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    They could start off the new season where hannah poisoned dexter and debra, and avoid the whole shitshow at the end where debra dies, that could easily be a bad nightmare while being drugged out.
    Someone going the Dallas route on the revival. Not a bad idea...You could honestly make all the seasons after Rita died as it was a nasty nightmare/fugue state Dexter was in, and then go down the route of the Aster & Cody becoming budding serial killering duo, with Harrison holding resentment to Dexter similar to Deb with Harry.

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    GoT was at least set in a fantasy era where incest was used to "protect royal blood". Dexter takes place in a world of relatively modern science, where we know that shit is gonna lead to extra toes, and webbed fingers and all sorts of inbreeding health risks should a kid come of it. Even in the magical world of GoT, not everyone in that world, thought it was normal.
    Isn't the whole incest genre the "it thing" in pornography for the last decade or so? "What are you doing to me step bro."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    Yeah, it's pretty much I know he thought he'd killed her, but I didn't think he'd dismembered her, so maybe there was a chance, but I knew at best it was a long shot.

    If it's not Deb hunting him, I can't think of anyone I'd want to bring back who Dexter hasn't already DEFINITELY killed.
    They could bring Debra back as a ghost. Perhaps even a manifestation of his impulses, pushing him to kill. I think that'd be a fun dynamic, and a contrast to her actual character.

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    The ending was bad so I'm okay with them doing something with Dexter, it's not like anything is going to be ruined by it

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    Unexpected. I doubt they can unfuck the story but I'll watch them try.
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    This is excellent news. Excellent show that arguably started to go down hill at season 5 of its 8 seasons. The series finale is regarded as one of the worst of all time.


    I do hope this makes up for it. I can’t wait.
    Do we know what a 'revival' entails? Are we carrying on from the ending of the show, later, sooner? Different canon completely?

    I love Dexter, I even enjoyed watching the later seasons but the ending was very weak, I don't want more of that please. Also I fuckin' love Michael C. Hall, gimme more of that dude.

    Edit: Forgive my ignorance, it's been ages since I watched Dexter and I also don't know much about how it was adapted. But wasn't it based on a novel series such that we can find out what archs remain to be explored? Assuming of course, the show remained true to the books. I don't know if that is the case.
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    I am cautiously optimistic about this. Season 8 of Dexter was possibly one of the worst ever seasons of television; however I will probably watch regardless in the hope they retcon basically the very end of Season 7 and all of Season 8

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    I actually didn't mind seasons 5-7 (each of them beats season 3 by a mile), but season 8 (that never actually happened) was GoT finale level of awful. Not sure how they can climb out of that flaming dumpster.


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    Levine makes it sound like the network is dying and needs its own revival.

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    I remember that the final season was 2 episodes shorter than intended, since they rushed filming and completing it. That severely fucked up the pacing of the season.


    So that, added that the story of the season itself was kind of lackluster, made it come off even worse.


    I feel like if they did rush production then the finale wouldn’t have been that bad. We would of felt more emotion about Debra’s death and actually believed that Dexter “caused” it. Or that he deserved to fake his death so others wouldn’t have to suffer because of his presence.


    Instead it just was like “aaaaaaand here we are, final episode” to a disconnected season narrative. The Brain Surgeon idea was just awful.

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    Is he gonna be a lumberjack in Canada?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kharadin View Post
    Do we know what a 'revival' entails? Are we carrying on from the ending of the show, later, sooner? Different canon completely?

    I love Dexter, I even enjoyed watching the later seasons but the ending was very weak, I don't want more of that please. Also I fuckin' love Michael C. Hall, gimme more of that dude.

    Edit: Forgive my ignorance, it's been ages since I watched Dexter and I also don't know much about how it was adapted. But wasn't it based on a novel series such that we can find out what archs remain to be explored? Assuming of course, the show remained true to the books. I don't know if that is the case.
    https://tvline.com/2020/10/16/dexter...ding-deb-dead/

    "But with the 10-episode revival picking up in real time, so many years later, “We basically do get to start from scratch,” returning showrunner Clyde Phillips told the Oct. 16 episode of THR’s always entertaining TV’s Top 5 podcast.

    “We want this to not be Dexter Season 9,” he continued. “Ten years, or however many years, have passed by the time this will air, and the show will reflect that time passage. So far as the ending of the show, this will have no resemblance to how the original finale was. It’s a great opportunity to write a second finale.”"

    Great that Clyde is back aswell

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kharadin View Post
    Do we know what a 'revival' entails? Are we carrying on from the ending of the show, later, sooner? Different canon completely?

    I love Dexter, I even enjoyed watching the later seasons but the ending was very weak, I don't want more of that please. Also I fuckin' love Michael C. Hall, gimme more of that dude.

    Edit: Forgive my ignorance, it's been ages since I watched Dexter and I also don't know much about how it was adapted. But wasn't it based on a novel series such that we can find out what archs remain to be explored? Assuming of course, the show remained true to the books. I don't know if that is the case.
    I think the only thing in the books left untouched by the series was Astor (Rita's daughter) becoming a serial killer. They had a few moments where Astor was becoming "dark" and moody, but then they just shunted the kids offscreen to the grandparents, and that was that, and they kind of put that worry of Dexter's on Harrison as he grew into a little boy.

