Dexter: New Blood - FINALE (My Thoughts)

all right dexter new blood it's done i've sat on it i've slept on it i got me some thoughts first of all spoiler warning gonna talk about spoilers for dexter new blood if you haven't seen dexter new blood and you want to or you're curious you should do that first then come back to this video long story short even if it wasn't on your radar if you are a dexter fan i think you should still watch the show because it's it's by and large a great season of dexter i spoil the warnings done you've been warned now we're going to talk about some spoilers in dexter which means i know people just want me to talk about the ending and i will i'm gonna at least touch on what i felt or thought about the season as a whole and i mean it the season as a whole i thought it was a really intriguing great return to form to dexter had a lot of dexter stuff that i loved from dexter when it was in his prime that is seasons one through four that's dexter prime for me great intrigue great mystery dexter trying to stay one step ahead of law enforcement in which his girlfriend is a part of law enforcement so there's that complexity it was a case of giving you more of what you love but also the character's aged for 10 years you know as you said he's an evolved monster he's in a bit of a different place also harrison being 15 who has found him there's that added complexity and dynamic all the while there's a new serial killer out there they have that passive-aggressive tug of war going back and forth where it's like i know who you are you know that i know i know that you know that i know but we're not gonna let anyone else know that we know and so we're just gonna make a little remarks and comments to each other in public i thought that was cool also harrison i thought he was well cast because there's something about you're like is he saying he's like oh hannah died a couple years ago of cancer my first reaction was you promise there's a lot of that intrigue of not knowing i knew what the [ __ ] is going on here why is kirk caldwell saying he saw his son when clearly he absolutely did not and the end was actually really intense i was gripping my couch the entire time and then dexter gets shot in the heart by harrison and killed so dexter new blood have you seen it what did you think about it whatever you thought comment below let me know and as always if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more click right here to see more right if i ended my video right there with that it would feel very abrupt very unfulfilling people would be like i just why did i watch that video enter the end of dexter new blood which i will say that dialogue between harrison and dexter before that all went down i thought it was good dialogue a couple of great lines in there where harrison's like you don't have a dark passenger it's a driver and i was like that's a really good point i'm glad they addressed that also when harrison says open your eyes and look at what you've done it's a great callback to the pilot episode when dexter says that to the first person we see him kill open your eyes and look at what you did but also i thought logan died from a ricochet logan in this show like the nicest friend guy the nicest person ever i thought when dexter had him in a choke hold and logan shot i thought he he got ricocheted about the bullet ricocheted and killed him i thought he got dark knight rises but apparently dexter broke his neck which i was like oh that changes things granted it's rule number one of the code for a reason rule number one what's rule number one of the code don't get caught by implication that means okay so if these other rules of the code get in the way of rule number one rule number one wins but i will argue that he didn't have to kill him he could have just given him choke hold and be like go to sleep go to sleep go to sleep go to sleep sweet thank you for the keys goodbye but i did like seeing that that dexter morgan with no mask whatsoever he's like a feral animal with his foot in a trap and he's gnawing that foot off to get the [ __ ] out of dodge i thought that was really cool glad i saw it for 10 minutes now gonna be real with you i've always understood and agreed with clyde phillips concept that dexter morgan would end up going down he would go down in the end he said in an interview the end that he was taking dexter to was him in the electorate chair surrounded by all the people he killed you know he's hallucinating he's seeing them granted the road getting dexter to there involves a manhunts a police chase a trial you know there's a lot to do there a lot more than the last part of the last episode shooting him in the heart can contain and that's part of the disappointment of dexter dying here at least for me there's more to a character going down than them just dying they're just getting shot in the heart that's not fulfillment it's it's all about reputation seeing dexter's friends know that this person that brought them donuts on a daily basis is actually a serial killer that feeling of betrayal and now they gotta hunt this person they considered a friend that's actually pretty intense it's not the death of the body it's the compromising of the reputation in the eyes of the people and the friends he had that's the thing where breaking bad excelled at and in that breaking bad kind of way i always felt the same way about dextre you know watching breaking bad i never got the sense of like yeah this guy's totally gonna get away with it forever i always felt like walter white was doomed to go down in the end that's always how i felt about dexter but again it's all about execution and i just felt the execution at the end of this season was way too abrupt for me to feel that feeling of fulfillment i don't know why it was so abrupt why they were like oh no it's just going to be the end of this one season maybe they didn't know if they were going to get a season 2. we're like but there are no superheroes in this show there are no capes anywhere does anyone give a [ __ ] about dexter anymore it turns out they do a lot of people clocked into showtime to watch dexter new blood i'm glad about that but in a world where they didn't know they're probably like all right we have one season to do all this stuff and hope it works out which lesson right there film two endings one reduction