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DEXTER: NEW BLOOD
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How do mess up Dexter twice?!!??? Universally, everybody hated the final Dexter Season 8. No one was satisified with the last season, especially the “Lumberjack” ending. After ten years, Showtime said they were going to go to fix all that by introducing a brand new series: Dexter: New Blood. Guess what? They blew it again. This new ending sucked.
Overall, New Blood was a good, solid season. I had some problems with it, but it would have been forgiven, if they stick to the landing. Unfortunately, the ending wasn’t satisfying and it ultimately made Dexter an idiot.
I personally believe that the show writers did not understand Dexter.
There were so many problems with Dexter, the reason why Dexter kills is that he has a Dark Passenger. He is compell to kill… so when his foster father, Harry, saw this darkness in him, he gave Dexter a code. There’s are a few rules, but the main ones you should take away from this is, “Don’t Get Caught” and “Never Kill an Innocent”. The thing is, Dexter has to kill, so I don’t buy it that Dexter, hiding in a small town in New York, for ten years, has never killed anyone in all that time. It doesn’t make any sense at all.
The writers of Dexter: New Blood didn’t get Dexter’s character. Dexter is now killing out of revenge, and he’ll kill an innocent cop to break out of jail. That doesn’t make sense at all.
Then the ending is absolute garbage.
I thought I read somewhere that Showtime wants to give Harrison (Dexter’s son) his own TV show. I’m certainly not going to watch it. Horrible.
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How do mess up Dexter twice?!!??? Universally, everybody hated the final Dexter Season 8. No one was satisified with the last season, especially the “Lumberjack” ending. After ten years, Showtime said they were going to go to fix all that by introducing a brand new series: Dexter: New Blood. Guess what? They blew it again. This new ending sucked.
Overall, New Blood was a good, solid season. I had some problems with it, but it would have been forgiven, if they stick to the landing. Unfortunately, the ending wasn’t satisfying and it ultimately made Dexter an idiot.
I personally believe that the show writers did not understand Dexter.
There were so many problems with Dexter, the reason why Dexter kills is that he has a Dark Passenger. He is compell to kill… so when his foster father, Harry, saw this darkness in him, he gave Dexter a code. There’s are a few rules, but the main ones you should take away from this is, “Don’t Get Caught” and “Never Kill an Innocent”. The thing is, Dexter has to kill, so I don’t buy it that Dexter, hiding in a small town in New York, for ten years, has never killed anyone in all that time. It doesn’t make any sense at all.
The writers of Dexter: New Blood didn’t get Dexter’s character. Dexter is now killing out of revenge, and he’ll kill an innocent cop to break out of jail. That doesn’t make sense at all.
Then the ending is absolute garbage.
I thought I read somewhere that Showtime wants to give Harrison (Dexter’s son) his own TV show. I’m certainly not going to watch it. Horrible.
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THE EXPANSE
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It is the six (and final) season for the Sci-Fi epic The Expanse. If you have Amazon Prime, which I have through a family account, you can watch the show for free.
Our team seemed weary, spending a lot of time in space hunting down Marcos’ men. Plus, morale is bad, because they lost pilot Alex Kamal last season. What’s strange is that his death had nothing to do with the story, it’s because the writers had to take him out due to some real-life sexual misconduct from the actor.
So this season, we have one-less core member, now Captain James Holden, engineer Naomi Nagata, and mechanic (and badass brute) Amos Burton. The crew is joined by Clarissa “Peaches” Mao, apprentice mechanic and, as of, episode two, Martian Marine Bobbie Draper . I still feel that the crew is missing a pilot for the Rocinante, especially during that space chase where they had Holden manning the ship and then joining the boarding crew.
Unfortunately, for the final season, it didn’t quite feel like a conclusion. The final defeat of Maros felt unsatisfying. I mean, they just made him vanish in the ring? I don’t think he’s actually dead… but we’ll never know, since we aren’t get any more Expanse.
The other big problem with the final season, is the stupid girl and space dogs that opens each episode. First of all, the last season only had six episodes, because Amazon refused to pay for any more. Instead of telling the story in those six episodes, they devoted like 20 minutes to this space dog story that went nowhere. Book readers were delighted, but for the show viewers, I felt like it was a giant waste of time.
I also wished that they would’ve just killed off characters, knowing it’s the final season. I know book readers probably won’t like it, but it would make sense to end Clarissa Mao (she found out she was going to die anyway), or have Bobbie Draper die as she takes out the giant cannon.
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It is the six (and final) season for the Sci-Fi epic The Expanse. If you have Amazon Prime, which I have through a family account, you can watch the show for free.
