Last night’s episode was a mess. It seemed to want to set up the arc for the rest of the season, but I’ve thought that a lot through the first seven episodes, and Opie’s death is barely a factor anymore. As we’ve already seen throughout, story lines are aren’t given much time to develop before a SHOCKING twist or a SURPRISING death concludes them, sending Sutter scurrying off to find a new plot line to mine. Last night’s episode was all about re-igniting one rivalry (Jax vs. Clay) at the expense of a far more compelling one (SAMCRO vs. Damon Pope).
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1. If She Was Drunk Or High, I Swear to God … — After the accident last week, in which a stoned Gemma got into a car accident with her grandkids, the Jax’s offspring came out OK. Abel got a boo boo on his head, and had to have a irregular heartbeat straightened out, but the BIG SHOCKING CLIFFHANGER was quickly resolved. Sutter didn’t have the balls to kill the kid, and for now anyway, it’s probably for the best because Sutter needs some slack to play with.
2. The Cover-Up — As we predicted last week, the accident would lead to a cover-up, although in this case, it was Clay who took the initiative on behalf of Gemma, suggesting that Gemma was pushed off the road by the same van that tried to take out Jax last week. Gemma quickly went from goat to hero, compounding her guilt about being the real cause of the accident. But …
3. TWIST — Before the episode ended, Jax and Tara learned the truth, Gemma confessed she was high, and Tara knocked the holy snot out of Gemma. “You’re done! You don’t call, see, or come near my kids again.” At this point, Gemma is dead to the family. Clay is all she has left. But …
4. CURVEBALL — By the end of the episode, Gemma already has a redemption opportunity. Jax decides to use Gemma to take down Clay. “Be with him. Sleep with him. Make him feel like a king,” Jax said. Find out all his secrets, and if she can’t, she will be left to fend for herself among the bangers and whores. If she can, she will be welcomed back into the family, although Jax doesn’t seem to give Tara’s feelings on the matter any weight.
The whole set up felt incredible contrived and convoluted: Kurt Sutter took the scenic route in order to pit Gemma against Clay, when I’m certain there was a more direct route that didn’t necessitate the fake-out cliffhanger in last week’s episode. More on this in a moment.
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I think that Abel should have been DOA. It would be interesting to see if Sutter would still be pushing the whole You-scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours bit if his son was dead.
gema needs rehab
I agree that Abel should’ve gotten dead, but I see why they didn’t. If Gemma had gotten their kid killed Jax and Tara would’ve just bailed.
also very subtle how they are turning Tara into Gemma..”.how are my babies”~ Gemma
“It’s my Babies” ~Tara
way less subtle then Tara and Jax striking the same pose as John and Gemma from the photo
if Chuck Zito doesn’t get all the awards for guest of the year votes have no justice
#sarcasm?
This has been such an annoyingly frustrating season so far. I really was hoping the Jax vs. Clay saga would be put on the back burner this season for something fresh and interesting.
Why did Clay bother telling Juice he was behind the break ins? He already had dirt on Juice and it served no purpose except to give Juice dirt on Clay.
False sense of security that he won’t use that info against him. It will also keep Juice in his camp giving him at least one ally since all the others are on the lam or dead.
and didnt they already talk about “Black Daddy” last season after Juice was in lock-up? that it didnt mean anything his dad was black, besides isnt Chibs Daughter black…
Gemma needs to die yesterday. So tired of her.
Agreed. She is one of the most annoying characters on the show now.
I’ll be sad when Clay dies, unless Sutter saves that for the end of the show. Ron Perlman’s pretty far and away the best actor on this show, even moreso now that Hurst is gone. Also I’m missing Lincoln Potter too. That dude was like the Moriarty to the MC’s Holmes. Bring that sucka back.
Dayton Callie (Unser) is also consistently good.
Also, Chibs fo’ life.
Counterpoint: this was the best episode of SoA so far this season. A bunch of plotlines finally started to come together, rather than Sutter just throwing out the next shock bit that came into his mind to try to keep people talking.
