Sons of Anarchy [Season 7]

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Still not as disappointing as the finale of The Sopranos though...

[Str0mTropper]

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IDK it this was talked about before but I was talking with somebody on another forum and we believe the homeless lady represents The Reaper aka "Mr. Mayhem". It makes since to me because she open appears with something bad happens or a member dies.

[Sgt_Carnage]

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Still not as disappointing as the finale of The Sopranos though...

All these years later and that ending still pisses me off.

[AUChase]

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I'm 13 episodes away from the end of the Sopranos and I've made it this far without any spoilers. No one **** that up in this thread for me, please.


As for this show, Sons of Anarchy will go down as my favorite show of all time. I like a lot of TV shows, but I became attached to the cast and on screen characters of this show like no other.

A lot of the gripes and complaints some others on OS have had, I just don't get and can't echo their sentiments, but I respect everyone's opinion.

For me, this show was perfect. Action, drama, etc.. and a very fun and exciting story from start to finish. It evolved quite a bit IMO from more fun and free spirited to the end where it was very emotionally driven.

I think what's been overlooked by some is not only the evolution of the show and club, but us watching Jax from the time where he didn't even want to murder someone to what he was in Season 7 due to life changing events.

By the ending, I had all ready accepted what had to happen so it was easier for me to watch without much to say.

I started watching when I was 18 and a senior in HS and now I'm 25 living in Japan and I've never missed an episode on the night it aired except for this season, but I always watched immediately when given the chance.

Here's a quote from one of my female friends and best friend's fiance.. just some female perspective from someone who's a teacher and literature nut/loves poetry and symbolism.

Spoiler

I can't say I like the way the #FinalRide really did become the final ride for Jax Teller. But, I did like the way Jax's heart must have felt a thousand times lighter in those final hours...I did like the way that Jax finished everything he needed to finish before he finished himself. When Jax walked out of his supposed date with Mayhem and got on that bike, I fell prey to the twisted brilliance of Kurt Sutter. In my heart, I really did believe that Jax was free...and he was free...just not in the way I had hoped. As it turned out, Jax was not free from death. Yet, at the same time, I feel that his death set him free...free from the bondage that otherwise would certainly have awaited him...free from the daily pain that the mere continuance of living would have brought...
With that gut-wrenching crash, Jax finally became a free man. Unfortunately, freedom wasn't cheap for Jax Teller.
A soul as poignantly damaged and beautifully broken as that of Jax Teller isn't meant to be housed in prison...or torment. A soul like his can't be contained. Instead, a soul like THAT will ALWAYS find its way to freedom, even if the price of freedom is life itself.

[Hassan Darkside]

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The thing that irked me the most about the finale was the damn 25 mph chase scene at the end. I was waiting for Jonah Hill to join the chase on a bicycle.

[RockinDaMike]

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I read that Sutter said that she is up to your own interpretation on the after show. However, many people think that she's like an angel of death.

If you remember when Jax when to Brooke's (I think that's her name - Ratboy's old (young) lady) house he discovered that her mom was killed in the same accident as his dad. Then he looked at her dad's wedding photo and it was a picture of the homeless woman.

Totally angel of the death, she's the reaper in the back of the cut. Fitting that she gave the blanket for Jax jax to come out as a reaper before taking out Marks.

[Kearnzo]

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I'm 13 episodes away from the end of the Sopranos and I've made it this far without any spoilers. No one **** that up in this thread for me, please.


As for this show, Sons of Anarchy will go down as my favorite show of all time. I like a lot of TV shows, but I became attached to the cast and on screen characters of this show like no other.

A lot of the gripes and complaints some others on OS have had, I just don't get and can't echo their sentiments, but I respect everyone's opinion.

For me, this show was perfect. Action, drama, etc.. and a very fun and exciting story from start to finish. It evolved quite a bit IMO from more fun and free spirited to the end where it was very emotionally driven.

I think what's been overlooked by some is not only the evolution of the show and club, but us watching Jax from the time where he didn't even want to murder someone to what he was in Season 7 due to life changing events.

By the ending, I had all ready accepted what had to happen so it was easier for me to watch without much to say.

I started watching when I was 18 and a senior in HS and now I'm 25 living in Japan and I've never missed an episode on the night it aired except for this season, but I always watched immediately when given the chance.

Here's a quote from one of my female friends and best friend's fiance.. just some female perspective from someone who's a teacher and literature nut/loves poetry and symbolism.

Spoiler

I can't say I like the way the #FinalRide really did become the final ride for Jax Teller. But, I did like the way Jax's heart must have felt a thousand times lighter in those final hours...I did like the way that Jax finished everything he needed to finish before he finished himself. When Jax walked out of his supposed date with Mayhem and got on that bike, I fell prey to the twisted brilliance of Kurt Sutter. In my heart, I really did believe that Jax was free...and he was free...just not in the way I had hoped. As it turned out, Jax was not free from death. Yet, at the same time, I feel that his death set him free...free from the bondage that otherwise would certainly have awaited him...free from the daily pain that the mere continuance of living would have brought...
With that gut-wrenching crash, Jax finally became a free man. Unfortunately, freedom wasn't cheap for Jax Teller.
A soul as poignantly damaged and beautifully broken as that of Jax Teller isn't meant to be housed in prison...or torment. A soul like his can't be contained. Instead, a soul like THAT will ALWAYS find its way to freedom, even if the price of freedom is life itself.

