Originally Posted by Far-L

The whole "Kashka" plotline to start the season was a super huge red herring that pretty much dead ended into nothing but a foil for what? Showing Dexter that he can be a serial killer and have feelings about people too? (ground already covered in previous seasons) Still, Ray Stevenson was the best antagonist since Lithgow, imo, but that is probably because both those guys can act their way out of a paper bag to say the least.

However, now they have pretty much painted themselves into a corner.

Instead of going for a shark jumping season 8, the best thing would've been for Deb to kill Dexter, then LaGuerta, then go crazy and start seeing, talking to the Dad like Dex did, while getting promoted to Captain... close up on her expression, the same sinister smile Dexter always sports... roll credits. THE END.

But of course, that is not how these things work in Tinseltown, where the last drop of creativity must be dehydrated to a speck of dusty remembrance for what used to be good.