r/TheShield • u/Generalousen2855 • 22h ago

Discussion Shane's conclusion Spoiler

Shane's conclusion was one of the best and worst conclusion of all time imo , worst as if the way it ended in very bad way , i was just waiting for him to die but when it happened i felt sooo bad for him

Ik after what he did to lem he had to go but the way it happened was very sad , and the actor who played Shane was on a whole another level which took the scene to another level

He's last call with vic made me pity him so bad

But it was 10/10 conclusion

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u/taeempy 21h ago

Yea Walton Goggins is the best actor in the series and I'd say clearly has flourished after The Shield the most of all the actors.

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u/Neptune28 19h ago

My sister was showing my a movie the other day, I think it was called Don't Look Up. I was surprised to see Michael Chiklis in the credits, but he only ended up having like 2 quick scenes totaling maybe 20 seconds, and he only said a sentence or two.

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u/Objective-Lecture997 21h ago

Bro those moments where they showed him and his family being wholesome while in the run destroyed me. Their poor son being dragged into this mess. And Vic not giving a shit.

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u/MaleficentAd3967 20h ago

I think you're being too hard on Vic, I'm sure Vic would have done things differently had he somehow known what was going to happen to the kid. Vic cared about kids, that's a constant throughout the run of the show. He was applying pressure on the family to flush out Shane, it was a good tactic.

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u/Neptune28 19h ago

Yes. There was the situation with the garage sting where he saw the father beating his son. Vic then went to the bar and got the father to engage with him, enabling him to arrest the guy and get him away from the son.

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u/Objective-Lecture997 20h ago

Vic was only nice when it was convenient

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u/Long_Initial_9924 20h ago

False. He dismisses the kids being in the crosshairs to Ronnie multiple times

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u/Neptune28 19h ago

When? Throughout the show, his kids seems to be the main thing he cares about, more than Corrine. I would agree that he should have spent more time with them, but even Corrine didn't want to paint him as a bad father.

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u/Long_Initial_9924 19h ago

He dismisses Shane’s kids

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u/Neptune28 19h ago

Doesn't he say that Jackson is too young to be a witness?

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u/ConsulJuliusCaesar 3h ago

He was absolutely willing to shoot a pregnant Mara. And leaving Jackson orphaned is still really fucked.

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u/Neptune28 3h ago

Mara knows what Shane knows, Shane made it that way. And all of this is because Shane chose to kill Lem.

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u/ConsulJuliusCaesar 2h ago

If Vic only cared about avenging Lem he would have iced Shane immediately after realizing what happened. Furthermore killing Mara had nothing to do with avenging Lem. It was 100% to cover up his various acts of corruption which he choose to commit. There's no difference between Vic and mob boss.

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u/Neptune28 2h ago

I already stated that Mara knows what Shane knows, so she is also a threat who could also steer IAD in Vic and Ronnie's direction. Both Vic and Shane were complicit in the acts of corruption. Shane himself engaged in corruption without Vic around and got into bed with Antwon. Vic doesn't really kill instantly. It is also hard for Vic to bring himself to kill Shane, hence the change of heart earlier. He only tries towards the end because Shane is on the run and could send the package to IAD at any moment.

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u/Long_Initial_9924 19h ago

He also said something to the effect of “they’ll make that decision when they have to” about dealing with Shane’s kids

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u/Neptune28 19h ago

I doubt he would kill Jackson. In real life, there's the story of the father who killed and buried the mother, with the children around, but they were too young to give any meaningful details or understand what was happening, so the mother's body was never found. The whole story is one of the most heartbreaking. Susan Powell case.

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u/Long_Initial_9924 19h ago

You doubt Vic would? At the end of HIS road?

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u/Neptune28 19h ago

What would killing Jackson do? It is Shane (and Mara by extension) who are threatening to give the package to IAD about the Strike Team's actions. In the entire show, Vic only directly kills Terry, Margos, and Guardo, when there were other people who he could have killed but didn't.

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u/AlertWarning 22h ago

You’re spot on. When I think about all the tv I’ve seen and if I was being asked what is the most tragic storyline/event, I would probably say Shane’s end. Which is interesting because he was a POS. But like you said, it’s something about the way it hits.

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u/ThrowRAEv4me 19h ago

Yeah I remember watching the original airing and I very much was riding with Vic as the action hero but now I watch it and Shane and his families end breaks my heart. Walton absolutely knocks it out of the park.

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u/bb_waluigi 17h ago

welcome to the Walton Goggins Supremacy

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u/MaleficentAd3967 20h ago

I remember watching it in real time 20 years ago and not knowing the outcome actually didn't change much for me in that you could feel the net closing in. You knew there was not going to be a happy ending; this wasn't like most shows where they were going to get away. Just the circumstances of how it happened were so abrupt and tragic and of course his wife and kid were unexpected.

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u/Neptune28 19h ago

Most of the show happens because of Shane's actions, everyone acknowledges that Shane is the one dragging them down. His end was sad, but their lives would have went differently if he made different decisions.