As you will know, the season finale has now been aired! For those of you who have not seen it yet, brace yourselves for a cracker! It's one heck of an episode. Also, you may want to stop reading right about now and come back when you've seen the episode, because I'm about to dish out some spoilers!

Edit: We've now got a Comment function, which you can find at the bottom of each news post here on the front page. So please feel free to share your thoughts on yesterdays episode! I'll raise some of my own thoughts below, and would love to hear what you guys think!

What and episode! I don't even know where to start.. Personally, I thought they may actually let Arthur live to see another episode (with his death being the inevitable cliffhanger), which I suppose would actually be a bit disappointing in a way. No matter, seeing as it didn't happen. I've been scoping out a bunch of TV forums and Dexter discussions, and a lot of people actually seem to be disappointed by the finale (most, however, thought it was brilliant) which surprises me. The most common complaints are things like "they fail to find any clues for 10 episodes, catch the wrong guy in the 11th, then manage to track Arthur down in half an hour in the finale?" and "how did Arthur find Dexters house, when the only one listed in the white pages was his old apartment?".

Both non-issues as far as I'm concerned. The first can be answered by the fact that they previously didn't have a witness nor any direct clues to go on (the logo). The second, well, Deb probably had a diary with numbers and addresses of friends and family, maybe that's where he found it?

Anyway! It opens for a lot of questions as for season 5:

1) Will the kids stay with Dexter? Seeing as he and Rita were married, it is likely that he will get custody over the children (if they had not been, her mother may have had a good chance of getting it instead). Does that mean that the next series will focus on Dexter balancing his single parenthood with the dark passenger?

2) How suspicious is Debra of Dexter, now that she knows his past? She certainly looked suspcious when he arrived at Arthurs house as quickly as he did.

3) How will Dexter explain the fact that Trinity apparently killed his wife? As far as the police are aware, there is no link between Arthur and Dexter - and further, will Arthurs family tell the police about "Kyle Butler"? Perhaps even identify him? How would he explain this persona?

4) With the above questions raised, along with the death of his wife, will Dexter perhaps move to a different state and start over? He has a good excuse now that his wife has died - perhaps he will even ask Deb and/or the kids Grandmother to look after the children for a bit while he grieves Rita.

5) And my final thought: Will the series continue where it left of, or will they opt to do a time jump? Perhaps to when Harrison hits puberty and possibly begins to show signs of carrying the same dark secret as Dexter - with the focusing changing somewhat to Dexter teaching Harrison the code, and even bringing him along to his killings?

That sums up my thoughts for the episode, and man do I wish it was December 2010 already so I could watch Season 5 start to finish! By the way, don't miss out on the new Comment function that we've added to the site - let us know what you think about the episode and feel free to give your view on some of my thoughts on the finale as well!

One last thing - I found this inteview with Clyde Phillips, where he answers some questions about the Finale and what's next! You can read it >here<.

Edit #2: I just got sent a link to >this article<where Richard Lawson over at TV.com gives his take on the finale. Its well worth a read, so check it out!