As for why Jax needs proof of Clay’s misdeeds, keep in mind the reason why Clay is still alive; Jax needs Clay in order to get the Irish to sell guns to the cartel through SoA because the Irish think Jax is too hotheaded to lead. Without Clay, the Irish deal goes away, and the cartel pulls the pin on the RICO case. Until Jax finds out about/deals with Juice (my guess: Roosevelt tosses out Juice’s evidence in exchange for getting to put a bullet in Frankie Diamonds once the club catches him) and the club finds a way to get Otto to recant (I guess by Tara wearing his ex-wife’s crappy perfume?), he needs Clay to avoid getting taken down by RICO. We know that there is no shortage of reasons for Jax to kill Clay, and that a number of people in the club have at least bits and pieces of knowledge about what Clay’s done. I think the evidence may very well be for the Irish, so that when the time comes to off Clay, Jax can show the Irish that they misjudged Clay’s character and Jax’s leadership potential, thereby keeping the pipeline for Irish guns in place for as long as the club needs it.
As for how the Nero/Pope relationships are shaping up; I think those will be the two alternatives for Jax going forward. Either he gets himself and SoA deeper into drugs and guns, becomes more ruthless and tries to become Charming’s Pope, or he gets himself and the club out of that stuff and becomes more peaceful/reasonable like Nero seems. I get the feeling that Nero seems too good to be true in a lot of ways; I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes back that he actually killed off Ashley Tisdale’s character and is much more of an asshole than he seems, leading to Jax losing faith in the path Nero preaches and getting pushed towards becoming more like Pope.
Lastly, Sutter has so far this season burned Tig’s daughter alive, killed off Opie in a brutal prison beating, had Nero’s bangers require a tit and a finger as proof of Ashley Tisdale’s death, had Tig kill the prison guard’s wife in cold blood while Jax smashed the guard’s head in with a snow globe playing “It’s a Small World” and had Jax kill the second shooter in cold blood this week, and you’re calling him out for not having the balls to kill Abel, a kid who’s been through some of the most traumatic shit on the show? And you like the show Girls? Dude, you are one seriously fucked up individual.
I agree. I thought this was the best one of the season too. I’m sorry it didn’t have everyone’s favorite Justified actor dressed as a BDSM tranny.
The episode did a good job of moving along some necessary plotlines, but at the same time Sutter abandoned some plotlines that would have been more interesting and difficult to continue with.
Also I don’t think Chibs/Bobby find Jax “childish” more or less one pissed off motherfucker that isn’t to be fucked with. “Using tragedy to get an advantage.” As to the main plotline with Pope, there’s two more seasons left so much like Hank couldn’t die this early in Breaking Bad they have to keep some viable endgame plots open. Perhaps an endgame is Jax taking over Pope’s business and killing him. Arguably the most uncomfortable scene in the entire show was Pope fucking over Tig, a guy most people have a hard time with, maybe the show ends with Jax letting Tig brutally murder Pope and Jax putting one in the back of Tig’s head paraphrasing my mainest man Slim Chuck:
“This one’s for Donna”
Jax letting Tig brutally murder Pope and Jax putting one in the back of Tig’s head paraphrasing my mainest man Slim Chuck:
“This one’s for Donna”
that would be amazing
Juice could have stopped spilling his beans at Black Daddy. The RICO…the coke…redrum??? Ease up Juicy and have colonic. Dude is seriously fucked in the head…oh wait he didn’t tell Clay about the suicide attempt.
It’s almost as if Sutter is setting it up so that anyone who gets offed, the audience will and will not feel sympathy for them. Pretty much everyone on the show (with a couple of exceptions) has done shit that’s over the top setting them all as anti-heroes.
I decided I’m going to stop picking apart the holes in Sutters writing and just enjoy some violence. For the middle seasons where things were near unwatchable, this season is surprisingly decent.
I love the fact that most of the characters were anti-heroes. But, at this point, do ANY of them have ANY redeeming qualities? They’re all douchebags. Kill ‘em all!!
I miss having a character to focus all of my hate and bad wishes towards (Stahl). If Pope is supposed to be this season’s villian he just aint getting it done for me.
Now if Nero somehow comes out swinging as a secretly ruthless asshole I will be impressed.
