The Shield Season 4 Offical Thread

[Youth N Asia 0]

Great episode, they're building up to something great. And Shane looks like he bought his life for the rest of the season, but there could still be a time when Vic just can't bail him out and has to do him in.

 

WTF! Shield never takes a week off.

[teke184 0]

According to Yahoo's TV schedule, it's getting bumped for back-to-back showings of Independance Day...

[JasonX 0]

A great episode until the end, when Vic didn't beat Shane to a bloody pulp. The fact that Shane has created so much hate and tension with Vic and their friends with his stupidity that it should be enough justification for Vic beating Shane to a bloody pulp before telling him that he'll bail Shane's sorry ass out of the grave he's dug for both himself and Army.

 

The stuff with Army and Shane was interesting and I wish they had intercut the scenes where Army is going apeshit on Shane over how deep in shit they were with some new flashbacks of Vic and Shane planning Terry's murder so as to show the parallels of how far Shane has gone off the rails in regards to becoming Vic.

 

As for Dutch/Dani, I was hoping that they would have Monica catch them in the act so as to provide the episode with one moment of comedy before the big confrontation between Vic and Shane. But Monica's dead man walking I'm afraid. The constant mention of someone possibly assassinating her reeked of the foreshadowing fairy making her pressence known The whole plot about her moving into Farmington smells of them preparing to write Glenn Close out. And her bringing in an IAD narc into the team is going to bite her in the ass, as she should tell Vic about it if only to keep Vic from going apeshit on her when he finds out IAD has infiltrated the Barn to investigate him.

 

As it stands, am I the only one who wished that Monica would have gotten Ronnie to be the one who investigates the mole/clear Vic? It would not only make better sense (given that Vic vouched for Ronnie to take over the hidden camera opperation and Ronnie's survailance skills) in terms of Monica wanting to keep the investigation in house and with the slant towards clearing Vic. Not to mentiong giving Ronnie something to do with the whole Antwon/Vic/Shane/Lem storyline by having Ronnie be the one who has to come up with the plan to keep Vic out of trouble/neutralize Shane so that he doesn't fuck everything up for everyone by getting busted, including being the one who ends up having to kill Shane when things get to the point where killing Shane and letting him take the fall in death.

 

As for the money Vic gave his wife. I have a feeling most, if not all of it is from the money train. What little of it wasn't burned up.

 

Said money is from Vic's cut of the money train loot most likely.

 

And the way Corrine was acting about it. The next time Dutch is over she'll tell and show Dutch the money. Then he's going to probe into it and start getting close to the money train robbery and Vic.

 

It would be more likely that Dutch would think that Vic was Antwon's mole than Vic having anything to do with the Money Train heist.

 

Why isn't there a new episode next week?

 

The rumors I've heard say the delay is due to the fact that filming for the season was delayed a couple of weeks due to Chiklis filming the Fantastic Four movie, which has caused filming to get to the point that they could not get all of the episodes ready so as to ensure that the season ran uninterrupted. By taking a week off, FX is giving the producers of the show an extra week's worth of time to get the remaining episodes filmed

[Darthtiki 0]

I see dutch going stalker or molester and vic beating the fuck out of him. My vote is molester due to last season when Dani and Julien were doing property inventory and Dutch was looking for a computer that may had child porn on it.

[JasonX 0]

I see dutch going stalker or molester and vic beating the fuck out of him.  My vote is molester due to last season when Dani and Julien were doing property inventory and Dutch was looking for a computer that may had child porn on it.

Having Dutch turn into a stalker/molester won't happen given that Dutch is one of the more popular supporting cast characters amongst the die-hard "Shield" fans and that the writers caught hell last season from critics the contrieved nature of the imfamous "Dutch kills a kitten just to know what it feels like to kill" ending, which they've since admitted was a last minute addition to the episode it occurred in.

 

Plus the entire character of Dutch is the fact that he's Vic's mirror image; someone who is horribly fucked up on the insides just like Vic but who is able to stay on the straight and narrow rather than give into his darkside. At best, in order to keep this balance going you could have Dutch beat the shit out of Vic just to further the notion by having Dutch deliver such a beating to Vic (after Vic brags to Dutch, pre-fight that he was going to beat Dutch's ass) that he starts questioning his own darkside and the fact that despite his constant stating of how he's better than Vic do to him relying on his mind more than his fist, that deep down he's just as barbaric as Vic.

 

And Vic gets a real reason to hate Dutch/further their feud (especially if they have Dutch not get Corrine to put out sexually) by having Vic wanting to get revenge on Dutch for beating him to a bloody pulp.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I was let down a bit from this episode, but whenever there's an Acaveda rape scene, I'm happy. Can't wait to see this blow up in his face...

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

I was let down a bit from this episode, but whenever there's an Acaveda rape scene, I'm happy. Can't wait to see this blow up in his face...

Speaking of the rape in this ep. The first time I say it I was creeped but, when I saw it on the repeat I couldn't laughing.

 

I mean the way the woman said her lines was to funny. "Owww you're to powerful. Owww it's show big." Anyone else laugh at it?

[Vyce 0]

I was let down a bit from this episode, but whenever there's an Acaveda rape scene, I'm happy. Can't wait to see this blow up in his face...

Speaking of the rape in this ep. The first time I say it I was creeped but, when I saw it on the repeat I couldn't laughing.

