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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3388376" data-attributes="member: 307">This is, in my opinion, totally and completely accurate. Vic is an evil man who does evil things. Sure, he loves his kids, and is nice to prostitutes he feels sorry for, and so on, but he is also a violent, vicious criminal who has killed, maimed, tortured, stolen, framed, and otherwise screwed people up on a regular basis. Sure, some of his victims were bad guys, but being a bad guy doesn't mean, for example, that it is okay for someone to frame you for stealing the Armenian money train, and then kill you, and put your body in an incenerator.Realistically, most of the people here would be appalled by a real police officer who did even a tenth of the things that Vic has done on The Shield. He not only should be locked up, but be locked up forever in a special prison where he can be executed every day. He is a monster. But the power of the series, and why I think it is one of the best written programs on U.S. television today, is that you still find yourself rooting for him. You still want to see him wriggle out of yet another situation and get away with his crimes for just one more episode.I think Vic belongs in jail, and then later in the "special hell" (or something similar) discussed in Firefly. But I still watch every episode rooting for him to make it just one more week.</blockquote>