vicmackey
That makes you my bottom bitch!
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Post by vicmackey on Mar 27, 2007 0:55:57 GMT -5
in episode 4.08 Cut Throat of season 4, Vic would have went ahead and shot Shane? Lem would still be alive and the Strike Team would probably be legit. What are some of your thoughts on this?
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Post by ShootFirst on Mar 27, 2007 11:18:29 GMT -5
IF that had been the case, I dont' think we'd have as compelling of a plot and story development. Not as much wondering about certain things, focus taken in directions that I don't think would have panned out as good, not near as much friction between characters. The video would have been pretty damning. The way things have gone down have provided the most interesting possibilities IMO.
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Post by badcop187 on Mar 28, 2007 8:24:49 GMT -5
Did you check out the "yahoo" thread in the barn? it has a video from the season 5 dvds where Glen, shawn, and Kurt talk about how Shane almost did get killed off! Check it out.
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Post by Bailey on Mar 28, 2007 20:51:48 GMT -5
I agree! I wish Vic would have put one right between Shane's eyes. I'd rather see Lem alive!! Sniffle.....
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Post by danimal12483 on Mar 29, 2007 19:02:03 GMT -5
`i think vic would've killed shane with no question. he was going to, even after shane told him the truth, vic still had the gun on him. if vic would've killed shane, who knows, maybe lem would be alive. but then, killin shane would create a whole new shitstorm for vic so no one really knows what would of happened.
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Post by ktjzm on Mar 31, 2007 16:14:48 GMT -5
I have watched the behind the scenes with Shawn and chiklis talking about the decision of killing of Lem and it had to go that way. Killing off Shane wouldn't have had such a big impact and the show would have kind of gone flat. If you listen to everything Shawn and Chiklis say on the commentary's on Season 5 dvd and the fx bts and trailers Shawn R. seems like a genius to me with how he wanted things to go and how they had to go the way they did to make the shield one of the most rivoting and new way of doing things on tv. I can't wait to see what he developes after the shield. I will watch he is a genius
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Post by mwk ~aka~ Witchykitty on Apr 1, 2007 15:05:16 GMT -5
I think things have happened kinda naturally, thanks to SR... In hindsight, I don't think Vic would've killed Shane. He didn't. He certainly wouldn't have killed Lem had he gotten the chance, either. It's genius, but I still don't have to like it!
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Post by Strike Team 4 Life on Apr 1, 2007 19:59:26 GMT -5
Vic is too loyal to the REAL Strike Team, he wouldn't do that....he wouldn't even kill Gilroy, Shane was going to.....
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Post by kingoffarmington on Apr 1, 2007 21:04:58 GMT -5
Like Glenn Mazarra (I think) said, it could've been a jump the shark moment. I don't think they earned a Shane death at that point in the season. Maybe they could've pulled it off in the 10th episode, the one where Shane almost shot Antwon in interrogation.
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Post by Blanket Party on Apr 4, 2007 0:37:53 GMT -5
You know, I was wondering a few days ago why a lot of people thought that Season 4 was so disappointing, and I was thinking that a part of it may have been the way the Shane storyline seemingly "went off the rails."
Stay with me here - in the final scene of The Cure, the writers were very obviously setting up Shane as an adversary to Vic, at least in part. And then as time went on, they slowly recinded that, and it eventually turned out that Shane was just in over his head as usual - which, to be fair, is completely believable from a storyline standpoint.
But thinking about it further, without that moment - the moment where Vic essentially says, "Okay, you know what? I believe you. Let's get you out from under this together" - we wouldn't be where we are now. We wouldn't have had a stellar story/character arc in Season 5, and it wouldn't be continuing so seamlessly into Season 6.
Which is part of the reason I love this show. Everything stems organically from something that came before - for example, everything that's happening right now in Season 6 can easily be traced right back to the Money Train.
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Post by ISaidWhoaDangIt on Apr 4, 2007 13:07:06 GMT -5
I think Shane getting killed off wouldn't have had the same aspect as Lem. With Lem, he was the good guy of the force. Shane was always the bad guy, esp after the Antwon debacle with Angie and Army man. If Shane was offed, the shock factor would be minimal. The Lem shock factor was greater and led for a very powerful storyline later on in this season.
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Post by jray on Apr 5, 2007 17:19:05 GMT -5
Indeed Killing Shane would've been a quite different response. I don't think we are as emotionally invested in Shane as we are/were in Lem. I'm not saying that we don't love him as a character...but it's hard to attach ourselves to the "bad boy" in the way we do the "good guy." If Shane were killed right then and there, we all would've seen it as an act of necessity for Vic, and in terms of Shane, it would have been him getting what he deserved. Karma is a bitch, isn't it?
As for Army...There's a loose end I've been recently thinking should/could get tied up.
Why hasn't Kav inquired as to his involvement with the guys and tried to play him for dirt!?! You want to talk about a guy who could bring Vic down...that guy knows FAR TOO MUCH!
That should almost be another post...
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Post by BringBackTavon on Apr 18, 2007 16:37:41 GMT -5
Did you check out the "yahoo" thread in the barn? it has a video from the season 5 dvds where Glen, shawn, and Kurt talk about how Shane almost did get killed off! Check it out. do you still have this link?
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