[US] 6x11 - "Talk to the Hand" (SPOILERS WITHIN)

Ron DMC

TVRage.com wrote:

Dexter finds that in order to catch the Doomsday Killers, he must create a macabre tableau of his own; Debra's battle with LaGuerta over the case of the dead call girl boils over, and her therapist makes an unnerving suggestion.

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Otis Driftwood

What a load of rubbish.Just a mess of an episode.After last week it was obvious that Deb was going to come to some kind of realisation that she had feelings for Dex but Jesus the way it was done was so buried in cliche you couldnt even see the top of their heads.

The writers must think the audience are total retards.Little things that have been constantly mentioned throughout this seasons threads like Dex's monologue spelling out the story are here in abundance.

There is only one way that this season can be redeemed but after the cop out at the end of S5,it wont happen in a million years.

Dexter,I am disappoint.

Prowetod

Average

I thought it was good. I still find this show entertaining despite the drop in standard since Trinity.

That said, I would prefer if they wouldn't announce future series' while a series is ongoing.

OctavarIan

The title of this episode should have been "Quinn and the Magic Blanket".

Minstrel27

Poor

OctavarIan wrote: »

The title of this episode should have been "Quinn and the Magic Blanket".

LOL. It did well to instantly extinguish a raging inferno

The Gnome

Meh. Disappointed "Wormwood" didn't finish off some Metro Homicide staff, LaGuerta, Quinn etc.

Dexter being put in physical danger is pointless as there's no sense of actual danger, we all know he'll be fine.

Regarding the finale,

looks like Harrison may be on the way out

hopefully it'll push Dex over the edge and bring back the Dexter we know and love.

jcf

Awful

I can't believe this is the same show as S1-S4....


This may be even worse then S5...

whitewave

Poor

very disappointing ending to this episode...dont know how to do spoiler tags so I'll try be cryptic - whatever about him surviving, how's he going to get back/explain how he ended up there in the first place??

very disappointed with the season, was hoping they were holding back a bit like in season 4 before letting it all come out in the last few episodes, but doesn't seem like there's much hope of that :mad:

tvnutz

Awful

Did it always treat the audience like idiots? I loved seasons 1 and 2. Season 4 was great,but as someone mentioned that could have been simply because of John Lithgow.

Aside from some bad writing and storytelling occurring at the moment,Dexter's inner monologue treats the viewers like morons. Did they always do this? In season 1 even? Its been a while since I have seen it.

Just two examples from this episode alone (there have been several dozen other instances all season).

1. Dexter makes the video sending it to Travis (which itself is so stupid because what happens if Travis is taken by the cops before Dex gets him,and there is a video of Dexter on his phone). Anyway,he makes sure the boat name is visible,Travis then writes it on his hand and says out loud "Slice of Life". I think the vast majority of people would get that Dexter wants Travis to find him by giving away his boat name,even those with below average intelligence would get that. Cue 5 minutes later,Dexter saying to himself "I made sure my boat name was visible so Travis could find me". Cheers for that,like I had already forgot it despite the scene being 5 minutes earlier.

2. Gellar's hand. Deb mentions finding the rest of the body, Dexter says to himself "they won't find him because I chopped him up and put him in the swamp". Ye,cheers,I think in the last episode you mentioned it about 5 times and it was probably even mentioned in the "Previously on Dexter" bit at the start if someone had missed the last episode.

This crap really annoys me,makes it no better than some horrible network show aimed at teen girls. You would never see this kind of stuff in The Wire or the Sopranos.

rain on

Poor

I actually LOL'd a bit at the part where Travis paints Dexter's head into the picture of the devil. So dopey looking.

Staplor

Average

I thought the episode would end

When Dex fades out from the injection, but it didn't and he miraculously unties himself, swims under the fire and now sees the direction that Forrest Gump went off in, so now he can swim back in no time. Remember her is a few miles out, Gump wouldn't want people to see the explosion.

So after all the disappointment at the way this show is going I'll admit I quite enjoyed the episode, purely because I only half watched it while doing other things, which makes it so much easier to tolerate the repeating of the plot over and over. There's no need to think about how Dexter will be caught, because I've come to the realisation that Dexter is smarter than all of us and he knows what will and won't get him caught. I've accepted that, and I'm liking the show again.

Toodles Harrison

Dermighty

Poor

By far the weakest season of Dexter.

La Guerta needs to die! Such a miserable **** of a character.

Colin Hanks is a terrible actor in this series, the little soliloquy he had about it all being down to him now, that was actually cringeworthy it was so bad. He's definitely up there with Ryan Philippe for being ****!

ejmaztec

Dermighty wrote: »

By far the weakest season of Dexter.

La Guerta needs to die! Such a miserable **** of a character.

Colin Hanks is a terrible actor in this series, the little soliloquy he had about it all being down to him now, that was actually cringeworthy it was so bad. He's definitely up there with Ryan Philippe for being ****!

If she ever gets kidnapped by some chain-saw wielding psychopath, I don't think that anyone will be in any particular rush to find her, let alone rescue her.

