The final season for Sons of Anarchy is nearly upon us. If you’ve been following the show all along, you know that they aren’t shy about killing off major characters. I’ve been wondering for months about which of the main cast will be the first to bite the dust in the last season. I’m kind of expecting a major bloodbath over the next several weeks. I’m limiting the poll to characters listed on the Wikipedia page as main cast members, but feel free to chime in with anybody you think was left out in the thread. What say you - who dies next?
Wow, crickets. I guess there aren’t a lot of us left on here anticipating the last season. Admittedly, it was a little uneven the past couple of seasons, but the last few episodes of last season, and especially the ending were so deliciously dark that I’m hooked on what happens next.
Anyway, I gave my own question some more thought overnight and I think that while Juice is the obvious choice for a couple of reasons, this is a show that eschews the obvious more often than not. I voted for Tig. I think that some of the chaos that is about to come down with the various gangs at each other’s throats and Tig’s temper and impulsiveness makes him a good candidate to meet Mr. Mayhem early in the season. I don’t see Juice surviving the season, and I think that Gemma survives but is left badly broken and alone when it’s all over.
It’s anybody’s best guess on the rest of them. I would be surprised if we don’t see at least 4 or 5 of the main characters on this list killed off over the next 13 episodes.
I can’t really see Jax surviving the end of the series, but of course he’d be the last to go. The ballsy ending would be to have Gemma walk away with the kids, with the MC destroyed or all but so.
Kind of hoping Chibs makes it through, or at least to the end. I like Chibs. 
Bonus question:
Which will happen first? A major character will die, or Jax says “I’m not gonna let that happen,” then “that” happens?
Truth be told, I’d be happy to see them get violently killed off one by one. One rarely gets such a buffet of unsympathetic protagonists.
I suspect Jax will be the last to go, in the series finale. Depends how close Sutter keeps to the inspiration of Hamlet I suppose. As to who goes first, tough question. I’m going to say Tig.
I’m on board with Poysyn, I like Chibs and hope he survives. (I just saw Tommy Flanagan in another TV series I’ve recently picked up - Peaky Blinders. It was only a guest spot for one episode unfortunately)
I’d like to see a “Return of The Living Dead” ending wherein they nuke the entire city of Charming.
The only valid form of this question is, “How many times will this happen before Jax gets snuffed?”
Has “that” EVER not happened?
I think Wayne Unser outlives all of them. The man was retiring in Season 1 because he had six months to live and is still kicking. A few more adventures with outlaw bikers will not get the best of him.
I could go with Wayne, Gemma and the kids being the only ones to walk away.
I really can’t come up with any combination of MC survivors that makes sense. I seriously doubt SAMCRO will survive in any case.
Since I’m among the 6 (at the moment) to have selected Juice, I guess he must be low hanging fruit or least beloved of the ones in the poll.
Going at it the other way, in order of the ones to make it longest, I’m suspecting, since Katey has Sutter’s ear more than most, that Gemma will make it to the last episode along with Jax. I would suspect something none of us expects to be the finale of it all – but with a Macbeth vibe. Just different enough to keep Sutter in the conversation for the next big series.
Then Unser, Chibs, Tig and Bobby ought to be around for the big finish but all but a few of them go up in smoke or an explosion. That leaves Nero, Happy, Ratboy, Wendy and Barosky to follow Juice on the way out of the green room and into the audience.
This is all plain vanilla logic and my own attachments to the characters. I could, and probably will, be bad wrong as early as the first episode – which comes on TONIGHT! 
Big enough to be a shocker, minor enough to dispose of. That’s my thought.
He’s also a whiny, teary, sycophantic girly-man and I’m tired of watching him flap around in the breeze.
I don’t know if he has the balls or the idiocy to pull a Sopranos or a Butch and Sundance, but maybe the perfect ending is the Big Bad setting up to take him out, a real Bruce Lee against-all-odds situation… and the last we see is a black screen as Jax roars off to meet them head on.
Too obvious and cliched, probably. That ain’t gonna happen. 
My thoughts exactly. Sutter is too big on new and novel ways of dealing with big surprises to allow some dime novel plot to drive this final season. It would be great fun to watch or read the input he’s gotten from all over – not least of which would be the internet feeding him all manner of bullshit to “develop” into the trick ending scenarios. I’d love to hear his and Katey’s pillow talk!
One thing we can all rely on – it ain’t gonna be pretty! To quote my main man Brother Dave Gardner, “…teeth, hair and eyes all over the pavement…”
In case this is new to some of you, enjoy BROTHER DAVE GARDNER - 1982 - “The Motorcycle Story”
1st, would have to be Juice.
Based on this opening episode I’m going out on a limb to suggest that weekly blood baths involving characters we have yet to meet will be the order of the day. Who was this dude they dispatched last night? The notion of “sinking into depravity” must be high on the list of plot points.
The guessing game on who goes first is certainly up in the air for me. Unless it’s a character we knew of last season (at least) how are we going to know? Open a Charming phone book?
Can you believe these folks are still alive? :eek:
My ideal ending:
Wayne Unser finds out that Gemma killed Tara then framed that poor innocent Chinese man that Jax tortured. He tells Jax, Jax believes him and goes straight off the deep end with the knowledge that he tortured an innocent man to death and kills Gemma. Unser sees nothin’.
Wendy and Nero get together, cut all ties to The Club and Charming, move very far away and live happily ever after raising the two boys.
(Kurt Sutter ain’t going to let any of that happen.)
The part of that about Unser makes good sense the way things are progressing, what with his poking into the Tara case. I’m not sure what role the new sheriff is going to play in thwarting Wayne’s investigation, but I suspect it won’t be smooth sailing for Unser.
I like the Wendy-Nero idea. Might just happen – for a little while before they flame out.
I’m in 100% agreement with you that Sutter will make this show his calling card for still bigger shows in the near future! He loves pulling twists too much to be predicted.