Deb would have told Dexter many times during their lives "I love you", as would many other family. There's no doubt Dexter responded with awkward "thank you" or even "....oh ok". He would certainly know by now the "correct" response is to return the "I love you". I don't want to say it's necessarily bad writing, but maybe it could have been handled a bit better since this really doesn't make much sense. It would make sense if Dexter hadn't ever been told "I love you" by family or maybe a girlfriend. Then it would make perfect sense Dexter would only have awkward responses to give since he doesn't feel these things. He's able to perfectly fake emotions most of the time, but every now and then I feel like the writers just forget his character.
@@finchvalor Exactly and it was weird things like this that got him caught out by people who didn't by into his act, they worked too hard to portray cold side and maybe thought we was too stupid to notice the difference if they did things that actually made sense like what you said for example since that's how real psychopaths and sociopaths would think, they rely only on their logic especially psychopaths that can't feel anything, at least a sociopath like dexter could feel something even if it wasn't much compared to neurotypical people so would better understand how to manipulate people around him, so he would have picked up on things like this faster too, even deb too if she kept saying she loved him and his response was always robotic eventually she would notice that as a ref flag as most people would So not only did they dumb down dexter character so all viewers could pick up on it, they dumbed down deb too just so it could all work and make sense, only times they didn't dumb it down was for characters they got rid of early like doakes who really should have been kept for longer in the book he is a key character in dexter life they got rid of him too early and dumbed his character down too, in a way I don't blame them since most people don't actually understand how personality disorders work and even what they are especially back then, tbh I didn't know what a psychopath was back then either lol so obviously they did it so we can still see what's wrong but some of us ain't slow like that but they have to appeal to everyone so makes sense Just wish they was more tactical about it lool they could have had dex fake "I love you" as in deb case he would actually be telling the truth, you can tell even early on in the show he actually loves deb and couldn't or wouldn't harm her like that, which isn't typical for psychopath and is another reason why I believe dexter isn't a psychopath he is a sociopath, his brother is a psychopath and a better example of it, dexter was never on board with killing deb due to his very real love for her, something brain can't actually feel, dexter knew his brother was far more messed up than he was, if he was a real psychopath odds are he could still go through with killing deb since he wouldn't be able to feel any real love for her just familiarity but its clear he loves her so writers didn't need to dumb that down
Yeah it was a good response. I don't think he even said it much before if at all as there's another scene in which he actually says he loves her, after she's hysterical And Dexter doesn't need to tell her everytime she says it as it's a brother and sister relationship. Deb would just put it down to men being men. Dexter only needs to fake that emotional response around people like Rita
@@finchvalorjust to add further to what you’ve already described very well. This conversation also makes less sense when you realise Dexter has probably heard countless people exchange them exact sentiments across his life “I love you” , “I love you too”. This scene would have played out so much better if he said thank you in his head yet said I love you too out loud to deb. This change would make the scene so much more realistic but also colder. In this scene Dex just comes across a little autistic when he says thank you yet if they had that line remain as monologue it would portray Dex as more cold and calculating. Having his initial relief flood his mind yet remaining detached enough emotionally to give the appropriate social response. I love this show but there’s so many issues like this, not to mention Dexter just comes across a bit like an over the top edge lord sometimes when he very clearly shows and feels emotions yet says corny line likes “empty inside, just like me”. Personally them lines make me eye roll when they’re thrown in for the sake of reminding the viewer “look how edgy and different our protagonist is to a typical”. - great show nonetheless and went up into my face but I think most would agree to stop watching after Rita’s death
Imagine if Harry also adopted Brian? Wonder if Brian could have been thought the code. I kind of predicted he would be Dexter brother but I thought he'd be Dexter little brother. I wish he told Debra he killed Brian. He might be one person Debra was happy he killed.
@@KentPetersonmoneyidk no I don't really think so but like debra hes love for Dexter would maybe work out his humanity and as a brother we should be a good example for younger brother so I think no but he'll be better tyan without Dexter
@@KentPetersonmoneyThat was already answered. Brian was seven as harry explained it in one episode that the darkness had got deep in him. Most likely Brian would have killed Deb or Dexter when he reached the age of 10-12 Dexter himself killed the neighbours pet at around 12 Dexter was three when Harry adopted him and hoped he could get to him in time to save him, which lead him to give Dexter a code to live by
I always thought when watching this scene that Arthur was killing Rita. He probably knocked on the door with some story and got her to let him in. Or he was inside the house waiting for her or someone to come in. I think he was pulling up outside dexters house as Rita was unloading her things from the taxi. He saw and watched her and then found his window of opportunity. Them not showing this in the show left it all up to our imaginations and it sure pushed through my mind.
