Talk:Season Eight/@comment-134.3.165.61-20130610011549/@comment-757765-20130610025156

You're leaving out some factors there, buddy. Yeah, all of those endings sound bad by themselves, but they won't be by themselves. There'll be something leading up to them. What'll cause him to get caught? What'll push him to suicide? Who or what will cause his death? What will he do knowing he's free and not going to get caught?

Of those endings, I gotta say the best would be him not getting caught. Yeah, it's very unrealistic, and he does deserve to be caught given recent actions, but it would still be a better option than those others. I'm personally hoping the series ends with things going back to normal, so to speak. Debra either dies, goes to prison, something happens to make her forget, or she just learns to accept the passenger. Harrison is sent away to live with his grandparents, or something happens to make Dexter lose him. It'll all be like it was prior to the first season - Dexter's just an average joe, who happens to kill people.

The mask is back to being just that, the mask. The truth is, Dexter is not human. People say him constantly going back on lessons he learned is lazy writing, and maybe it is, but I see it as truthful writing, too. He keeps relearning these lessons, because it's impossible for them to stick with him. The reason he even thinks he learns them is because he's trying to convince himself he's something he's not. I hope that the series ends with him realizing, "I'm not human. I never will be, no matter how hard I try to, so I might as well keep killing until something stops me."

The writers of this show did something last season that made me realize Dexter can't be normal. Remember the hospital scene? The one that pissed off so many fans when Dexter told Hannah "I've only been scared twice. Once when I was a child and saw my mother die, and when I thought I'd never see you again." In truth, that was probably lazy writing that omitted Debra being kidnapped, Rita dying, and Harrison being kidnapped. But it's realistic. Dexter was only worried those times because he thought he should have been. The same applies to Hannah's situation. If she had died, he would've killed the people responsible, and moved on, simple as that.

In short, the best way to end the show is by things going back to normal, like they were prior to the show. Nobody knows Dexter's secret, he isn't a "family man", and he keeps killing until he dies or is caught... Kinda like what Arthur Mitchell did, huh? Boy, that'd be poetic. That's also a possible ending, too, since the whole reason he even started to become human was his brother, if you think about it. He didn't really love Rita, he just used her as part of his mask, and eventually she just became a steady fuck. Hell, he doesn't even love Harrison. He dumps the kid on a babysitter all the time so he can go out killing, and as noted before, his kidnapping apparently doesn't leave much of an impact. Him not killing Debra was because he thought he owed it to Harry, and like he said, "If I could love anyone, I'm sure it would be Debra", or something along those lines.

Unfortunately, it's probably going to end with his death or capture, to give off that whole "moral message". Which is bullshit, if you ask me, since I watch this show specifically to get away from realism, to root for what is seen for the bad guy. But oh well. Such is life.