It’s been a wild season of high and lows on Sons of Anarchy: A fan favorite was killed three weeks ago, and Sutter followed it up last week with an episode that reminded us of when this show had a sense of humor.
Unfortunately, in this week’s episode, he felt compelled to remind us that Sons of Anarchy is very much a nighttime soap opera, and that it can be achingly silly at times. The show is quickly running out of characters we can root for, and if episodes continue to be as silly as last night’s, I’m going to be rooting for them all to die soon.
Let’s get to the recap:
1. The Right Way with the Right People, and There Is No Risk — The most infuriating aspect of an episode that was entertaining but ultimately preposterous was how unbelievably easy Jax settled his beef with Damon Pope. Damon Pope and Jax Teller have a certain mutual respect for each other, which I get. But where is Jax’s pride? DAMON POPE JUST HAD HIS BEST FRIEND MURDERED. Why is he so easy to agree to a deal to traffic in MORE DRUGS just as he’s trying to get out of the drug business? Surely, Jax’s greed is not bigger than his pride? Or is it?
Pope killed their people. He burned Tig’s daughter alive in one of the most brutal murders I’ve ever seen on television. He had Opie pipe-killed. How are they so quick to settle their differences? Worse, the whole scenario has diffused the tension between SAMCRO and what was supposed to be the season’s evil, ruthless Big Bad. Now, he’s more likable than Jax. At least, he’s dispassionate. It’s all business for him.
2. SAMCRO Votes 6-5 to Strengthen Their Relationship with Pope — Even TIG votes to go along. Has he forgotten that Pope killed his daughter? Notice how the votes lined up: The people who have the most reason to hate Pope vote for the proposal, while Clay and the more recent members of SAMCRO — who are trying to pin the home invasions on the Niners — vote against. If I didn’t know that Clay was behind the home invasions, the way the voting went down would’ve raised my suspicions. That was preposterously transparent, and Jax should’ve picked up on it.
3. Carla Blows Her Brains Out — I didn’t get this. What was the point? Where did this turn come from? Did Sutter just think: Hey! This episode doesn’t have enough violence, so let’s throw this into the mix. Gemma and Tara beat up Carla, so Carla forces Gemma to go down on Nero by gunpoint, and when Nero refused, Carla blew her brains out. That entire plot turn was silly and contrived. Why wouldn’t a woman who knows she’s about to take her own life go ahead and kill the people that drove her to it? And of ALL the people in SAMCRO that Gemma could turn to to dispose of Carla’s body, why did she choose Clay, the guy she hates the most? Give me a break.
4. Tara Confronts Otto — Another totally ridiculous contrivance: Tara volunteers her medical services at the prison in order to get to Otto so she can convince Otto to drop his testimony in the RICO case. Otto refuses, and why wouldn’t he? He has no relationship with Tara. She has no leverage, and Otta has no reason to drop the RICO case. Why didn’t she use her access to kill him? She had the means, and he didn’t know who she was. She should’ve injected him with RICIN. Come on, Sutter. HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING FROM BREAKING BAD?
5. Jax and Tara Make Some Alone-Time Plans — When did Sons of Anarchy become the show where the married couple decide to spend some time alone in a cabin? To decompress? You are the president of an outlaw motorcycle club, you run coke and prostitute, and murder people who get in your way. There are no quiet, serene weekends at the cabin. You don’t live in a Franzen novel, for God’s sake. Get your goddamn romance out of my Sons of Anarchy.
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I don’t know what end Carla’s suicide is supposed to accomplish, but i enjoyed watching it none the less.
I love how Kurt Sutter plays Otto
Carla’s death seemed like they just said” i dont know what to do with her…well just kill her then” hopefully things start to get tied together or this season is going to be a disjointed mess
up until this season I hoped Jax was smart and biding his time,but after Pope deals, Gemma being Gemma, and getting chummy with Nero, it seems Jax was just born to the right Dad
Had to avoid this because I didn’t get to watch the episode until last night. Here’s what I think.