Or Clay and Juice confessing each to each other like a couple of school girls.
it did have a weird air of.”its alright, he *sob* hurt..me..too.” lifetime moment
“I hope you get used to living in a brothel with Bangers and Skanks for family.”
out of one house into another
Jax is acting a lot more bad ass. I dunno about you guys but I liked it. You saw Jax acting cold, Tara stick Gemma, Lyla got shot, and some serious shit started brewing with Clay.
As far as Jax’s proof goes well in order:
He ordered Tig to kill Donna, the only way Jax proves this at the table is if Tig admits to it. In which case they also kill Tig too, a guy that Jax kinda needs if not feels sorry for.
Clay killing J/T? Well it’s only Tara, Gemma, and Piney that know that and they only know this because of the letters. What’s the current state of the letters? I thought most of the most incriminating ones were gone.
Clay ordering a hit on Tara? Only Piney and Gemma knew this. Piney’s dead, so that’s kinda out. I guess the cartel knows too but I doubt the club would listen to them.
Clay killing Piney? He admitted to that. The table won’t kill him for it.
The Nomads ordering the hit? Well according to the guy the whole cast wants dead Clay ordered the hit. They’re going to take his word over Clay’s? The guy that killed two of them? The former Prez and First 9? I doubt it.
I will say that I’m disappointed about the lack of Cartel here. That was a legit angle.
I’m with you, I liked it. Solid points as always my friend.
The only issue I have with the Nomad point is that Frankie confessed when he had all the power in that situation. He might have been a little panicky, I guess, but he had everyone else at gun point and had pretty much no pressure on him. He just said “Oh, yeah, Clay had us do it, okay, bye”
I buy that, though. Clay killed his friends. He’s shitting in the pool before he gets out.
Clay is so fucked
Yeah he did, but the only people that heard that were the Veep (hardly an unbiased source) and Chibs (who is laying a puddle of his own blood), maybe Tig was there…but that’s still not probably proof enough to kill a fellow member, First 9 no less, without recourse. Jax isn’t Clay, he wants to be a better man and a better prez.
Lobster Monster: also Juice knows Clay killed a Nomad, so there’s a good witness for Clay in this whole thing.
Jax does not feel sorry for Tig. He feels Tig is partially to blame for Opie. Remember Jax promised Tig to Pope earlier this season when Jax didn’t need him. Now, that may have been a smokescreen, but I definitely dont think Jax feels sorry for Tig.
Unless there is something to the certificate that Clay keeps looking at I think the John Teller angle is dead for the time being.
Clay is gonna have Frankie offed and get that loose end tied up so I dont see that coming back to bite him.
I am becoming more and more sure that Clay’s death is going to come at the hands of a woman (Tara or Gemma take your pick) or at the hands af a lesser club member (Juice, Tig). I dont think Jax is going to be the one to off Clay.
Good episode! I enjoyed the end
I’m honestly surprised Juice is still alive, I figured doing doing live discussions with WarmingGlow was a one way ticket to having your character killed off.
Agreed. Seemed like it was destined to happen even before he did the Q & A. That just cinched it.
I don’t think they will kill him
The club will just hand him that chain he used to try and kill himself last season. At least get it done right!
The whole thing involving Gemma was like a scared straight PSA against drug use. But instead of it being your brain on drugs, it ends with you living with pimps and prostitutes and Mexicans at a brothel.
I dunno, living in a brothel looks pretty fucking sweet if you ask me
That is a pretty nice brothel, as long as I wasn’t on glory hole duty once a week I would certainly consider living with whores and bangers.
idk about living in the brothel, look at all the hot girls that get shot and beat up lol
There was definitely a PSA in there. “I was stoned. I thought I nothing would happen because I’ve drove stoned before”.
“I was just buzzed”
Buzzed Driving is Stoned Driving *Jail door sound*
As much as I mock this show, I have to admit, I liked the touch with Nero’s safe combination being the what I assume is his son’s birth date.
Very true! That was a nice touch…
Thirded. It’s the little details that make him likeable.
10-19-02
I didn’t catch that, but I agree that it’s a nice touch.
