For the past six years, Dexter fans have been waiting with anticipation for the moment when Dexter’s foul-mouthed sister, Deb, would finally bear witness to his Dark Passenger. Thanks to the Dexter season 6 finale, that moment has arrived.
But what happens next in Dexter season 7? How will the series continue with Deb knowing Dexter’s secret?
As we’ve previously reported, Dexter has been renewed for seasons 7 and 8 already, with the latter serving as the series’ finale season. Accompanying the renewal announcement, series producers revealed that they would be initiating a story-arc in season 6 that would last until the end of the series.
Now that we know what that story-arc is, let’s find out what they plan on doing with it.
Speaking with TV Guide, Dexter executive producer Scott Buck reveals what’s going to happen with Deb’s newfound knowledge; how Deb and Dexter’s relationship (not the creepy sex part) will be impacted; what Dexter is going to do now that his secret is out; what’s going on with weirdo Louis; and whether or not Dexter needs to die at the end of the series.
On Deb finding out Dexter’s secret:
We always imagined that Deb finding out would be part of the end game, so we always sort of delayed it. When we came in this year, David Nevins [said], ‘Let’s shake things up. We don’t have to play it safe. We can think a little bit differently this year.’ We decided it was finally time to deal with this head-on. There’s still plenty of drama to come after this, but we know we have two seasons left to do and there’s more than enough for us to deal with in the next two years just dealing with this one particular issue.
On what will happen in Dexter season 7:
One of Dexter’s hallmarks is that no one really knows who he is, and now Deb at least has a little peek behind the curtain. How much she actually knows and figures out will all be part of the drama of next season, but it’s certainly going to affect our story in a very big way.
I don’t think we’ll toy with the audience. She sees what she sees and we all know exactly what she’s seeing, but how much does that really say about Dexter and what does Deb already know about him? This is her brother, who she’s known her whole life. To walk into a situation like this, you’re not going to immediately think, ‘Oh, my brother is a serial killer.’ You’re going to think, ‘Oh, my brother is killing DDK. This is crazy and insane.’ She’s taken the first peek behind the curtain, but it’s not necessarily daylight just yet.
On whether or not serial killer fanatic Louis will be the villain next season:
Louis is something we don’t quite know what to make of because he’s something that has not appeared on Dexter before. It’s a different kind of character and it will be fun to explore exactly who he is and what he’s doing. I certainly like Louis, but he’s obviously got some issues to deal with. He seems to be a troubled individual, and how that will work out in terms of Dexter will be part of the fun of next season, but he will not be our big bad.
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i dont like hero dexter. i dont like the idea that he kills to save lives. i like that he kills because he needs to and sometimes that ends up saving someone. yes he saved astor and cody but they are his family. i still think he’s a monster but why does love have to be a human emotion. he’s certainly not normal and god forbid he would give up his dark ways. even in the end i hope he never finds inner-peace and that the dark passenger will always be there because otherwise he would just be dexter the guy with a really dark past who is suddenly normal. i dont like it. i rather dexter die than become normal. as for the whole debra thing. she needs to cut the s***. thats gross. blood related or not its disgusting. AND westermarck effect!grossies
How can one not like ‘hero Dexter’ ? what he states in the finale of Season six is almost the best way to justify his actions – that in fact – his dark passenger is ‘hero Dexter’. I figure you were saying that refering to the possibility that his dark passenger will cease to exist and only he will remain as a normal guy.. I agree a Dexter minus his vigilantism or dark passenger, would not be the same and would probably not hold my interest. Guess I kind of see Dexter as a sword of justice persay – so many on the darkside not playing by any rules , while the light seems to play by the book and just turn the other cheek. He’s neither good nor evil really, yet a neutral, as said without darkness there is no light and visa versa – he’s just the guy that keeps changing the light bulb after it dims or burns out. Keeping things balanced.
@ kyal dexter is evil. he is the lesser of two evils (literally) the other evil being his victims. he’s not superman! He’s not spiderman! He’s a serial killer! pardon me for having my own opinion. it is my opinion that hero dexter sucks balls. im interested in his need to kill not his need to protect. need to protect is an overdone and overrated cliche!
