John Goldwyn, one of the producers on Dexter, has claimed that the final scenes in the wildly unpopular series finale were dictated by the show's network, Showtime, rather than being the ending that they wanted to tell.
Spoilers will follow.
"They wouldn't let us kill him. Showtime was very clear about that.
"When we told them the arc for the last season, they just said, 'Just to be clear, he's going to live'. There were a lot of endings discussed because it was a very interesting problem to solve, to bring it to a close."
The very fact that Showtime allegedly intervened makes it clear that the ending that viewers were given was not the one originally planned.
This is a troubling story, because it implies that people outside of the creative team essentially dictated the single most important part of a story that took eight years to tell - and, more importantly, given how universally disliked the finale was, that the creative team didn't stand up for their vision.
In fact, given this revelation, the rather silly end to the series actually starts to sound like a "fuck you, then, if this is what you want" to Showtime, rather than an attempt to work under their new restrictions to bring the best possible ending to the show's loyal fans.
Either that, or Goldwyn knew how much everyone hated the last episode and is trying to pass the buck.
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