Dexter wanted to learn more about how to build or fake long lasting relationships but in the end he realised that the trinity killer had built his own family on control and violence
@@venomshakeXV yes, and then seeing this is the same way Rita died, makes you imagine her going through exactly that, and it makes you even crazier to know she went through it and what's worse, Harrison was actually there to witness all of it...
This is like the first moment I was like "you're caught boiiiii ohhhhh" But he never got caught, and I think the 7th season should have been the doakes standoff and it leads to his incarceration in 8 but they never had the balls, they just wanted to treat him like a full blown hero
I wasn't sure what was gonna happen in the season 7 finale when Deb was in that standoff between Dex and Laguerta in the shipping container. If she arrested Dex, it would've been interesting seeing his incarceration and maybe assisting Deb from behind bars with the Brain Surgeon. If she had killed Dexter instead of Laguerta, would Deb have gone through a similar change Dexter and Harrison did from being "born in blood?" Would she have to bear the code and continue Dex's work with him as the Dark Passenger? That, too, could've been interesting. But I was surprised they went the route they did with Deb shooting Laguerta and the improvised breakdown from Carpenter, where Deb was cradling Laguerta's lifeless body while Dex watched in disbelief and guilt. I remember seeing someone's fan theory for the season 8 finale, which I felt would've been a much better ending for Dexter, where after Deb was shot by Oliver Saxon, Vogel's son, we still have Deb die, but instead of Dex killing Oliver in "self defense," he captured Oliver, resetting his kill room at a different location. Then, in an unexpected turn, Dexter would've brought a grieving Quinn to the newly set up kill room for Saxon, essentially revealing himself as the Bay Harbor Butcher and giving him the choice whether to end Oliver's life with the knife or not; kinda passing the torch while Dexter would leave with Hannah and Harrison. That would've been so much more satisfying to me than the ridiculous Monty Python direction they gave us.
@@sebastianemond5313 Deb wouldn't have became dexter if she killed him lol she's a neurotypical and a sane one so would have just sent her off the rails more than she was when she killed laguerta, remember deb loved dexter and not just the sibling kind either she would have lost her shit if she killed him Show would have been over at that point tbh especially if doakes wasn't killed so early, the writers did some things that don't make sense and its what ruined the ending to a top tier show, doakes should have been kept alive as long as possible and not dumbed down, he had dexter at gunpoint but was still tricked lol no chance a real encounter would have saw dexter get cooked the moment he made any move and the book version of this show was different, doakes was a key player and killer himself but in the show the completely ditch that and just reduce him to a side villain kmt And deb wouldn't have taken so long to figure dex out either, they made her character will dumb and conveniently smart when it suited the angle, when her character probably would have really picked up on dexter around the same time doakes did, yes as sibling she would have been used to his weird personality but that doesn't mean she would have just brushed it off, she a cop and a good one there is no chance she would do that, a red flag to her is a red flag so dexter would have been caught sooner if they actually stuck to what's supposed to happen instead of trying to preserve his character Perfect ending would have seen dexter get caught by doakes for example with laguerta knowing and doakes chasing him as he is trying to escape town or something, they getting into a heated high chase shootout and both crash, doakes being army trained would have field advantage over dexter since dexter doesn't use guns like that so would be outmatched shooting at doakes, so maybe dexter tries to hide in forrest somewhere and catch doakes off gaurd, they have a fight once dexter can surprise him and stab doakes but not before being shot himself, so as both lie dying on the floor they could both just talk about why they kill and actually get along for once now they got each other lool Then someone sees them and calls it in, once help arrives both of them are dead on the scene and deb and rest is forced to look into it deeper and discover the truth, would have been better ending than cope crap we got lol
Doakes was never meant to last. That's the point. He was only two seasons max because they wanted the cat and mouse drama to fuel the show. Until they knew what they had as the show was very new for this kind of thing. Doakes did not know Dexter was a killer until season 2 & they felt it unrealistic that if he was going into a third season he'd then discover Dexter to be a murderer If this stretched beyond two or three seasons it would have been repetitive Doakes was missed but the show didn't really have good villains going forward. Except for the Trinity killer & Miguel It seems that the other villains were because of the shows declining numbers that they hired billy no name mates Issac was okay but they kept making him soft as the episodes went on, diluting his first impressions as an intimidating villain to absolute miserable sobre 😂
Doesn’t fit Brian’s character. He’s the text book serial killer. He recreates the murder that traumatized him. Dexter subconsciously recreates it, but since he has the code, him finding Hector and Santos acts as both vengeance and satiated his need to kill.