@aarias02 First of all I respect that you have your own opinion, but in the recent series the character of Dexter has matured to actually have emotions and be able to feel them. He was destroyed when Rita died and cares about Deb. Even in the first series he had a choice to go and kill with Brian, his biological brother but he chose to save Deb. I personally like the hero Dexter. It gives his character more depth than the person in the earlier series that mainly just lived to kill bad people.
i know he has feelings but who decided a monster cant have them. he is a monster but we know he’s not capable of killing deb and he loves his son and late wife without a doubt but there’s something more intriguing psychologically about the way the mind of a serial killer works as opposed to a hero. im just arguing his true motivation for killing and i sincerely dont believe it’s to protect deb, harrison and rita. on the contrary he seems to bring these awful people into their lives unwittingly. brian wasnt trying to kill debra until he realized the dude following (when he threw the hooker’s head a dex from the ice truck) him was his brother. Lila tried to burn astor and cody. trinity killed rita because he realized he wasn’t kyle butler. and travis found out that “the beast has a son”. he rarely thinks about the consequences of his actions because of his impulse to kill. even after rita died it was only a year before he made the same mistake and almost got harrison killed. if his main purpose was to protect his family he would be more careful about hiding them and were they live.
it is far too easy to root for a hero. which is why i loved the jonathan farrow episode. he kills an innocent man because he’s a dumbass sometimes. i love that he has flaws and being a serial killer is one of them. a big one. it is the best way to justify his actions but its not a genuine need to protect. he wants to kill and if he ever gets caught he’ll just telll everyone he was doing it for their own good.
I personally think the hero Dexter is better than the just living to kill. It gives his character more depth as he can actually feel emotions in the recent series. He obviously loved Rita as he was broken up when she died. He also mentions in the very first episode of the series that “If he could have feelings for anyone, it would be Deb”. These kinds of feelings are never revealed so we can only make assumptions on the brotherly love or more. To be honest the Dexter/Debra romance makes sense as they have been through everything together and are not blood related so this can Deb to fall in love with Dexter. Finally it really isn’t that disgusting or “gross” as they are not blood related and are only counted as brother and sister as he was adopted. Their relationship has always been a bit more personal as Deb tells him sexual stuff and even walked in on them. She had no problems telling him sexual stuff, this could represent more than just brotherly love between them. My best friend is a girl and I have thought about more than just friends on occasions, this is like Deb as she has called Dexter the most important person in her life.
personally agree with u joely poley, the anecdote was a bit pointless tho
Dexter is a serial klller. By definition there’s more than a little disconnect and twisted rationales going on. he is a sociopath first and roemost despite any “redeeming” values. Tony soprano was a “funny, nice guy” . He was also a violent, selfish, killer who sometimes interpreted other people’s feelings as mere conflicts and inconveniences to his own whims and desires so any of his acts were not only justified but he often saw himself as the victim.
These are TV shows, really people are more complex but neither in the real world or in fantasy is a personal as dark and murderous as Dexter a “good guy”. I don’t even see him as an anti-hero. He’s not cleaning up the streets (there are of other ways he could do that with his mind, job, and resources). He’s found a convenient way to indulge what gets him off. that’s not a hero, that’s just another criminal thinking his view is better than everyone else’s.
I missed some of the seasons of Dexter so I watched it all from season 1 to season 6 in about 2 weeks. Dexter is a wonderfully written and well-acted show. Here’s are my gripes about season 6: I have brothers and we are great friends. I loved that sister/brother bond that Dexter had with Deb. That, and his relationships with his son and deceased wife were the few things that made him more human. NOW, the writers have twisted this innocent sibling relationship into a sexual one. STUPID and ICKY! And no therapist would point out “Well, you aren’t biologically related.” I have an adopted daughter and the lack of bio-relationship makes not a shred of difference. She is my child. When people spend years together as family they don’t think of each other sexually. When there is incest it usually starts with being molested by someone very sick so the bonds in the family are wrong from the beginning. That is not the case AT ALL with Dexter and Deb.
My second gripe was when Deb caught Dex the second he was plunging the knife into the DDK killer. She was supposed to be on her way to tell him she loved him (gag). I was dumbfounded about how she even found him there in his secret killing space, at the exact moment, and alone when the DDK was still at large. SO CONTRIVED. She almost caught Dex before when he helped the girl in the barrel case get through her ‘dark passenger’ and that one made sense about how Deb happened to be there. Writers of DEXTER, please don’t ruin one of the best shows ever by taking the last 2 seasons of the show and throwing in contrived fantasies. The character of Dexter has a very clear arc–will he be able to get rid of his dark passenger and face his life as a man and not a killer. He seems to be making it there. I like the story line of the killer-turned-pastor that really was able to unload his ‘dark passenger’ and replace it with real faith, but in another contrived turn Dexter kills the pastor’s ‘suddenly soul-less murderer’ and decides he has no light in himself and takes off with his serial killer brother. So again writers of DEXTER, that was another poor choice that didn’t make as much sense as you all may have thought.
