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I forgot I wrote this last night. Last night was completely brutal.
Oh Sons of Anarchy, just when I think I'm free of your wiles, you pull me right back in.
I watched the majority of this episode with a hand over my eyes. Tara is still my favorite character in this and if they take her out, I just can't keep on watching. I swear I could barely breathe during the happy moments because I was just waiting for the bullets to start flying. I almost can't believe she made it out alive.
But her hand... that's such a low blow. And when she's all drugged up in the hospital, talking to Jax, my heart just broke for her. This is the woman who left this town when she was just a kid with her own smarts and made a doctor of herself. Now her hand is shattered and her career is gone. She's stuck in this horrible town and I swear, very few scenes have have made me cry as much as that one did. She and Jax are just coming apart at the seams and my heart breaks for them.
Now onto Clay and Gemma. Gemma has had some truly horrifying scenes in the past. I never really got over what she went through in season two because it was just absolutely heartbreaking. However, this episode topped it. I think the way they shot those scenes of Clay hitting her were extremely frightening. You just see him striking her and then the camera switches to Gemma's perspective and you see these giant hands just beating her. It was absolutely horrifying. I never hated Clay more than I did at that moment. That being said, that's a lot of change he's gone through. S1 and 2 Clay would never have abused Gemma like he did in this episode. He and Gemma have always had a volatile relationship, but I don't think it has ever gotten to the point of abuse. However, I think it says a lot of the writing, that this horrifying turn for the worst seems completely organic. Clay has changed so much in the last season that him beating up Gemma doesn't seem out of character at all.
The only thing that I would take issue with is that he's completely underestimating Gemma. I mean, he's been with her so many years and he thinks that she's gonna let him get away with this? Lol. Gemma is many things, but a victim she is definitely not.
I don't know if they're gonna off Clay. It would seem so strange for a show to take out one of the core characters and specifically one which is so fundamental to the Hamlet comparison they'e been working towards. That being said, Kurt Sutter gave a recent interview which makes me wonder if that's something he's willing to do. I really do think he's ballsy enough to do it. The show is gonna have three more seasons so I don't know what the hell they would do without Clay around. Maybe they could show Jax's descent into darkness (obviously) but would that take three seasons? Seems like it would slow the plot down like crazy.
Oh Sons of Anarchy, just when I think I'm free of your wiles, you pull me right back in.
I watched the majority of this episode with a hand over my eyes. Tara is still my favorite character in this and if they take her out, I just can't keep on watching. I swear I could barely breathe during the happy moments because I was just waiting for the bullets to start flying. I almost can't believe she made it out alive.
But her hand... that's such a low blow. And when she's all drugged up in the hospital, talking to Jax, my heart just broke for her. This is the woman who left this town when she was just a kid with her own smarts and made a doctor of herself. Now her hand is shattered and her career is gone. She's stuck in this horrible town and I swear, very few scenes have have made me cry as much as that one did. She and Jax are just coming apart at the seams and my heart breaks for them.
Now onto Clay and Gemma. Gemma has had some truly horrifying scenes in the past. I never really got over what she went through in season two because it was just absolutely heartbreaking. However, this episode topped it. I think the way they shot those scenes of Clay hitting her were extremely frightening. You just see him striking her and then the camera switches to Gemma's perspective and you see these giant hands just beating her. It was absolutely horrifying. I never hated Clay more than I did at that moment. That being said, that's a lot of change he's gone through. S1 and 2 Clay would never have abused Gemma like he did in this episode. He and Gemma have always had a volatile relationship, but I don't think it has ever gotten to the point of abuse. However, I think it says a lot of the writing, that this horrifying turn for the worst seems completely organic. Clay has changed so much in the last season that him beating up Gemma doesn't seem out of character at all.
The only thing that I would take issue with is that he's completely underestimating Gemma. I mean, he's been with her so many years and he thinks that she's gonna let him get away with this? Lol. Gemma is many things, but a victim she is definitely not.
I don't know if they're gonna off Clay. It would seem so strange for a show to take out one of the core characters and specifically one which is so fundamental to the Hamlet comparison they'e been working towards. That being said, Kurt Sutter gave a recent interview which makes me wonder if that's something he's willing to do. I really do think he's ballsy enough to do it. The show is gonna have three more seasons so I don't know what the hell they would do without Clay around. Maybe they could show Jax's descent into darkness (obviously) but would that take three seasons? Seems like it would slow the plot down like crazy.