1. He hasn’t forgotten or forgiven anything. It’s a matter of timing.
2. Tig agreed to follow Jax’ vote no matter what as a condition of his ass being saved from prison.
3. Yeh, the only reason for this was to get Gemma to have to rely on her husband for something she couldn’t do herself. Can’t use Jax since she’s not supposed to be seeing Smits.
4. She’s not a murderer. I mean, yet. I suspect that’s why she told Jax she hadn’t seen him yet. She’s going to either leverage him somehow or take him out herself surreptitiously.
5. My reaction to this was actually, “Did your last ‘time away’ not screw you up enough?”
6. Yeh, this was all about giving him motivation to screw everything up for everyone.
7. I like Unser and I still think he should have died when he got beat up. He serves no purpose now.
8. I’m totally behind this. You get every with everyone responsible. I still think he’s going to take out Pope, just not until the end of the season.
9. I too am having trouble seeing what this does for anything. It’s like Sutter just wanted Joel McHale on the show so he devised a whole sideplot for him.
10. Heh. It Did seem like Sutter telegraphed everything on purpose and STILL did the “big reveal”. Not much point to doing both.
4. They need him to recount his testimony. If they kill him it still stands up.
Looks like it’s time to play “Trolling Visitors for Clicks”!
Dustin, you’re really not very bright are you? I’ve read each of your “points” and found that you’ve obviously missed each one, entirely. Please stop writing about topics that which you do not have the mental capacity, or life experience to fully understand.
They’re all going to die!!!!
They have been dead the whole time and just waiting for a resurrected opie to lead them to the hospital church so they can move on to the after life.
I think if Tara would have honored Otto’s request that would have been something.
Also, the reason Carla killed herself was because she was a pretty terrible actress. Soooo… Sutter probably wanted her to go quickly and quietly.
It’s a tale as old as time itself.
This show is hardly watchable anymore. Very sad.
GRRRR sitting on a desk by snowglobes
I’m erasing this episode from my brain as I thought it was terrible and barely did anything at all.
Jax is playing the long game with Pope like he did with Stahl. Right now, he doesn’t have any leverage to act. He’ll put the pieces together and stroke Pope’s ego (the man does think very highly of himself) until he’s in a position of power.
I agree about Carla’s suicide and Tara’s visit with Otto. It feels like these were just devices to make something else happen rather than logically consistent actions of their characters.
Sutter is being pretty heavy handed about Jax’s turning into Clay.
Did anyone else see parallels between the guard’s wife and Donna? Wrong place at the wrong time. She is murdered by Tig because the club wants to get to her husband. The fact that is happened to avenge Opie makes it really disturbing.
After the #2 I realized I was in for a long write up of senseless bashing of the episode. Tig has no choice but to vote with Jax, as shown by his shaking the head No while voting yes.
Don’t get me wrong, I agreed with some of the points of it being over dramatized, silly at times and I don’t like how quickly Jax has buddied up with Pope but c’mon. Most things were at least explained.
Carla: No I didn’t enjoy this part either and it wasn’t needed but at least they explained she was on meds, Nero’s sister, in love with him and clearly not a stable thinking woman.
#4: When Tara told Jax she wasn’t able to meet with Otto and she’d “take care if it” the only conclusion I came to was she was going to kill him. She couldn’t just kill him straight up, she had to at least try go convince him first. Give it more than one scene before we decide it’s a stupid plot line. (of course if I’m wrong than maybe it’s just another dumb plot line)
#5: I just took this as a set up for something else bad to happen. There’s probably a less soap opera way of setting up a scene though considering the type of show but it is what it is.
#8: The line was clearly a call back and the gaurd had to die. Yes he was following orders but still. I don’t think the scene was supposed to leave you feeling satisfaction. I think it was just meant to emphsize the downward spiral of Jax. The arc is not making him in to a hero, he’ll be Clay before it’s over and there isn’t going to be the happy ending you seem to want.
