The Shield is OVER

RONJON · Nov 26, 2008

wow i watched this show since it started and it is one show that always kept me on edge...cant believe what just went down on the final show...u gotta be freakin kidding me!

RONJON

mrsoul · Nov 26, 2008

i know! greatest show ever. i was convinced someone was gonna kill vick. shanes ending was sad.

rotty · Nov 26, 2008

I predicted the Shane thing but thought that Vic would get cold feet about sending Ronnie to jail so he would tell him to run and go to jail himself. Since this last season was about him redeeming himself and trying to make up for the shit he did. I hated the plot line with Dutch. It was stupid that it was left the way it was. One of the best series ever!

lucian · Nov 26, 2008

wow

the whole shane thing really threw me. not so much him dying but killing his family. FUCKED UP!!!! and ronnie i thought was gonna get a deal after all. but damn man he is the only one gonna pay for all the shit they did! vick....i dunno. i tought he was gona shoot himself in the last scene but.......oh well. great show. great finale. but i hate when it ends like......what happens next? does vick find his family? does aserveda get elected? does ronie cut some sort of deal to get his ass out of a sling?
maybe a shield tv movie in the future could finnish it?

god bless
lucian

rotty · Nov 26, 2008

I don't think Ronnie could have anything to cut a deal with, Shane is dead and Vic has full imunity so there really isnt anything for him to offer.My only gripe with the ending was with Dutch and that kid setting him up. There were no actual witnesses that could clear him and Claudette was only a character witness and that kid might not have cracked. They could have devoted a whole series with that playing out as a secondary plot. But to have it end with that huge chunk of missing info is crazy

mrsoul · Nov 26, 2008

remember when vick was on the phone with shane and he told him he had immunity and used shanes black book because he had forgot some stuff? well when claudette was reading the suicide note to vick i thought there was gonna be something in it that vick left off of his list to the feds. yeah i hated the ending with dutch. i wanted to hear the kid confess to some weird shit.

Hellbilly · Nov 26, 2008

I liked how Shane pointed out that he had his family but that Vic did not. I actually felt sorry for Shane. The writers did a good job of showing you that Vic really was the villain of the series. He has a fate worse than jail or death (For him). Another aspect of 'what happens now' is that even though Vic has immunity from prosecution, all the arrests made by Shane and Ronnie can be overturned. To me there wasn't really any Characters who were morally upstanding. Claudette was so full of wrath and hate for Vic in the scene within the interrogation room. When Vic did not break down like she wanted, she arrested Ronnie in front of him. Corrine was heartless bitch, after portraying herself as some kind of victim (all the while getting money) she turns, takes his kids even knowing poor Ronnie is screwed. It was really sad to see Ronnie go down as he was screaming "What about the team?", he still seemed to have some redeeming qualities. This was apparent to me when he was crying about Shane. Vic really showed no emotion about Shane even though he knows the blood was on his hands. The most telling part of Vic's evil is when he is about to break down over his life, takes a deep breath, and gets up and goes about his business. He is completely capable of rebuilding his life and eventually his daughter would at least try to contact him. He has the son with Dani who isn't that far from him. For me, I see that Vic has no real "code" loyalty was the last thing he had going but broke when he screwed Ronnie. His worst fate was a life without purpose, no kids, no real bad guy busting badge job, no friends. Who knows, maybe they make a movie.

