The Shield - worth all 7 seasons?

Padraig Mor

Just started watching this today - 3 episodes on the train. Looks great! And the end of the pilot episode - wow!

Padraig Mor

Just started watching this today - 3 episodes on the train. Looks great! And the end of the pilot episode - wow!

Mr E

Character spoilered too.

IvaBigWun

Mr E wrote: »

Character spoilered too.

Too late for me. Hopefully not for others

IvaBigWun

Season 4 next up for me, Im binging on ths show big time

IvaBigWun

Glen Close has moved this show up a couple of notches for me. She's excellent.

Boom_Bap

The Shield is insanely good, so many 'Holy Sh*t, they did not just do that' moments.

After watching it, I went straight to the next Shaun Ryan thing I could find which was The Unit. Also an excellent show, but gets lost along the way

and just ends out of the blue because it was canned

and continuity is a bit off.

Someone mentioned Homicide: Life On The Street earlier in the thread, just want to note that that is one of my favorite cop shows along with The Shield and The Wire.

_Kaiser_

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Glen Close has moved this show up a couple of notches for me. She's excellent.

Ah yes, season 4 is excellent (Antwon Mitchell is great too).

Damn I wish I could watch this fresh again. I'm actually quite enjoying reading your updates as you get through it

dave1982

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The Shield is insanely good, so many 'Holy Sh*t, they did not just do that' moments.

After watching it, I went straight to the next Shaun Ryan thing I could find which was The Unit. Also an excellent show, but gets lost along the way

and just ends out of the blue because it was canned

and continuity is a bit off.

Someone mentioned Homicide: Life On The Street earlier in the thread, just want to note that that is one of my favorite cop shows along with The Shield and The Wire.

I think he is doing sons of anarchy also, a few faces from the shield show up on it and if I remember properly the one niners are in it.

Boom_Bap

dave1982 wrote: »

I think he is doing sons of anarchy also, a few faces from the shield show up on it and if I remember properly the one niners are in it.

It was Kurt Sutter, another writer on The Shield who went on to do SOA. He also played the Armenian bad guy in The Shield.

dave1982

Boom_Bap wrote: »

It was Kurt Sutter, another writer on The Shield who went on to do SOA. He also played the Armenian bad guy in The Shield.

Just googled that there turns out he is in SOA aswell:eek:

Thanks for that bit of trivia

MikeyGorse

Starting watching it a few weeks back,finished it a few hours ago,unbelievable show!

MikeyGorse

dave1982 wrote: »

Just googled that there turns out he is in SOA aswell:eek:

Thanks for that bit of trivia

Otto Delaney.

IvaBigWun

Im upto early Season 5 and, as Id feared, the gang stuff is starting to bore me.

On the upside: Forest Whitaker!

IvaBigWun

Finished all 7 seasons right upto that great finale.

Phew!

Need to gather my thoughts, so for now I'll just leave these here

Fred Swanson

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johnnyjohnjohn

Probably one of the best tv shows out there,Macky one of the best characters ever to grace a tv!!
for me personally The Shield was a better tv experience than the wire,but thats my opinion!!

IvaBigWun

Was there a Shield sub forum on Boards at some stage?

IvaBigWun

Also, while Im digesting the last few episodes, one thing does stand out: did anyone else have their doubts about

Dutch

?

_Kaiser_

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Also, while Im digesting the last few episodes, one thing does stand out: did anyone else have their doubts about

Dutch

?

I hope you mean this as I can't remember when it happened.. read at your own risk though

You talking about the cat-strangling bit? Yeah, that was a bit of a WTF moment alright! It didn't go anywhere so either the writers changed their minds, or maybe they got pressure from some animal rights brigade or something?

Dirty Dingus McGee

Great show.Season 5 is my favourite season.

chriity139

Unreal show. Only show that tops the shield for me is the sopranos.

Harvey Low Fat Milk

Great show, and as series finales go I don't think I've seen a better one. Criminally under watched.

Necro

Amazing show - my personal favorite of all time. As far as series finales go it was the créme de la créme... until a certain other show finished recently. Anyone finishing up on The Shield should give Sons of Anarchy a whirl next, another amazing show!

Kirby

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Also, while Im digesting the last few episodes, one thing does stand out: did anyone else have their doubts about

Dutch

?

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

I hope you mean this as I can't remember when it happened.. read at your own risk though

You talking about the cat-strangling bit? Yeah, that was a bit of a WTF moment alright! It didn't go anywhere so either the writers changed their minds, or maybe they got pressure from some animal rights brigade or something?

They had planned to possibly turn him into one of the serial killers he was constantly chasing. The cat strangling was part of the lead up to that but they dropped the idea in the end as too far fetched.

Besides, there was enough bad guys already in the show. It needed one or two white knights.

IvaBigWun

Kirby wrote: »

They had planned to possibly turn him into one of the serial killers he was constantly chasing. The cat strangling was part of the lead up to that but they dropped the idea in the end as too far fetched.

Besides, there was enough bad guys already in the show. It needed one or two white knights.

I think it'd have been an even better show if they had have done that with the character.

And there are those who think they *did* do it and the clues are there for us to see.

Like this blog for example, some very interesting theories forwarded, Im going to spoiler the website as the URL is a spoiler in itself;

http://jakevanderark.com/tag/dutch-and-the-cat/

Kirby

I read that. It's interesting but I don't buy it. There is a fair few leaps of logic in the article.

Besides, the creators came out and said they dropped the idea. They would have confirmed or at least hinted to the Dutch theory.....especially years after the show. And I always thought him adopting that cat later on was part of his redemption for killing the stray.

gimmick

Re the cat bit. I thought he did that to gain some understanding of what it is like to kill someone. Wasn't he just after interviewing some serial killer who had said something about the glory of seeing the lights go out for the last time or something equally sinister?

frag420

gimmick wrote: »

Re the cat bit. I thought he did that to gain some understanding of what it is like to kill someone. Wasn't he just after interviewing some serial killer who had said something about the glory of seeing the lights go out for the last time or something equally sinister?

I thought the same

Riskymove

frag420 wrote: »

I thought the same

I think the same

and

that he felt appalled and knew he wasn't like the psychos

IvaBigWun

Its now on Irish Netflix

Zero-Cool

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Its now on Irish Netflix

Oh man, just the excuse to watch it all again....all except the very last episode.....can't watch that again ever.

IvaBigWun

"Family meeting"

adox

Gonna watch this again on Netflix so. A few years since I watched the box sets. Probably in my top 3 TV shows.

The last scene of the Shield, I will never forget. Never has silence and expression been so powerful on TV as watching Vic Mackay for that couple of minutes.

brijay

adox wrote: »

Gonna watch this again on Netflix so. A few years since I watched the box sets. Probably in my top 3 TV shows.

Any reasons why the edges are cut off on netflix kinda of annoying tbh

Invertpyramid

It's an old show. Widescreen 16:9 didn't exist back then. Everything was 4:3 because that's what the TV's were shaped like. You wont notice it after a while.