I'm hoping that she's got some dark secret, bad enough for her to end up in a Dexter kill-room.

Dermighty

Dermighty wrote: »

By far the weakest season of Dexter.

La Guerta needs to die! Such a miserable **** of a character.

Colin Hanks is a terrible actor in this series, the little soliloquy he had about it all being down to him now, that was actually cringeworthy it was so bad. He's definitely up there with Ryan Philippe for being ****!

Funnily enough,

at the end of the first book she dies

Ugh, seriously? Are they really thinking of bringing a love connection between Debs and Dexter? Why, oh why, can't they just let Dexter be completely single? Seasons 1-4 was Rita, then Season 5 was Lumen and now this season it seems to be Debs.

ejmaztec

Deleted User wrote: »

Funnily enough,

at the end of the first book she dies

Ugh, seriously? Are they really thinking of bringing a love connection between Debs and Dexter? Why, oh why, can't they just let Dexter be completely single? Seasons 1-4 was Rita, then Season 5 was Lumen and now this season it seems to be Debs.

It would be ironic for them to go down that trail, being as they were married in real life, and are now divorced. They'd need to be exceptional actors to pull off that love-filled relationship.:pac:

On December 31, 2008, he eloped with Jennifer Carpenter, who plays the character of Dexter Morgan's foster sister, Debra Morgan, on Showtime's Dexter. They dated for a year prior to getting married. On December 18, 2010, Carpenter filed for divorce from Hall, citing irreconcilable differences. The filing also stated that the two had been separated since August 2010 and that she was seeking spousal support

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Hall

weeder

im still enjoying it anyway but i found quinns fire extinguishing skills hilarious.


dexter is leaving a fairly big trail between him and travis now, i hope its exploited rather than brushed under the carpet.

ixoy

I'm finding it difficult to take this show seriously - it's gotten farcical.

For example when Quinn arrives to help Batista... I swear now, on recollection, that as he pulls up he sounds a clown horn. I know he doesn't on some level but - as I picture it in my mind - that's how I see the scene. It's fitting.
He then fumbles around, maybe does a tumble through the door, before pulling his Magic Blanket from a sleeve and dousing the fire.

Then when Debs has dinner with Dexter later on.. I'll recall hearing cheesy porn music and an "Ohhhh yeah" as Debs looks longing at Dexter's noodle(s). The camera work wouldn't even need to be edited for this.

And as for Travis? Well I don't even need to selectively edit my memories there. The reality is the character and Hank's acting is so poor that there's already plenty of laughs to be had every time he's on screen trying to emote babbling on about Wormwood.

Nomination for Best Comedy in the next TV Awards.

jor el

Awful

tvnutz wrote: »

Anyway,he makes sure the boat name is visible,Travis then writes it on his hand and says out loud "Slice of Life". I think the vast majority of people would get that Dexter wants Travis to find him by giving away his boat name,even those with below average intelligence would get that.

When I watched that bit, I was wondering why the hell is he writing down the name of the boat when he has it on video in his phone? Watch the video again, idiot! It's pure audience pandering, make sure the stupidest person on the planet understands where you're going with the story.

Sending a video to Travis for the cops to find if they get to him first comes hot on the heals of calling 911 from his own phone to leave an "anonymous" tip. Lazy, lazy writing, and just shows that they really don't give a toss about the story at all. I know this is all fiction, but they're just making up any old crap at all now and throwing it at us.

The Dexter-Deb love scene was hilarious. You could just hear Barry White in the background. That' such a stupid story to bring into it. It's completely unnecessary and unwanted.

How this episode should have gone: Crazy woman with the gas goes into the office, heads over to Deborah's office but LaGuerta is in there for some reason. Crazy woman assumes this is Deb, sets off the gas and happy days, LaGuerta (currently the most irritating and pointless character in any show) is gone, along with a few choice red-shirts. I really thought that they would have the gas set off in the office considering all the major characters were out at the time she got in there. What a complete waste of a decent story arc.

Lame and lazy is the only way to describe this.

Geeky lab-guy, what's the deal with him and the hand now? This story is just bizarre. It better be going somewhere, and it better not be that he's in love with Dexter too!

On a side-note; what makes people so certain that Harrison is definitely a gonner?

Stark

Does this episode mean that all my Debra/Dexter incest fanfics can now be considered canon?

GeorgeBailey

When the paramedic said something along the lines of "you'll probably have dizzy spells and nose-bleeds" he may as well have continued to say "more than likely during a pivotal moment of the episode"

Everything about Dexter these days just seems lazy.

Ron DMC

Poor

Stark wrote: »

Does this episode mean that all my Debra/Dexter incest fanfics can now be considered canon?

That's a thing?

Wow, the world is weird.

allanb49

Can I call that the other it guy is dexters nephew what you reckon he drew on the hand

xalot

I thought that episode was awful. Like a bad bond movie.
I think this will be the end of my relationship with Dexter.

trey9786

Anyone else sick of the phrase "my dark passenger" ????