BigCracker · Nov 26, 2008

Hellbilly said:
I liked how Shane pointed out that he had his family but that Vic did not. I actually felt sorry for Shane. The writers did a good job of showing you that Vic really was the villain of the series. He has a fate worse than jail or death (For him). Another aspect of 'what happens now' is that even though Vic has immunity from prosecution, all the arrests made by Shane and Ronnie can be overturned. To me there wasn't really any Characters who were morally upstanding. Claudette was so full of wrath and hate for Vic in the scene within the interrogation room. When Vic did not break down like she wanted, she arrested Ronnie in front of him. Corrine was heartless bitch, after portraying herself as some kind of victim (all the while getting money) she turns, takes his kids even knowing poor Ronnie is screwed. It was really sad to see Ronnie go down as he was screaming "What about the team?", he still seemed to have some redeeming qualities. This was apparent to me when he was crying about Shane. Vic really showed no emotion about Shane even though he knows the blood was on his hands. The most telling part of Vic's evil is when he is about to break down over his life, takes a deep breath, and gets up and goes about his business. He is completely capable of rebuilding his life and eventually his daughter would at least try to contact him. He has the son with Dani who isn't that far from him. For me, I see that Vic has no real "code" loyalty was the last thing he had going but broke when he screwed Ronnie. His worst fate was a life without purpose, no kids, no real bad guy busting badge job, no friends. Who knows, maybe they make a movie.

Ditto.

rotty · Nov 26, 2008

What really sucks is that Ronnie wasn't really even in the show that much for a few seasons. It was Vic, Shane, then Lem got a bigger role but up until season 4 or 5 it was Vic, Shane, Lem and the other guy and now he's the only one that goes to jail.

mrsoul · Nov 26, 2008

i was thinkikng also that vick would be wqalking to his car in the end and a van would pull up and take him away to torture and kill him the way he did others. but yeah, when he could not cry at the end i thought, wow, he gets away with everything but loses 2 friends and his family and he does'nt shed a tear.

kpumpin · Nov 26, 2008

Just FYI. I posted on here a while back that my wife's first cousin plays on the unit. She is Tiffy on there. Ive never really watched the shield much but she was in a few episodes that I did watch. She was the hooker that was in a couple of episodes a while back. I believe it was a cop that the sex scene was with. My wife couldnt hardly watch it because it was her baby cousin, lol.

RONJON · Nov 26, 2008

Yep it was sad with shane especially...since he was trying to make things better and seemed to want to start over. It would have been perfect if somethin would've happened to Vic to put him in jail. I feel like he gets away with everything too! But yeah thats a good point he really doesnt have a purpose now which is why he grabbed that gun i guess. And sucks we couldnt see the kid go down for murder...all in all it was an amazing series

RONJON

Copenhagen · Nov 26, 2008

Never seen or heard of this show

What station is it on?

skulbone · Dec 17, 2008

Epic show.

BigCracker · Dec 17, 2008

Copenhagen said:
Never seen or heard of this show What station is it on?

FX Network

bigcats · Dec 17, 2008

Total disapointment the last episode was.I felt jipped like the soparons last episode.

Alex A · Dec 17, 2008

The shield was by far my favorite show to watch each week.

I have probably seen each episode 3-4 times, each season . FX has reruns going all the time. The last episode was a real letdown. I though for sure Vic would end up dead or in Jail. Pretty weird ending.

I loved the first couple seasons best when the strike team was kicking ass, robbing dealers and showing who is boss.

The great thing for me was that all the filming was done here on familiar terf in Los Angeles. The cop Tommy( he shot his brains out in his squad car after he set up his house to get robbed), works out at the gym i train at in North Hollywood.

Me being Armenian( i was born here and Im 3rd generation, i look just like a white dude) I grew up in Los Angeles in a white suburban neighborhood. The show really stereo typed Armenians as sophisticated gangsters. That was something new to me.

I wish the show could have kept running. It seemed popular as hell.

Ashop · Dec 17, 2008

RONJON said:
wow i watched this show since it started and it is one show that always kept me on edge...cant believe what just went down on the final show...u gotta be freakin kidding me!

RONJON

I seen a few epsiodes and it was very good.

FredPalowakski · Dec 18, 2008

What a great Show and I have yet to see season one. I think Garbocki got the biggest shaft. I wish they would come out with a new series of Vic on the run. Some crazy twists. Yes, that was Sad the way Shane went out. I thought he would turn snitch. FX has some really great series. The Shield, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, Sons of Anarchy. I can't wait to see with what they come up with next