Deborah Cicconi, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology (USC)
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i agree with you wholly on the first point. i googled you second point and found out about how deb knew about dexters where abouts most of us missed the part where deb tells dexter to do a final sweep of the church. and the third is that dexter lost faith in his own ability to be normal or turn good because of that guy and he chooses the path of least resistance (killing him and being bad) since its certainly easier to continue down his dark path of destruction than to change habits he’s too pessimistic about getting rid of. he doesnt believe he can stop so its easier not to try. at first he believed because of the killer (i dont remember his name) but since he saw that no one completely changes it angered him and ended up drowning him. of course im no psychologist. tell me if thats possible. you sound like the smartest person on this post.
Excellent. I can’t be said any better!
They actually set that up perfectly and I think you may have missed it. Deb made a big point earlier in the episode that Dexter needs to go to the church to do a ‘final evidence sweep’. Knowing that Dexter should be there and it is a secluded place, it makes sense that she might show up there to tell him the news.
As a clinical psychologist I think you also know not to necessarily judge other’s interactions and thought processes based on your personal experience or relationships. I think it very possible given her high affections towards dexter and extreme emotional stress for her to come to the conclusion that she loves her brother. Guessing at another persons thought process is highly different than living their experience. Chances are, you have not been in love with multiple people dying, falling in love with a serial killer, having both parents die. People do crazy things in crazy times, and as I completely agree with you in that I personally would not think it possible for sibling incest, based on my experience, I do find it completely plausible given what she has gone through.
Of course the psych did not help that by planting a seed in her thoughts, but again given her situation and past experience with having no emotional control, letting herself believe her love to be true makes sense in an f’d up way.
I actually thought that Deb might have had more than sisterly feelings for Dexter before season 6…I mean, She fell deeply in love with Dexter’s brother, She idealized Dexter, was extremely affectionate to him , had school girl reactions whenever he complimented her, always wanted more (emotionally) from Dexter than what he had to offer, she fell in love with Lundy who was also paralleled to Dexter (and Harry), always got annoyed with other females in his life, etc.
I even think that Dexter might also have some non-brotherly feelings for Deb. He says that if he could have feelings at all, he’d have them for Deb., He comments about the sex suit she wore in season 1 several times (He even dreams about her killing him in the sex suit), He has a flashback to his childhood where a bully asks him if he’s still f***ing his sister(Which sparks an emotional response from him, leading to him remembering about his moms death, leading to him “making love” with Rita for the first time…Which was paralleled to Deb “making love” to Dexter’s brother for the first time btw) , When Quinn tells Dexter he doesn’t want Deb to feel like she has to choose between himself or Dexter, Dexter has an internal monologue saying “She wont…because it’s never going to be YOU”, Brian asks “Debra, Debra, Debra…What is it with YOU and HER”, etc.
There are also a few parallels that exist between Deb and Dex…For example, When their lovers (Rita/Lundy) die they both say “It doesn’t matter what I do, who i choose, Im what’s wrong”, They are both “broken”, etc.
For someone who is supposedly a psychologist your understanding of the stories depth and moral twists seem odd to me… The story is about Dexter, Dexter and the Dark Passenger are one in the same. Faith, religion, psychology are bullsheet….. people are who they are… dark passenger or not. Sure it’s great to see some of those stories of the ones who were allegedly free from their dark passenger – they’re not free – they chose to walk a different path – to live / change and experience something new – until the road ends.. Whether they chose a path seperate of their dark passenger or not – all paths lead to the same place in the end. Don’t quite understand how you can throw a thumbs down in regards to the episode where Dexter kills Brother Sam’s killer and takes off? Gotta remember – Dexter doesn’t self medicate or let a shrink feed him pills for when he’s having an episode. He handles his own evil in a good manner that seems quite beneficial to society, compared to the reality of today unfortunatley.
Deborah, as to Deb walking in on him with DDK.She had told Dex to do a final sweep for evidence in the Church.It wasn’t a “secret killing place”.He told Deb he’d do it after Harrison’s play.