Someone’s a little bitter after this episode.
I honestly didn’t think Clay was going to be behind the invasions, because it seemed insanely stupid. Turns out, it’s just stupid. My big question now is why would the SoA equivalent of red shirts be participating in secret missions for a weak, old man, against the wishes of the MC President?
Carla had to be behind the raid now, or her suicide makes ZERO sense. It’s not like we needed closure with her anyway; I thought she’d simply run away.
Crap. I realized why. Her body was needed a plot device for something else Clay is going to do, which is also “why” we had the ridiculous call from Gemma for help.
Well, let’s hope McCale is awesome, and Tara turns awesome. Unser took a nice turn to the ballsy, and Eli might be losing control, which could make him more entertaining. So basically, everything but the MC is interesting now. *sigh*
Dustin did you forget that the club KILLED POPES DAUGHTER?!?
Losses on both sides!
Dustin, In the words of Andy Dufrene, “How can you be so obtuse?’”
You are a freaking idiot, OP.
In response to your idiotic statements:
1. Pope has all the power. Were you watching the episodes where the police and basically everyone is in his pockets? He could easily have all of SAMCRO decimated with a simple phone call. I bet if you were El Presidente of SAMCRO you’d flap your mouth cavity at him and call him a bitch. Well guess what, you’d fucking die. And so would your crew. Jax will handle business, believe it.
2. Did you even watch the prison episode? Tig is REQUIRED to follow whatever Jax says when at the table. If you actually watched the episodes (seriously, it seems like you’re watching an entirely different series) you’d know that Pope’s initial conditions required Tig to stay in prison. The reason he isn’t is Jax needs the leverage to have 6/5 of the table for votes. Try paying better attention before thinking Tig voted using his own fucking opinion. It’s plainly obvious that he’s SHAKING HIS HEAD while he says Yes, you blind imbecile.
3. If your idiocy hasn’t shown enough with the first two points, it shines brightly here. How would you feel if your love interest cast you aside and started fucking someone else? It’d suck, and depending on the chemical balance in your brain, it might lead you to kill yourself. The entire point of the suicide in terms of plot is to show how Nero and Gemma get back in contact after Jax’s ultimatum of Nero not seeing Gemma.
Gemma calls Clay for obvious reasons too. First off, she’s treading thin ice with Jax, Tara, and Uncer. She hardly has anyone to go to, and Clay is one of the few people left who will be there for her. Jesus, stop watching this show with a fucking blindfold on.
4. Your terrible point and Breaking Bad reference don’t justify a response.
5. Jax and Tara wanted to get away in Season 4. Do you not remember the plan? Now with all the shit Jax has been going through, I totally understand that he’d want some time away with Tara. You must work so much and never do anything for fun.
6 & 7. The only points we agree on.
8. Someone needed to answer for what was done to Opie. Pope is too protected, so they took the anger out on the guard, who was a rightful prick and didn’t even let them choose who was killed, instead he lashed out on Opie for attacking him. He deserved to die, and the irony of the sno-globe song playing was reminiscent of Palminteri.
9. I doubt McHale’s role will be that simple. Wait for more to unravel.
10. It’s funny that you’re sooooo sure Clay won’t be dying this season, and that you’re drawing parallels to this season ending so similarly to Season 4. That won’t happen.
Dustin, you’re an idiot. Stop writing about things you clearly have no idea about. And if you’re going to spout out ridiculous theories, make sure to do your research and remember past episodes. I’ll be sure to flag this website as a waste of time based on this terrible write up. Kill yourself.
Someone else gets the Chazz. Yusssh,.
He’ll kill himself if you get into bed and blow a naked Jimmy Smits.
something wrong with his medulla-oblongata
Also, FAN THEORY: I’m betting, if McHale really is a con man, they use him to bring Pope down. Not sure how yet, but I bet he’s instrumental in it.
