Is anyone actually satisfied with the ending?

I was hoping for another season but i'm ok with how it ended.I always figued in the end Dexter would end up dead or in jail.What i found implausible is that someone as careful and experienced as Dexter who pulled the wool over Miami metros eyes for decades was ultimately caught by a young small town cop.Would have made more sense if Batista had figured it out.

I feel mostly indifferent. It's disappointing that we never got a "Dexter on the run" or "Dexter on trial/in prison" storyline, though to be fair to the New Blood team I don't know how feasible those would have been after the original finale. It wouldn't be super compelling to see him exposed without the Miami metro team there to react to it. As it stands this ending is OK, albeit a little rushed, and at the very least offers closure. I think people saying it's worse than the lumberjack finale are being silly.

They just threw it away.
So, they came back to give us this. This one episode is as bad as the last three seasons of Dexter. It was also out of character for Harrison - at least the Harrison they created for this series.
It had so much promise.

No. It was sh*t. And it isn’t logical - at all.

Yeah, I liked it. I mean it was a good finale for this particular season of Dexter. This version of Dexter had so little in common with the Dex from the original series, I can't really see this as any sort of finale to the whole thing. This played out more like somebody's fan fiction for what could have happened after the lumberjack ending. I really liked the emotional beats it hit. It was almost more like Dexter imagining his own death. As a twisted fantasy. Anyhow... rack up another dead hero. Hollywood sure loves killing off all our heroes these days. It was fine.

I got what they were going for, so I was satisfied with it — they understood that there’s only so long Dexter can remain at large before it becomes ridiculous or problematic

I didn’t like Harrison having to be the trigger man at first, but then I realized I was imposing real world values (how messed up a kid would be who had to kill his own father) onto a fantasy about the ultimate antihero and his absurdly incompetent pursuers. The selling point was Harrison’s demand that Dexter, “open your eyes and see what you’ve done!”

That was, of course, exactly what Dexter said to his first victim in the very first episode.

Add to that, as someone in another thread pointed out, the flashbacks to Logan, Doakes, Rita and Deb were exactly like Dexter showing himself photos of his victims. Dexter fit Harry’s Code, and here’s Harry’s grandson, Harrison, to enforce it.

So Harrison sets Dexter free, and frees himself of Dexter’s legacy. He’s free to follow his own road, an experienced nomad with Kurt’s $30K in cash to work with.

I also got chills during the end credits, showing Harrison literally driving into the night, his father’s former hunting ground.

Yeah, I’m cool with the way things ended.

BTW, the lumberjack ending never sat right with me, because it was so obviously the work of producers who wanted to leave themselves an opening to continue the series. Clyde wanted Dexter to die in the end, and for a serial killer, it’s an ending that feels right. More so than being a lumberjack

At this point, I just wanted Dexter dead, but I don't like that I did.You spend 10 years watching a character - generally rooting for him - but he's indefensible at this point. But what that does is create a situation where there's no point or enjoyment. What's the point of all this? What am I hoping to happen? Who am I rooting for or against?

Yes. I'm cool with it. I've said it on other posts, and I realize it's unpopular, but he had to meet his end. He was a killer, even if for "good reason." And he had gotten out of control and killed innocents.