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Why all the hype and drama abut Shane and Pilar??


Silas, Nancy and everyone kept acting totally freaked out about Shane being a "murderer". Yes, he killed Pilar but it was in self defense. It wasn't like he went on a killing spree and murdered innocent people. Pilar was talking trash and threatened to kill Silas and Shane. This is after she sent her goons to kill nancy AND ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SHANE. She needed to go. Even Nancy put a hit on her. why all the drama when Shane killed a woman who was actually very dangerous?

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Pilar is a self made woman who will lawyer up to where whatever Nancy and Shane say don't matter even in death her lawyers will probably say things to bend the truth. And they can sweet talk there way to anyone

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And Estaban sure as hell wasn't going to help his wife as he pledge his alligeance into getting elected governor

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I feel like it was scary for them because a) Shane was very young, and b) he seemed very pleased with what he had done and didn't seem to have issues with doing it again.

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I'm sure he wouldn't mind spending a life in prison

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He found it way to easy and took too much pleasure out of it. He only thought back on it "when [he] jerks off"

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The "hype and drama" was around him not caring about killing her. its different when binge watching, than being shocked at a finale and waiting a year, then having the character act as if nothing happened.

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Because he was still a kid dnd already killing people. It was told about on the how. How many times did Nancy freak about the Shane thing and go off on a rant about how h was supposed to be kid doing kid things, not killing people. I agree with you-it's a good thing he killed her because she was about to have Shane and Silas killed n she would have doe it too, but at th same time, it isn't morally correct but to be fair this show isn't about the good guys/saints triumphing over the bad guys. And realistically, they couldn't run to the cops or get help from anyone in this situation so what was Nancy supposed to do to protect her kids.

The most important part was he was just a kid though. Nancy always had a problem wit Shane growing up too quickly, but I never held that against Shane. He is the result of lacking of parenting which is Nancy's fault. How many times did he have to rely on himself to raise himself. Sure he had Silas and Andy and while I love them, they were just as dependent on Nancy as Shane. But to answer your question-Nancy didn't like Shane still being a kid and not acting and doing what kids should be doing. He should be doing thins like playing soccer, hanging out wit friends doing normal teenage things and instead he's losing his virginity at 13 with 2 girls, hanging out with a druggie gang[even if it is just Andy and the others], selling drugs, and killing people. I can understand why a mother would get freaked out, even when he did do it to save him and his brother.

He also didn't feel any remorse about killing her. Didn't he even make a joke about it ['the deep end' joke] or was that someone else. He didn't even care that he just bashed a womans head in.


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Right, not pompous at all then.

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People? It was one person. More dramatics.

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I am guessing its because when you watch the entire series from the beginning, you start to see how Nancy and Andy are both becoming concerned about his very anti-social behavior. With all of his incidents leading up to this point and Nancy constantly trying to just keep her children safe, it is too late. Shane has taken the final step down the very wrong path and She can see that, as he shows absolutely NO SIGNS of remorse, guilt or emotions. But, he does have every single characteristic of a full blown Sociopathic Serial Killer in the making checked off. Yes, he did the right thing by protecting his mother but whereas Nancy has been responsible for a number of lives taken at this point in the series, her maternal instinct and moral guidelines are still intact, while Shane has no morals or guidelines in place at the age of 14!

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^^^^^^^^^^^ this post plus , It wasn't really self defense , threatening and acting out are 2 different things. It wasn't like Pilar had a knife pointed at him.

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Did you happen to forget that he was shot by one of Pilar's hit-men when the hit man was attempting to kill Nancy? It wasn't just threats that he was responding to. So it wasn't like he was responding to a possible empty threat, Pilar was more than capable of carrying out what she was saying. I highly doubt you would not act in the same position. I would have done it, just not in the presence of my mother and a camera.

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