Good day gang… I am arriving late to the party once again this week… let me start by saying that I had no problem with the episode. Sure Sutter is starting and ending storylines like a scoutmaster with ADD, but I like all of the action. The main thing that keeps running through my head week in and week out is what will he do for the final six weeks… especially with extended episodes on the horizon.
“I’m going to tell her there is a dead black guy in her car…” was sort of comical. Jax has continued to keep his promise of filling Tara in on each and every one of his secrets… that is clearly a good thing because as the rest of his world continues to burn, he has a constant rock at home to bounce things off of… though I still dislike her a great deal.
Gemma’s freak out at the site of Abel on the stretcher was sort of annoying… I guess it was a realistic reaction in an unrealistic situation. I am sort of glad that Sutter didn’t kill Abel… it would have been a bit much at that point and would have destroyed the rest of the “use Gemma to out Clay” storyline.
I wasn’t surprised to see Clay lie for Gemma…he has been trying to find a way back in for weeks. Mainly because he misses the same relationship that his step son now has with his wife… someone to bounce things off of when the world is burning… Where Jax benefited from included Tara in his business, Clay suffered when he began excluding Gemma from his…
I was glad to see the whole cover-up exposed sooner, rather than later. It would have just been another kick to the nuts of the Teller family if it came out later. Better to get it out of the way and move on with whatever it ends up being… It was a bit odd to hear Tara say “Sorry” before she began screaming at Gemma to get out and that she was dead to them…
I don’t mind the redemption that Jax is dangling in front of Gemma… though he didn’t truly consider Tara’s feelings on the matter, he did fill her in on his plan and she clearly signed off on it. Heck, the way that family goes, they could still end up cutting Gemma out later once they get what they need from her. Jax has turned into a pretty ruthless guy these days as evidenced by the bodies he is leaving in his wake in recent weeks. He is clearly in self and family preservation mode…
I am with Dustin… the looks that Chibs/Bobby have been giving Jax speak to the fact that they are wondering what the hell is going with him these days. He used to be the one trying to talk others out of violence etc and now he is chopping a dead guy’s hands off… though I am pretty damn glad that he did that since it set up what was probably the line of the night from Unser… “Next time a glass with a couple of finger prints will do just fine…”
Pope’s reaction to the hand was pretty good as well… sad that they aren’t using him near as much as I had hoped when they introduced him. Odd that he is essentially the best friend Jax has at this point… I still have trouble viewing him as a big bad after seeing him “slappa da bass” in the promos for the Wedding Band… WHY… WHY would you run those ads while you are trying to convince me that he is a ruthless killer.
At least Chuck Zito did a bit more last night than bark out a few annoying lines… he seemed more in his element while holding a gun down a girl’s throat. I am glad that Frankie finally spilled the beans on what we all knew already which heated the Jax/Clay feud back up. Sadly, we are likely going to have to wait another two years in real life before that situation is handled… yes people like Frankie will die now, but Clay is destined to ride the series arc out… internal strife is likely to be too necessary moving forward to kill him sooner.
Poor Chibs… the guy just wants to help everyone… gets left for dead and no one is even looking for him. Bobby’s attempt to comfort Lyla didn’t work on her and it certainly didn’t work on me… “He’ll probably let him out when he gets far enough away…”
How much more proof do you need is right!!? I mean this guy has been laying waste to loved ones, business associates and members for years… yet when there are 853 witnesses to Frankie’s confession they still need more on Clay??? Seems to me that the only one at the table that might have reservations is Juice, but even he is doubting Clay… at least he was until the asinine moment that he spilled his guts…
Which leads me to POOR JUICE. We all love you Theo Rossi, but the Uproxx curse just might get you yet. Of all people to share your secret with… Clay was not the one. That is just ammo in a gun that is almost always firing… his telling Juice about his own indiscretions just ensures that he’ll likely try to frame or kill him. I still don’t think that Roosevelt will out Juice, but you never know… seems to obvious. I figured that Clay will be the one to throw him under the bus in hopes of saving his own hide.