I like what you had to say and I agree. lets keep it cutting edge exciting and unpredictable.
Keep Debra a man hopper trying to figure herself out and keep Dexter dealing with his issues the way he does it.
Should he be a serial killer, well he is not the evil one.
He does what everyone else has wished they could do and thats get rid of the
real monsters. I say he is doing a justice. I know its just a show but still.
Exciting: Debra is on her way to find Dexter to tell him something, will she catch him.
Not Exciting: Debra telling Dexter shes in love with him. No sap!This isn’t a love story!
oh and i hope that they continue down the who sexual relationship thing since they already touched on it. the only thing worse than mentioning it the first time would be to never mention it again. its like batista’s relationship with that vice cop who was working undercover as a hooker. they just dismissed it once they decided batista would be with laguerta for a season.
heck.. i hope Dexter and Debby hook up!
@paul reidl that’s a joke right?
i hope they atleast solve debra’s issues but just dont pretend like it never happened.
For all of you that have watched the series from the beginning it’s a safe bet that Dexter will die in season 8. He’s been built to be a Christ-like figure(scar on his chest matches same scar on Jesus statue in season 2 episode). No doubt he’ll die putting his life on the line trying to save someone and he’ll cary all his secrets with him.
I think both Deb and Dex are emotionally damaged, with Deb thinking she’s inlove with Dexter make things a bit twisted, but the whole idea of Dexter is a bit twisted! I think they should reveal some deeper feelings from Dexter towards debra…since season1 started of by Dexter metioning that if he would allow himself to love someone, it would probably be Deb!
Perhaps it’s been a long time since you watched the part you quoted, but you took this completely out of context. In the beginning when Dexter said IF he could have feelings for anyone, it would be (brotherly love) for Deb (his sister. He was explaining this saying IF he were ABLE (not if he would allow himself) to have ANY feelings/ emotions at all… BUT he is incapable of this, even for his sister Deb. He was explaining he simply goes through the motions of life, he does his best to ACT like a normal person, to PRETEND to be normal, because the reality is: he is not. He is a sociopath. By definition, he is incapable of ANY emotion. This is what Harry saw in him at an early age, why Harry did what he did, to best control it since there is no changing from sociopath to normal human being. Remember, even the Rita relationship was fake. It was simply a front to appear normal, to help him get away with killing. Dexter is motivated by one thing only, Dexter “loves” one thing only. And it’s not Deb. It’s murdering people.
“If I could have feelings at all, I’d have them for Deb” Dexter means feelings in general…Not necessarily romantic or brotherly.
Ugh, I can’t believe you’ve gone through this whole show and STILL think Dexter is incapable of love. Dexter said he loved Rita, Dexter said he loved Astor, Dexter said he loved Deb (twice)and Dexter obviously loves Harrison. Dexter does not say he loves someone unless he means it.
He also acted on his love for them, he risked his life and freedom for them and made difficult choices for them.
Why should he think to turn himself to Deb and not any other cop in Miami unless he feel something for her? Why would he confess it all to her and not to the first cop available? Why did he felt better when Deb told him she believe in him and throw away the idea to tun himself?
It is obvious Dexter love her, maybe not in some erotic way. But he was not interested in sex with any woman until Rita. He was not interested in sex with Rita (he allowed her near him just because she was not interested in sex – she was as damaged as him in this regard until then). The “problem” arose when he touched her and without thinking made what is an advance, Rita backed down and then he make her feel sure with him (“I can wait. It will be right to me when it will be right to you”). Sure to not be forced, Rita wanted to make him “happy”, then Dexter wanted to make her “happy”, then they were both happy. It was a “Comedy of Errors” and a example how real trust is built.
You think they are both emotionally damaged? Really where would you of gotten that. LOL!
Debra will kill Dex in the end.
The end.
