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The Shield (Season 7 - The Final Act - 2008)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 13, 2014, 10:49 pm
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[center]The Shield (Season 7 - The Final Act - 2008)
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As was the case with Season 6, I spent a great deal of time
trying to figure out how The Shield would wrap up by the end.
And having sat on the Season 7 DVD for 6 years, that's a lot of
time to come up with some outlandish stuff. So, watching this
season has been really fun for me, even if I really didn't have
a clue how they were going to tie it all up.
No matter what scenario I came up with, it always ended with
Mackey dying. I actually focused solely on him that I totally
neglected to factor in what would be come of the Strike Team
(Shane and Ronnie). The first 3/4 of the season is what I would
call vintage Shield. It's the final 4 episodes that seemed to go
a bit off the norm for the series because it's all about Mackey
and Ronnie hunting down Shane and Mara to kill them to keep
their dirty secret to themselves.
But with EVERYONE pretty much in play, it made for a
fascinatiing 4 hours of Cat and Mouse. The thing that makes The
Shield so great is in Mackey's ability to always find a way out
of the monumental hole he digs for himself and the rest of the
Team. And yet, at the 11th hour, Mackey is able to pull himself
out and actually succeed beyond the initial set up. But this
last job of trying to take down the cartel, by playing both
sides including the ICE investigation, with Wyms and Dutch
tracking his move, with Mackey's own Ex-Wife setting him up in
the process and trying to work an immunity deal for himself is
pure gold.
One final thing that had me on the edge of my seat was whether
or not Mackey was really going to send Ronnie up the river for
HIS crimes. With Mackey being the only one offered an immunity
deal, which he signed, I had to believe that this was his FINAL
play, one that would actually save Ronnie at the very end.
Mackey has always been about loyalty, so I just couldn't for the
life of me accept that he would do him wrong like that. In the
end, he does leave Ronnie out to hang and what's ironic is that
it's Mackey's own testimony that seals his fate given that Shane
kills himself.
Speaking of Shane, with everything happening in the last 4
episodes and the noose getting tighter and tighter, I actually
saw him taking the cowards way out, which stays true to his
character on the show. What I didn't see coming was him taking
out Mara, his unborn baby and his son Jackson. That was the
shock for me in the last episode.
So, Mackey skates "clean" of all the sh*t he brought down on
himself, his family, his friends and his coworkers. In the end,
he gets his own 'Hell' when ICE screws him on his deal by taking
him off the streets, forcing him to wear a suit and tie,
planting him behind a desk to push a pencil in a not so
glamorous 9-5 job. To him, THIS is worse than prison as he is
all alone and his family in hiding. The final scene does suggest
that he goes rogue by quitting his desk job. Maybe a movie could
happen? Or maybe not. Anyway, I really liked this season and a
step up from the previous season. And the Series Finale was very
satisfying as well. Definitely worth a Rent.
Another thing that made Season 7 great was seeing them bring
back past characters from the first six seasons. The biggest of
course was bringing back Tavon. It was great to see Tavon back
for an episode. I had been hoping they would bring him back
because I always thought that his and Shane's story was somewhat
incomplete in how it "ended". With him back, even for just for
an episode, the tension was palpable and I was sitting on pins
and needles wondering if Tavon actually knew that Mara had
cracked him the head with an iron. He did.
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Re: The Shield (Season 7 - The Final Act - 2008)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 13, 2014, 10:50 pm
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Re: The Shield (Season 7 - The Final Act - 2008)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 10, 2018, 2:53 pm
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[center]The Untold Truth Of The Shield
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I love The Shield...it's one of my all time fave TV
series....but under no circumstances should they bring it back.
A big part of what made the series what it was and still is, was
the relationship between Vic and Shane. With Shane removed from
the equation, the series will never match what we got in the
original run. Just my 2 cents.
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