Side note about the Clay/Juice interaction… Juice’s involvement with the Feds wasn’t even the juiciest part that Clay can use… he filled him in on all of the RICO info, Otto etc. Who’s to say that Galen is tipped off right now… dumb Juice… dumb…
I still feel that Nero is part of another shoe that has yet to drop, but that may just be wishful thinking on my part… a guy can dream right??? Though it is far more likely that he goes down in history as the Banger that Gemma is stuck calling family for the rest of her life…
As always… sorry for the long winded comment… and thanks for the blog/great interaction…
You know, it’s possible to end a sentence with a single punctuation mark.
And an ellipsis is for either a quote omission or to trail off at the end of a sentence…
Thanks guys.I was wondering about that. I didn’t think that proper grammar was a necessity here in the comments section of a television blog. Now I have gone and blown it…
Admittedly, I have a bad habit of using the ellipsis while writing informally.
It feels like Sutter has jumped whole heartedly into the M. Night Shyamalan school of writing.
Substitute things like consistent plot or compelling characters with “twists” that become so prevalent that the audience sees them coming a mile away. That is certainly easier and more “shocking” than letting strong writing bring us to logical and fulfilling resolutions.
Hey, you know what would really make an impact of the Emmy nominations for best actress? That character’s death scene. We also get the plus of not having Gemma drag down the show anymore.
Her getting iced out by Tara could have actually played for a few weeks. In fact, I thought Tara was already doing that earlier.
It wasn’t he didn’t have the balls to kill the kid . Killing the kid would do nothing to advance the story
I also like kids to be killed off. NO KIDS ON TV PLEASE!
Sutter cannot kill Abel because that would be depriving us of the all important story line of Wendy trying to get custody of him from Senor Bro Walk and Bionic Arm. Please excuse me as I have to go flare my nostrils at something.
So does Tara have a bionic hand now? She doesn’t seem to use that surgically repaired hand for anything but punching.
I want the next person she punches in the face have their face implode like in Punisher Warzone
The bones have fused together to make a powerful club, solid enough to crush skulls.
On the down side, she’ll be performing her next surgery left-handed. But still, skull-crushing bone club.
Her and Merle from TWD trade cybernetic hands.
I understand everyone, I watch it every week and hope for the best, but get dissapointed every time.
My wife is catching up on shows I like, as homeland, game of thrones and breaking bad. But I´m not going to make her watch this.
At different points during that episode, I was like, “Clay’s gonna kill (Juice) (Gemma)…” Clay, either go full evil or leave the show.
I hope Clay figures out Gemma is trying to play him and kills her.
Yeah that’s likely where I’m leaning too. Clay kills Gemma, the Cartel says that they’re free giving Jax permission to kill Clay. Jax kills Clay and than the Cartel says that OH WAIT WE NEED THE IRISH FOR ONE MORE THANG!!!!!!!!! And the conflicts in seasons 6 and 7 are triangle between Jax/Pope/Cartel.
@Omar I’d agree except I can’t see Sutter killing off his wife until MAYBE the last episode.
After Clay not being killed in previous seasons, I feel like he’ll never die.
“The good die young. The Pricks…live for EVER”
-Lewis Black
Applies with Opie dying early and Clay still being alive.
Or maybe seven season is a swerve and everyone dies at the end of this season and then the next two seasons are in the future.
Either that or Disney buys the show and it goes on forever and ever and ever.
I’m not sure I can take this much longer. Clay is not dying until the final season.
So after the President patch whats next? CIA? Original 9?
Homeless Lady who keeps showing up randomly patch.
Charming… we may only have one winding road in and out of town but we only have one homeless person too
Also, Charming no longer has a White Supremacist problem either.
MASTER BRO WALKER
Flared nostril badge?
Am I wrong for saying… fuck it Im team Pope now?
He still burns little girls alive.
He’s a pillar of the community! Probably passes out turkeys like Nino Brown.
Tigs daughter in revenge for the cold blood killing of his own daughter but even he seems to be done with this biker drama.
Sons On Anarchy… High School on two wheels!
I imagine Pope is at home like Diddy was on Get Him to the Greek. “It’s Biggest Loser time!”
I really hope Pope sticks around next season and becomes the main “Big Bad”. When he’s being ruthless he’s a pretty great character. He’s been underused the last few episodes.
Pope “Can you bro walk a lil faster I need to get back to ‘Dancing with the Stars’”
Pope’s going to turn out to be a mid-level field agent for the Department of Homeland Security, I bet.