    But if they really are doing a 10 year fast forward, they could possibly pick up the Astor (or even Harrison) storyline like that. Astor would be in her mid-20s, Harrison would probably be like 14-15?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Egomaniac View Post
    Well, officially speaking...Dexter Morgan is dead. He faked his death in that abomination they called a series finale.
    Thanks for correcting me with a correction, confirming i was correct. I guess?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CerealLord View Post
    I figure they meant the show. As in the show is back from the dead (ended).
    I dont think so....in the show, they all think he is dead. so probably from the "shows" perspective. At least thats the way i understood it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MoFalcon View Post
    Thanks for correcting me with a correction, confirming i was correct. I guess?

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    I dont think so....in the show, they all think he is dead. so probably from the "shows" perspective. At least thats the way i understood it.


    They are referring to the show. That's it.


    Quote Originally Posted by Kreuger View Post

    “We want this to not be Dexter Season 9,” he continued. “Ten years, or however many years, have passed by the time this will air, and the show will reflect that time passage. So far as the ending of the show, this will have no resemblance to how the original finale was. It’s a great opportunity to write a second finale.”"

    Great that Clyde is back aswell

    I am happy for this as well. They brought in that one guy for season 5 (Chip Johannessen) as the show runner for the season and I just remember how utterly lame the season was. It had its moments for sure, but I felt like (at that time) that the season was utterly weak.


    Clyde has me excited.
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    I liked it from start to finish, even though obviously it went downhill, to keep it somewhat real it should have had maybe maximum 2 seasons, like some miniseries. But it was still entertaining...

    The ending was not even close the worst ending ever. That belongs to Lost, the show that trolled the whole planet for many years end finished with a big fart. And probably second to that, at a pretty big distance though, we find Game of Thrones.

    For me the best series ever, including the final, still remains Breaking Bad...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mosotti View Post
    For me the best series ever, including the final, still remains Breaking Bad...
    Breaking Bad, to me, is the gold standard of how to write a show including a finale. It was phenomenal.

    Better Call Saul is a pretty damn good show too, but I need to finish the last season they played

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    Not sure how they can go about it without undoing a WHOLE lot of shit that came from season 5 and onward...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Queen of Hamsters View Post
    Not sure how they can go about it without undoing a WHOLE lot of shit that came from season 5 and onward...

    Pretty easily if you ask me. Consider this:


    His ties to his previous life are severed. His only remaining family member (Debra) is now dead.
    His girlfriend believes him to be dead and is taking care of his son. He didn't just up and leave him with her as their plan was to live together in Argentina, so it's not like she is "burdened" with raising his son.
    His co-workers also think he is dead.


    He effectively can live a brand new life anyway he wants; even a lonely life as a lumberjack. Hell he can even go by another name if he had to (which I suspect he has been).


    As it pertains to season 5, it would be interesting to see Lumen return to the show. While the season itself was dull, I like the idea of a character who was a "companion" to Dexter that is more-or-less fine with what he his, but doesn't need it herself. I always saw it as her using him for her own goal and then she was like, "okay I'm better now, byeeeeee" so it would be cool to see her come back.


    But I think they are aiming for something different this time around. Not a season 9. I was just reading that it is set to take place "10 years, or however many years" after the ending of season 8. And what they are doing is in no way going to retcon everything that had happened from season 1 to season 8.


    I just hope that Deb comes back as a manifestation of the Dark Passenger. I always loved Dexter's inner monologue conversations with his dad, and having Deb serve in that capacity now would be perfect.
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    I too am 'looking forward with caution' to a 1-off Dexter Season.

    I'm hoping they aren't doing this with a "we're doing Only One Season" and then change their mind half-way through to reboot the whole thing if it does well enough. Dexter doesn't need 5 more seasons.

    The fact that the showrunner is saying 'time skip' means - to me anyway - that we won't have any lore-rewrites. Deb (and anyone else) will stay dead - and he moved 'away'; even if "ten years later" means he's also not a lumberjack anymore, either.

    So that gives me more hope - than if they were trying to 'erase' any of the last few seasons and/or pick/choose what lore they go with as "True" and what they throw out. So I'm hoping they really do start fresh and not some hodge-podge character or character history (that then we, the viewer, have to figure out what was kept and what wasn't).

    And yea, I do hope Deb has joined the chorus of people in his head's inner monologue because that would absolutely be on point with the character and how he's portrayed that side of himself (to himself).

    But Dexter - because of what he is - should never be truly 'growing' and 'learning' from anything. I too got sick of the yearly plotline of "Dexter tries to be a real boy" and then only learns he still isn't - because he can't be. That's how psychopathy works. That's how that level of mental disorder works. You don't get better - you don't have normal relationships - you never become a 'real normal boy'. You can stop killing people (if it wasn't a tv show) but you never relate to the world on a 'normal' level, regardless. I just hope they choose another avenue of plot for this besides "Dexter tries more friends/Dexter's got bad taste in friends" that Season 3-8 were.
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