User Reviews

The first episode of the season was slightly disappointing, but maybe because I had such high expectation after the previous episode. Still it might get a bit better.

The poor Chinese guy. Gemma picking him was pretty sad, I could not watch the scene of him being tortured and killed. What will Jax do now when he finds out the truth? And I hope he will. It is actually very surprising that he never once suspected Gemma. She seems like the only one who would have a reasonable motive and who one would expect it from.

I feel Juice's days are numbered. He won't go away again. Well at least it is the final season and if I get to lose another one of my favorite characters it will be soon before it is all over. Still, interesting what he will do with Wayne?

In the first episode of sons of anarchy we see that Juice is on the run from his motorcycle gang. What is Juice going to do there is no way that if the motorcycle gang tries to kill him that he won't defend himself. Juice may be unstable but that doesn't mean he won't defend himself if worst comes to worse. As you can see out of his flight or fight sense he is choosing flight but in this episode we see him pull his gun out ready to murder Unser. Juice is starting to turn on his fight instinct. I believe that if Juice feels that his going to die he will kill anybody who is trying to kill him without hesitation. As he did in Season 4 by killing Miles instead of dying. On youtube there is a video of Theo Rossi saying that him and Jax will fight and that he will kill Jax.

And just as the Sons of Anarchy are preparing for their final landing, Kurt Sutter decides it would be more fun to nosedive the plane right onto the tarmac! I've always had a love-hate relationship with this show. While at it's best it's quite well-written, with a textured and compact plot that successfully juggles the fate of numerous interesting characters, the show is also prone to ludicrous story lines (gun running and the 'Real' IRA) and absolutely unnecessary violence. And the opener to Season 7 is definitely on the downswing here! Unlike some of the better seasons (Season 1, 5 and 6 come to mind) I have a feeling 7 is going to be a struggle to get through by the way this episode sets the tone, which is going back to barely believable plot twists. What I found most ridiculous in this episode is not only how easily the Sons swallow Gemma's contrived story about the Chinese involvement in Tara's murder (are you telling me Jax, knowing how psychotic his mother is and how much she had it in for Tara,not for a moment believed that she could have been involved?), but also how an innocent party so gruesomely and brutally meets his fate (the level of violence in this scene and in the episode as a whole is just out of control - Kurt Sutter must be a deeply, deeply disturbed man!) For a show to be successful, the audience needs to sympathise with most - if not all - of it's protagonists. After Tara's death, I couldn't care less what happens to the rest of that misanthropic, vile biker gang and that annoying matriarch figure they spinelessly allow to control them.

I'm re-watching the entire series. I remember when it first aired, I disliked Gemma, but in a "love to hate" kind of way. Watching the series again, I've noticed how useless her character actually is. The entire series would have played out the exact same way without her. The story line of her being involved in JTs death went nowhere. It could have just been Clay and it would have ended up the same. The story line of Jax having his dads journals went nowhere. So all of that could have happened without her. Her being raped added nothing to the story. They would still have gone after The League.It didn't really unite Jax and Clay when she told them as Clay still betrayed the club, still had his own plans for things, it changed nothing and Jax still didn't trust him or approve of things he did. Her getting arrested and framed by Stahl didn't affect the story. Stahl was still going after the club, Stahl could have framed basically anyone else, or no one, it wouldn't have changed anything, seeing as they got her to change her story anyways, having Gemma was just a detour in the story. Gemma was useless in Ireland. Without her, Maureen would still have walked in on Jax and her daughter, they would have found out their half siblings, she still would put the letters in Jax's bag. Gemma added nothing to that story. The whole thing about Tara finding the letters could have been done without Gemma. Again, Gemma was just a detour. It would work exactly the same without her, Clay would find out about the letters, put a hit on Tara, and everything would be the same. Nero could have been introduced without her. She was unnecessary and just another detour in the story. Even her killing Tara could have been done without her. Tara could have been killed at any point during the show, either in the attempted kidnapping or the explosion at the club. Jax would still have unraveled, and it wouldn't have been so rushed. They could have really gone deep into his vengence instead of cramming it into a couple episodes. All Gemma gave us was the overused "I've got to protect my family" and it's variations, which she continued to use in this episode. I kind of want to go through the series again and turn that into a drinking game.That and "it's OK sweetheart" and "I'm sorry". Gemma's presence on the show is so painfully drawn out, the only logical explanation is that Kurt wanted to give his wife a starring role, and keep her there for as long as possible even if it undermined the show. I'm inclined to believe this because of 1- her character adding absolutely nothing to the show and 2- him having needlessly included her music in a few episodes. It's like a shrine to her. It's bad writing and bad TV to have a character that has no use. When an entire show would be the same without a character, it's bad writing to keep that character. Chuck has more purpose as a character than Gemma does. He brings comic relief, runs errands for the club, helps them on some of their jobs, etc. Won't be watching this series again, even as a drinking game.