Seven seasons of carnage is coming to an end on Tuesday night, with 1/3 of the main cast for this season and countless others having met a brutal, gruesome end. I’ll be glued to it with a big old slug of Maker’s Mark in my right hand, but that’s the only thing I can say with any real certainty. Who’s gonna meet Mr. Mayhem in the finale?
Only Barofsky and Jax, at this point. Maybe some red shirts.
Jax definitely. No happy ending, or even unhappy but alive ending for him. Wendy lives though, with the kids and Nero.
Barosky dies earlier to set the tone.
Tig lives. Tig would survive a nuclear holocaust. Earlier in the season I said to someone that giving Rat a love interest means either he, his love interest, or both die.
I don’t think Chibs and Happy die, nor the Sheriff.
Jax and Barosky most certainly. From there no one is safe other then Wendy and the boys.
August Marks hires an army and kills everyone in SAMCRO. The end.
For the record, I’m going with Jax, Barosky, and August Marks.
And I wonder if we’ll ever find out who killed Gemma’s birds?
I never got into this show, but my husband loves it. We were talking about this at dinner the other night, and he’s convinced Jax is history. Seems to me if they wanted a really evil, twisted ending, they’d kill off the kids - not necessarily on camera, but still…
Nobody who does Gemma a favor is left scarred by her actions, even Michael Chiklis.
I was going to ask if anybody knew the story of the “homeless woman” because I couldn’t even remember her.
Instead, I looked this up:
http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/31414/sons-of-anarchy-finally-explains-that-homeless-woman/
If you can name other times she “appeared” I’d like to know, but I hesitate this early to rewatch seven seasons’ worth just to try to spot her.
(I have seen other online references to her appearances.)
She’s been in the background in several scenes throughout the series, but most notably, in the season one finale, when Jax is at the graveyard, he finds the homeless woman there for the first time and hands her his blanket…that’s the same blanket she gave back to him in the series finale last night.
Also just recalled this (sorry for the double post but the edit window expired)
when Juice shoots the cop after Gemma killed Tara, there’s a scene where Juice is dumping the fork and his gun in an alley dumpster…she’s there in the background.
I dimly remember the homeless woman walking down the sidewalk in Charming in several episodes, but I don’t remember specifics. I also seem to remember Gemma stopping to watch her for a moment somewhere. It’s one of the things I’ll watch for when I watch it again on DVD. On DVD, I’ll be grateful for captions. My hearing and the way the dialog was recorded on this show are not very compatible.
The only thing I though was a bit overdone on the final episode was having the truck driver be the same guy that gave Gemma a ride north.
IMO this was Sutter doing his bit with the stars of The Shield (where Sutter made his bones) by having Chiklis in a bit part just enough to get him in the cast list with a bit of face time.
Walton Goggins (another TS alumnus) gets way more, but still it’s a shoutout to the days of the earlier series.
I was more amused by having Shane Vendrell growing some bodacious ta-tas.
Ah! I’ve not seen The Shield, so it didn’t click for me that that was Chiklis. It makes a bit more sense now. Thanks.
I thought that it was a bit of a dick move for Jax to subject the truck driver to that drama. I knew someone (that strongly resembled Opie, by the way) in real life that had something similar happen to him while driving a truck. It upset him for quite a long time afterward.
There was also the notion that Jax’s dad had met a similar fate (bike-semi collision) and that was probably too much to leave alone as a plot point.
Makes you wonder how many suicide-by-semi cases there must be. Probably fewer than suicide-by-cop.
Though I’ve only seen bits and pieces of episodes here and there, I was looking forward to watching this. I do plan on watching from the begining and don’t feel that knowing the ending spoiled it for me at all. But I do have a few questions, if nobody minds, starting with what the hell was the white thing that rolled into the road at the end, just before the stream of blood flowed into the picture. I was half asleep and watching on a small tv and all I could think was “omigod, that can’t be a piece of that guy’s skull?!”. Also, can soneone give a brief explanation of the gang’s vote, I believe they said “for Mayhem” (?) Does that mean they knew Jax was gonna commit suicide? At first I thought they were going to toss him a mercy killing, but obviously not, so what exactly were they voting on? Was last night’s finale consistent with the rest of the show? Did you all enjoy it from the very first episode or did you have to warm up to it?
I enjoyed it from the beginning. It dragged in places, I thought, but for the most part it was entertaining and it definitely had the ability to bring out some pretty strong feelings. If you do intend to watch it from the beginning, try to stay away from spoilers, there are some moments that are best experienced without knowing what’s coming.
That white thing in the road was a piece of bread, looked a lot like the bread that the homeless lady had been eating earlier. No idea how it wound up there, and the symbolism of it might have been lost on me.
The mayhem vote was taken as a recommendation from the other charter presidents that Jax needed to die. If they hadn’t voted for mayhem, they could have lost their charter and/or been subjected to retaliation from the other charters for Jax’s actions earlier in the season (I’ll let you watch that on your own). I think that the crew (except for Chibs and possibly Happy) thought that they would be executing Jax at that last meeting in the warehouse. Jax had (offscreen) arranged with Chibs to stage that to look like Jax had fought off the execution (thus the bullet in Happy’s arm to make it look real). Jax knew that he had to die in order for his charter to survive, and he didn’t want to make his friends do it. I kind of thought that he might be planning suicide by cop, but the semi coming along seemed like a more fitting way to him because that’s how his father died.
I took it to be a hunk of bread like the homeless woman was eating earlier.
What the significance was, I have no clue.
Thanks, **zoog **and wedge. I’m looking forward to binge watching this over the next few weekends. It seems like such a dark show; just my style!
The imagery all looked Christ-like, but I’ll be damned if that makes any sense for Jax. He had a crucifixtion pose on the bike and the homeless woman had what appeared to be bread and wine (body of Christ, blood of Christ).