"I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me" - Assignment 8 James Apo

Fears: Being a victim, clowns
Annoyances: Snobby people, hypocrites
Accomplishments: Won a chess tournament, various bowling accomplishments, decent grades
Confusions: The end of Dexter, how some people are such awful drivers, why people lose their temper
Sorrows: My parents being divorced, the Rams losing the Superbowl to the Patriots
Dreams: Settling down in Hawaii, getting on Big Brother, becoming a professional athlete
Idiosyncrasies: Overly hygienic, sing while doing homework
Risks: Surfing and body surfing on gigantic days, occasionally making bets on various things
Beloved Possessions: Hyena stuffed animal (then), iPhone (now)
Problem: Swearing habitually, being too consumed with technology

Warning, this reflection will offer a SPOILER ALERT for the 8 season series Dexter, a  show that ended last year. Not only am I confused on how it ended, but also on why the director(s) chose to give such a middle finger to the audience with such a bizarre ending. In my opinion, the show was on a decline after the 1st season, as none of the further seasons surpassed its greatness. Even more than that, the final season just had so many questionable choices. For starters, an antagonist that did not show up until about halfway through it was no where near the level of evil shown in the previous 7. Also, Dexter ends up falling madly in love with someone that can accept him for who he is, but doesn't that contradict his sociopathic tendencies? I guess it can be argued, considering she is somewhat similar to him, but it is hard to believe how many times he lets his guard down with her, especially trusting her with his child. When it comes to the final episode, we have the random and illogical twist of Deborah going from what seemed to be a minor injury to one that would make her vegetable, a very anticlimactic end to a character that had withstood as much as she had. After a very morbid scene involving Dexter dumping his sister into the ocean, similarly to how he dumped so many of his victims, Dexter comes to what we at first think is a terminal decision. He hurts everyone around him, and he decides suicide is the answer, which by itself was depressing and showed his selfishness, leaving his child and soon to be wife on route to a foreign country. Scene fades to black, Dexter gets obliterated by a hurricane. Right? WRONG! Not only did this vigilante miraculously survive which was unrealistic to begin with, the closing scene of an 8 year series shows him in a solitude in Oregon, as a lumberjack. The camera zooms in on his grizzly bearded face, stalls for about 5 seconds, and then fades to black, a very unfitting end to say the least. I know this far exceeds the word count, but I guess I needed to rant about a disappointment of mine.