The Russians they deal with are not mobsters but GRU agents…
I think a great series ender for the show would be to reveal that EVERY group is actually being run by some government agency. The one niners are actually run by Oakland SWAT, the Irish are actually INTERPOL, SOA is actually all FBI
That way the entire series turns out to be a comedy of errors where there actually were not any criminal groups, it was all undercover government agents getting involved with each other and killing each other while non-undercover government agents tried to catch them.
Yeah I was just thinking “how great would a show be if every gang was actually a government agency trying to build a case against each other”
Weird homeless lady is head of the Illuminati
Pope is the most compelling character at this point. Of course that may simply be due to the fact Sutter hasn’t time to ruin him.
Lobster… She is pulling all the strings
I thought the episode was actually pretty good. Maybe I’m just comparing it to last week’s which was pretty weak.
I understand some of the complaints, especially regarding Jax’ need for proof. This is an outlaw biker gang. Does he really need proof? Wouldn’t the four people that heard Frankie confess about Clay’s involvement be enough proof?
However I think the Gemma arc made sense. The problem with it is that the arc should have happened throughout 6 or 7 episodes. Had that happened it would have worked. But being sped up to run the gamut during the course of a single episode makes it seem like the wrong way to go. This is especially true with Tara excommunicating Gemma and then Jax a few minutes later telling Tara she won’t like the solution and then suddenly telling Gemma that there is a way back in. That happening in the span of less than 10 minutes of screen time makes it not work well.
If you look at the series as being about Gemma (especially the latest episodes), this episode was excellent. For the whole run of the show, Gemma has been trying to hold on to her identity as it relates to SAMCRO, but w/ all the changes that took place she is no longer able to. Now she has to choose if she wants to keep trying (and it looks very unlikely that it’ll work), or if she wants to pitch it all out and be a new person.
Jax and Tara will be a fun conflict. Maybe like Tony and Carmella.
Number eight. A thousand times, eight.
As I recall it, the only reason Clay is alive in the first place is because of the deal with the Irish. If we’ve moved beyond that lifeline (as we seem to have, given Jax’s current attitude) then I don’t see what the hold up is. I mean, I do, but it’s not internal to the story.
What is this – week 3 now that Tig is acting like his daughter wasn’t burned alive?
I see he subscribes to the Antono Cromartie school of parenting.
Well, he did just change one letter to come up with the names, so I can see that.
Now, now. He made a half-hearted attempt to go to the meeting point, and was only held back by Chibbs’ powerful act of quietly telling him stay and be a good boy.
This is the main problem with this season so far. While I’m enjoying it, they do seem to have dropped some important plot points in terms of the characters’ motivations.
He killed Pope’s daughter. There’s really nothing Tig can do.
Chibbs will go rouge at some point and is going to kill Pope. Mark my words it will happen or they will kill each other.
It appears we’ve found the one place in North America where you can get drive your car off the road and into a tree, endangering kids in the process, and neither the police nor the medical staff do a single test for drugs or alcohol, and there’s no visit from Child Protective services.
Charming, CA: “Nothing is any of our business, ever.”
Well, duh, tox screens are only if you die.
I want Tara to try and get Gemma to OD like Gemma did to Wendy. Make her OD on face punches!
do you think it’s the same stretch of road, or is Charming surrounded by winding exits?
@leapin Lizards. It is the same stretch of road. Oddly enough it sits above that park where every fight scene of Power Rangers took place.
It’s just amazing how everyone just took their word for it.
Jax: Hey mom, who’s been drunk/stoned for the whole season, were you drunk or stoned last night?
Gemma: Uhhhhhhh
Clay: Even though I killed your dad and tried to kill your wife, and am a lying liar who’ll do anything to screw you over, you should believe me when I say that some black dudes I hate tried to kill your mom and kids.
Clay: Oh, OK.
Gemma: You poor thing.
Lady doctor whose name I can’t remember: I don’t trust either of these people, but I can’t be bothered to check for drugs. But your baby’s butt is poop-free!
Jax: Thanks bro *unflares nostrils*
@kushiro
The lady doctor you’re referring to is named Ancestry.com
Must be in a red state.
