Post by halfbreedqueen on Aug 1, 2007 23:51:30 GMT -5
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I had a weird dream a few nights ago where I watched Season 7 and saw how it all ended.
First of all, things seemingly look good for Vic as he, with Aceveda, ends up busting Cruz and he gets a lot of publicity, but for a change good publicity. The episode opens with his picture on the front of the newspaper.
This is like around episode 10 of 13, and one of the side plots involves a drug dealer from Africa, a guy who is rich and lives in this near mansion full of all these African artifacts and stuff from Safari's. Shane and Vic are both lead here because of their cases, and it ends up they both arrive there alone and it is here that they finally face off. They begin to fight, Shane slapping Vic's gun away as they go hand to hand. Vic ends up grabbing the tusk of an elephant and he stabs Shane repeatedly, leaving a bloodied Shane trying to speak. Shane is trying to warn Vic of something, and he ends by simply mustering "I'm sorry."
Then, we find out that (as we see in the actual finale of season 6) Shane was actually protecting Vic from the Armenians, and because of his death he missed a check and this results in Vic's family being killed. The episode ends with him finding the bodies of Corinne and his children. This breaks him, and in the next episode he is just a shell, and he admits everything that happened (including him killing Terry.) He also admits he killed Shane, and that Lem was killed by Shane. He breaks down and is arrested, while the barn works full force to find the Armenian drug lords and to shut them down.
Then some stuff happens that was a bit more hazy, but the last scene is Ronnie talking to Vic through prison glass (I think Vic is about to go to trial), and it is just them talking, very small and tragic, a deep moment of melancholy. Ronnie mentions how he doesn't think Vic will be convicted because of what happened to his family (punishment enough, no jury would convict a man who had his family killed) while Vic has his confidence shaken, saying that if anything his family's death is his own fault, just as are all his other sins.
I'm guessing that Ronnie somehow wasn't implicated (he wasn't there for Terry's death, and Vic took responsibility for the crimes of him and Shane, as he puts it, as he wants Lem to be known as the good friend and good person he was.) The last shot was something with Ronnie walking away, and the shot stays on the back of Vic's head for a long time, like 20 seconds, as Ronnie leaves and we don't know what Vic's face is. It's like that final moment of painful mystery. I almost got a sense of Raging Bull at the end when De Niro smashes his head on the wall repeatedly while caged in jail.
So yeah, overall it was a weird vision, since some of it (the tusk for example) really had no Shield-esque qualities to it and was very surreal, while other parts definitely fit into the storyline. I still remember that image of Vic over Shane's bloodied body in the mansion, dropping the tusk to the ground in shock.
I had a weird dream a few nights ago where I watched Season 7 and saw how it all ended.
First of all, things seemingly look good for Vic as he, with Aceveda, ends up busting Cruz and he gets a lot of publicity, but for a change good publicity. The episode opens with his picture on the front of the newspaper.
This is like around episode 10 of 13, and one of the side plots involves a drug dealer from Africa, a guy who is rich and lives in this near mansion full of all these African artifacts and stuff from Safari's. Shane and Vic are both lead here because of their cases, and it ends up they both arrive there alone and it is here that they finally face off. They begin to fight, Shane slapping Vic's gun away as they go hand to hand. Vic ends up grabbing the tusk of an elephant and he stabs Shane repeatedly, leaving a bloodied Shane trying to speak. Shane is trying to warn Vic of something, and he ends by simply mustering "I'm sorry."
Then, we find out that (as we see in the actual finale of season 6) Shane was actually protecting Vic from the Armenians, and because of his death he missed a check and this results in Vic's family being killed. The episode ends with him finding the bodies of Corinne and his children. This breaks him, and in the next episode he is just a shell, and he admits everything that happened (including him killing Terry.) He also admits he killed Shane, and that Lem was killed by Shane. He breaks down and is arrested, while the barn works full force to find the Armenian drug lords and to shut them down.
Then some stuff happens that was a bit more hazy, but the last scene is Ronnie talking to Vic through prison glass (I think Vic is about to go to trial), and it is just them talking, very small and tragic, a deep moment of melancholy. Ronnie mentions how he doesn't think Vic will be convicted because of what happened to his family (punishment enough, no jury would convict a man who had his family killed) while Vic has his confidence shaken, saying that if anything his family's death is his own fault, just as are all his other sins.
I'm guessing that Ronnie somehow wasn't implicated (he wasn't there for Terry's death, and Vic took responsibility for the crimes of him and Shane, as he puts it, as he wants Lem to be known as the good friend and good person he was.) The last shot was something with Ronnie walking away, and the shot stays on the back of Vic's head for a long time, like 20 seconds, as Ronnie leaves and we don't know what Vic's face is. It's like that final moment of painful mystery. I almost got a sense of Raging Bull at the end when De Niro smashes his head on the wall repeatedly while caged in jail.
So yeah, overall it was a weird vision, since some of it (the tusk for example) really had no Shield-esque qualities to it and was very surreal, while other parts definitely fit into the storyline. I still remember that image of Vic over Shane's bloodied body in the mansion, dropping the tusk to the ground in shock.