Tara kills Otto, but the club finds a way to prove Otto’s testimony is false (can’t remember what it is, but I’m pretty sure he gave them locations of some bodies)
And, Tig gets to kill Pope, but then Jax kills Tig. I know the obvious answer would be Jax kills Pope because of Opie, but that’s why I’m banking on the still-obvious-but-not-so-much answer Tig instead.
I definitely don’t think this was the worst episode, but this isn’t one of the better ones either. This is the dreaded “set-up” episode. A lot of things are put in motion, some of which are not going to be apparent right away. But then we’ll see snippets from this in front of a future episode and something will happen and we’ll go “oh, ok I guess.”
Of course, I’m giving Sutter the benefit of the doubt here. Season 3 showed he can pull off some creative solutions, and I’m letting the Season 4 ending go on good faith because of it. I’m thinking Rowles might’ve been drunk when writing this, possibly because Opie wouldn’t be there, because a lot of this stuff certainly didn’t come out of nowhere. This ain’t Lost.
“This ain’t Lost.” made any credibility in your post invalid.
As in shit comes in from out of nowhere in Lost…
I am so late to the party today!
Overall I enjoyed the episode… I think that they did a nice job of building the respect that Pope clearly has for Jax. Not sure that Jax necessarily has that same respect. He continuously hits him with “burning kids” comments and never seems comfortable around him… Jax/Pope did produce a great bro-walk at the 48 minute mark. The one moment that made it seem as if Jax doesn’t have a huge issue working with Pope was last week when he told Hale that he had a big investor from Oakland for him… clearly speaking of Pope.
Anyone else hate seeing Pope in the promos for “The Wedding Band” as the bass player? Sort of takes the menace out of his character on SONS.
Poor Chibs is a guy that I think will eventually be killed… he is always trying to fix everyone: Jax, Juice last season, Bobby, even Gemma…
Roosevelt is definitely the guy who earns the biggest sympathy now. He didn’t deserve to have his wife killed… I sort of hate that story line. The sad thing is that they made it appear that he was sort of going to warm up to the MC at the end of last season and that is completely lost now.
Anyone think that someone is going to pin the murder of Roosevelt’s wife on Tig? He coincidentally picked up neck wounds in the confrontation with the jail guard’s wife… sure the guy who really did the deed has the scratch from Rita, but that Tig scratch is going to be trouble.
I had no issue with the murder of the guard’s wife… Tig needed something like that to sort of clean his soul… plus the woman blew into the room with a shotgun. Jax got to get a bit of his own poison out by showing the guard that it is indeed a small world. He was whacking the hell out of that guy. Middle man or not, he got to much pleasure out of seeing Op and everyone else that he had done that to die.
Also not ashamed to admit that he was the first TV character in a while that I wanted dead…
The Otto/Tara scene was pretty weak… “Get on your knees” made me chuckle. Actually I hoped that he would smash her head off of a table Stahl style. He actually seemed to be fighting that urge.
Unser telling off Gemma was essentially his way of getting a lot of pent up anger for the club off of his chest. Also letting Clay know that he was on to him was a nice touch… sad that no one else can see the obvious. I am still wondering where his cancer is…he looks healthier now that he did in season one.
Juice, get out of Clay’s pocket!
The possum act is getting old with Clay as well… seems that will blow up soon though.
The entire “Suck his D*ck” at gun point scene was off the wall… no need for it. Also agree that Bachman should have been brought in. Sadly it will end up being the thing that unites Gemma and Clay again. Ultimately she’ll end up allying with him against Jax since she feels snubbed and it will be a JT situation all over again.
Not sure how I feel about Joel McHale…I agree with you guys. Feels contrived…also the who “Gemma as 2:00 slop” routine is getting stale. Hopefully they do something with him.
Last but not least… The new deal with Pope is interesting. There has got to be another shoe that is going to drop.