 

I mean the way the woman said her lines was to funny. "Owww you're to powerful. Owww it's show big." Anyone else laugh at it?

Naw, that scene was pretty fucked up.

 

He's kind of midcard at this point, but Aceveda's definitely gone full heel.

[Guest Brian]

Anyone else think he's vgoing to try vto play out the original rape scene, all gun and all while she's on his dick, and he's gonna blow her head off by accident. That'd be great if he has to go to Vic for help.

[The Ill One 0]

Why did I imagine a Pulp Fiction situation to Brian's post? Personally I think it'll led to her going public about it. Shane and Vic will finish things off with Antwone but at the same time Army's a dead man. Dutch will score with Vic's wife and Vic will continue to mess with Danni.

[Zetterberg is God 0]

That ending was some intense shit. I thought Vic would either pull the trigger or beat the hell out of Shane. And I'm honestly getting tired of every episode having some unnecessary sex scene in it. I'm pretty sure I read an interview with Shawn Ryan saying he didn't like to put stuff like that in the shows yet it continually happens. It sucks that we have to wait two weeks now for a new episode but that builds the antcipation more I guess.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

It sucks that we have to wait two weeks now for a new episode but that builds the antcipation more I guess.

 

I don't know about you, but I can't stop seeing Will Smith punch that Alien and say "Welcome to Earth..."

[Angelus 0]

I just saw the last ep ...Wow the ending was intense ! So what's the deal now, Vic will help Shane ? What Lem will think about that ?

[JasonX 0]

That ending was some intense shit. I thought Vic would either pull the trigger or beat the hell out of Shane.

Sadly the ending wasn't that intense since the writers telegraphed from the very beginning of the episode that Shane was going to do the "good" thing and refuse to kill Vic. But the ending was crappy since it was pretty much the same old shit we've seen since day one (Shane fucks up and begs Vic to clean up his mess), which in term sums up my feelings on how the writers totally fucked up what was a simple yet highly anticipated storyline in terms of finally having Vic and Shane having it out against each other.

 

BTW some major tidbits:

1. It's been officially stated that Glenn Close won't be back next season and that her character will most definately be written out at the end of the season

 

2. It's been rumored that episode 410 (which will air in two weeks) is going to run 90 minutes as opposed to the standard hour.

 

3. It's also been rumored that Viacom has made an offer to buy the first run syndication rights to "The Shield" and that the show would run on Spike TV if Fox signs off on the deal.

[Guest Brian]

SpikeTV would have The Ultimate Figher and the Shield!?!

[JasonX 0]

SpikeTV would have The Ultimate Figher and the Shield!?!

To be fair, unless Spike TV makes a deal to show "The Shield" uncut expect to see the show (or at the very least the first season) to be chopped up, blurred, and bleeped beyond recognition since unlike The Sopranos (which has been filmed since day one with alternate footage for the inevitable syndication sale) no efforts has been made to shoot alternate "clean" footage for "The Shield".

[Lord of The Curry 0]

That Ronnie banner is the fuckin hot shit.

[The Ill One 0]

Bump for tonight, should be good. After watching two weeks ago episode it actually was better than when I originally watched it. Maybe because it really clicked how Vic seemed ready to die.

[BlackFlagg 0]

Good epsiode tonight..but next week just...g'damn <drool>

[Youth N Asia 0]

Very good ep. Next week looks even better. And 90 minutes makes it EVEN BETTER!

[JasonX 0]

Good epsiode tonight..but next week just...g'damn <drool>

Tonight's episode was unexpected....

 

I fully expected them to spend the entire episode on the search for the missing cops and end the episode with the cops being found dead and the next episode resolving the entire Antwon Mitchell storyline. But as it stands a good epiosde even though it was pretty convoluted for them to have Acaveda in uniform helping in the search (even though it did provide the people who put the promo commercials together to get all meta-textural regarding the character's arc this season).

 

That said, they better not pull the cosmic reset button next week. Given the piss-poor way that the Shane/Vic storyline has played out, Shane HAS to take the wrap for his crimes committed as Antwon's narc in order to move the story into only possible ending it can logically go, which is that Shane gets into a position where he has to turn on Vic and reveal the details of their killing Terry in order to save his hide and Vic using lethal force to kill/incapacitate Shane so he can't expose Vic as Terry's murderer.

 

That said, Vic reverting to evil was nice though wouldn't it be simpler to kill Antwon and clean up the pieces so that no one could point the finger to Shane and Army?

[nogoodnick 0]

Does anyone know if/when they will replay this episode. I missed it.

[LatinAssasin 0]

They'll replay it about three or four times. The replays I'm sure of are on Sunday night and Monday night at 9:00pm ct.

[Zetterberg is God 0]

Great episode. I wasn't expecting Vic to revert back to his old ways so that was a surprise. Looking forward to the extended episode next week.

[The Ill One 0]

At first I was wondering if it was a way for Vic to get through the rough time until he can get Angie then kill and/or arrest Antwon. I'm still not quite sure if it's good or disappointing. I wanted to see an all-out war. Maybe it'll swerve that way.

[Youth N Asia 0]

an hour and a half of Shieldy goodness tonight! This episode looks great from previews.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

When does it start -- 10 p.m. or 9:30 p.m.?...

[Youth N Asia 0]

10PM, it'll just run later than usual.

[The Ill One 0]

Joygasmic episode so far.

[Nevermortal 0]

AWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOME EPISODE.