Warning: This post may contain
spoilers of Sons of Anarchy Season 6. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
THANK YOU! AND GOD BLESS!
Salamu
It has come to my attention that I have come across the most
epic television series of all time. And while it will never rival the legendary
Dallas as one of the television programmes with the most episodes of all time,
Sons of Anarchy is quite possibly one of the most realistic series of all time
and its creator Kurt Sutter is a bladdy genius and deserves an Oscar, an Emmy,
a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize for literature.
While I am fully aware that I may not have to correct
qualifications to give an educated opinion on the series, I am fully aware of
my constitutional (and human) right to voice my opinion. And besides, the
people who critique movies and television shows for a living are full of shit
anyway and don’t know how to give a proper opinion on things anyway.
After cottoning on to the series in 2011, I was not prepared
for the most realistic roller coaster of human emotions that the series would
put me on. From the humble beginnings of the turf war with the Mayans, to dealing
with the Nords, to rampaging through Belfast to rescue the kidnapped Abel, to
dealing with RICO, to dealing with the Clay situation, I have been glued to my
screen and completely fascinated by the development of the various characters
and the role that they play in the series.
But nothing…not one damn thing could have prepared me for
Season 6.
We knew that this was going to be a make or break season for
the series as something needed to come to a head in order to bring viewers back
to the series. Gone are the days where we have endless seasons of a series. It seems
that they have a life span of five seasons, and then you start losing viewers.
The end of Season Five set the scene perfectly for season
six, Clay was incarcerated for the murder of Damon Pope (a murder that he was
framed for by Jax and Tigg), and Tara was incarcerated for her part in the
murder of a correctional services nurse by Otto Delaney. So clearly Clay had an
axe to grind while Tara wanted to distance herself and her boys from Gemma and
the Club.
This was the basis of Season Six. Tara’s arrest was a
defining moment in her relationship with the club as it was the last straw
which broke the camel’s back she had enough of the Club and its bullshit and
she has gone into the mode that every mother goes into, she needs to make major
sacrifices to save her boys. Some thinks that her whole outlook of wanting to
divorce Jax was due to her falling out of love with him. But in fact, it was
just the opposite. All through the series you can see she is still desperately
in love with Jax, and she so wants to be there for him. But she questions his
ability to be a good role model for their sons. We all know that Jax himself
never wanted to turn out the way that he did, but his history with the club and
his election to its Presidency turned him. Abel and Thomas share that same
history with the club and Tara was scared that the same fate was in store for
them. The apple never does fall far from the tree.
She also didn’t want to turn in the club because she had the
outlook of: Fuck all you guys, you have burned me so now I am going to burn
you. She wanted to turn in the club to get immunity from prison. If she did
jail time for conspiracy to murder that nurse, custody of the kids would go to
Jax who is still significantly controlled by Gemma, who Tara believes is Satan
reborn.
Everything that Tara did during the season was for her kids.
The sacrifices she made, the schemes she tried to execute, the distance she put
between herself and Jax were all for her kids. She transformed herself from the
cute tabby cat to the tiger that she ended up becoming because of the threat to
her kids.
Let it just be stated for the record that she was still as
hot as shit. She will be missed during Season 7.
Clay had to die. It was decided during Season Four, Season
Five and now in Season Six. We all knew it was coming.
The person you really feel sorry for is Jax. The opening of
the Season Six Finale encapsulates it all: I
hate what I have become, there are times when I must go for weeks without
looking in the mirror because I am scared that I will smash it and cut my face
with the broken shards of my reflection.
This was the entry into his journal at the beginning of the
finale. And every move that he has made
since returning from Belfast has been to push the club towards earning cash in
a legitimate manner and to move away from the violence and killings that
running drugs and guns has brought the club. However, the drugs and guns is too
big an earner for the IRA and the other organisations like the Mayans, the
Niners and the Chinese for the guns to stop. And because the Sons have the
network to run the drugs and guns effectively, these organisations are putting Jax
under pressure and are sabotaging his plans.
Jax is caught between a rock and a hard place, he wants to
move away from guns but he can’t because of the events I just described above.
Coupled with this he has Tara doing what she needs to do to survive and the
cops so far up his ass after a school shooting in the first episode. There are
times when you can see the pure frustration in Jax’s face that can only come
from a person who does not know what else to do to make things right.
Now for the finale, and it is at this point that I want to
point out and reiterate my spoiler disclaimer above.
Sutter has once again outdone himself and has set the scene
perfectly for Season 7. Jax agrees to hand himself over to the authorities in
order for Tara to look after the boys and raise them away from the violence and
bullshit that club business has brought into their homes. Gemma turns out to be
the devil that Tara thought she was by brutally killing her. Sherriff Rooseveld
is about to turn in Gemma but gets shot by Juice. Jax arrives at the home to
turn himself in and sees the two bodies in the kitchen. He breaks down and
holds Tara’s body when the District Attorney walks in and sees Jax, the two
bodies and Jax’s gun (which was not used in the murders) on the floor.
So, Season 7. It will be a fitting end to the series because
of a few things:
- - Who will raise Abel and Thomas, Jax will be
going to jail for RICO and possibly double murder after the DA walks in on a
crime scene that he supposedly was responsible for. Everything that Tara fought
so hard for turned to shit and the boys will either be raised by Gemma or
Wendy.
- - Will Gemma be brought to justice for her murder
of Tara?
- - Will Nero turn out like Jax after agreeing to
head up the Stockton chapter of the Mayans?
- - Who will die?
It’s a pity that we will have to wait until September 2014
to find this out. But one thing is for sure. Sutter never disappoints, and we
should strap ourselves in for an emotional roller coaster.
It is at this time I would like to wish all of my fans a
Happy Festive Season. Thank you for your support throughout the year and I hope
to have your continued support in 2014.
Mei jua daima kuwa kabla yenu, na vivuli nyuma yako!
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