It's been a long time since I watched Dexter, but I certainly remember there being many off moments, and this scene is a good example. I feel like Dexter would absolutely know the "correct" response to Debra saying "I love you" would be to respond with "I love you" as well. Dexter's very first lines in the show are about how long he has been faking human emotions, and he talks up his incredibly proficient skills in faking them. This does not make any sense for Dexter to awkwardly say "thanks" in response to an "I love you". Debra would have told him this many times throughout their life, and Dexter would have undoubtedly failed many times to find the correct response until finally landing on what is the correct response to blend in perfectly. The writers are treating this like it's Dexter's first time ever being told "I love you". Harry would have drilled this into him for years so this is so just...off. Like I don't want to say it's bad writing, but it's just, well maybe just not written as well as it could have I'll say.
Even debs "fuck you" and what she understood by it would have been understood by dexter, at times you would think the writers wanted us to think deb and dexter just meet and not grown up together lool, he repeated what she said like he didn't understand what she meant by it when that's how deb talks, dex would have learned this and picked up on the difference especially since his faking would have started with her she is the only of age companion he would have had for a while probably years so it makes no sense that he doesn't understand her lingo either Like I was saying in other comment the writers dumb down their characters so people could understand them better, they assumed people where so dumb most wouldn't even understand that dexter has a personality disorder yet alone understand it to a deeper level so maybe that's why they dumbed them down like that
Yeah it was a good response. I don't think he even said it much before if at all as there's another scene in which he actually says he loves her, after she's hysterical And Dexter doesn't need to tell her everytime she says it as it's a brother and sister relationship. Deb would just put it down to men being men. Dexter only needs to fake that emotional response around people like Rita everytime. If you are married or had a gf and she tells you she loves you and you reply with "me too" she'll shoot you, game over..
The fact that he doesn't know how to "fake" the right response to what she's saying proves to me that he feels the same, but can't articulate it or say it out loud. He's confused not because of a lack of emotion, but because he's actually experiencing them. Him failing to say the words "I love you" out loud is a thing that happens more than once when he's clearly overwhelmed by his emotions - with Rita, with the kids... When he does say it, that's a good way to tell that he IS faking it.
Thanks, but I think the Final Episode of "Dexter: New Blood" should be DELETED and Officially DISAVOWED instead, so we could pretend there was no ending.
@@angeloliver7613 From a different perspective this would affect Dexter in a bad way if he was not sociopathic my point is she should have kept this to herself instead of telling her step-brother about this disturbing revelation.
Well deb i saw you have a break down trying on dresses with 2 black men that were dressed like white women. We all have things we dont want others to know about.
Someone will disagree with what I am about to say but I don't particularly care; dexter kind of was the good guy( in the beginning) and the writers should have kept him that way concerning how he stuck to his father's code of going after bad people only; he could have ignored that and went after anyone he wanted at any time, he could have given in to the temptation of killing the security guard his brother had laid before him at the abandoned hospital or his sister at their childhood home but he chose to follow his father's rules despite his own issues with him because deep down he really didn't want to hurt innocent people and season after season was showing him striving to be a better person and was achieving that slowly especially with lumen in season 5 and brother sam in season 6, Hannah in season 7 Was the worst character ever thought of for her corruptive influence is what brought down Dexter's Integrity and ruined him from being the lovable and honorable character we all know from the books and earlier seasons, the show's 2 endings was I feel very disappointing because they wrote it and his character all wrong for he wouldn't have given in to his grief over the loss of his sister to where he would abandon his own son, sure he would be at his lowest for a minute but he would pull himself together and remember the promise he made to deb of how he would always be there for harrison no matter what and you can't sit there and convince me that a small town sheriff like his girlfriend angela would be able to bust a notorious killer like Dexter based on circumstantial evidence not to mention the tranquilizer formula is not the same; he never used kenimine on his targets he used M99, The writers should have continued adapting his story from the novels for they had tons of potential of doing and successfully pulling off a reverse breaking bad and the blacklist with the character, turning him into his very own sophisticated concierge of crime fighting with a vast network of resources at his disposal to help him hunt those that escape justice