Emilio Rivera is a sly dog… he lied about not being in this season at all when he answered a facebook message of mine a few weeks back, but it made his and the Mayan’s appearance all the more gratifying! I think I would watch a Mayan’s show… what the hell happened to Lin? He looked like hell at the meeting.
I am now rambling…
Also… sorry for writing a comment that might contain more words than the blog… I hate that!
I WANTED MORE JOEL MCHALE!
Seriously though, I was super excited for Joel McHale.
I was pumped for Joel McHale, then I realized how great it’d be if Bill Murray was playing a conman, and that more Bill Murray makes things better. How many episodes is Joel McHale supposed to be on for?
I tried to find/make a Jax nostril flare gif to share but failed. My bad.
Your effort is still appreciated sir!
I disagree vehemnetly with Dustin’s assessment of the prison guard scene. Before whacking him with the snow globe, he wound it up. The song playing while the guard was bludgeoned added to the irony, and reminded me of something you’d see in a Chazz Palmenteri flick. A Bronx Tale comes to mind.
I’ve noticed a lot of Carla comments, and I’m still wrapping my head around her suicide. Does this mean she was the one who ordered the original raid of Nero’s place?
Yeah. She admits it in one of the earlier episodes.
I should have watched the episode first.
nostril flare
Rowles, did your 12 year old sister wrote this?
“Tig is mean for killing an eye witness who needed to die! Jax is mean! Gemma shouldn’t call Clay because he’s mean!”
I can’t believe what these reviews have turned into. There are reasons behind everything done in last nights episode (except carla, still trying to figure out the point of that). But…it doesn’t take a film major from NYU to dissect it.
As a fan of warming glow, I was embarrassed for you guys while reading this article.
And by wrote I mean write.
I think you’re giving Sutter wayyyyyy too much credit ducktale. I think it’s more like “ok, I need to give Tara some screen time this episode to further her narrative. Fuck, what can she do? Umm….I got it! Stella, grab my wig and eye patch!”
Does everyone think that Tara blew Otto?
No, but wouldn’t that be some shit if that’s why she was so dismissive for the rest of the episode?
she said she’s going back next week so maybe she’s gonna do it then and she’s already regretting it
Some silly things, but the episode was just fucking brutal overall, and that’s why I loved it.
I agree. I think This week > Last week even with tranny boobs
I just had my bachelor party over the weekend and my buddy got flashed by a trannie. That was great. Wait, what were we talking about again?
6.) There’s two more seasons after this one and we don’t know what the conflict will be there’s a few chances:
Jax/Pope
Jax/RIRA
Jax/CIA
Jax/Clay
Jax/The guy that replaces Clay
The Club/Eli
I don’t think Sutter knows how he wants to end this one, but I there’s a lot of options available.
7.) Unser’s the next to die.
8.) Oh Jax and Tig clearly want to fuck Pope’s world up big time. Tig hesitated before supporting Jax, but lets be honest: there’s two more seasons left, in all likelihood we won’t see another bad guy introduced in each season and have each season wrapped up individually. It’ll likely be a continuation of one of current conflicts, a new bad guy introduced in S6 as sort of a back burner and the story going through a huge game change at the end of S6 and then S7 solving that problem. I think Sutter’s leaving his options open here. That being said, Tig and Jax took their anger out on the guard that they can’t take out on Pope…you know because he drives around in a Rolls and he’s a multimillionaire that knows politicians and has a 5M hitsquad waiting to kill his killer. And that was totally a throw back.
9.) I’m guessing there is. I’m guessing McHale does something swarmy with Jax’s kids and Unser ends up killing him. Likely we’ll see the Jax/Tara/Gemma angle moved forward.
10.) Maybe killing Clay creates the conflict that sets up the final two seasons…that’s the way I think this is going. Jax/Eli kill Clay together and Eli/Potter tries to help Jax against the CIA? I dunno…lot of different ways this can go.
