User blog:Nightslayer2/Changes I Would Make To Dexter

Season 1 was awesome. Season 2 was great. Season 3 was above average. Season 4 was close to perfection. Season 5 was okay. Season 6 tricked everyone into believing that Gellar was the main antagonist when all this time it was Travis Marshall. Season 7 was awesome and Ray Stevenson is a good actor. Season 8's ending was garbage. I wrote down some changes I would make while borrowing stuff from the novels.

Season 1: There is nothing I would change about the first season. It was good except that Dr. Danco is teased as the main villian for the second season.

Season 2: It would be like Dearly Devoted Dexter with Dr. Danco as the main villain. His real name is Martin Henker and he served in Special Forces along with Doakes. During a covert operation in El Salvador, he was turned over to the enemy in exchange for several prisoners. Henker was eventually released and goes to Miami looking for revenge on his former comrades. After killing an FBI agent from Washington named Daniel Chester Burdett, Agent Lundy & The FBI come to Miami to investigate. Everything else is the same with Lundy recuriting people into his task force and falling in love with Deb. Everything else is the same with Dexter pretending to be an addict to fool Doakes and Doakes figuring out his secret. Dexter imprisons Doakes in the cabin and frames Doakes for being Dr. Danco. Henker tries to kill Dexter thinking he knows where Doakes is, however, Henker gets killed by Deb with two hots to the chest upon entering. Lila appears in it and everything is the same except that Doakes lives when she tries to kill him. Dexter kills Lila for nearly burning Astor and Cody alive. Dexter also wonders if Doakes has a dark passenger of his own and we get to see flashbacks of Doakes' time in Special Forces. Speaking of Doakes, after being saved by Dexter, they become allies and his name gets cleared. Deb leaves Miami to be with Lundy.

Season 3: Everything else is the same except that Miguel forms an alliance with Dexter and Doakes. Doakes becomes suspicious of Miguel and goes to Hati to have his former  colleague from Special Forces examine the blood on Freebo's blanket that Miguel gave to Dexter. The blood is identified to have come from a pig and Doakes tells Dexter about it. Dexter then kills Miguel. Dexter and Doakes both convince Laguerta, who wants to expose Miguel for Ellen Wolf's death, to keep quiet about it since it could damage the Cuban community and the Prados. Dexter and Rita both get married in the end. Dexter kills the Skinner in time for his wedding with Rita, which Deb and Lundy show up to. Because of Deb's absence from Miami Metro, she is replaced by Quinn, who is partnered by Batista. Batista meets Quinn's C.I Anton Briggs when investigating the Skinner and learns that Quinn never had Anton registered as an informant despite what Anton thought. The chemistry between Quinn and Batista is terrific and I that would be start.

Season 4: Everything is the same except Dexter doesn't tell Doakes about his undercover work in Mitchell's family. Rita dies in the end.

Season 5: Dexter and Lumen work together to stop a group of rapists led by Robert Chase, whose real name is Eugene Greer. Doakes understands Dexter's intentions which is why he forgives him for not telling anyone about Mitchell. However, Quinn becomes suspicious and hires Liddy to investigate Dexter while going into a relationship with Deb. Deb resigns from the FBI since she blames them for Lundy's death and goes back to working for Miami Metro. Doakes is the one who subdues Chase after Dexter stabs him in the foot with a knife. Dexter and Doakes then allow Lumen to kill him.

Season 6: Isaak hunts down Dexter for killing his lover Viktor. Everything is like in season 7 except Laguerta doesn't investigate Dexter and that the deal with the Vacation Murders. Doakes, on the other hand, becomes smitten with a stripper named Nadia unlike Quinn. Doakes is then forced to do unethical things for Sirko in order to protect Nadia. However, Batista helps him out. After Doakes assists Dexter and Isaak in assassinating members of the Koshka Bratva who turn against Isaak, he accepts a high-paying security job and leaves with Nadia, whom he got pregnant. Debra becomes a lieutenant instead of Doakes which makes Doakes upset. Speaking of Isaak, he lives in the end and goes someplace else to retire. Hannah McKay is also introduced and everything's the same with her and Dexter.

Season 7: Dexter goes after Travis Marshall. Deputy Chief Matthews commits suicide since he was a part of the cult and wanted out until Travis threatened to kill Dexter and Debra. Dexter and Doakes work together to stop Travis when Travis makes them think Gellar is responsible. Travis attempts to kill Doakes' son (not Harrison) and Dexter rescues him which makes Doakes internally grateful. Debra walks in on Dexter killing Travis at the church. Laguerta gets killed by Marshall.

Season 8: Everything remains the same except for the ending where Dexter, after faking his own death, goes out to kill criminals saying to himself as the series ends: "Tonight Is The Night". Batista then develops a darkness when Saxon kills his own sister which is why he allows Dexter to kill Saxon.