while keeping him 2 steps ahead of the people he works for in law enforcement who feels and views himself as the "the bad guy" that doesn't believe he can change but doesn't want to disappoint his father, his best friend angel, his wife, kids and sister by giving up trying with case after case and ultimate showdowns with the main antagonist of the season pushing him further and further down the path of being a honorable, righteous and semi-heroic individual with new blood being his swan song where he sacrifices himself to save his son, his son's girlfriend along with his own girlfriend from Kurt Caldwell, his son and the billionaire character they had in there that was serving as a red herring, have it where he had a connection to kurt and was involved somehow in covering up his secret of being the runaway killer and Dexter dying ending their threat once and for all thus earning his redemption which brings his story arc full circle with him ultimately breaking good, As for doakes the most annoying thing about him was his hypocritical attitude towards dexter when he tried to get him in trouble for just doing his job as a blood spatter specialist after he in an act of revenge shot dead a former death squad operative who was unarmed and tried to cover it up with lies which put his partner angel batista in a very uncomfortable situation of possibly turning him in to be arrested by IA until he was given a pass by the government, It should have been written and adapted according to the way it worked out in the books where they worked together to take down a cartel leader and doakes was severely maimed by the main antagonist dr danco to where he lost his legs and arms and tongue as a consequence for killing in cold blood that death squad operative who just so happened to be related to the villain, dexter tries to save him despite him knowing his secret but fails, he goes into a comma and dies later on in the 3rd season but Is revered as a hero cop and posthumously awarded a medal for risking his life to bring down dr danko who gets framed by Dexter as the Bay Harbor butcher, the same scenario can be applied but altered to the character Maria Laguerta, have the consequences of her actions in season 2 befall her in season 7 by having esme come back for revenge on laguerta for ruining her career by using her secret connections to the criminal underworld to frame her and make her look as if she's losing her mind like what laguerta did to her by sleeping with her boyfriend and have it where Debra is the one that tries to save her but fails with season 8 being the final season that deals with the fallout of that event and Dexter being the loving caring brother that he's been towards her trying to help her overcome the grief of laguerta's death all while dealing with the reign of terror from the brain surgeon, I say all of that to say that joe from the show YOU doesn't hold a candle to dexter and that dexter would have that despicable man for breakfast, lunch and dinner to feed the very jackels he came from! 🔥😁😉👍
In a way I understand what you mean, however in a way he is naturally evil. He still has the urge to kill innocent people sometimes, but he doesn’t only because it’s against Harry’s code, and even sometimes he kills a few innocents in the later seasons.
@JustD826 That's why I say they should stick to the materials in the books; because in the books he never harmed Innocents only when he was tricked by a serial killer he was after, never did it on his own!
Lt. LaGuerta put her on detail down in the records dept, where she found the records of her fathers past - in the reports it was all laid out for her to read.
access to the police records database when she made LT she got access the father was a cop that killed killers who fell thru the cracks that's why dexter does it
@@Aaron-zu3xn Harry never killed anyone, he used his hatred from seeing such criminals slip through cracks to train dexter to only kill them since at the time he knew dexter was a serial killer in the making so knew he had to control it somehow or overwise dexter would have just grown out of control and became a killer harry hated, harry technically hated what he was anyway but was wise on the topic enough to know dexter wasn't going to ever change which is why he came up with the code
Harry did kill a guy during line of duty he speaks to Dexter about it in a episode where he describes it has "not a pleasant experience"@@Local-Vibes4444
Brilliant show! However, the names of some characters are pretty weird. Season 3, for example. A black guy named Anton. C'mon, really? I know Anton as a blonde guy who can play the accordion really good. He lives in Tyrol, Austria and he wears a Lederhosen.
Deb: "I love you..."
Dex: "I'm so thankful"
Hahaha
Deb would have told Dexter many times during their lives "I love you", as would many other family. There's no doubt Dexter responded with awkward "thank you" or even "....oh ok". He would certainly know by now the "correct" response is to return the "I love you". I don't want to say it's necessarily bad writing, but maybe it could have been handled a bit better since this really doesn't make much sense.
It would make sense if Dexter hadn't ever been told "I love you" by family or maybe a girlfriend. Then it would make perfect sense Dexter would only have awkward responses to give since he doesn't feel these things. He's able to perfectly fake emotions most of the time, but every now and then I feel like the writers just forget his character.
