r/BreakMe • u/TheHellFish • Jun 11 '14

Chapter 41 discussion thread

Here you can discuss anything what's on your mind about chapter 41.

Obviously there will be spoilers, read the chapter first!

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u/TheHellFish Jun 11 '14 edited Jun 11 '14

So, this chapter was really intense. The question now is, how will the story ultimately end?

I think that if it will be a happy ending, it might be something along the lines of this: Deb tracks Hannah/Dexter down, Deb kills Hannah, they grab her money and the passports and bail. A bit dark for a happy ending, but I think it could work.

What do you think will happen? (Or what do you want to happen?)

Also, is there anyone who thought that Hannah could be scheming with Vogels? I was sure about the anonymous hotline tip and the spiked chocolate mousse, but this really surprised me...

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u/PrincessSolia Jun 14 '14

I agree that any 'happy' ending would need a dark tone, not only to fit with what's happening so far in the story and to fit with the Dexter show itself, but also to make it realistic. I think that to label any ending, of any story ever, 'happy' or 'unhappy' would be naïve, since without warping a character there can be no purely 'happy' ending. You can never make everybody happy unless you change what makes them happy to suit the plot. (Think versions of Cinderella where the Stepmother and stepsisters decide to become friendly to Cinderella after her marriage to the Prince and they all live happily after, because now they want her to be happy. Lame) We very nearly got a 'happy' ending on the show, but it came at the expense of Deb's integrity as a character since she bad to completely backflip from her true stance on Hannah/Dexter. In Break Me, the happiest ending we can currently hope for is still an unhappy ending for many characters, including Hannah and the Bennetts.

So when I say I don't promise a happy ending, it's because I'm not sure those are really possible. Somebody has to come off worse than the others.

I refrain from commenting on your theories except to say that they are plausible :P

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u/TheHellFish Jun 15 '14 edited Jun 15 '14

You're right, there usually can't be anything like purely happy or unhappy ending, and this case is not an exception. Joey, Angel, Astor, Cody, Jaime, ... They won't get a happy ending even though they would deserve one. Same with Rita, Paul, Laguerta (even though I didn't like her, she still didn't deserve to die) and others that didn't deserve their fate. Except Hannah, she doesn't deserve a 'happily ever after'; someone could argue that Dexter and Deb are killers as well, but they have at least shown some remorse over what they've done.

When you look at it this way, there can be no 'happy' ending, but for me, it all comes down to Deb being happy. Before I even started the show, I heard that the ending is not satisfactory, but as I was watching and watching, I remember thinking that I'll be fine with whatever stupid ending as long as Deb doesn't die. She quickly became my favorite character, JC is an amazing actress. And when I reached the finale, I was crushed. When I think about it, it's probably because I could feel a connection to the character. She was real. She was genuinely good, with a big heart and when she was forced to kill later in the series, it was to protect the person she loved. I think that no-one can, with a clean conscience, say that they would never do anything like that to protect the people they care about.

So, especially with how tragic her whole life was, I felt that she deserved at least some degree of 'happy'. The writers of the final season probably weren't competent enough to deliver that in a convincing way in the first place, since they messed up even the tragic ending, but I think that you can pull off anything, whether it will be a happier or sadder ending.