Completely agreed. I feel like the majority of people on here hate watched the final season, while I thoroughly enjoyed as much as the prior seasons. This will go down with Breaking Bad and The Wire as one of my favorite shows, and I plan on rewatching from the beginning relatively soon.

[JayBee74]

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I'm 13 episodes away from the end of the Sopranos and I've made it this far without any spoilers. No one **** that up in this thread for me, please.


As for this show, Sons of Anarchy will go down as my favorite show of all time. I like a lot of TV shows, but I became attached to the cast and on screen characters of this show like no other.

Hmmm. You prefer SOA to The Sopranos?

For all it's ups and downs I love SOA (Even the super fantastic Season 3 ending was contained in a season bogged down by Belfast), but it doesn't touch The Sopranos(imo).

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Hmmm. You prefer SOA to The Sopranos?

For all it's ups and downs I love SOA (Even the super fantastic Season 3 ending was contained in a season bogged down by Belfast), but it doesn't touch The Sopranos(imo).

The Sopranos is awesome, but I haven't really got on the hook with it while watching. I have limited free time, but with Sons I would have all ready finished it in the time it's taken me to watch through all, but half the final season. I started watching in about 7 months ago on Amazon Prime.

It's just a different type of drama and for my mind and money's worth, it isn't as good to me as SOA. I'm willing to admit I'm just a SOA fanatic.

It's all personal opinion in the end.

[BlueNGold]

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My issue is that this final season just wasn't that interesting up until the final few episodes. It kind of seemed like they were just kicking the tires until Jax found out the truth.

Also, I think with the finale, they would have been much better off not constantly hinting and foreshadowing that Jax was going to off himself. I like that he did but it would have had more of an impact had it been more of a surprise.

That being said, we did get yet another great scene from Jimmy Smits because of Jax telling him, so there's that. He knocked it out of the park his entire run on the show, these final few episodes especially.

As for the series itself, overall it'll go down as one of my favorites. But like I was saying earlier, they seemed to go down the wrong route a lot of times. The way they mishandled the Jax/Clay feud being one of the biggest examples.

Still though, this show gave me some pretty unreal TV moments. From Jax hooking up with Tara for the first time with that one guy's dead body in the room to Gemma killing Tara at the end of last season, there's some top of the line stuff throughout the entire show, so it's going to be fun to go back and rewatch it somewhere down the line.

Speaking of rewatching it, I'm glad they didn't give us some cheap, cop out ending for that reason alone. I actually thought they might cut away before Jax died to "leave it up to the viewer" as to what happened but thankfully they didn't.

[Str0mTropper]

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Also, I think with the finale, they would have been much better off not constantly hinting and foreshadowing that Jax was going to off himself. I like that he did but it would have had more of an impact had it been more of a surprise.

Well that part they were setting up back when the club house blew up. Remember right after that happened thats when they started restoring his dad's bike. I picked up on that maybe 4-5 episodes before the finale. I figured they wouldn't do it for no reason.

Maybe not going out the same way but you know the whole final ride thing and restoring the bike.

[nyisles16]

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Totally angel of the death, she's the reaper in the back of the cut. Fitting that she gave the blanket for Jax jax to come out as a reaper before taking out Marks.

Yup.. She was the woman killed in his pop's motorcycle accident... Combo of the Angel of Death and a curse...

[Fresh Tendrils]

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However, without that Sutter's couldn't have worked his symolism stuff in. And that not so subtle symbolism with Jax sacrificing himself for his "son's", the wine and bread & the raised arms was not lost on me. I guess all of those "JESUS CHRIST's" throughout the series weren't on accident.

So, basically Jax died so the sins of the club could be washed away? He essentially wiped out his family's history as he burned everything.

I feel like a lot of seasons were structured similarly with the best seasons being the ones with Opie and Clay, but before Juice became some emotional, on the edge nutjob. I feel like Kurt had a "end justify the means" mentally for each season as he would spend a ton of time building up to certain things and would likewise enjoy the time at the top of the climax and resolution. Hell, we had a 90 minutes of buildup to what was obvious when Jax offed Gemma. The whole 25mph parade of police down was par for the course and a slow-burn to end the series just like most seasons/episodes have had.

I didn't "hate" this season and I've always considered this show a guilty pleasure even when the middle seasons were higher quality. This season just felt like even more wallowing than usual and stretching some crazy Jax logic to fit the ending narrative.

[JayBee74]

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Speaking of rewatching it, I'm glad they didn't give us some cheap, cop out ending for that reason alone. I actually thought they might cut away before Jax died to "leave it up to the viewer" as to what happened but thankfully they didn't.

Agree. I was momentarily discombobulated when everything slowed down, and went surreal, as we were looking from Chiklis' perspective. It made no sense, but for a second I thought both biker and trucker had somehow slowed to a crawl to prevent an accident. And then the cut to Jax with hand raised in the foreground, truck in background.

[jmillhimes]

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Well....I loved the SOA series. My wife and I joined in during season 5 and we played catchup every night watching a few episodes until we finally caught up for season 6.

I loved the Sopranos. Im wanting to start a new series now. Tried doing Orange is the new black and I couldnt get past season 1.

I still havent seen Breaking bad so maybe thats next