@@finchvalor Exactly and it was weird things like this that got him caught out by people who didn't by into his act, they worked too hard to portray cold side and maybe thought we was too stupid to notice the difference if they did things that actually made sense like what you said for example since that's how real psychopaths and sociopaths would think, they rely only on their logic especially psychopaths that can't feel anything, at least a sociopath like dexter could feel something even if it wasn't much compared to neurotypical people so would better understand how to manipulate people around him, so he would have picked up on things like this faster too, even deb too if she kept saying she loved him and his response was always robotic eventually she would notice that as a ref flag as most people would
So not only did they dumb down dexter character so all viewers could pick up on it, they dumbed down deb too just so it could all work and make sense, only times they didn't dumb it down was for characters they got rid of early like doakes who really should have been kept for longer in the book he is a key character in dexter life they got rid of him too early and dumbed his character down too, in a way I don't blame them since most people don't actually understand how personality disorders work and even what they are especially back then, tbh I didn't know what a psychopath was back then either lol so obviously they did it so we can still see what's wrong but some of us ain't slow like that but they have to appeal to everyone so makes sense
Just wish they was more tactical about it lool they could have had dex fake "I love you" as in deb case he would actually be telling the truth, you can tell even early on in the show he actually loves deb and couldn't or wouldn't harm her like that, which isn't typical for psychopath and is another reason why I believe dexter isn't a psychopath he is a sociopath, his brother is a psychopath and a better example of it, dexter was never on board with killing deb due to his very real love for her, something brain can't actually feel, dexter knew his brother was far more messed up than he was, if he was a real psychopath odds are he could still go through with killing deb since he wouldn't be able to feel any real love for her just familiarity but its clear he loves her so writers didn't need to dumb that down
Yeah it was a good response. I don't think he even said it much before if at all as there's another scene in which he actually says he loves her, after she's hysterical
And Dexter doesn't need to tell her everytime she says it as it's a brother and sister relationship. Deb would just put it down to men being men. Dexter only needs to fake that emotional response around people like Rita
@@finchvalorjust to add further to what you’ve already described very well. This conversation also makes less sense when you realise Dexter has probably heard countless people exchange them exact sentiments across his life “I love you” , “I love you too”. This scene would have played out so much better if he said thank you in his head yet said I love you too out loud to deb. This change would make the scene so much more realistic but also colder. In this scene Dex just comes across a little autistic when he says thank you yet if they had that line remain as monologue it would portray Dex as more cold and calculating. Having his initial relief flood his mind yet remaining detached enough emotionally to give the appropriate social response.
I love this show but there’s so many issues like this, not to mention Dexter just comes across a bit like an over the top edge lord sometimes when he very clearly shows and feels emotions yet says corny line likes “empty inside, just like me”. Personally them lines make me eye roll when they’re thrown in for the sake of reminding the viewer “look how edgy and different our protagonist is to a typical”. - great show nonetheless and went up into my face but I think most would agree to stop watching after Rita’s death
Deb :” Brian Moser the ice truck killer is your brother…”
Dex: “3 seasons late sis…”
She was so behind..Doakes was WAY SMARTER than every cop on this show.
Imagine if Harry also adopted Brian? Wonder if Brian could have been thought the code. I kind of predicted he would be Dexter brother but I thought he'd be Dexter little brother. I wish he told Debra he killed Brian. He might be one person Debra was happy he killed.
@@KentPetersonmoneyidk no I don't really think so but like debra hes love for Dexter would maybe work out his humanity and as a brother we should be a good example for younger brother so I think no but he'll be better tyan without Dexter
@@KentPetersonmoneyThat was already answered. Brian was seven as harry explained it in one episode that the darkness had got deep in him. Most likely Brian would have killed Deb or Dexter when he reached the age of 10-12
Dexter himself killed the neighbours pet at around 12
Dexter was three when Harry adopted him and hoped he could get to him in time to save him, which lead him to give Dexter a code to live by
I always thought when watching this scene that Arthur was killing Rita. He probably knocked on the door with some story and got her to let him in. Or he was inside the house waiting for her or someone to come in. I think he was pulling up outside dexters house as Rita was unloading her things from the taxi. He saw and watched her and then found his window of opportunity. Them not showing this in the show left it all up to our imaginations and it sure pushed through my mind.
I hate it because it just reminds me of the first kill S4 shows Trinity commit with the teen. Horrific scene that was
@@venomshakeXVthats all to reinforce how dexter fucked everything up
Dexter wanted to learn more about how to build or fake long lasting relationships but in the end he realised that the trinity killer had built his own family on control and violence
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yes, and then seeing this is the same way Rita died, makes you imagine her going through exactly that, and it makes you even crazier to know she went through it and what's worse, Harrison was actually there to witness all of it...
I thought because they didn’t show anything it wasn’t actually the trinity killer. The neighbour Rita cheated on Dexter with was sus.
I feel like this scene could have had a larger impact but that’s just me
How though?
I agree, would be a good starting point for Deb to start getting suspicious of Dexter and have her figure it out rather than just walk in on him
Yea, a full season of her uncovering this secret and this was all the payoff.
But hey at least this scene ain't that BAD compared to the ending 😂
Same here. Though you could justify the garbage acting with Dexter not being familiar with humanity.
Damn he's practically gloating about it 😂
"She knows who I am."
