solidheronThe 17 year old finale of "The Shield" hits different now.
CerebralHawksVic’s ending never really sat well with me. He didn’t face a reckoning for his actions. He just got benched. Then he hears sirens, gets up, goes to the window, and wishes he was back on the streets. Everyone else got a more satisfying ending.
I’m not sure if Vic should have went out in a blaze of glory, but he should have been taken down by a gang or cartel or something. Or the bikers. I felt like he got an easy way out and it shouldn’t have been that way.
Shane’s ending was just wild.
Such a great show otherwise. And semi-spawned Sons of Anarchy (SoA creator Kurt Sutter was a staff writer on The Shield; the two shows are not formally connected. However, Mayans MC is connected to Sons and the Mayans featured in The Shield.
Haven’t watched it in a while but I seem to remember I liked the ending. He thinks he’s outmanoeuvred everyone avoiding jail and a reckoning for his crimes.
However my take on it ending is that he’s now stuck in a dead end desk job with no action and he’s completely cut out of everything else. So a slow death of a thousand cuts thing that he would hate more than a final reckoning.