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Euphoriaphone posted:I recently discovered the perfection that is Hannibal, and something about this episode forced me to compare Dexter to it. Just what the hell was that slop that Dr. Brainlady was serving up? It looked like cold chicken jelly. In the overhead shot of the table after everyone's dished up and you see the half-assed looking meal on everyone's plates I immediately thought of the elaborate dishes you see every week on Hannibal. The timing of this episode is perfect for me to show how far Dexter has fallen when so unfairly compared to a truly exceptional show. There were layers so I assume it was lasagna. Brain lasagna. 
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Risky posted:What was that stop motion looking mouse show that Harrison was watching? It looked familiar but I have a feeling it doesn't really exist. They keep mentioning how Harrison likes RastaMouse. I fell asleep trying to watch this last episode so it may be different but they've shown that thing at least twice already.
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Aug 20, 2013 06:59
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spanky the dolphin posted:They keep mentioning how Harrison likes RastaMouse. I fell asleep trying to watch this last episode so it may be different but they've shown that thing at least twice already. RastaMouse is the Brain Surgeon.
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Aug 20, 2013 07:07
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Breaking Bad being back really highlights how awful this show has become. gently caress it, I'm just going to read the spoilers and have done with it.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:There were layers so I assume it was lasagna. Brain lasagna. I thought it was some weird spinach bake or something and am, in retrospect, surprised that the scene didn't go more like, "Sorry Dexter, as a psychopath I don't expect you to understand, but I hope you don't mind that it's vegetarian. You can eat some anyway with your third blonde wife and third inconvenient, bothersome son. Things sure are much different now for you than ever before, but I also I want you to know that I wasnt making a casserole as a plot device to bring you all over; rather it was def so I could eat this green cheese glop (?) all week and have leftovers. Hey can I drive Zach home for unsuspicious reasons? banter banter psychopath witty repartee banter banter shocking personal barb against dinner guest banter banter psychopath." PostNouveau posted:RastaMouse is the Brain Surgeon. This had better be it. The clues were there all along, they were just waiting to be found. QuickbreathFinisher fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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Is it seriously worth waiting 4 weeks or is the ending just as lame as the rest of this poo poo? I'm finding this hard to watch even just as wallpaper while looking after my baby. Can someone just confirm or deny 2 things, please? Is there anything in the ending crazy or dumb enough to be amusing? Is the spoiler thread fun to read? I don't think i can take this show anymore. It's like being kicked, very lightly in the balls over and over by a bag of tortillas, that somehow managed to become simultaneously sentient and retarded. Spermanent Record fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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Aug 20, 2013 10:50
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frozenpeas posted:Is it seriously worth waiting 4 weeks or is the ending just as lame as the rest of this poo poo? I'm finding this hard to watch even just as wallpaper while looking after my baby. Exposing your baby to this show is going to be the formative event that turns him/her into an awful TV writer, much like the blood-filled shipping container that turned Dexter into a killer. Your kid will be the showrunner on the hologrammatic Dexter reboot in 2045. The big bad will be Chicky Hinesbot.
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Hedrigall posted:Exposing your baby to this show is going to be the formative event that turns him/her into an awful TV writer, much like the blood-filled shipping container that turned Dexter into a killer. There's nothing in here to catch a baby's attention, let alone an adult's. So, consensus, spoil or don't spoil? How many of us are even left here?
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Aug 20, 2013 11:53
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It doesn't matter it's probably what you expected and worse. The only thing that's up in the air is what exactly goes down in the last episode, but there's probably enough to guess.
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Aug 20, 2013 12:03
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I read the spoilers a couple of weeks ago. At this point no one should be under any illusions at all that the writers of this show are going to accomplish anything even remotely thought provoking or memorable, much less nuanced and worth waiting for. We're 4 episodes away from the finale and you could start watching this season now, watch a recap, and be no worse for it.
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Aug 20, 2013 12:09
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I wonder if anyone would notice if they just repeated this last episode four weeks in a row as the conclusion.
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frozenpeas posted:There's nothing in here to catch a baby's attention, let alone an adult's. Spoilers only really mean something when you have a connection to something and if you're still deeply attached after the 8 episodes they've barfed up this season so far the spoilers won't sway you anyway. kater posted:I wonder if anyone would notice if they just repeated this last episode four weeks in a row as the conclusion. 
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I thought RastaMouse was Chicky Hines?
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frozenpeas posted:There's nothing in here to catch a baby's attention, let alone an adult's Amen. Even the slight prospect of a glimpse of Bartkowski boobs was destroyed. Yeah yeah, she was lying on her back, but COME ON, give us SOMETHING!
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frozenpeas posted:Is there anything in the ending crazy or dumb enough to be amusing? 1. Nope. 2. Yes in the sense that it's fun reading everyone's hopes get crushed. Including mine 
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Yeah I just found out for myself. So glad I did. No need to wonder if it's even going to be entertainingly bad from now on. I suggest you come join us in the bad thread  .
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frozenpeas posted:I suggest you come join us in the bad thread There never was a good thread, counselor. 
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Aug 20, 2013 13:31
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The head-foot switcher would have made a better final season http://youtu.be/WM5_pac-4Is
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Slamhound posted:Honestly, imagining potential crossovers is the only way to enjoy this anymore. Deb becoming an understudy of Gene Parmesan, doing work for Barry Zuckercorn and/or Bob Loblaw and joining up with Saul Goodman's A-Team and just being constantly exasperated... Parks and rec. Dexter joins as a consultant to help Ron slash departmental budgets. (Inner monologue: Hopefully I can find something else to slash in this little corner of midwestern drudgery) He off-code rage-kills Jean-Ralphio within an hour of arriving to work. Leslie has been replaced with Sookie from True Blood and almost no one noticed.
