Did anyone else get a Dr Frankenstein vibe from Vogel? She seems like some sort of mad scientist or something. Maybe even a God complex about Dexter. Could be interesting if the final season is sort of a Dexter meeting his maker type thing, since obviously Harry is out of the picture in that sense. I have been hopeful forever that we find out Matthews has been in on it all along, and it's interesting that Geoff Pierson is finally listed in the opening credits as a regular, so we at least will finally get a lot more of him. But it will be interesting to see where they take it.
Poor Deb is a mess, as expected, after going against everything she believed in. I don't expect her to really recover from such a thing. I fear her only way up is just to embrace the monster and yeah take over like Sicy said! Another option is to become a major force in bringing Dexter down, as some sort of salvation for her, but that also goes against everything she believed in too, family, so I don't know!
The one thing that's still weird for me is Dexter's change of character last season and breaking his code. We were always able to fully pull for him before as the monster with sort of morals. And even if his friends all finally found out about him, there could be some hope of understanding there and sympathy. But after La Guerta, no way. He's pretty much plain old monster status now, which is kind of sad. Oh well.
Anyway, yeah, really hopeful for a good season and this show going out on a high note.