The Curiosity Blog

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Dear Marcia White,

Thank you for posting the ‘game-changing’, jaw-dropping ending in the title of your blog article thus ruining the surprise ending for millions of viewers across the world (yes, there are people outside of your timezone that watches Dexter AND uses the internets.)

What a cunt. Seriously.

When she posted her blog at “Le High Valley Live” (aka Express Times), the season finale was only a half hour through in Canada, hadn’t even started to air in the UK – not to mention other countries it will air it in the future –  and folks (including those in Marcia’s timezone) who DVR it, buy the DVDs, or watch it On –Demand with the whole family.

Even people that were just searching for “Dexter” in general got stung by this spoiler. (This also applies to folks search regular Google for ‘dexter’ and ‘rita’.)

not cool, Marcia. Not cool.

At least E! Had the brains to leave the spoiler at “. . . “ as we all know somebody was going to die. The show is about a serial killer, after all.

It makes me wonder what is wrong with this lady? How did she get this job if she can’t even have the decency to keep spoilers out of titles?  You would think she would have someone look over her submissions before they are released on to the world. You would also think that – as she claims to be a Dexter fan – she would be even more careful (out of sympathy for other Dexter fans, like this article) to avoid doing something like this. But then again, Marcia knew exactly what she was doing by putting this in her blog summary:

Marcia White probably steals candy from small children, too and then tells them "you should of held on to it tighter."

It says on her page that she is the “features editor” (whatever that means), so I guess with that title perhaps this is the kind of ‘talent’ that this media outlet looks for. Perhaps articles like this will get her promoted to film critic! I can see it now. (Stop reading if you don’t want any spoilers for popular movies of past years):

Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back
Darth Vader is Luke’s Dad!
Usual Suspects:
Kevin Spacey’s character was the one that did it all along!
Sixth Sense:
Bruce Willis is DEAD the whole time!
Indiana Jones 4:
OMG! Aliens!

Okay. That’s all I got.

First… this show is fucking horrible. Terrible casting, wooden acting and terrible writing. There was zero chemistry between any of the characters. I didn’t care for a single one of them. However, they did succeed in getting me to hate Carl (more than the rest), but not necessarily in the way in which they would have wanted. His character was written so flat and one-dimensional that in my mind he might as well of been running around on the screen, twirling his moustache dressed like this:

But for whatever reason (perhaps a combination of it being like a car wreck and in preparation for reluctantly sitting through Heroes) I watched the whole season. And in my own deranged way, enjoyed it.  Again, not because it was good, but because it was bad. (If you would like to read a real review on this show, you can find an excellent review here – or here.)

I just watched the season (series?) finale. Though there was some satisfaction, it was not exactly what I would have hoped. When all the main characters get trapped in Jack’s apartment by a gun-wielding man who thinks he will turn into a werewolf, then subsequently eat them, I found myself begging out loud “Please go there!! Please!” because that would have been an epic way for a series of this quality to end.

(It’s on FOX after all and they cancel great shows with low ratings, so why not bad shows with low ratings? oh wait… this is FOX. Actually come to think of it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets renewed.)

Unfortunately the only carnage that results out of this situation is one of the younger doctors getting shot in the leg and Jack insisting that the werewolf bite him on the arm so they can both be werewolves together. But alas, they don’t turn into werewolves.

What I did thoroughly enjoy was the last stand between Jack and Carl:

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If this show comes back, I’ll most likely continue to watch, but I would be much happier if it didn’t.