gets killed and it's very abrupt you know because it's a one-off or another one where dexter slips through the cracks and now everyone who knew him everyone from this small town in upstate new york miami metropd the fbi everyone's going after dexter on the other hand maybe they felt like a dexter manhunt wouldn't really feel like dexter nor would the trial of dexter morgan maybe a courtroom drama wouldn't feel like a dexter show but i would clock into that show like a [ __ ] clyde phillips and crew built dexter new blood and its resolution around the father-son dynamic with dexter and harrison which is much smaller more intimate and very this season it's very dexter new blood whereas the mulligan resolution for the rest of the series of the original dexter gets lost under that and if i'm venturing a guess i really think fans required more resolution with the original dexter series side of things and granted a lot of that fulfillment like i have wants that i'm left wanting by the end of dexter new blood obviously but they're wants that i just can't have fulfilled a lot of the people that would have been really intriguing to watch them go after dexter morgan they're dead now you're not so we're dealing with an imperfect deck of cards here that said given dexter new blood there are things i feel they could have done that would have made it more palatable for fans like angel batista right out the gate that's one thought that i have it wasn't even on my mind when dexter new blood started that angel batista and dexter morgan would ever have a face to face but then angel batista was briefly in one episode then angel batiste it was briefly in the last episode in which he's like i'll fly out in the morning i'll tell you everything i know and he has this file right there angel batista and dexter morgan having that face to face would have brought resolution with the miami metro pd side of things you know side of the deception i mean we're not going to get deborah morgan hunting dexter morgan which i think would have been pretty epic i also think that they were setting up for that lundy talking to her i think it was in season four he's like you're just like me the manhunt is that's what drives you i was like oh they're setting that up big time oh guess not so okay we can't always get what we want but if you try sometimes you'll find you get what you need angel batista and dexter morgan having that face to face where angels like you are the bay harbor butcher my wife is dead because of you dokes you let dokes take the fall for your killings your murders that would have been a really important dialogue i would have been something fans i feel needed but it just never happened funny enough a big part of this resolution in concept is going to happen in the world of dexter just off screen angel bautista will know that dexter morgan is the bay harbor butcher reopen the bay harbor butcher case you know absolve james doakes of those murders but it's not knowing it'll happen it's seeing it you know that's that's that feeling of fulfillment that fans get i mean you do get a sense of that oh he was our friend and he totally lied to all of us in the new crew and it does work in that capacity but it's not the miami metro pd crew would have been great to see these two stories come together where they're all like oh my god this guy right let's get them and as much as i'd understand where they're coming from as their hunting dexter i would be rooting for dexter cause who am i kidding i would be but he wouldn't get away with it and that'd be the tragedy of it all also harrison shooting him in the chest just like right there i was like okay well that's well first of all it's a heart shot so there's no question he's dead but also i think it would have been cooler if harrison was like nope i'm not shooting you or a kneecaps or something just blam it's like you're going back to florida and you are going to answer for these crimes however they wanted to do it harrison not killing dexter i think would have been more profound because he'd be breaking the cycle he's like no i'm not going to kill you i'm breaking the cycle now harry taught you to kill and get away with it you've been killing and getting away with it you're telling me to kill you but i'm not gonna kill you the sins of the father end today in an episode called sins of the father but now harrison shoots him in the chest and drives off somewhere i mean they're probably setting up for a show where harrison's some vigilante killer maybe he doesn't have the ritualistic murder thing down but you know he's killing bad people because he feels bad people should die so now in a world where they're probably setting up for a spin-off show starring harrison i imagine is going to throw a lot of money to michael z hall to be the hairy hallucination for harrison man the whole season of the manhunt for dexter morgan really is an emotional roller coaster after season 8 is like ah i guess we won't get that and now it's like oh maybe we'll get that um i guess we won't get that i can't take this kind of emotional back and forth look the execution of the finale aside dexter new blood as a whole i had a great time viewing it it was an experience with a show i hadn't had in years after i would watch it i'd text my brother i'd call a friend we'd talk about it every episode that was coming to an end i could feel it coming to an end i was like [ __ ] i don't want this to end then the episode would end and i would start the clock like okay one more week let's go begin the countdown it was a great viewing experience and though the finale left me unfulfilled i still have that experience which clyde phillips and crew should see any hate that the end of dexter new blood gets as a compliment because people only really hate endings that much if the rest of the show leading up to it was great i really dug the show found the ending unfulfilling as [ __ ] was my thoughts on the season that was my thoughts on the finale and now you know my thoughts all right so now i'll actually ask you dexter new blood what did you think of the season what'd you think of the finale whatever you thought comment below let me know and as always if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more click right here to see more [Music] you

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Published: Tue Jan 11 2022