"It's over"
This is like the first moment I was like "you're caught boiiiii ohhhhh"
But he never got caught, and I think the 7th season should have been the doakes standoff and it leads to his incarceration in 8 but they never had the balls, they just wanted to treat him like a full blown hero
I did want to see the reaction to him being exposed....
I wasn't sure what was gonna happen in the season 7 finale when Deb was in that standoff between Dex and Laguerta in the shipping container. If she arrested Dex, it would've been interesting seeing his incarceration and maybe assisting Deb from behind bars with the Brain Surgeon. If she had killed Dexter instead of Laguerta, would Deb have gone through a similar change Dexter and Harrison did from being "born in blood?" Would she have to bear the code and continue Dex's work with him as the Dark Passenger? That, too, could've been interesting. But I was surprised they went the route they did with Deb shooting Laguerta and the improvised breakdown from Carpenter, where Deb was cradling Laguerta's lifeless body while Dex watched in disbelief and guilt.
I remember seeing someone's fan theory for the season 8 finale, which I felt would've been a much better ending for Dexter, where after Deb was shot by Oliver Saxon, Vogel's son, we still have Deb die, but instead of Dex killing Oliver in "self defense," he captured Oliver, resetting his kill room at a different location. Then, in an unexpected turn, Dexter would've brought a grieving Quinn to the newly set up kill room for Saxon, essentially revealing himself as the Bay Harbor Butcher and giving him the choice whether to end Oliver's life with the knife or not; kinda passing the torch while Dexter would leave with Hannah and Harrison. That would've been so much more satisfying to me than the ridiculous Monty Python direction they gave us.
@@sebastianemond5313 Deb wouldn't have became dexter if she killed him lol she's a neurotypical and a sane one so would have just sent her off the rails more than she was when she killed laguerta, remember deb loved dexter and not just the sibling kind either she would have lost her shit if she killed him
Show would have been over at that point tbh especially if doakes wasn't killed so early, the writers did some things that don't make sense and its what ruined the ending to a top tier show, doakes should have been kept alive as long as possible and not dumbed down, he had dexter at gunpoint but was still tricked lol no chance a real encounter would have saw dexter get cooked the moment he made any move and the book version of this show was different, doakes was a key player and killer himself but in the show the completely ditch that and just reduce him to a side villain kmt
And deb wouldn't have taken so long to figure dex out either, they made her character will dumb and conveniently smart when it suited the angle, when her character probably would have really picked up on dexter around the same time doakes did, yes as sibling she would have been used to his weird personality but that doesn't mean she would have just brushed it off, she a cop and a good one there is no chance she would do that, a red flag to her is a red flag so dexter would have been caught sooner if they actually stuck to what's supposed to happen instead of trying to preserve his character
Perfect ending would have seen dexter get caught by doakes for example with laguerta knowing and doakes chasing him as he is trying to escape town or something, they getting into a heated high chase shootout and both crash, doakes being army trained would have field advantage over dexter since dexter doesn't use guns like that so would be outmatched shooting at doakes, so maybe dexter tries to hide in forrest somewhere and catch doakes off gaurd, they have a fight once dexter can surprise him and stab doakes but not before being shot himself, so as both lie dying on the floor they could both just talk about why they kill and actually get along for once now they got each other lool
Then someone sees them and calls it in, once help arrives both of them are dead on the scene and deb and rest is forced to look into it deeper and discover the truth, would have been better ending than cope crap we got lol
The whole point is to root for him
Doakes was never meant to last. That's the point. He was only two seasons max because they wanted the cat and mouse drama to fuel the show. Until they knew what they had as the show was very new for this kind of thing. Doakes did not know Dexter was a killer until season 2 & they felt it unrealistic that if he was going into a third season he'd then discover Dexter to be a murderer
If this stretched beyond two or three seasons it would have been repetitive
Doakes was missed but the show didn't really have good villains going forward. Except for the Trinity killer & Miguel
It seems that the other villains were because of the shows declining numbers that they hired billy no name mates
Issac was okay but they kept making him soft as the episodes went on, diluting his first impressions as an intimidating villain to absolute miserable sobre 😂
I really wish Brian could have been the one who got revenge for his mother and kill Hector and santos
Kinda but he's a psychopath and wouldn't of been driven by revenge
Doesn’t fit Brian’s character. He’s the text book serial killer. He recreates the murder that traumatized him. Dexter subconsciously recreates it, but since he has the code, him finding Hector and Santos acts as both vengeance and satiated his need to kill.
@@axelfond8317nah brain hated deb with a passion, he's definitely the type to want to make them die since he cared about dexter and his mother
@@Graycent7326 Not really. He wanted Dexter to be free of his burden. He needed Dexter to embrace his true self.
Deb deserved so much better.
