5. Ridiculous (And Unnecessary) Subplots
If Im being completely honest, I could just call the fifth reason on this list Quinn and be done with it. No character in the history of television this side of Kim Bauer from 24 has ever been involved in so many idiotic and uninteresting plotlines. Every year, Dexter fans get together and make bets that this is the year that Quinn finally gets killed. And every year, he manages to survive. The only time he had a remotely interesting storyline was when they tried to make him Doakes Jr. during the fifth season by having him be suspicious of Dexter. Other than that, theyve put him in every cliché dirty-cop-who-means-well storyline they could think of, even going as far as to have him propose to Dexters sister Deb during the sixth season. During the most recent season, Quinn was once again the role of dirty-cop-with-heart-of-gold demonstrated by his desire to free an immigrant stripper from an organized crime syndicate. If Quinn is the Kim Bauer of the Dexter universe, than Sgt. Batista is definitely the Turtle from Entourage of the universe. It pains me to write this because I loved Batista during the first few seasons. However, in the past few years theyve had him date (and marry) the Captain of the police force (LaGuerta) and had him have a mid-life crisis, demonstrated by his purchase of a sports car. This is Turtle territory. What I mean by that is that when Entourage started, Turtle was fine being just the driver for Vinnie Chases group. As that series went on, they kept giving him several stupid business adventures and plotlines that often were just a waste of time including a car service, Tequila business, and trying to get his favorite New York restaurant to locate to Los Angeles. At least Batista never did anything like buy a restaurant. Oh, wait These plotlines often never add anything to the main story that Dexter is embarking on and only take away screen time from the more interesting storylines. Its like the writers have to shoehorn Quinn or Batista into their own plotlines just so the actors can get screen time. An ensemble cast only works when all the plotlines eventually come together in a cohesive manner.