WORST THING ABOUT THIS EPISODE: WE DIDN’T GET ANOTHER STEPHEN “BACHMAN THE CLEANER” CAMEO. BOOOOO!
They really should have. He was fun the last time.
A-fucking-men.
HOW DID I MISS HIS SURNAME, ARRGH, I AM A DUMB
1.) What? Jax is playing a long game here. It’s like S4 of Breaking Bad when Walt and Jesse cooked for Gus, or when Jax turned rat in S3. Pope’s one dangerous motherfucker, Jax and SAMCRO have to placate them. They need to get closer to him. Also keep in mind, Jax isn’t muling for the Cartel he’s muling for the CIA. We haven’t seen the end he has with Acevada and Danny Trejo involving Pope. This might be an opportunity to kill Clay and let Pope be the big RICO case.
2.) Ummm…he did pick up on it? Did he not have a convo with Bobby Elvis involving “split at the table,” I think he’s picking up on the fact that it’s Clay. The convo he had with Pope about insuring his life? Please…were you flipping between this and the debate?
3.) Meh…Clay would at least keep that shit quiet. Jax would have gone ape shit, Chibs and Bobby Elvis would have told Jax, and Tig’s too fragile.
4.) I have a feeling that Tara will kill Otto.
5.) This is a device to have things go ape shit. They both badly need a break, but we’ll see Jax figure out that Tara blew Otto, we’ll have Jax tell Tara that Clay’s behind the attacks, and some other shit to happen with his kids.
5.) Tara didn’t blow Otto? Jax probably just wants some time to think and not have his family broken in on, or murdered.
Jax is doing what he must with Pope. I dont think he wants to be best buds. Rita and Carla dying were shocking. Didnt see that coming. Especially with Rita. Thought she was just gonna lose the baby. The prison guard deserved to die horribly and what better way than to watch your wife get a slug in the head then get beaten with a Disney snow globe. I loved Tig just a little more after, to be honest. Unser was awesome this episode and Gemma increasingly more pathetic. I cant wait to see Clay die a brutal death and for Juice to get his for ratting last season. Ive been saying this show needed to get grimier and it seems like it finally is. This was the most clean cut biker gang ever up til this season. Keep it up Sutter!
“In Rampart, I play an undecover cop who doesn’t play by the rules…”
Are you saying woody harrelson’s gonna guest star?
Clay was behind the break-ins.
Gee, never woulda figured THAT out.
I was a little thrown when Chuck Zito playing Chuck Zito was reading the remnants of Clay’s safe. But only at the end of that episode.
thanks to sutter now i will always be painfully aware of whenever a show runner puts his wife in the show.
this show has gone from pretty damn good to i want to help my wife win an emmy or someshit. she is not sexy, she is not a great actress, and she does shit for the story.
when gemma sat over carla’s dead body and said “you happy now bitch” i wanted to break my tv, gemma is the only reason carla’s beatdown happened. i miss you carla, i need someone to hold a gun to gemma’s head badly. nero should realize that ever since he met gemma she has been bad news.
i’m so glad unser told her she would die alone. she is not needed. thats why tara didnt tell jax about otto, she’s going to go back and try again, in her eyes gemma got things done and if she wants to take her tiara she has to make sure she gets this done.
but seriously sutter fuck your wife and get her out of our show
Okay, maybe not a ‘great’ actress, but she does a lot better w/ Gemma than anyone else could. The writing is the problem, not the acting.
I want Donald Glover and Danny Pudi to show up next season. Or Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs.
Troy and Abed as as-sass-ins!
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I have a Twitter. Will do that now!
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This is the song that was playing in the bar when Joel McHale made his appearance.
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I mention this b/c each and every one of you needs to hear it, and maybe buy a couple albums, too.
I was too depressed by the one minute mark.
