(US) Dexter Season 5 Episode 12 - "The Big One" (SPOILERS WITHIN)

Ugh worst season I think.

Lumen: "I have to go now Dexter, my dark passenger is gone". Ah sure thats grand in the season finale eh. I never liked Lumen anyway but a 20 second wrap up of her character and she disappears into one of the many plot holes this season? Thanks writers.

Who do Miami metro think killed Liddy? It wasn't Quinn so who cares? :mad:

I was really hoping it would end showing that Deb knew it was Dexter behind the curtain and that would set it up nicely for a full on season 6 but instead we get that ****e.

I really wanted it to be great...

Yep. I agree. The season started out poorly, became mediocre and the last couple of weeks kind of got your hopes up that they could take it somewhere, but alas, they just pressed the reset button.

The whole Liddy thing was a joke. Quinn seemingly willing to keep quiet for Dexter what, because of his love for Deb that he's developed over the last 10 episodes? Is that what they were trying to have us believe? And what, Dexter says "thanks for keeping shtum Quinn, and don't worry, I'll fiddle the blood-work and get you out of this pickle"? It's funny how in other episodes, they would have the blood tests sent out of the station. You would think this would be especially important when the suspect and victim are both cops. All the other evidence pointing to Quinn, (phonecalls, hired equipment), nah just ignore that, because it's not Liddy' blood on his shoe.

To add insult to insult, they have a little cast reunion party at the end, seemingly to celebrate the continuation of some terrible casting choices. LeGuerta and Batista vow to start again. Great! It's going to be fascinating watching you re-start a relationship we never cared about to begin with. Masuka gets a girlfriend, ironically the most believable character development of the season, considering how much of a freak he is. And Quinn shows up, happy and even thankful to Dexter, whom he now knows is a killer.

One of the funnier jokes the writers played on the viewers is having Jordan Chase set a "trap" for Dexter in the shape of a bright yellow JCB in the middle of the road. It's almost as if he knew Dexter would be having an argument with Harry (about how careful to be) at that exact point of his journey. Seemingly he gave Dexter enough credit to know he was going to track him down, but not enough to think he had the eye-foot coordination to hit the brakes.

Also amusing was Deb's absolute confidence in her long-shot theories of a vigilante couple. She didn't even need to check who was behind the curtain. Couldn't possibly be say, other members of Chase's gang. She didn't need to ask who they were, have a glimpse or even get them to confirm that her theory was correct.

All of the above is so frustrating because Michael C. Hall is so good. The writers are getting worse and worse, and most of the supporting cast is terrible. MCH alone, is the reason I am still watching (which is the inevitable question to be raised by fanboys when they read my criticisms). I thought his acting especially in the breakfast scene with Julia Styles was superb as usual, even with the terrible premise of the scene (Eh, I woke up this mornin' an' me darkness is gone, so I'm leavin', right?)

Other plus points in the episode are hard to recall. The guy who played Jordan Chase was good. It's just a pity that he had to wait until 2 minutes before he died before I found him a convincing baddie. He'll still always be known as the catchphrase guy to me. Who knows, the way this show is heading maybe we'll get a catchphrase every season.

I'll keep watching because it's so damn watchable, but I'll refrain from recommending it to anyone.

God, that was awful... :mad::(

edit: please tell me it was all a dream!

disappointing end to a mostly disappointing season but i'm surprised no one has mentioned the conversation between quinn and dexter on their way to liddy's crime scene. thought that was a pretty groovy moment. reminded me of old style dexter. proper doakes-esque feel to it.

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Also the whole Emily Birch character, what was the reason for her loyalty to Jordan? Did I miss it because it was so dull and rushed or what?

haha i didn't even think about that one. 'c'mon guys, let's kill her off. dexter will be so fixated on saving lumen and lumen will be so happy that she was saved that neither will spare a thought to the betrayal they endured at the hands of emily birch.'

1) What the hell happened with the Santa Muerte killers? Deb shot one of them but isn't the other guy still out there? Did they just drop the case?

2) Aside from the rest of the season, there were too many 'happy' coincidences in this episode too: a) Crashed car at the camp that was stolen from the other crimescene, are they not gonna connect those two facts. b) Dexter having that knife from his kill kit on him before getting out of the crashed car (and Chase not checking him for weapons). c) The plastic sheeting conveniently seperating Deb from the 'vigilantes'.

3) LaGuerta is stupid as we know, but come on, even if the bloodwork got him off, is she really that dumb not to have thought that Quinn asking for a lawyer and being connected to a dodgy cop with a van full of surveillance gear MIGHT have had something to do with Dexter seeing as he was reluctant to give up on that investigation for so long? I mean, jesus.

4) Actually, forget it, I could go on, but there's no point, it was clearly not a very good season overall. A smattering of semi-decent episodes doesn't make up for a rubbish season in general.

Here's to season 6, let's hope for real consequences to Dexter's actions, instead of the him being the jammiest fucker in the world.

terrible terrible ending.

i'll only watch season 6 if dexter turns up to work dressed as the terminator or robocop. it's jumped the sharks in this season.