It's been a long time since I watched Dexter, but I certainly remember there being many off moments, and this scene is a good example. I feel like Dexter would absolutely know the "correct" response to Debra saying "I love you" would be to respond with "I love you" as well. Dexter's very first lines in the show are about how long he has been faking human emotions, and he talks up his incredibly proficient skills in faking them. This does not make any sense for Dexter to awkwardly say "thanks" in response to an "I love you".
Debra would have told him this many times throughout their life, and Dexter would have undoubtedly failed many times to find the correct response until finally landing on what is the correct response to blend in perfectly. The writers are treating this like it's Dexter's first time ever being told "I love you". Harry would have drilled this into him for years so this is so just...off. Like I don't want to say it's bad writing, but it's just, well maybe just not written as well as it could have I'll say.
Even debs "fuck you" and what she understood by it would have been understood by dexter, at times you would think the writers wanted us to think deb and dexter just meet and not grown up together lool, he repeated what she said like he didn't understand what she meant by it when that's how deb talks, dex would have learned this and picked up on the difference especially since his faking would have started with her she is the only of age companion he would have had for a while probably years so it makes no sense that he doesn't understand her lingo either
Like I was saying in other comment the writers dumb down their characters so people could understand them better, they assumed people where so dumb most wouldn't even understand that dexter has a personality disorder yet alone understand it to a deeper level so maybe that's why they dumbed them down like that
yeah youre right
Yeah it was a good response. I don't think he even said it much before if at all as there's another scene in which he actually says he loves her, after she's hysterical
And Dexter doesn't need to tell her everytime she says it as it's a brother and sister relationship. Deb would just put it down to men being men. Dexter only needs to fake that emotional response around people like Rita everytime. If you are married or had a gf and she tells you she loves you and you reply with "me too" she'll shoot you, game over..
The fact that he doesn't know how to "fake" the right response to what she's saying proves to me that he feels the same, but can't articulate it or say it out loud. He's confused not because of a lack of emotion, but because he's actually experiencing them. Him failing to say the words "I love you" out loud is a thing that happens more than once when he's clearly overwhelmed by his emotions - with Rita, with the kids... When he does say it, that's a good way to tell that he IS faking it.
Fix Dexter New Blood ending please
Nah. It could only get worst.
Thanks, but I think the Final Episode of "Dexter: New Blood" should be DELETED and Officially DISAVOWED instead, so we could pretend there was no ending.
First fix season 8 ending
Yes let them say Dexter faked his own death 😊
You know you're talking to a TH-cam channel right? What the hell do you expect a YT channel to do?
And this is a prime example of why Deb can't be trusted with secrets.
? She only told the one person who should know the secret, the affected person - Dexter.
@@angeloliver7613 From a different perspective this would affect Dexter in a bad way if he was not sociopathic my point is she should have kept this to herself instead of telling her step-brother about this disturbing revelation.
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What episode was this?
4x12 I think
which episode is this?
What episode is this I forgot
season 4 episode 12
No, it’s over!
😊
its over she knows
Well deb i saw you have a break down trying on dresses with 2 black men that were dressed like white women. We all have things we dont want others to know about.
What? Scene?
@ShortContent853 the movie white chicks she is one of the friends and has a breakdown trying on jeans because she thinks she's fat 🤣
😂
Someone will disagree with what I am about to say but I don't particularly care; dexter kind of was the good guy( in the beginning) and the writers should have kept him that way concerning how he stuck to his father's code of going after bad people only; he could have ignored that and went after anyone he wanted at any time, he could have given in to the temptation of killing the security guard his brother had laid before him at the abandoned hospital or his sister at their childhood home but he chose to follow his father's rules despite his own issues with him because deep down he really didn't want to hurt innocent people and season after season was showing him striving to be a better person and was achieving that slowly especially with lumen in season 5 and brother sam in season 6, Hannah in season 7 Was the worst character ever thought of for her corruptive influence is what brought down Dexter's Integrity and ruined him from being the lovable and honorable character we all know from the books and earlier seasons,
the show's 2 endings was I feel very disappointing because they wrote it and his character all wrong for he wouldn't have given in to his grief over the loss of his sister to where he would abandon his own son, sure he would be at his lowest for a minute but he would pull himself together and remember the promise he made to deb of how he would always be there for harrison no matter what and you can't sit there and convince me that a small town sheriff like his girlfriend angela would be able to bust a notorious killer like Dexter based on circumstantial evidence not to mention the tranquilizer formula is not the same; he never used kenimine on his targets he used M99,
