SPOILER ALERT: 'Shield' Boss Answers Burning Finale Qs

this ending was NOTHING like The Sopranos. nothing can truly be tied up with Vic, unless he’s dead. what better ending can you think of, for the person that we rooted for all these years, even though he committed so many heinous crimes? strip away everything dear to him, and allow him to live through his new hell of a life. he lives, but pays.

Perfect in every way – except for Vic. In the end he turned out to be too much of a coward to go down with Ronnie, and/or in his place. ICE would have made a deal to take Ronnie instead of Vic. Everyone wanted to see Vic hang – including Vic at that point. Once he knew Corrinne wasn’t actually in danger, he and Ronnie could simply have run. But regardless, we KNOW where every character was heading after the finale, except Vic. And that’s a failure of writing. Was it this? Was it that? We know it’s something. And that means there’s more to the story, and that’s a shame to end our window into the story by telling us there’s more we’re not going to see. Especially since Vic’s actions didn’t make sense leading up to that point. There’s no next logical step. The Shield should have ended with a bang, not an ambiguous whimper.

Why is it so unbelievable that Vic would sell out Ronnie, especially when (as it’s been said earlier) that his family was the most important thing to him and he wanted to make sure Corrin and the Family were safe, i.e. she’d be free of charges.
Do you think he really wanted to give up Ronnie? He hated himself for doing it, but he had to! The Finale was great, but I think the scene last week when he’s admitting all his sins on record was the best of the season. The long dramatic pause before he starts in was absolutely incredible.
As far as what Vic will do, there are so many possibilities, and that’s one of the few pieces that Ryan left for you to come to your own conclusion, which in my opinion, is better than the Sopranos. At least you got to see him go through his version of hell, no family, a desk job, his insides completely tattered. No fade to Journey black.
Don’t expect a movie. Not gonna happen. Not enough viewers of the show to warrant it.

I can’t believe I invested 6 yrs. of my life in this Show. Terrible finale. Reminds me of Seinfeld, no closure. Vic would not have sold Ronnie out. That was no different then Shane throughout a grenade in Lem’s lap. Why not have it take a direction that they all were killed in a situation where in between plots they saved a few of there fellow Officers. Or Vic and Ronnie where killed in the finale drug bust while taking down El bad ass. Something, anything but the vague ending that we received. The only thing I thought that was done well was Shane’s suicide. Believable given the series direction.

What the hell?! They end the series by leaving Wagenbaugh in a cliff-hanger, Claudette in a cliff-hanger, and they leave Vic picking up a gun and leaving him on the biggest cliff-hanger ever?! THIS ISN’T AN END TO A SERIES. This is the single biggest mind-f*** any series has ever pulled. We figured it out on “The Sopranos”, Tony gets whacked. No question about it. He gets shot in the head, hence why everything went black. But in “The Shield”, Vic leaves with a gun in his belt? What? Are you kidding me? This screams “marketing”. Shawn Ryan proved tonight that he wants DVD sales. Hardcore fans of the series will buy every DVD and “Collectors Set” available, and strip down every frame better than the Zappruter film. In the end, thousands of fans will demand a movie, and Ryan will be there to rake in the cash. This says that he has no loyalty to his fans, he just wants to exploit them.

How can people over think this finale? It was fantastic because Vic gets exactly what he deserves. No family, friends, or a career that he is passionate about. Everyone else on the Strike Team goes down. Vic, the leader, the strongest, the smartest…survives. It’s what he has done since March 12, 2002. Makes sense to me, and is fairly simple. My advice to people who have a problem with the finale is to not smoke grass and watch TV, and to get an IQ close to 100.

Maybe not so much a post series movie about The Shield, but what about a book or too. I thought the murder/suicide was one of the greatest plot twists I have ever seen. I wonder if Vic regrets doin what he did to Ronny knoing that his xwife was trying to get him busted.
The only other thing that I was upset over, is the last show did not give me the few moments to grieve that I had hoped. After spending all this time watching and hoping the finale didnt give me much closure, sept on the Shane side of things.

All the advance reviews lead me to believe that there would be major fireworks in the finale, some sort of “Vic kills Shane and lots of other people die too” scenario. However, it all ended in a calm, cool, logical manner. The things that happened probably WOULD’VE happened in real life. Shane had no way out. He was either going to jail or was going to die. Mara would’ve been going that route, too. Ronnie paid the price for following Vic all these years, for being loyal to the wrong man. As for Vic, well, he ran out lies he could peddle. He ran out of “outs.” At the end, he was left with nothing–no family, no friends, no job he cared about. He basically ended up in his perfect version of hell.
Sometimes you reap what you sow.