Everything I never wanted

abigail_n wrote a post that looks back on the second season of Homeland and the seventh season of Dexter, here, which I think manages to sum up the good and the bad of Homeland perfectly. Now I'd broken up with Dexter a season earlier, but through fannish osmosis as well as monanotlisa managed to hear roughly what happens in s7, most of all in the season finale, so I thought myself prepared, but reading about it in Abigail's post still managed to upset me a lot.

In a different way that Dexter did when I was still watching, by the day. In retrospect it seems clear that the quality went downhill ever since writer Melissa Rosenberg left the show after s4, and by the time s6 ended it had gone to a point where I couldn't bring myself to watch further. However, what upset me about the s7 developments isn't about quality (how could I judge that, not having watched the season?); it's about content, the content being the type of storyline I'd enjoy seeing explored in fanfiction but never, ever, wanted on the show itself.

( Spoilery for s7 explanation follows. )