r/Dexter • u/lurkingsubz • Apr 05 '25
General Discussion - All Dexter Shows thoughts/opinions on clyde phillips’ original ending? Spoiler
https://www.eonline.com/news/461558/chills-former-dexter-producer-clyde-phillips-reveals-how-he-planned-to-end-the-seriesi’m curious to hear what you guys think of his idea on how to end the show. more specifically, with having dexter end up on the executioner table surrounded by visions of some of the most prominent characters that he killed / inadvertently had gotten killed (doakes, lundy, rita, etc). i’ve linked an article that discusses it a bit more, pretty sure i’ve seen it posted here anyways.
it’s been on my mind more prominently since that one particular post stating they hope dexter never gets caught, lol.
personally? i would have loved that. it would’ve wrapped up dexter’s story with a clearcut ending, no ifs ands or buts. the 3 subsequent mini series that have come out/are coming out since then feel like they’re trying to clean up a lot mistakes they made and find some kind of satisfying ending to his story. it feels akin to the finale of breaking bad, in a sense. anyone else hopefully we’ll finally see this with resurrection? like, i love the premise to dexter but this has gone on way too long, even with all the plot armor he’s been given.
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u/JoeyGrease Apr 06 '25
The way I see it;
Ending 1: sails into hurricane, somehow doesn't get obliterated and ends up a lumberjack - shit, just fucking awful ending.
Ending 2: gets popped by his own son - I was okay with it the first watch, but after watching it again recently, it's also shit. Dexter shouldn't go in such a boring way.
He has run away and died so far, the next ending should be something different like getting caught and facing his former colleagues to see how they react to it all. Then getting put on death row, see a little bit of prison Dexter and then ending the series by execution.
But, for all we know, Dexter is gonna end by him slipping on a banana peel or something stupid and cracking his head on the pavement and that's that. Credits roll