He gave up the warehouse where the guns were stored to the Chinese. Club lost an unimportant member or two.
Yeah, I know, but there’s enough going on that taking a few hours out to go find Barosky seems like a less-than-optimal course of action.
Anyway, ding-dong, the witch is dead. Jax bounced back quickly, though. Bounced over and over on Wendy, even.
I didn’t get much satisfaction, or even feelings, out of Gemma’s demise. I was shocked at Unser and saddened by Juice.
So did I read the conversation over the table with the other Presidents? Jax pretty much laid it all out, knowing it would result in a Mayhem vote? And did I understand that correctly that he agreed the only outcome is for a “Yes” vote on Mayhem and he’d guarantee all his people would vote yes? So he sees he must die for the future of the Sons?
That was pretty much my read on it. I don’t know how he thinks he’ll be able to convince Chibbs and Tig to vote yes on killing him. Maybe he’s planning on checking himself out before it comes to that? He definitely doesn’t give the appearance of a man who figures on being around a lot longer.
It’s looking like he agreed to convince his guys to vote for Mayhem as long as the other guys do away with “an unwritten rule” - and that rule is probably patching in other races. So he’ll convince the current Sons to vote for Mayhem, but he’ll also patch in the Grim Bastards, who will vote against, allowing him to walk away unharmed since the vote has to be unanimous. His promise is kept because he convinced his guys and he leaves with Wendy and the boys to live a quiet life on Nero’s farm.
I was under the impression that the other Presidents voted on death for the President of a chapter and that is why they got together. Jax asked them to promise the “unwritten rule” which I assumed was other races, and they all figured it was high time.
Jax must die as all his business is wound up and the boys go to Nero and Wendy. Whether Jax dies at his own hand, or Chibbs does it, or someone else does, it matters that he pays for his sins and bloody reign of death.
I have a thought on a possible fate for Jax. He survives, but…(I’ll spoiler box it just in case)
He’s ousted from the club, along with all the gruesome tat removal that accompanies the process.
Yeah, I agree that Jax will have to die at the hands of the club he’s served (uh huh) so well. That’s the only retribution that makes sense. As for the rule change, I thought about the race thing, but since they’ve flouted in after the Juice parentage storyline, that seems way lame to me. So, the only thing I could come up with was allowing members out of the life without consequences. If that’d been in place when Tara was begging Jax to go, telegraphing the question of: would’ve things turned out differently?
As Jax and Gemma walked out of the house and into the garden, i actually wondered whether he might tell her to turn around, and then kill himself in front of her.
That would have left her knowing that she caused the death of her own son, and with the Mayhem vote coming anyway, it wouldn’t have been an unexpected ending for Jax and would have spared the club the problem of having to deal with what to do about the vote.
I thought he might kill himself after he shot her but then I remembered he had asked her where J.T.'s manuscript was, so that’s got to play into the ending.
I was surprised at Unser’s death but on hindsight it makes sense. Jax was just putting him out of his misery. He died for the only thing he really cared about and she didn’t even flinch.
Gemma’s death didn’t have as much impact on me as Clay’s did. I remember being blown away by that whole set up. It didn’t help that when Gemma walked into the garden I started thinking “just look at the flowers Gemma”.* Kind of took me out of the scene. 
*Walking Dead reference
Yanno, I felt bad (and astounded) when Clay died. He was somewhat trying to make amends and supposedly regretted a lot of his past behaviors. With Gemma, on the other hand, there was only relief and shock that absolutely nothing else in her life, despite her claims to the contrary, mattered not one whit to her but her. I’m glad it’s done, no matter how it happened.