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Dead Snoopy posted:The head-foot switcher would have made a better final season Oh god . . . "Can you pass me that foot of lettuce?" This is fantastic and I'm sad I've never seen it before.
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Can anyone explain to me the Weeds connection that's always brought up here? I've never watched it. Is it a show that started out great and got really lovely towards the end?
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Hobo Clown posted:Can anyone explain to me the Weeds connection that's always brought up here? I've never watched it. Is it a show that started out great and got really lovely towards the end? Thats exactly it.
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Hobo Clown posted:Can anyone explain to me the Weeds connection that's always brought up here? I've never watched it. Is it a show that started out great and got really lovely towards the end? It got bad towards the middle and then doubled-down on awfulness each season until it became unwatchable. I couldn't finish the last season. Also like Dexter, the season finales usually had some kind of hook to reel you back in.
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So Dexter is the television equivalent of catch and release?
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Minarch posted:So Dexter is the television equivalent of catch and release? Dexter is the television equivalent of keeping a relationship going because it is safe and occasionally not boring- ultimately disappointing. Dead Snoopy posted:At this point I'd insist on a website keeping track of all of the show's show runners and writers so I can cautiously keep an eye on the tv shows I love in case they get hired onto them. A blood slide list. Entropic posted:I'm not going to forgive this show anything unless Dexter is arrested and gets represented in court by Denny Crane. If this happens I will forgive this show everything- the only thing I would want is Masukas paystub.
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I think I'm out of the discussion now. The premise of the show was great, Michael C. Hall is a great actor, and the first four seasons of the show taken alone were very good, surprising, etc. The decline in quality and writing is so blatant and horrific that we've seen every "twist" coming from a mile away. Headward James Olmos being one of the worst misuses of a talented actor. Then you go and gently caress up "Titus loving Pullo" as a big bad. Mos Def? Can't even remember what season he was in. Each of the interesting actors was killed off halfway through each season and then never mentioned again. Leaving our "Big Bads" as Mini-Tom Hanks, the guy from Hackers, Mawia Lagueeeeertaaa, and now some person that we haven't even seen or who has had minutes of screentime. Dexter goes from panic and going crazy over tiny things such as a dental crown being knocked out, to just going all Garbage Bag + Duct Tape without bothering to chop up the bodies anymore. It reminds me of the scene in Season Two where Dexter is having a dream where he's dragging a body through Miami Metro and Angel says "Bro you can't have that in here." Because seriously - nobody gives a poo poo. Quinn is practically the best cop this season, and he literally couldn't care less about what Dexter/Deb do because reasons. I'm out...
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hey guys, remember how neat those teasers they put out before the season started were? I guess this show was always kind of dumb, but at least it used to be compelling. Awful subplots aside (Ungheil~~), S4 of Dexter ratcheted up the tension throughout the season so effectively and it hooked me in a way that most other TV isn't able to, even Breaking Bad. S1 and S2 had a similar effect, maybe not quite as strongly. Above all it's really disappointing to see that the show's going out in such a bland way. If it had to end bad, I wish they'd at least go full-on crazy instead of this. (along those lines, you guys have no idea how badly i wanted that super silly goon theory of the pyro guy last season being Life Support Doakes to be true oh my god)
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LLJKSiLk posted:and now some person that we haven't even seen or who has had minutes of screentime. We have. You know the writers. Coming in to say don't watch the previews, it gives it away.
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Paradox Personified posted:We have. You know the writers. Coming in to say don't watch the previews, it gives it away. 
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I hope the entire season so far turns out to be a dream. The boring dialogue and predictible nature represents the boring life that is Dexter's nightmare. He then wakes up, gets back to business, and meticulously stalks some child-molestor and actually has the suspenseful moments the series thrived in. Then the REAL final season begins and these past episodes get forgotten just like a bad dream.
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lifts cats over head posted:I hope the entire season so far turns out to be a dream. We joke...but does anyone else get the sense that this literally might be what's happening? Like either Deb shot Dex in the container or they're drowning in the car or the Brain Surgeon actually captured Dexter and is manipulating his memories by cutting his brain or something like this? It does beg the question of why Dexter's subconscious mind cares about Masukette tits and other garbage but as far as dumb endings go it's gloriously dumb.
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Line of the show: "Zach knew Cassie. He met her once."
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This latest twist is a good indication of the lack of literary progression within the show. The dramatic growth of this show cannot even be charted. It is treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
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Paradox Personified posted:We have. You know the writers. Coming in to say don't watch the previews, it gives it away. I don't watch the previews, but didn't the end of the last episode pretty much tell us that it was Dr Vogel?
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Jedit posted:I don't watch the previews, but didn't the end of the last episode pretty much tell us that it was Dr Vogel? I don't necessarily think so, she was obviously on the phone with Dexter and looked shocked. I think it had been dropped on her doorstep just like the rest.
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I didn't notice the thread mentioning this, but Cassie's boyfriend *did* see Zach before, WITH Dexter. AT the loving crime scene. Is the writing that bad (he forgot) or is the writing that bad (he's lying)?
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 You guys were right about Breaking Bad. LLJKSiLk posted:Because seriously - nobody gives a poo poo. Quinn is practically the best cop this season, and he literally couldn't care less about what Dexter/Deb do because reasons. Maybe Quinn will care more since Zach's disappeared now? I don't know why Quinn's being ignored so much and why his character is all over the place (other than "writers").
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Matthews had the best line of the episode: "Doesn't she know this place was founded on bad murder ju-ju?"
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Me in Reverse posted:I didn't notice the thread mentioning this, but Cassie's boyfriend *did* see Zach before, WITH Dexter. AT the loving crime scene. Pretty sure he's lying and he's the one who put the razor on Zach's car to frame him (why?).
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