say that along with that,

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seeing the dead body of Sergeant Doakes was probably one of the most horrifying moments on Dexter(Way back in season 2). I thought he was kind of a jerk but I just couldn't stand seeing him like that. Really messes with me to see that.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...

Dexter's Michael C. Hall Has Cancer

[Courtney]

So sad. I love Dexter, but he IS David Fisher to me, as Six Feet Under is one of my very favorite shows of all time. But it's nice to know that some stars, the cool low-key ones, can have their treatments in peace and only admit to the disease once they're almost out of the woods (or as out of the woods as one can get). Good thoughts to him.