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

I'll only take a positive for this. As my BJJ training was canceled and Arsenal are toothless. I do not want any more negativity after finishing watching that.

Season 3 wasn't the best and they gave us Season 4.

Please god do this with season 6. I echo the comments of i will watch it. I feel sorry for the people i have told to watch it, knowing they have to reach this point.

I was kinda hoping it would end with either Dexter being caught and there being a very public trial next season where he is hero worshiped by the public ala that dream sequence in season 2 or alternatively Lumen being caught/allowing herself to be caught for the murders to protect Dexter as he has a kid and a job she feels is important with the next season seeing Dexter in the unenviable position of having to give evidence at her trial while at the same time trying to find some way to derail it and save the woman he loves from deathrow .

Felt sick watching that.

Probably the worst season of television I've watched all year.

II feel like i'm repeating everyone else already, but I've been gettin a few buddies to start watching Dexter...they're just getting to season 4 now, but after that finale, I really wanna tell them to stop at season 4's finale...I really, really, really hoped season 5 would end with a redeeming bang, especially after the masterful season 4...it really ruined my day , I really wanted a spectacular finale, but they held back..a lot.

the worst thing is there wasn't even a cliff hanger, or any sort of bombshell to get me in anyway hyped for whatever is to come.

Just a happy ending.

This is like a time one of those rage faces would come in handy..

Ron Dmc has already noted many of the obvious plot holes but for completists sake heres another one , Deb Discharging a bullet at the Camp Jordan Crime scene , presumably when she calls it in she tells them she has found the barrel girl crimescene abandoned so how does she explain the bullet that Horatio and his plucky CSI sidekick Calleigh Dusquesne would no doubt find ? accidental discharge ?

Hi All

First time commenting here as i didnt even know there was a Dexter thread.

i have lived for Mondays for years to get my Dexter fix, Last seasons finale shocked me and had my head spinning for a week, it was genius.

But this season was to be fair Sh*te, that last episode was really the worst finale i have ever seen. I thought with 15 minutes to go with Chase dead and Deb on the other side of the plastic that we were in for another excellent ending but they fudged it... I was expecting Dex to inject Deb and escape or even get caught.

No real cliff hanger now for next season.

I think a lot of the reviews have been very positive which is mind boggling. I thought that perhaps something would happen in the finale to save this season. Deb finding out that Dexter was killing the Jordan Chase rape gang would have been a great step. What she has gone through and admitting that she felt some people deserved to die,it could have worked. She didn't have to know Dex was a serial killer,that maybe he just did these few muders for Lumen. Then as time went on she might start figuring out he was still killing.

But it was just a total letdown. I never despised Lumen and I like Julia Stiles,but as someone mentioned the character was not developed properly and then suddenly she is gone in a 10 second wrap up to her character.

The writing was so sloppy as well,so Dexter lied about the blood. Is Quinn just going to leave that alone? He knows the blood was Liddy's so what reason would Dex have for lying? Apart from that there was the equipment booked out under Quinn's name,the fingerprints all over the van,the phone calls from Liddy's phone.So what if the blood didn't match? There was so much other evidence but the cops decide to ignore all of that? Shocking writing.

Also as someone mentioned,the bullet Deb shot off,was that not questioned when going over the crime scene later on? No explanation needed for that?

This season was always going to be hard because last season was so brilliant. But how could they possibly fall so far? I got more excitement and was on the edge of my seat with the most recent episode of Nikita than anytime in this entire season of Dexter. They should do a Walking Dead and fire all the writers after that season.

average ending to an average season

lumen ****ing off gives me some hope for the next seaon

one scene in this series was the best scene of the series, lumen tied up with self help guy right up in her face with the mouth wide open and then getting worked up, i was like **** ye thats the evil bad guy i want to see and then it ended and went back to average boringness. dexter stabbing him in the foot was a bit of the old dexter again but i think the next season is make or break as far as how the show gets remembered

Enjoyed large parts of this season, and while I wasn't too surprised by the ending, they could have done a lot more with it. Opportunity missed. Decent enough season overall. I won't let the ending ruin it too much.

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anyway looking forward to next season, maybe the nanny has a dark passenger lol

I hope Mary Poppins sods off before season 6.

What I want to know is who did Dexter say the blood on quinns shoe was...
Like surly the way quinn reacted to the detection of the blood was abnormal to say the least...