Opies death tore me up something fierce so even if it was overdone, I’m glad that douche prison guard got bludgeoned in the same way. Tbh I thought it would happen closer to the finale than now
I didn’t feel any satisfaction from the death of the guard either. It felt kind of bland or something, I don’t know. Is there any significance to the snow globe or the song it played, or was it just the oddest thing Tig could find to bludgeon someone to death?
All I can say is it’s a show about an outlaw motorcycle gang. If I was looking for likeable good people, I’d go watch “Oz” or something.
Also I think everyone is being a little rough on you here. I think you understand it and you’re not a dipshit. It’s a television show and everyone has opinions on what is happening.
This reads more like “10 Things I Didn’t Understand About Sons of Anarchy Because I Don’t Pay Attention”
I’ve been really enjoying this season, but sure enough Sutter was able to do what he’s done the previous seasons and go and fuck up a good thing.
So much stupid bullshit in that episode. Seriously Sutter, why do you keep doing this to us?
Tig had to vote with Jax. That was the deal after the whole prison mess. Pay attention to what is going on. Dipshit.
U Mad Bro?
No Homo
@Speckinzeedouche Wow sh*t stain, watching all this SOA has made you an internet tough guy huh?
As the home invasions go, I always thought it was Clay, but after the scene in the clubhouse, where Clay seems to show surprise at the bandages on the Nomad’s neck, it seemed like Clay was just figuring out who was doing the home invasions. He already knew from Unser that one of them had been scratched; why would he show surprise at seeing the bandages? I really thought we might get thrown for a loop, and have it be someone completely out of left field.
My feeling is that Jax knows (or suspects strongly) it’s Clay, but he’s playing it real close to the vest because he’s more concerned with figuring out Clay’s overall plan than just solving the home invasions. It was one thing when people were just getting knocked around, but I think he may be feeling guilty over Rita’s death, and not having done something to stop them earlier.
It definitely seems from the coming attractions that by next week, he’s figured it out. I guess we’ll find out then what he knew, and when did he know it.
Nope. He said “You weren’t supposed to kill her!” which means he had prior knowledge of the acts and they were acting under his orders. And now with the DNA taken from the scene, it could lead back to the nomads, and thus, him.
Yes, I know he had prior knowledge since he was behind the invasions. But after his surprised look at the bandages, I thought we might get a neat twist, where Clay is not responsible, and actually helps end the invasions. The “big reveal” at the last minute was a bit of a letdown, since everyone had Clay pegged for it.
There is no twist. He is behind the invasions. They fucked up by accidentally killing her. Not really much more you can do with that.
did you notice how Tig got a neck scratch when the guard’s wife shot that shotgun?
I GUAR-AN-FUCKING-TEE he’s going to say something like “the bitch got in the way and got me in the neck”, word will get back to Roosevelt and he’ll either kill Tig, or get Pope to kill Tig, etc. etc.
Sutter is so predictable sometimes.
Actually, after the 5 million dollar ransom for whomever kills Pope scene, Tig will get Pope, like he deserves, and that’ll be the last we see of Tig.
Everyone keeps thinking that Eli will think Tig was in on the murder of his wife. However, they have the DNA from under Rita’s nails, and it would be a quick matter to eliminate Tig. He’s a convicted felon, and in CA, they collect DNA from anyone even arrested for a felony, so his is in the system.
That’s the single biggest thing I have a hard time accepting about this show. ALL of these guys have been convicted of multiple felonies and they ALL carry unlicensed concealed weapons ALL of the time. That’s such an easy arrest and when it’s your 9th offense they put you in jail for a long time.
1. I think Jax’s comment asking if Pope’s plan included little girls and bon fires showed he still hates Pope. And Pope was talking about fear, I think Jax fears him Like he told the other gang leaders, it’s better to be on Pope’s good side and Jax knows that.
2. Tig HAS TO vote with Jax, it was the condition of him getting out of prison, otherwise he would still be inside, with Pope’s minions makings his life hell. Tig’s slight “no” nod of his head before voting Yay showed he was going against his better judgment.