I absolutely love this show, and to be honest season 8 being the last we see of dexter is not good news to me, heck smallville lasted 10 seasons and well that show was so repetitive with episodes it was ridiculous. I will be sorely missing dexter when it’s no longer being produced.
on my thoughts about the next season, well It was something I have been anticipating since season 1, I’m glad the cats out of the bag(well not fully, yet…) and I am looking forward to how the story pans out.
about the love triangle, well I agree with some that yeah if you spent your whole life growing up with someone that wasn’t blood related most people could never develop feelings of sexual or the type of emotional love that a person would have for a relationship , not more than a family or really good friend anyway.
but we aren’t talking at all about normal people, deb is messed up also, I mean she was going to marry the “icetruck killer” dexters brother. that screwed with her head. She killed someone in season 5 and says ” I don’t feel bad at all about it, that’s what worries me” and every man she gets into it with either dies, is a serial killer, or they are looking for dexter … ie. dexters brother used deb to get close to dexter, lundy was on the case tracking dexter, and joey quinn was looking into dexter while dating her. She clearly should have some trust issues by now.
anyway neither of them are normal, so I don’t think bringing them together in some relationship could be too much of a bad thing.
either way september 30th cannot get here soon enough.
True, however, Deb is not a serial killer sociopath so she is capable of feeling love and desires a romantic realtionship to fulfill her. Dexter has no interest in or need of romantic love, or any kind of love for that matter. The only thing that fulfills a serial killer sociopath is killing.
YOu are obviously wrong, just look at the past seasons:
1) He love Debra: he put her ahead of his brother and kill him to protect her. If he feel no love / emotion he would not act in this way.
2) He gave Debra the can she hit with Harry gun when Harry took the gun away from Debra, when they were teens
3) Harry told Dexter he is “a good boy” when he discover the rest of the animals he killed. And he explained he was good because there was no human bodies there. He have a need but he know/feel it is wrong to do it to people don’t deserving it.
4) He risk his life to save the children. And refuse to kill Doakes even if it is the most expedient risky thing to do.
5) He feel pain / regret when he discover to have killed the wrong person (in season four)
6) He consider to surrender to Debra and confess during season two.
7) He fight to see his son birth at the end of season three
8) He beat, not kill, the stepfather of Alyson in season five to rid her and her friends from the abuser (after understanding Alyson was trying to help her)
9) He save Lumen, care her wounds, refuse to kill her, help her when she need help a few time risking his life and his freedom for her. And when she leave him, he react with sadness. Yeah, very unemotional.
10) He stop during one of his killing to hear his child first word (season five).
11) He framed Rita ex-husband when he become a nuisance. If he would not feel emotions, he would had let him have what he wanted. But he reacted (without thinking) when he and Rita were threatened.
Maybe he become so good at mimic emotion to really develop them.
In fact, he could be a marvel of a liar but he could not keep his mask up continuously when married. If he was able to sustain the pressure to wear a mask 24/7 he would be able to suppress his need to kill.
The thought of Dexter and Deb hooking up is gross for normal people. Let’s face it Dexter and Deb are not normal? They are both damaged. Has everyone forgotton when Deb said she would sneak into Dexters bedroom and sleep on the floor next to him when they were kids.Where the love thing goes I’m not sure and am looking forward to how the brilliant writers will plan it out. Just like Dexter had flash backs about his mothers murder to discover what happened I believe Deb will flash back to her childhood putting the pieces together.Perhaps something already sexually happened between them….they both have blocked it out? This series is clearly not a love story….and the writers are not going to turn it into something predictable.There are so many open ends to this series allowing the story to pick up in many places. How about Lila? He killed her but can someone come looking for her? What did he do with the body? When Quin was having his cop friend look into Dexter it was mentioned Dexter went to Paris(where he killed Lila) What about the pictures Quin had of Dexter?We all know Lundy had a sneaking suspicion of Dexter. Just like Lundy had his own investigation on the Trinity killer who’s to say he didn’t have his own case on the Bay Harbor butcher case? I think Deb will kill herself just like Trinity’s daughter did. Dexters father killed himself because he couldn’t live with the fact that Dexter was a monster….can it be possible Deb will have someone on the kill table to make Dexter proud? Will Dexter be disgusted in what he has created?….will he kill himself? Remember……from the first series Dexter manipulates Deb….he will continue to do so to have her on his side not to turn him in. Deb has always seeked approval from Dexter.The writers have made a point of showing how Deb is becoming more and more unstable…..didn’t Dexter have anxiety attacks when he started having flash backs about his mothers murder? Deb is having attacks as well not able to deal with stressful situations.Dexters brother allowed Dexter to remember his past….the only difference with Deb is that the psychologist is helping Deb to get there……Deb will remember. How about Harry’s friend Matthews? There is something about him that will twist the story into a different direction…..more of Harry’s past will come out.Dexters dark passenger is part of him….the Rev Sam character was the second person Lila being the first to see through the mask.Lila accepted the darkness….Rev.Sam was showing Dexter that he had a choice from dark to light. I believe everything happens in threes, there will be one more person to see past the mask.Dexter allowed Miguel and Lumen in on his secret there will be one more person making it three people as well.Has Dexter learned something from letting these two people in? Miguel was a horrible mistake, Lumen had purpose who will be the third Deb?Dexter does have emotions slowly they are coming to the surface.The best scene ever was when Dexter crouched into a corner with his head down as he pressed the button to recline his brother Binny to drain the blood after killing him. This scene brings me to tears because it triggers something powerful for the character of Dexter, absolute sadness. The viewer can’t help to feel sorry for Dexter.Remember emotion’s for someone sooooo damaged will not be displayed the same way a normal person would. Dexter will not and can not be normal…am I the only person who has known someone who was just as shattered as Dexter?(without the serial killer part)as much as they want to be normal they can’t they don’t know how to.