In the biker gang justice system there are two separate yet equally stupid groups of people….
Outstanding
Want: Sam Waterston as a biker
I wish we could like individual posts.
You win the comment thread.
with his old lady played by Elisabeth Röhm and Mistress Played by Stephine March.
At least I still like Juice…. most of the other characters have become weak sauce lately…
Juice for vice president in 2016 people!
Juice is the weakest sauce of all the weak sauce.
Juice redeemed himself in my eyes when, for about three seconds, I thought he was going to play dumb and convince Clay that all Elliot was doing was shaking him down because of his black father. He lost me, again, when he went on to tell the full goddamn story. You’re on Sons of Anarchy, Juice: no one tells the full story.
Oh, and only Eli’s closest friends call him Elliot, in case you’re wondering.
I think UPROXX needs to get Jax, Gemma, and Tara all to do Q&A’s on here so they can finally get killed off.
Gemma’s doing a long-form radio interview today. Maybe that’ll count.
Who would rather watch a show with all the dead characters/actors instead of the living ones?
William Lucking, Ryan Hurst, Sprague Grayden, Titus Welliver (Just not fucking “Irish” accents, please), Kenny Johnston and Henry Rollins is a good damn start.
Zombies on Bikes!
Hell, just have those people get drunk and talk about being rad for 50 minutes a week, I’ll watch that.
Do I smell a Walking Dead crossover episode?
Next week on “The Riding Dead” Piney realizes that he no longer needs oxygen as a rider, but still enjoys the occasional nip of Patron!
On another note, how shitty is it to be Lyla these days?
getting shot was the first time she’d seen blood down there since she started doing porn
Leapin_Lizards – DAAAAMN
Once again: Kill Gemma, kill Clay, exile Jax, reanimate Opie, make Chibbs VP.
Anyone going to even look for Chibbs? No, too busy getting to the bottom of other things? Okay bros, he’ll just be on the side of the road, letting his head blood congeal in the sand.
What sucks is what’s gonna happen when he wakes up. He’ll call Bobby or Jax and be all,
“Ay, I needu rad. Ima bleedin fromaheed andu cannu figur agahaaargha.”
“Ok, where are you we’ll come pick you up.”
“Ima a ta curna a Frafaghak and Crevardig”
“What?”
“Who did this to you, bro?”
“Fronkee”
“I need to dig deeper, bro, find out who set this up.”
Also, this is Chibbs’ second serious head trauma (Car bomb, season 2). Is he going to get all brain leaky and need to ride in a side car from now on?
I was extremely pissed at that ‘cliffhanger’ about Chibs. It was just so convoluted without resolution that you had to wonder why that didn’t…I dunno. Start the next episode?
And Juice. Alas, poor Juice. Methinks anyone who is cursed to do an AMA on here is doomed to die in SOA World. STAY OFFFA HERE CHIBS. RUNNNN.
@ Paul from the Group – that was awesome
Yeah, Paul got the accent’s incoherence down perfectly.
who was that guy who beeped the horn? I had to re-watch it like 5 times because i thought it was a guest cameo by Drew Brees.
Frankie’s friends, or in a more urban parlance, his Diamonds Dawgs
HAHA!!!
The SOA, like the NFL, obviously needs to introduce stronger player safety regulations.
start cross-dressing like Tom Wilkerson in Normal, Travel across the County with Cross-Dressing Walton Goggins like some gritty Priscilla Queen of the Desert. black mailing men with threats of posting incriminating photos on their facebook.
or getting all brain scrambled and screaming random ish. “Oye Jackie boy…im a lil teapot..”
Is Tara ever going to learn to throw a fucking left handed punch, ugh she is dumb.
“you don’t call, talk or see my kids again…until two more episodes have passed AT LEAST!”
How is her hand healing at all?
Smoking weed in a bubble bath speeds hand recovery. Also, so does contact with “my babies” (Which, technically, only one is hers, she didn’t birth Abel)
She did adopt him though if I remember correctly.
threats on SOA are a kin to Jail in Monopoly…
Maybe I’m as dumb as Jax, but when we saw the van (Which I thought was kind of a light, possibly bluish color) and Gemma said it was brown, but Jax still questioned Frankie about targetting Gemma, I lost my brains.