8. The prison guard’s wife had seen their faces and they were clearly going to kill him. No witnesses.
Jax is definitely not done w/ Pope, but there’s no reason to let Pope suspect that some lead pipe revenge is coming his way. If they have ongoing business, it will be easier for Jax to get to Pope when the time is right.
I’ve said it many times, but this show sucks more than it shines. Last night’s inconsistencies kind of ruined it for me. All the more compared to Breaking Bad or the less tempestuous Justified… It is just soap opera level now, nothing makes sense, everybody is so unrealistic it makes me cringe. But I guess I’m still going to see if they can prove me wrong.
I wholeheartedly agree with analysis, and I can’t wait until Justified comes back in January.
That being said, I still watch SOA because I have come to enjoy the gratuitous violence, browalk’s, and flared nostril stares of death. However, this show is spiraling downward and I think we are headed towards a Vic/Shane type of situation where Clay is on the run from Jax and the crew.
Plus, I mean it’s not like there’s a ton of good TV on Tuesdays.
Does anyone in this world hear gunshots? Or if they do, not do anything about them? First, Carla blows her brains out in Gemma’s bedroom. It’s not like Gemma’s house is way out in the boonies, someone should have heard something.
And maybe they missed that one, small caliber gun and all, but the guard’s wife gets off two shots with a shotgun, which is super noisy, in a quiet suburban neighborhood. It’s not some inner-city warzone where people just duck when they hear gunshots. Someone would have heard & called the cops, except in the SoA world.
I think Gemma’s house is probably secluded enough that the shot would have been sorta hard to hear. And also the neighbors are likely accustomed to that sort of noise.
As for the guard’s wife w/ the shot gun, I have no idea. Somebody should have made a call, at least to the house to check if everything was alright.
That was the first thing I thought when she fired those shotgun rounds off.
The reason Tig voted for running more drugs is because he has to. He promised Jax in prison that he’d vote Jax’ way from now on, no matter what the vote.
As for their relationship with Pope, Jax already explained that as well. They are stuck in a position right now where there is nothing they can do about him. SAMCRO is basically biding its time until they can take him out. Their hands are tied in terms of needing to work with him.
I like the angle Sutter is playing with Jax killing the guard with a globe. It makes Jax less likable which make me like the show much more. We needed a reminder that he is the leader of an outlaw gang of murderers, not Raylan Givens.
Not sure how it makes you like Jax less and I find it funny how we are trying to play off the guard as just doing his job. He was a complete dick about the entire thing, he is a crooked officer, and they even made bets on how long Opie would last. He was in no way innocent in the entire deal. An eye for an eye. Killing off the wife made sense in that they had no choice not to, but made no sense in why she was both home and came out with a shotgun.
>> but made no sense in why she was both home and came out with a shotgun.
August told Jax that the wife worked until 6. She came out in a bathrobe, which I’m guessing means she had the bad luck to be home sick that day.
Of course she’d come out with a shotgun. She heard intruders in her house, and a prison guard would definitely have guns in the house for protection.
1.) Tara should have blown Otto…..he’s on death row after all…
2.) Tara’s tits looked like globes in the daycare scene at the end…
so you are saying you wouldn’t mind being hit across the head with them?
1.) Tara should have put a needle in Otto’s neck and been done with it.
2.) I thought the sweater kittens looked glorious.
@PG: She can’t kill him before he recants his testimony.
@Duchess: Nope. Not a bit.
@Dux: We are talking about a show based on a biker gang that runs drugs and prostitutes, frames people using transvestite hookers, is in bed with the cartel (DEA), goes to Ireland to retrieve a stolen baby, and kills federal agents and has sex around their dead corpse.
But I digress, this RICO thing is probably sealed tight and the sudden death of the person that gave a sworn testimony would seem a bit of a stretch for Sutter and his superb writing staff.