Sons of Anarchy

[Hugor Hill]

The should have never gone to Ireland.

 

That was the year I stopped watching regularly. It was all downhill midway thru that season.

[cardiackat88.]

I loved the way Kurt Sutter handled The Shield, and I was pretty excited with the first two seasons of SOA, but I've been hate-watching this final season, and quit about half way through. I don't even care anymore, other than to voice my disgust with the way a show that started out so cool could jump the shark so early and then get exponentially more popular every year. This is why we can't have nice things. The should have never gone to Ireland.

The shield was pretty special. The parts where Shane is on the run are really tense and riveting. I remember jumping out of my seat at a few scenes, like when he is trying to rob drug dealers and they recognize him as a cop after asking a few questions, then his wife shoots one dude. Something like that, I just remember going "OOOOH SHIITT". Sons didn't do that for me in it final season :(

[CCS]

I'm mixed on the finale. I think I would have rather had it end ambiguously than the whole suicide thing. That really came out of nowhere and seemed out of character.

[Inimicus]

fuging poo.

 

 

Worst series finale I could have imagined.

 

 

I want all the time I invested in this poo ass series back.

[lightsout]

Did everybody miss the point that Jax became JT? Well, at least, in a way.

It's implied early in the series that JT hated the bloody path the club took. He still did it, but he was internally conflicted. They tried to flesh that out with Jax's character, but they just went to a crazy extreme that wasn't exactly necessary. In season 1, Jax was appalled at the idea of killing people to send a message. In the final season, he's offing people left and right and never really shows any sort of conflict.


Why the HELL did they have him start writing his own journal to his boys if they weren't going to sustain it? It just ended abruptly. He just stopped doing it entirely. Makes no sense.


I get what they were going for. Jax is what JT was afraid of becoming, and Jax realized it. Hence, fixing JT's bike and riding it the back-half of the episode and ultimately dying on it, like JT did, and talking to the spot JT was killed. The semi, I saw that coming once he was on the highway at the start of the chase. I think the whole reason for Jax insuring the club didn't kill him was to preserve some sort of chance for the club to eventually get back to what it was, at the very least, in season 1, if not out of outlawing all together. The reason Clay's reign was so insane was the way in which he took over the club by killing JT via bike sabotage.


It wasn't so much that it was poorly written, they just did this season a bit sloppily. A lot of pointless exposition and side-story to ultimately end in Jax single-handedly tying up every loose end standing in the way of the club over the course of a few hours. 



Having said all that, I did like some of the character interactions and how carefree Jax was towards the end. Sort of reminded me of season 1/season 2 Jax. I know Sutter wanted us to ultimately hate/love Jax, but I just hated how he turned him into a complete psycho between season 6 and season 7.

[TheRumGone]

tommy flanagan was the best actor in that last episode by far.

[rodeo]

I love the people who think the suicide by truck was out of nowhere even though Jax was riding JT's bike and killed himself the same way JT died (which has been suggested to have been suicide). It was the plan all along.

[Hotsauce]

Good luck selling your gang house where your wife was just murdered

[Hotsauce]

That truck driver was the same driver that took Gemma for a ride

[The Saltman]

That truck driver was the same driver that took Gemma for a ride

 

Was also the guy who was the main character in FX's The Shield.

[Hotsauce]

Was also the guy who was the main character in FX's The Shield.

Also he is strong man on American horror story

Also he was the Thing on fantastic 4

[scpanther22]

A lot of people wanted Jax to go out bloody and violent but him going out as some type of martyr for his kids and the club made a lot of sense to me. its always been a theme of the show. Making the club legitimate.

[Inimicus]

But he didn't go out as a martyr.  He went out as the same shortsighted self-involved asshole he always was. Lets face it, everyone he killed after learning that Gemma killed Tara and that the club was going to have a mayhem over him offing the other pres was just Jax being a murderous fugstick.  I mean you don't get to plan or carry out the murder of dozens of people and the abandonment of your children and still claim to be some kind of reluctant outlaw.

 

I said earlier in this thread that this had been one of the better seasons and I'm going to go back on that.  I don't know if its because I basically watched this season over a few days last weekend on iTunes and with little to no time to ruminate on the episodes in between seeing them or what but after reflecting on it a bit it was just fuging sloppy and lazy.  What was with all of the boo-hooing and hardened outlaw tears if the club was just going to turn around and let Jax walk?

 

 

I don't really know what more I expected from a show that had slid so far down from the heights of the first couple of seasons but is was most definitely more.

[scpanther22]

But he didn't go out as a martyr.  He went out as the same shortsighted self-involved asshole he always was. Lets face it, everyone he killed after learning that Gemma killed Tara and that the club was going to have a mayhem over him offing the other pres was just Jax being a murderous fugstick.  I mean you don't get to plan or carry out the murder of dozens of people and the abandonment of your children and still claim to be some kind of reluctant outlaw.

 

I said earlier in this thread that this had been one of the better seasons and I'm going to go back on that.  I don't know if its because I basically watched this season over a few days last weekend on iTunes and with little to no time to ruminate on the episodes in between seeing them or what but after reflecting on it a bit it was just fuging sloppy and lazy.  What was with all of the boo-hooing and hardened outlaw tears if the club was just going to turn around and let Jax walk?

 

 

I don't really know what more I expected from a show that had slid so far down from the heights of the first couple of seasons but is was most definitely more.

 

I think his death was intended to feel like a martyrs death. He accepted he wasn't a good guy and was going to sacrifice himself to make sure his kids had nothing to do with that lifestyle and that the club would get out illegal stuff. Tie up all loose ends and die like his father did.

 

There were plenty of not so subtle biblical references throughout the entire episode to Jax being some kind of Jesus figure giving up his life...