Saul was way more influential in BB that we ever knew, and the original show is better for it in retrospect. That alone is a clear awesome payoff for any prequel. I dont even care how it all wraps up next week, in terms off specifics. Just excited. 

Because she didn’t want him to be in the middle of the massive oncoming media circus - and because the town would turn on him after learning his father killed Coach Logan.

We didn’t even get to see Batista wear a hat this season.

The only ending that show (and Harrison) deserved was Dexter accepting responsibility for his actions, spilling everything (The Code, etc), and Batista hauling his ass back to Miami.

She put it together a little too easily, no question, but I do think she had a legitimate advantage over Miami PD in that she knew “Jim” had run from Miami and faked his own death, which immediately raises suspicion. Then the coincidence of the similar murders/needle incidents in her own town and the podcast raising…

Horrible. Phillips decides on what coulda been an interesting conclusion and then bumbles and stumbles to concoct a season of narrative holes and finale hurried and inane. Too many to list but, Angela’s many actions of contradictions leaves her as a lazy writer’s plot device, used whenever needed to move the story.…

• I have to admit, for all the shit I’ve talked about Batista, I actually wanted more Batista here. It was less than ideal to tease that interrogation and not deliver it.

You know Clyde Phillips didn’t write the original ending, right? That was Scott Buck. All the way.

I didn’t like new blood mostly because by the last episode they managed to rewind all the growth that Dexter had till season 8.He says he has never felt love in the last episode of new blood but considering what he says in the last episode of season 8 this is a contradiction.he said before iwanted to feel how others…

The ideas were the great, but the execution felt rushed. And the fact that Dexter himself was in a rush to escape in those final scenes didn’t help matters. It was supposed to give it urgency, but it all just went too fast to land properly.

The stuff with Harrison and Dexter was good. But everything involving Angela? Woof.

Let me preface this by saying that I am in the absolute smallest of minorities in that I loved the original Dexter ending. I get that some of the points were preposterous, but I do genuinely believe that for the story they were telling over the years it was a perfect ending for the character. As we come to realize…

So if Angela was going to take responsibility for shooting Dexter (she was calling in an officer-involved shooting), why did Harrison have to leave? 

CODY AND ASTER NEVER HAPPENED FONT YOU FARE BRING THEIR NAME UP OR A SCARY SERIAL KILLER WILL SCARE YOU

I think having Dexter arrested would have been better. Having Harrison watch everything his dad did over the last couple of episodes really showed how Dexter’s life was sad and self-serving. As others have mentioned, having Harrison kill Dexter did not really end any sort of cycle of violence, if anything, it…

When it was showing Harrison’s face aiming at Dexter and we heard a shot I half expected him to have a shocked face and we would see Angela shot Dexter first so Harrison didn’t have to. For most of the season I also expected a reveal that Harrison killed Annah and she didn’t really die of cancer.

Especially since all the bad stuff happened in the last minutes of the last episode. It was way too sudden. I wonder if they had to cut things short because of that damn virus.

I’m still wondering how Dexter was getting around so well after having been shot in the leg.

But isn’t the point of ending the show with Dexter’s letter to Hannah in the front seat of Harrison’s car to let Harrison off the hook for any guilt over the murder? The letter basically reads, “Please kill me.” And the show has been suggesting that killing Dexter is the authentic way to follow the code. The superhero…

Man, I sure wish there was an “Experts” version of these recaps that took the existence of the comic into account.