The Shield
Jul 23, 2007 18:55:31 GMT -5
Post by Lucky on Jul 23, 2007 18:55:31 GMT -5
You all said you wanted a thread.
Finished Season 4 (short seasons really make it easy to catch up). I know everyone was all about Anthony Anderson, and he was really good, but I love Glenn Close. The season wasn't really clicking with me for awhile and kinda felt like we were just watching S1-2 all over again. But it really came home in the last half dozen episodes or so and the episode where Rawlong and Mackey interrogate Mitchell really made her character for me. Just ruthless and devoted to this ideals of justice, which go back to her initial seizure where she had to weigh the bad of taking a home away from a mother and children with the good of striking against the drug trade and the culture supporting it. I really started to love that character and got pissed that she was clearly going. But if nothing else, they sent her packing in the best way I could imagine. She nails Mitchell by going behind the DEA, Acevedo, and LAPD's backs and sending Vic after the top bad guy. Vic being like the bestest cop in the world when he isn't evil of course manages to nab the bad guy the Feds have been after for years. Everyone's pissed but Vic and Rawling won. And then, because of her flagrant disrespect she gets forced out on politics despite doing a good job. And in here last moments she discovers that Vic and his crew are indeed dirty and pleads with him to straighten up his act before its too late. Not like Acevedo or Claudette's complete disregard, Rawling sees the good in Vic. And then when she's alone she breaks down for the first time in the season because she just lost what meant the most to her. Loved that character.
I have one major complaint about the show. I can't help but think they fucked up with the very 1st episode of the show. Vic murdering the cop properly set the "HOLY SHIT!" stage of the show, but it gives Vic a completely unforgivable and evil act on his resume. I feel like I'm supposed to view Acevedo and Claudette as static and narrow minded vs Rawling's understanding but still refusal to accept. Acevedo and Claudette fail to see the basic good and the moral compromises (ignoring Acevedo's later just fall into a worthless, corrupt, ass himself) and just say "bad Vic." But the thing is, he murdered a cop. He IS just bad Vic. And the further we get away from that we kind of forget it and grow to like the guy more. But we shouldn't. He's NOT a good guy. He's a cold blooded murderer. A cop killer. So watching him rail against cold blooded murderers and cop killers just continues to ring completely bullshit to me. And maybe that's the point, and I'm supposed to be morally compromised about how I feel about this guy. But I feel like The Shield would have us just forget that.
I might start Season 5 tonight depending on if RAW entertains me or not. I'll miss Close but I know Forest Whitaker is coming in so that should help that. Even if that seems like it just moves us back to a reformer trying to shut Vic down at all costs like Acevedo and Claudette. And like I said, I preferred Rawlings' ambiguity.
Finished Season 4 (short seasons really make it easy to catch up). I know everyone was all about Anthony Anderson, and he was really good, but I love Glenn Close. The season wasn't really clicking with me for awhile and kinda felt like we were just watching S1-2 all over again. But it really came home in the last half dozen episodes or so and the episode where Rawlong and Mackey interrogate Mitchell really made her character for me. Just ruthless and devoted to this ideals of justice, which go back to her initial seizure where she had to weigh the bad of taking a home away from a mother and children with the good of striking against the drug trade and the culture supporting it. I really started to love that character and got pissed that she was clearly going. But if nothing else, they sent her packing in the best way I could imagine. She nails Mitchell by going behind the DEA, Acevedo, and LAPD's backs and sending Vic after the top bad guy. Vic being like the bestest cop in the world when he isn't evil of course manages to nab the bad guy the Feds have been after for years. Everyone's pissed but Vic and Rawling won. And then, because of her flagrant disrespect she gets forced out on politics despite doing a good job. And in here last moments she discovers that Vic and his crew are indeed dirty and pleads with him to straighten up his act before its too late. Not like Acevedo or Claudette's complete disregard, Rawling sees the good in Vic. And then when she's alone she breaks down for the first time in the season because she just lost what meant the most to her. Loved that character.
I have one major complaint about the show. I can't help but think they fucked up with the very 1st episode of the show. Vic murdering the cop properly set the "HOLY SHIT!" stage of the show, but it gives Vic a completely unforgivable and evil act on his resume. I feel like I'm supposed to view Acevedo and Claudette as static and narrow minded vs Rawling's understanding but still refusal to accept. Acevedo and Claudette fail to see the basic good and the moral compromises (ignoring Acevedo's later just fall into a worthless, corrupt, ass himself) and just say "bad Vic." But the thing is, he murdered a cop. He IS just bad Vic. And the further we get away from that we kind of forget it and grow to like the guy more. But we shouldn't. He's NOT a good guy. He's a cold blooded murderer. A cop killer. So watching him rail against cold blooded murderers and cop killers just continues to ring completely bullshit to me. And maybe that's the point, and I'm supposed to be morally compromised about how I feel about this guy. But I feel like The Shield would have us just forget that.
I might start Season 5 tonight depending on if RAW entertains me or not. I'll miss Close but I know Forest Whitaker is coming in so that should help that. Even if that seems like it just moves us back to a reformer trying to shut Vic down at all costs like Acevedo and Claudette. And like I said, I preferred Rawlings' ambiguity.