Dexter is a comic book super hero. They are all vigilante serial killers in a way — but look at the scum they are killing! Seems fine to me.
yeah but its the intention with which he kills. do you really believe he is killing because he wants to make miami a safer place. no. his main purpose is to ease his need and making miami safer is just an added bonus
I enjoyed the DDK storyline of Season 6, however, the writers have been trying for some time now to make Dexter more human, hence more likeable, which is unrealistic. In this attempt to humanize Dexter, it’s derailed the original intersting premise of the show. This is a show about a SERIAL KILLER, which is what had made it interesting, the glimpse into the mind and psyche of a serial killer sociopath.
Dexter, being a serial killer sociopath, is by definition unable to feel real emotion like normal people. Even his love of his son, featured a lot in season 6, is unrealistic. In the early seasons, a big focus was on Dexter’s attempts to fake emotion, go through the motions of life to appear normal. Being a sociopath, by definition he isn’t capable of feeling real emotion, romantic love or otherwise. Someone on this post referred back to Dexter saying in the beginning “IF he could love anyone, it would be Deb”, but this person took it out of context. He didn’t mean romantic love, he meant IF he could feel any emotion at all, it would be brotherly love for Deb, his SISTER. Even his relationship with Rita had been a front, it was simply to give the appearance of being normal, since dating/ marriage was what normal people are supposed to do. All of this was simply to cover up and further his one and only love: killing.
Although I have enjoyed the main storyline of each season, I have found the character of Dexter himself is becoming less and less real, especially in recent seasons. The first seasons were much more honest, and therefore much more interesting. The Deb/ Dexter romantic love storyline the writers danced around in season 6 was ridiculous and cheap, a sign of the beginning of the end, and I sincerely hope the writers read viewer feedback before continuing with it in season 7.
Dexter is not a vigilante. Dexter is not a hero. Dexter would not realistically be a loving father and brother. Dexter would be realistically be not a potential love interest for Deb (ewww). Dexter is a sociaopath. Dexter is a predator. Dexter is a cold blooded serial killer.
thats exactly my point. brian’s return said it best in season 6. brian asked dexter why he wakes his victims up before he kills them and dexter responded “i want them to know what they did” and brian says “no, you like to watch the light go out in their eyes” he’s no hero he’s just a killer with a good excuse to kill
While we were led to believe Dexter could muster up any human emotions, the birth of his son sort of distorts that idea. Dexter starts to feel a genuine love, thus forcing him to think that Harry may have jumped to a conclusion that Dexter was that emotionally damaged. Dexter starts to believe that maybe he does have the capability to love, but with Harry’s training was never allowed. The idea of love was a myth so he never mentally accepted the love he could have has with Rita or Deb; with his son, however, he is slowly starting to recognize love as a palpable emotion.
I season 4 Lundy told deb that she was exactly like him except in a much more pretty package,so i think her attraction to dexter is her subconscious telling her something’s up with dex but she cant face it….
This show has become a shell of it’s former self season 1-5 was some of the best tv drama ever made now the writing is sub-par at best and if they hook dex and deb that will be the final nail in the coffin of what was once one of the best shows ever made. These new writers or new show-runners need to quit killing americas fav serial killer.
Does anyone think maybe Dexter will kill Debra?
No. It would be out of character and would kill the show.
Dexter didn’t kill Doakes and he knew and could prove he was the BHB.
