I came up with an ending last night (not necessarily better, just different and darker which is what I thought the show needed) that doesn't involve rewriting the whole season (even though that would be for the best) and isn't the generic "dying on the electric chair" ending. Anyway here's the main points:
[spoiler] The FBI guy doesn't exist, instead it's just Elway and he ends up getting killed by Saxon at the end of the penultimate episode.
Deb just dies after Saxon shoots her, no silly hospital nonsense.
Dexter is a complete mess after this, he finally lets emotions get the better of him (since they made him into a p***y anyway, might as well have him go completely human, but for good reason) and he's walking around Miami distraught or he's in a bar or something.
Saxon who's been following him, drugs him and takes him to an abandoned building (couldn't think of anywhere significant but I'm sure there's somewhere obvious). He's in an empty room with Saxon sitting on a chair with another person covered up sitting silently nearby.
Saxon explains that he's envious of Dexter and his ability to have a family and friends (mirroring the way Dexter acts towards Trinity, it felt like they were trying to do that anyway but never pulled it off) but after the way his mother treated him he wants to show Dexter what it feels like to be completely alone.
He reveals the other body to be Hannah, who's drugged as well and still completely unconscious. Saxon injects Dexter again, and as he's blacking out he see's Saxon slit Hannahs throat (this is a scene I imagine the show would actually do horribly with cheesy goodbyes but I like the idea of them not getting a proper final moment, Dexter does, after all, deserve some punishment for the fact he's a goddamn serial killer and he never got it in the proper finale)
He wakes up lying unbound on the floor, with sirens outside and is finally caught in a compromising situation forcing him to flee alone to Argentina (OF COURSE!)
You see shots of him over 10-15 years, gradually getting older, with news reports showing certain key characters having been killed e.g. Batista shot during a random call out, with no suspect seen or found.
The final series of events is an older Harisson, who was placed under witness protection (this part's just left up to the audience to figure out because I don't assume everyone to be 5 year olds like the actual writers) walking alone at night. Saxon lurks out of the shadows and grabs him but then we see a gloves hand reach out and inject Saxon.
Cut to a final kill room with Dexter standing over Saxon, photos of his murdered friends, colleagues, Deb, Hannah, Vogel, with Make Your Own Kind of Music playing as he makes a speech about how he was wrong to give up killing, regardless of him having the urge or not because psycopaths like Saxon still exist and they deserve to be under his knife. Then he completes his classic kill ritual before slitting Saxons throat. The final shot could actually be exactly the same as the finale we got but with a slight edit; now it's Dexter, in a blood soaked mask, pulling the exact same face only with a slight smile after he opens his eyes. [/spoiler]
It's not perfect of course but I think I'd have enjoyed that ending a lot more, the show really lacked any sort of darkness and I think that might have brought some back in as well as actually having a satisfying end to Saxon and making him a more important character than just some weirdo guy who decides he wants to create a million plot holes.
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