He’s also the same guy who keeps insisting he needs “more proof” about Clay to bring to the club.
I don’t think there is a “logical reasoning” section on the test for getting into SAMCRO
No member of the Sons can pass a turing test.
@Lobster Monster I had the same reaction. This season I’ve been thinking more and more about stopping watching the show.
I did not watch the episode because I am still without power thanks to Hurricane Sandy. Based on this recap, I think I may be one of the lucky ones.
You’re better off just waiting for episode synopses on Wikipedia than actually watching at this point, I think
way to find that silver lining, Stinky
D’aww jeeze you guys, if Clay finds out I dinged his car, I’m gonna be grounded for a month!
(thanks to Ghostpilot on the Something Awful forums)
He’s thinking:
“Don’t flare your nostrils. Don’t flare your nostrils. You can do this.”
Heavy is the melon of the bro who rocks the crown, bro.
there’s just so much stuff he’s trying to get to the bottom of
Shit, where’d I put my hair elastic?
I think Aludra is on the right page. That’s the Bro-Comb.
Why the shit did Juice open his mouth to Clay? Because Clay gave him a stern look? That was almost as bad as the “Sleep with him. Make him feel like a king.” plan at the end.
No, it wasn’t a good episode.
Because Juice is a bitch and that’s what bitches do.
I was half hoping that when Clay asked “Why?” regarding Juice saying his dad is black, then going on to explain about how Eli forced him to snitch, Clay just went “No, why would we care about your dad, doofus?” You know, like what Chibbs told him last season?
I was hoping he’d say ‘BECAUSE IM BLACK” and start sobbing uncotrollablly until Clay just hugged him and said ‘It’s gonna be okay, son”. BANG BANG.
@Joelski that would have been more entertaining than what actually happened
Next they rent out a tandem bike and cruise along Santa Monica Blvd…
I was so prepare to be bummed out that Chibs was gonna get it last night.
Gemma is a POS.
Jax is gettin EVIL.
How’s Clay ever gonna make it outta this season? Or Juice?
If Sutter saves them again I’ll be mighty disappointed.
If there is a terribly simple and stupid way for Sutter to get Clay to survive another season, and Jax miss his chance to kill him off, he’ll find it.
It seems to be his forte
Pope never was, nor did he need to be, the Big Bad. I thought that’s where they were going after the first couple episodes, but you quickly had to realize nothing he was doing was really villainous. He lost his daughter and got revenge on the club.
I feel like he’s going to be more of a mentor for Jax than an enemy. He’s leading a civilian life and gets to be gang member/leader.
Does this happen right before he gets lost on the island.
its in between thats going to the next big twist… during a heart to heart he’s going to call Jax, Walt. tear up then tell Jax if you find Walt ill let the club go. the Feds will have in the safe house and when they break in… Opie is there. THEY HAVE BEEN DEAD THE WHOLE TIME!!! the Feds are the Dharma intuitive and they were testing Jax,for take over for Hurley as the island’s protector.Bobby will Grab him and Tell him “No, We have to go back” but Jax will decide it is the onlyway to keep his family safe. Jax will walk across the room and enter a door to find Clay dressed all in black at a chessboard… Credits
I’ll just check in with my weekly dose of “Jax is the worst character on this show.”
Jax is the worst character on this show.
The end. Seeya next week for the next episode of “Jax is the worst character on this show” for the resolution to the cliffhanger of who is the worst character on this show.
/dead horse is beaten to death again
No fucking way he is worse than Tara or Gemma.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s terrible. But just not as bad as the women.
C’mon he’s the leader of an outlaw biker gang who writes in a dream diary, doesn’t want to be an outlaw bike gang and then does but doesn’t, is a terrible indesicive leader and hes got a jerkface thats good for punching.
Yeah, I def see what you’re saying with that. I was thinking more from an acting standpoint, I don’t think his character is just annoying and overwrought the way Gemma and Tara are.
Forget all this please tell me about your LawBombs LawBlog, BoblawBlaw?
Gemma is still the worst.