Our team seemed weary, spending a lot of time in space hunting down Marcos’ men. Plus, morale is bad, because they lost pilot Alex Kamal last season. What’s strange is that his death had nothing to do with the story, it’s because the writers had to take him out due to some real-life sexual misconduct from the actor.
So this season, we have one-less core member, now Captain James Holden, engineer Naomi Nagata, and mechanic (and badass brute) Amos Burton. The crew is joined by Clarissa “Peaches” Mao, apprentice mechanic and, as of, episode two, Martian Marine Bobbie Draper . I still feel that the crew is missing a pilot for the Rocinante, especially during that space chase where they had Holden manning the ship and then joining the boarding crew.
Unfortunately, for the final season, it didn’t quite feel like a conclusion. The final defeat of Maros felt unsatisfying. I mean, they just made him vanish in the ring? I don’t think he’s actually dead… but we’ll never know, since we aren’t get any more Expanse.
The other big problem with the final season, is the stupid girl and space dogs that opens each episode. First of all, the last season only had six episodes, because Amazon refused to pay for any more. Instead of telling the story in those six episodes, they devoted like 20 minutes to this space dog story that went nowhere. Book readers were delighted, but for the show viewers, I felt like it was a giant waste of time.
I also wished that they would’ve just killed off characters, knowing it’s the final season. I know book readers probably won’t like it, but it would make sense to end Clarissa Mao (she found out she was going to die anyway), or have Bobbie Draper die as she takes out the giant cannon.
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THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT
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No one likes The Book of Boba Fett. The story is slow, and more than half of it is told in flashback. No one seems to know what the point of the new Boba Fett show is all about.
The worst part is when he employed a local cyborg street gang (on Vespas), the show suddenly felt like it was made for children.
Then when the all-Mandalorian episode showed up, it really demonstrated how awful Boba Fett has been. Mando shows up, he cuts this guy in half, it’s all-action! Meanwhile, Boba Fett, in four episodes, had not moved an inch in story.
To recap: Boba Fett takes control of Jabba's criminal empire on Tatooine. This causes the Jabba's cousins, "The Twins", trying to assassinate Boba. Boba then hired a gang of cyborg street gang, and then we find out that the Pykes are the real enemy.
The other storyline is told in flashback, which tells the story about how Boba Fett escaped the sarlacc and his long journey. Personally speaking, I didn’t need this backstory, to me, it’s always better to keep his backstory a mystery. The more you find out about Boba, the less cool he seems to be.
I guess the biggest disappointment for me is that Boba Fett just sucks in this show. Clearly, The Mandalorian is the much cooler character… and seeing him in Episode 5, made me really wish I was watching the new season of Mandalorian.
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No one likes The Book of Boba Fett. The story is slow, and more than half of it is told in flashback. No one seems to know what the point of the new Boba Fett show is all about.
The worst part is when he employed a local cyborg street gang (on Vespas), the show suddenly felt like it was made for children.
Then when the all-Mandalorian episode showed up, it really demonstrated how awful Boba Fett has been. Mando shows up, he cuts this guy in half, it’s all-action! Meanwhile, Boba Fett, in four episodes, had not moved an inch in story.
To recap: Boba Fett takes control of Jabba's criminal empire on Tatooine. This causes the Jabba's cousins, "The Twins", trying to assassinate Boba. Boba then hired a gang of cyborg street gang, and then we find out that the Pykes are the real enemy.
The other storyline is told in flashback, which tells the story about how Boba Fett escaped the sarlacc and his long journey. Personally speaking, I didn’t need this backstory, to me, it’s always better to keep his backstory a mystery. The more you find out about Boba, the less cool he seems to be.
I guess the biggest disappointment for me is that Boba Fett just sucks in this show. Clearly, The Mandalorian is the much cooler character… and seeing him in Episode 5, made me really wish I was watching the new season of Mandalorian.
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Couldn’t agree more about the Dexter ending. The writing was sloppy and full of obvious plot holes, they had the character behave in very uncharacteristic ways, and the ending was ridiculous.
The writers didn’t seem to understand that the viewers LIKE Dexter.
After all, the series spent eight years trying to convince us to like the character and the root for him. Then, at the end, they suddenly expect the viewers to turn against him and be happy when he is murdered by his own son? Incredible.
I can’t believe they managed to screw up TWO different finales.
Only this time, they aren’t going to be able to have another chance to get it right, because they were stupid enough to kill off one of the best characters on TV.
Posted by: Fred | 02/01/2022 at 03:27 PM