i’m with you on the disappointment of season 6 of soa. So i’m curious, how would you rewrite it? What storylines would you change, etc.
A big part of the anger for me is the way Jax (and his relationship with Tara) completely deteriorated seemingly out of nowhere. Because the ending of season 5 did not indicate/show that Jax would lose his morality that quickly
I agree with you 100%!! Jax acted so OOC in S6, the way he just jumps into bed with Colette whole Tara’s in prison?? Honestly if that wanted Jax to cheat on Tara, it would have made more sense the second time when Tara walks in on them. At that point Tara is shutting Jax out and he feels the disconnect. He knows about the divorce and the fake miscarriage, so the cheating at that point would have made a lot more sense. Jax has always turned to sex to numb his problems and honestly if he was hurt and mad, it would make sense that he would do something to spite Tara in that moment. They definitely jumped the gun on Jax’s morality, which really speaks to how badly S6 was written. The way Jax behaved after Opie’s death was so well written because you can see him slowly start to lose his morality. All the acts of violence just slowly escalate and even the characters around him are shocked/concerned when it happens. Chibs checks in with him, Bobby constantly calls him out on it, and Tig even questions him when he injects Wendy with the heroin (which in my opinion was one of the worst things he’s done on the show). There was none of that in S6/7, it was just violence for the sake of violence.
I think it goes without saying, but I did a complete rewrite I wouldn’t have killed off Tara. I think it was a huge waste killing her off and if anyone deserved to make it out of Charming is should have been Tara. She was written as the outsider looking in and I truly believe she was the Horatio in this Hamlet adaption, which Sutter completely denies the story ever being based around which is another thing that irritates me about him 😂. I think the perfect ending would be Tara and Wendy teaming up to get the boys of Charming, I absolutely loved where their story was heading and I thought Wendy’s development was great! He completely wasted Wendy, he ruined her progression and turned into Gemma’s lapdog.
Honestly the show still could have been saved in S7 if it was done properly! Jax kills Gemma after finding out about her hand in Tara’s death, Jax still dies in the end, but Margaret gets the kids instead of Wendy. I will never understand why Sutter completely wrote off her character. After Wendy flipped sides on Tara, she was done with her. She didn’t want the boys to be raised by her, which is why the ending bugs me so much. It would have made more sense to give Margaret custody. She came from that life and rose above it, if anybody was capable of making sure they didn’t follow Jax’s footsteps it definitely was her
Once again, I’m so sorry for the delay! I’m also up for talking about SOA though, the hood and the bad 😂. Honestly I could podcast about this stuff, that’s how ingrained it is in my mind 🤪