Such a shitty way for Dexter to end (and im not even referring to the literal ending). the writing got progressively worse after Trinity and it all ended with some mediocre "metaphors" to add depth that really just came off as being stupid as fuck.
But Breaking Bad is too epic for me to even give a fuck about Dexter lol
Actually the show runner of Dexter resigned after the Trinity season since he said the series couldn't really go further. After that other people manned the ship. Here's what that guy, Clyde Phillips, had in mind with ending the show:
"In the very last scene of the series, Dexter wakes up. And everybody is going to think, ‘Oh, it was a dream.’ And then the camera pulls back and back and back and then we realize, ‘No, it’s not a dream.’ Dexter’s opening his eyes and he’s on the execution table at the Florida Penitentiary. They’re just starting to administer the drugs and he looks out through the window to the observation gallery.
And in the gallery are all the people that Dexter killed—including the Trinity Killer and the Ice Truck Killer (his brother Rudy), LaGuerta who he was responsible killing, Doakes who he’s arguably responsible for, Rita, who he’s arguably responsible for, Lila. All the big deaths, and also whoever the weekly episodic kills were. They are all there.
That’s what I envisioned for the ending of Dexter. That everything we’ve seen over the past eight seasons has happened in the several seconds from the time they start Dexter’s execution to the time they finish the execution and he dies. Literally, his life flashed before his eyes as he was about to die. I think it would have been a great, epic, very satisfying conclusion."