Found the murder suicide disturbing, maybe because I have a child Jackson's age. Other wise it was all I have come to expect from the show. Everyone got what they deserved and I like how Vic had the worst thing that could happen to him, he spent all the time and effort to save himself so he could be around for his family and that is taken away from him. Also like how ICE "desked" him, he has always been a street cop and it is fitting justice that he will rot behind a desk. GREAT SHOW wonder what's next??

Wow! What a gripping finale to what has become my favourite ever show.

When I first stumbled across the Shield a few years ago, I was blown away by the first episode and have been gripped since. This finale surely left viewers with mixed emotions around the outcome of characters who were superbly portrayed by a top notch cast who deserve to scoop whatever awards will surely come their way.

The series closed things up in a way which meant their was no way back and as sorry as I am that is the case, it's refreshing to see a series wrapped up and all the major loose ends tied up.

Great characters all round, felt sorry for Shane which I never thought I would, gutted for Ronnie and you just know how much it would hurt Vic to be left in the position he is in.

Claudette and Dutch played off each other superbly. The way Julian looked out of the car at the 'open' lovers on the street subtley reminded you of all the inner torment that characters on the Shield had throughout every season. Sad to see the end but what a ride!

Wow. What a final FINAL episode. Sorry to see it all go. Love to see a sequel with Vic hitting the streets once again, finding his family and trying to regain his life BUT NOT. I guess the real turning point was when he chose to kiss a fellow officer in the first season. Guess it was a long, but slow, downfall from that point on. Seven seasons worth but what a ride. You know the oldest daughter was really his real daughter in real life. Good her dad was "acting" in all this. But again, seven seasons of pure police drama as good as HBO's The Sopranos, although they had a happier conclusion. Thank you FX. It was a great ride.

First thing. If you haven't watched The Shield go out now and get series 1. Start from the begginning and go all the way through. You life will be sucked up for a while but it's worth it and the only way to get the best out of The Shield.

Reading this will really truly spoil it, so leave if you haven't seen it.

Wow. Just wow. My all time favorite TV show. Without even a close comparison. And it ended in the perfect way.

The good guys aren't always good, the baddest guys don't always get caught and you can never trust what you believe.

I like to think of Vic stewing away in that purgatory with nothing else in his life, sinking deeper and deeper into a bottle until one day he walks off and goes to jail or can't face that prospect and eats his gun.

Its a fitting ending for him to be stuck there, but 3 years is not a shade on what he deserves. But the spirit of the show is he'll do his 3 years and go into a security job and get his hands dirty again and keep shading out of going down.

He's always only been a level above the scum he deals with. He started out with the right reasons but they just allowed him to slowly release his true self and bury his conscience. I think the last 2 or 3 series as slowly eroded away all he had left to identify with and like. It's dragged him down so he can be despised and so we'll want him out of our lives. Let the bastard rot. Selling out Ronnie was the final scrap of his goodness being stripped away. We must leave, nothing left to like or sympathise with, he's now with the pondlife he's bent all the rules to bust.

Ronnie, well, I think he got what he deserved. He was often up there with Vic directing the violence, and never far behind him. And other than his strike team buddies he had no consideration for anyone else. He was never doing the wrong things for the right reasons, he was always doing them because he could, he left moralising and self justification to the others.

Absolute shocker with Shane but. I didn't see that coming. Harrowing. Same as The Shields always been. Shane's always blunderred from error to error since meeting Vic and he finally pushed him into the ultimate act of selfish evil doing possible whilst believing it was the right thing.

I never really liked Shane. I always thought he was too willing to be dragged down with few redeeming features. But despite what he did I think he always had an underlying simpleness and even a little naivety. I didn't think he was ever a truly bad person, and in the end he was fighting for his family not himself. In his belief system willing to forgo his family and go downstairs to the fiery place to make sure they both go upstairs together, never parted.

Very wrong, but Shane all over. Doing very wrong things for the right reasons. But far too wrong for his reasons to make up for it.

And as for open endings....well....it's a cop station. We're watching the station from outside, it doesn't stop because we stop to view. It all carries on inside and it would make no sense if all ends were tied up neat. None at all.

Still thinking about it, still a little upset. Almost feel grief over the end of the characters and the end of the show. Especially Shane, the one I never liked but who in the end proved to be the least selfish of them all. Just in a really screwed up way.

Mighty powerful storytelling, and I think I must get the DVD's to watch them all again. A truly emotional rollercoaster which challenges all your beliefs.

It's a pity he's not making another deep show. The Unit is OK, but it's not a patch on The Shield. And I don't think it's really meant to be, it's light entertainment. Perhaps he doesn't find it any easier to live with his characters than we do?