Who's Been Watching Dexter this Season??

[Kev]

I didn't know one of the screenwriters left.

Yeah head writer and executive producer Daniel Cerone left after the second season. The first two seasons were awesome so I'm guessing his departure had something to do with the slight decline this year.

Having said that, it's always harded to keep a great series going than it is to have a great first season.

I just felt this season was a bit patchy, some elements dragged on and on whilst others were neatly resolved in a few minutes, a serious pacing problem imo.

There's also some characters that I'm not sure whose purpose is. Quinn for example, he came in to replace Dokes and it looked for most of the series like he was the head for some kind of major corruption story. After several episodes it ended up as a non story, then it seemed like he might be a possible love interest for Debra as she sought to get over Anton. But again no, so what exactly was his point on the show?

All the stories that were building around his character fizzled out into nothing which made me wonder why they wasted so much script time on him when they could have been developing other parts of the story, maybe concentrating on the existing characters more.

I think we will see Quinn as dirty in the next season. What is meant by 'dirty' will be anyone's guess. Nothing has been proven with him either way as to whether or not the IA investigation was legit. I agree it made no sense to bring that up this season. That side story should have been explored to its fullest in a later season.

I'd like to see at least some of the focus not be on Dexter. Some interesting side stories are there for the exploring. I hate how the lieutenant just completely dropped Doakes. I thought this season she would set out to prove who the real killer was. She knew it wasn't Doakes and knew it was someone in their department and just gave up.

Yeah she pisses me off immensely. I mean she knew Miguel for 20 years and were former lovers, then she goes out on one pub date with that lawyer woman and all of a sudden Miguel killed her 'friend' and she struggles to get over the loss of her?

Get real, if my ex lover, and someone I'd been friends with for 20 years and who was an important part of my life killed a bloke I'd been out to the pub with one time I'd be more gutted about the fact that my ex girlfriend was a killer and reflect on that relationship rather than the loss of this guy.

But she was able to not get over former lover and long term partner Doakes in an episode or two and Miguel it only took half an episode.

Meanwhile 3 episodes later she's still pining for her lost lawyer 'friend'