Dexter Vs Game of thrones which had the worse final season?

I recently rewatched Season 5 and it is good; not quite as good as Season 4 but Jordan Chase is a creepy villain, also Quinn's interest in Dexter added some good tension (that was never followed up on in later seasons). Luman was kind of the weak part of the season.

I agree that in S7 and S8 they constantly didn't know how to navigate around his kid. It was like he became nothing but a plot obstacle that was only around 'occasionally' as an annoyance.

The way it should have played out in S7 and S8 was when LaGuerta became suspicious of Dexter, Quinn should have either become involved in it assisting in the investigation that would lead to Dexter's downfall; or it is revealed that he knows and has been running cover for Dexter and it is him that maybe helps Dexter escape or something like that.

No, it is like so bad that you will want to throw something at the TV. The penultimate episode was so frustratingly dumb I had to shut it off mid episode; but the stupid had been building since the 3 episode. You will know what I mean when you see it. At least the first 2 episodes are just boring, and I mean for it being the last season and a shortened one at that the first 2 episodes frightfully little happens. Put this way, I knew we were in trouble by the end of the 2nd episode because it is like, 'great now they have to rush through everything in only 4 episodes'.

With Dexter though, the whole last season was boring and had kind of the the 'so bad it is good' cringeyness to it.

Dexter could have done as you say, except the writers eliminated that possibility when the Bay Harbor Butchers dumping ground was discovered early on and the bodies and DNA was recovered... remember they were doing DNA ID's of all the victims he had dumped there. So most of his victims that he could have taken the ID's from were now known and once known they would have gone into the system which would remove the SS they had from the active file... so now if Dexter had tried to use one of the ID's and SS numbers he would have set off red flags in an instance.

The other problem is that drivers licenses in the US require a finger print, assume he actually killed someone that looked like him and didn't dump him in the Harbor where the body was discovered. At some point he would have needed to renew that drivers license and then boom, his finger print doesn't match and the red flag pops up again.

It is simply not as easy today as it was 40 years ago to assume someones identity. He would have had a much easier time showing up in Argentina where their system is less sophisticated. Once there it would have been much easier to get a new identity.

I don't think I could ever subject myself to watching any of GOT every again; everything I enjoyed about it was completely and utterly ruined by the last season. All the build up was for nothing. With Dexter it wasn't all building to a finale; it season was self contained enough that it doesn't depend on how it ends.

The only other show that had such a build up to the finale was Breaking Bad; but where GOT failed, Breaking Bad excelled. The ending of that show was perfect and the last season was arguably the best of the series; or close to it.

The hype about the ending might have contributed to the unrealistic expectations and backlash when the expectations were not met; but then why was Breaking Bad so satisfying, it had a pretty close to equal amount of hype (maybe not to the scale of GOT). That is because Breaking Bad understood what ending it was building towards and just told its story in a logical fashion. There was no goal of 'subverting expectations' like with GOT. and every payoff of breaking bad had proper build up; nothing happened that you can say 'couldn't have been expected'. That was the problem with GOT, they were trying too hard to make the audience go 'wow, I wasn't expecting that' and that came at the cost of coherent story telling.

But the difference in how the 2 shows ended makes a big difference; I can't get enough of the Breaking Bad universe still; even with Dexter I would poke my head in on to see additional material if it came out. I would be absolutely unwilling to set through any GOT content. it has been over a year and I have not been able to go back and watch a single episode. I unsubscribed from a bunch of my favorite youtube GOT channels, just because I was so disgusted by the end and so unwilling to listen to anymore content. 5 years ago I would not have believed that was even possible.