He considered to surrender himself to his sister as an alternative to kill Doakes. When he discarded it, he went for freeing him but Lyla killed Doakes before without his knowledge and against his will. He knew Doakes was suspected for the DHD killings and was Doakes’ word against Dexter’s, let’s the system decide.
Till the dusk of Season 8, I am sure that the fans would be very enthralled to find out the way it all ends…..either “Electric chair” or “Lethal Injection”…..you can find this being quoted in the show several times. That makes it an obvious guess that Dexter will be caught and his life would came to an end.
As for Debra’s case, I have an interesting insight about how the show would continue on S7. We can see how Deb gets a panic attack when she first enters the DDK’s crime scene i.e the church. Well, maybe the same happens to her again when she sees her brother stabbing Travis and it renders her unconscious in the same way. Dexter, taking advantage of this injects his M99 into her body to prolong her unconsciousness and clears up the crime scene as it never ever happened.
As deb regains consciousness, maybe Dexter makes her believe what she saw was a delusion as a result of her sudden panic attack………
I take it you haven’t seen the trailer for season 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzzwNUBc2Z0. She doesn’t pass out. He says he was attacked by Travis and he “snapped.” Kind of a post traumatic thing from Rita’s death. He gets really concerned when she tries to call the station to report it. Looks REALLY good.
also they said dexter doesnt completely clean the crime scene because laguerta finds his blood slide and tries to reopen the BHB case. the showrunner said so. so im guessing he get’s to dispose of everything that say he was the killer but not the body and forgets the blood slide.
I like what you have to say about the show Sunny. I think that both sides of what people are saying have some truth in it. However, I tend to agree with the fact that Dexter is a sociopath and that means that unless he had very early intervention when he was younger, that he would not be able to change his inability to have feelings. I think when he tells his brother (when Deb is on the chopping block) that he is very….. fond of her. That this sums his ability to “feel” the best. I agree that at times the producers just work very hard to make him more likeable and that they stray into moving him from the sociopath role to one of a naive man. Sometimes he appears to have aspergers more than psychopathy. I think this show is such an amazing show. I am so sad that it has to reach an end!
Dexter is sometimes a “naive man” because he have not experience with emotions, etc. because of his inability to feel them like other people.
But he is very intelligent so he is very curious.
He is often naive and curious about emotions:
like when he asked to the couple how they could live together being so like him (killers/sociopaths) and they reply “Because we have the same dreams”.
Keep in mind the Dexter series start around ten years after the death of Harry, when Dexter is living alone and have no real life apart the job with the police, the killings and faking a normal life. And he is had something 30+ killings on score (the number of blood sample in the box).
His sister find him a date (a not threatening date – by the way – because she is unwilling to have sex), his brother show up, he must interact with children, etc. This unlock memories and feelings. Maybe he is tone deaf to emotions but he feel something (this is what, IMHO, make him take risks with Trinity Killer not understanding the risk for his family – he can not understand emotionally Trinity acting in vengeance aganist his wife only logically and only after the event).
So, Dexter is interesting because he is evolving during all the episodes of the series. He start like a cold serial killer feeling affect only for his sister and slowly become a warm serial killer taking risks for others like Rita, her children, his child, her sister, a victim he unintentionally saved, a preacher, the family of TK, etc.
I have, for many seasons, anticipated the moment when Deb would discover Dexter’s “dark passenger.” I also imagined it would come at the end of the series rather than two seasons before. It will be interesting to see how her supposed love for Dexter will be affected; I can’t wait for this season to start, but I have been catching up in the meantime with last season’s episodes on DVR. A Dish coworker and I were discussing the September 30th premiere last week, and it CAN’T get here soon enough!
I am completely baffled by how many people could miss the blatant incestuous themes surrounding Deb’s Love life…Go back and look at all the men Deb dated
Married guy: Opposite of Dexter or Harry, dumps him.
Brian Moser: Exactly like Dexter, Wants to marry him
Gym Guy: Opposite, Dumps him for Lundy
Lundy: Like Harry but is also paralleled to Dexer…We are meant to believe that Lundy is what Dexter would become without his DP, Lundy is also an emotionally distant lone wolf who only truly feels alive when hunting serial killers.
Anton: Opposite, dumped him because of Lundy
Quinn: Opposite, dumps him because he isn’t Dexter.
Conclusion: Debra Morgan is attracted to emotionally distant men who remind her of either her father or brother.
Love Dexter series.I am going out to place an order for so7!
Other comments posted ..I agree with.
