there be two kind of character on the shield represent people who try to do the best they can and do the right thing and and people who relentlessly pursue their own self interest and commit every mortal sin they can while tell themselves and everyone else that they be hero and and everyone only hope . more than any other show and the shield be about hypocrisy and self delusion . unfortunately and the hypocrite and self deluders be the show hero and and a such have the typical genre fiction hero improbable immunity to get defeat or catch and they come out on top over and over again and make fool out of all of their peer . the show boast excellent camera work . the lead in and the fade out be always superb . it really be a work of art to see . unfortunately the story be a cartoony and overwrought wish fulfillment scenario of gratuitous violence and rape and and lie . the hero and who drag everyone down with him in fail scheme after failed scheme and be wiley like a warner bros cartoon character and always escape and make fun of all the elmer fudds ( anyone who do not support him in his lie and crime ) and automatically attract any good look woman support character to come on the show and always survive any attempt to bring him to justice and and always scrap your ear with his excruciate self justification . if another cop detect something wrong with something he do and and someone get hurt because of his action and he always blame the suspicious cop and regardless of the fact that his scheme and elaborate lie and doom plan be always the cause . every time . like 24 and this show rely on contrivance and innumerable delay to drag it story out for season after season . boring and unbelievable long term story be inject into the storyline every season to provide a skeleton on which to hang the bloody and perverted chunk of meat that be the character corrupt act and the inevitable cover ups . most disappointing though and be the writer hubris a they try to change the viewer sympathy back and forth and to and away form the character on whim . sometimes and they want u to see shane a the enemy . sometimes they want u to see him a a poor misunderstood soul . sometimes they want u to see vic a a dangerous and sexual dynamo . sometimes they want u to see him a a poor guy with a heart of gold . sometimes they want u to see mara a a low down vile jezebel . then they think that if they show her sitting and talk over her dream with shane and that we will find her to be sympathetic and tragic . none of this manipulation be adequate to obtain the kind of sympathy they want . once they have show these character ruin other people life for their own end and that it . it be nonsense to keep try to flip back and forth . but then and it be also nonsense to produce seven season of these bumble clown draw every super model in existence to their bed and run a crime syndicate right out of the police station and right under everyone nose .