The writers should have continued adapting his story from the novels for they had tons of potential of doing and successfully pulling off a reverse breaking bad and the blacklist with the character, turning him into his very own sophisticated concierge of crime fighting with a vast network of resources at his disposal to help him hunt those that escape justice while keeping him 2 steps ahead of the people he works for in law enforcement who feels and views himself as the "the bad guy" that doesn't believe he can change but doesn't want to disappoint his father, his best friend angel, his wife, kids and sister by giving up trying with case after case and ultimate showdowns with the main antagonist of the season pushing him further and further down the path of being a honorable, righteous and semi-heroic individual with new blood being his swan song where he sacrifices himself to save his son, his son's girlfriend along with his own girlfriend from Kurt Caldwell, his son and the billionaire character they had in there that was serving as a red herring, have it where he had a connection to kurt and was involved somehow in covering up his secret of being the runaway killer and Dexter dying ending their threat once and for all thus earning his redemption which brings his story arc full circle with him ultimately breaking good,
As for doakes the most annoying thing about him was his hypocritical attitude towards dexter when he tried to get him in trouble for just doing his job as a blood spatter specialist after he in an act of revenge shot dead a former death squad operative who was unarmed and tried to cover it up with lies which put his partner angel batista in a very uncomfortable situation of possibly turning him in to be arrested by IA until he was given a pass by the government,
It should have been written and adapted according to the way it worked out in the books where they worked together to take down a cartel leader and doakes was severely maimed by the main antagonist dr danco to where he lost his legs and arms and tongue as a consequence for killing in cold blood that death squad operative who just so happened to be related to the villain, dexter tries to save him despite him knowing his secret but fails, he goes into a comma and dies later on in the 3rd season but Is revered as a hero cop and posthumously awarded a medal for risking his life to bring down dr danko who gets framed by Dexter as the Bay Harbor butcher,
the same scenario can be applied but altered to the character Maria Laguerta, have the consequences of her actions in season 2 befall her in season 7 by having esme come back for revenge on laguerta for ruining her career by using her secret connections to the criminal underworld to frame her and make her look as if she's losing her mind like what laguerta did to her by sleeping with her boyfriend and have it where Debra is the one that tries to save her but fails with season 8 being the final season that deals with the fallout of that event and Dexter being the loving caring brother that he's been towards her trying to help her overcome the grief of laguerta's death all while dealing with the reign of terror from the brain surgeon, I say all of that to say that joe from the show YOU doesn't hold a candle to dexter and that dexter would have that despicable man for breakfast, lunch and dinner to feed the very jackels he came from! 🔥😁😉👍
In a way I understand what you mean, however in a way he is naturally evil. He still has the urge to kill innocent people sometimes, but he doesn’t only because it’s against Harry’s code, and even sometimes he kills a few innocents in the later seasons.
Also one more thing. He genuinely gets enjoyment from killing other people even if it is other serial killers.
@JustD826 That's why I say they should stick to the materials in the books; because in the books he never harmed Innocents only when he was tricked by a serial killer he was after, never did it on his own!
@@vmaninc.761 understandable. Have a good day.
@@JustD826 same to you! 💯😁😉👍🏻
How did she even know the truth about Dexter? Did her father told her about him?
Lt. LaGuerta put her on detail down in the records dept, where she found the records of her fathers past - in the reports it was all laid out for her to read.
access to the police records database when she made LT she got access
the father was a cop that killed killers who fell thru the cracks that's why dexter does it
@@Aaron-zu3xn Harry never killed anyone, he used his hatred from seeing such criminals slip through cracks to train dexter to only kill them since at the time he knew dexter was a serial killer in the making so knew he had to control it somehow or overwise dexter would have just grown out of control and became a killer harry hated, harry technically hated what he was anyway but was wise on the topic enough to know dexter wasn't going to ever change which is why he came up with the code
Harry did kill a guy during line of duty he speaks to Dexter about it in a episode where he describes it has "not a pleasant experience"@@Local-Vibes4444
Sorry but this is shit writing. A whole season of work just for this copout where he acts surprised doesn’t reveal a damn thing? Is this just me?
Watching the series for a 2nd time. I cannot bloody stand Deb.
Deb is amazing. Maybe the only actual "real" character in the whole show
Why do men always hate female characters that aren't just fanservice (like Rita and Lila)?
This pisses me off bruh bs copout
Brilliant show! However, the names of some characters are pretty weird. Season 3, for example. A black guy named Anton. C'mon, really? I know Anton as a blonde guy who can play the accordion really good. He lives in Tyrol, Austria and he wears a Lederhosen.
I don't understand why you're fixating on a mans name. Are you implying his name is stereotypical?
I think that’s just a you problem😭 sounds like some racial stereotyping