You all are forgetting about the box of blood slides. Those will certainly come into play at some point. Dexter may be dead or alive but the forensic folks will at some point get their hands on the box.
I think dexter should not die in the end because his dark passanger is the result of his past and even thought he had it he still did not kill anyone innocent.As i see it if he did not kill those ppl hundreds of innocent lives would heve been lost. I know its wrong to kill and i dont support this cause but someone has to do the dirty work to clean what needs to be cleaned jus lik the person to presses the switch of electric chair when someone is sentenced to death.
I never thought I would get into this series. The thought of someone making a show about a serial killer was a little on the far side. But I wound up sitting down and watching the third season with my boyfriend and found myself addicted. We went out and bought the other seasons right away. It’s both exciting and thrilling to watch Dexter learn and grow. I personally hope the writers take care of Dexter (DONT KILL HIM OFF). I’ve seen too many shows where the (good) bad guy still gets screwed over in the end and I’m sick of it. They should let him be, let him vanquish his dark passenger.
The thing with Deb… That is disgusting. I don’t care if they aren’t blood related they are still brother and sister. And I’m sorry but there is no way he is or could be attracted to her like that. When he said the things he said in season one about having feelings only for her and making comments on her outfit, family members DO and SAY things like that without meaning anything dirty. It doesn’t make sense to have those two wind up together. So wrong. In SO many ways.
i think that Dexter and deb should end up together, and start killing together. deb has always had a strong sense of justice, so killing murderers isn’t that far off.
i definitely don’t think Dexter should kill deb, and i definitely don’t think Dexter should die at the end of the series. i would feel much happier if the series ended with an epilogue type thing where Dexter continues killing people.
Dude your name is vine so last name must be Masuka and because of that you like the kinky idea of dexter and deb getting together u weirdo
hey john buttcakes, can we be best friends. i love your logic!
Vince* my English is terrible
i think that Dexter and deb should end up together, and start killing together. deb has always had a strong sense of justice, so killing murderers isn’t that far off.
i definitely don’t think Dexter should kill deb, and i definitely don’t think Dexter should die at the end of the series. i would feel much happier if the series ended with an epilogue type thing where Dexter continues killing people.
dexter is my favorite show of all time! lol
It would be wrong to kill Dexter in the end as it would make him the tragic HERO, which he is not. Heroes don’t kill, so as we know Dexter is an antagonist he gets to live and kill the whole lot of his family because if he turns human, there would be guilt and regret! And only a monster can live with blood on his hands not a human with so much sense he might just kill himself out of guilt if he turns human So I don’t know where the story will go but o far it’s on the right path. It has me boggled up. A big fan ! =)
I’d like to argue that. dexter is more of a byronic hero. he’s not idealized (he has many many many flaws) and he’s not antagonizing our true hero which is technically deb. would you like to argue that the people he’s killed didn’t deserve it? it’s kinda the point of the show. I would hesitate to call him a hero but he does in fact save lives by doing what he does. to me dexter is a serial killer fulfilling his needs but he saves people in the process not that it was his intentions but he certainly does.
My guess is Dexter will die at the end of the last season. Deb will be marry her ex-boyfriend and taking care of Harrison.
Your 1 season away from destroying a really good series..I totally agree with a lot of comments on here about the messing up a great entertaining TV series..carry on the way you are going(writers) and it will end up in the stupid bin..get the feel from series 1 and leave out the sexual sister brother thing..its pathetic..really i nearly turned off.
love the show, please keep me posted when season 7 starts.
thanks
can we stop with the dex also loves deb thing. you’re reading to much intothe whole “if i could have feelings thing” the showrunner already said that when dexter and deb exchanged i love yous debra obvouisly ment it in a romantic way and that dexter ment it in a brotherly way. this is coming from the showrunner!!!
I believe that there is no hero Dexter! He kills because he has a need to kill. It is why Harry taught him the code and to kill “bad” guys. Harry knew if he didn’t kill bad guys then Dexter would kill innocent people because Dexter is a sociopath. Dexter knows this. Harry knew this. Just because he kills murderers doesn’t mean he’s a hero. He is constantly putting his family in danger (his wife, son, step kids, Deb) and he still doesn’t stop. He has an innate drive to kill and I can’t see Dexter stopping. I don’t want him to die though. Don’t some serial killers stop killing for years before starting back up again?
Preach on Marie! He’s no hero!