Shakespeare on a Hog: The Sons of Anarchy thread

I guess the question is whether he will return to the club or run.

he'll walk the earth like caine in kung fu *pan pipes*

it will be called Juice-tified

well done, sarahell

omg lol

that punny dad joke made me feel like a man

innately?

lol

:)

just finished this and uhhhhhhhh...

idk kinda didn't like the finale even tho the season got better as it went on. Good to see Jax making some human decisions again but wow.

Are there ANY likable characters left, maybe Bobby a little? Unser is a worthless mopey dope now. Nero was cool then he wasn't.

Bobby's kind of likable but yeah, that's it.

Kinda weird watching the early seasons where all the fucked up shit is punctuated with wild parties and now being in a biker gang looks like a pretty shitty job, tbh. I feel like other criminal work would be easier, or signing on with a bigger, more stable club. (Sons aren't even top 10, per the weird ADA from S4)

They aren't even making money anymore! Just retire and get a job at the grocery store or w/e. Hell just start the bike shop back up and live off that idk. It's all so drab now and the weird guy with the wrapped hands is not near enough comic relief.

I can't tell if the show is in on the joke that the club 'going straight' means they'll just be pimping porn stars.

7+ dudes surviving on their cut of a brothel seems like it might be tough to pull off.

ice cream was a popular treat and it still is

theoretically they have a garage to rebuild, what with the mechanic business and all

iirc they're also supposed to be getting work at the housing development site, but that keeps getting delayed

i know this show requires a lot of suspension of disbelief but officer roosevelt not securing the scene when he had just walked in on a murder really bugged me. like...he just stood there? really? didn't even pull his gun? what gives man

I guess, but it seemed like they hadn't left Tara alone for very long and it was pretty clear Gemma acted alone and wasn't about to fight back so there was some time to just be appalled. it seemed realistic enough given the circumstances. although sure the show is stretching credulity more and more all the time.

i guess i felt like they'd really built up roosevelt's professionalism. a lot. so the perp/victim being people he knows IRL causing his brain to totally shut down just seemed like a lame (even for SOA) plot contrivance. even if he thought gemma acted alone he still let juice get the drop on him and i was like well that's just not the roosevelt i know.

I gotta wonder who the fuck would take their car to be serviced at Teller-Morrow. Imagining the Yelp reviews...

"Mechanic who was originally assigned my car was killed, repair delayed. Came back the next day and witnessed a Mexican standoff and was told to *come back later*. Came back to find bullet holes in my car, told repair would take another day. Refused to comp repair, man who went by 'Tig' told me to get my happy ass off the lot before something bad happened. Never visiting this place again."

lmoa otm

loool

"...and THEN the whole place blew up! WTF..."

Wish they'd kill everyone but Tig and Happy.

i get no joy out of watching vengeful Jax, it know it's the arc but there's no light to balance the shade

Okay, they can save Jimmy Smits too.

can't wait for spinoff prequel show, "Juice Makes the Worst Decisions"

― mh, Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:51 AM (10 months ago)

hahah that is the theme of this season

The blasé take on the mass murder of a dozen-plus escorts - not just by the sociopath bikers but the apparent lack of national news coverage, etc. - might be this show's nadir.

Even the moral center/pimp of the show now was just "yeah, fine, we'll clean it up and hire some new women."

otm

This show has some gross frank miller and/or women in refrigerators shit w/r/t its female characters.

I'm torn between finding it really entertaining and thinking that it represents everything wrong w/basic cable drama shows.

yeah no kidding

in-character racism really gets to me too

closeup of dead niner bikers stacked like cordwood was a real nadir

sometimes i'm like "wait why do i watch this show again?"

I haven't actually finished the last two seasons - I keep making it halfway and just going "nope, don't give a shit" and then trying again the next season.

Stark how much better it was with Ron Perlman even after his character became the supervillain.

yeah there's no counterweight to jax anymore & it makes the show much more leaden imo

jax's accent seems like it's slipping more this season too

i noticed that as well!

i feel short-changed that Happy is finally in the opening credits but he's given fuck-all to do.

and the cannonfodder/red-shirt new MC brothers -- it's just a question of who kills them and how

yeah they may as well have a coundown clock for those new dudes

& is anybody loling over their starburst/fanta girl/might morphon power rangers colored bikes? i find them v hilar

can i spell today? no, no i can't

yes!!

Last time I loved this was Season 4, that was a riot! It has been a case of rapidly diminishing returns since then. i don't suppose it helps that Sutter is an insufferable, idiotic prick and the worse this series gets the higher the viewer figures seem to go.

can't really notice Jax's accent slipping on account of 90% of the dialogue being in whispered voices now

regarding the lack of national news coverage: this show has always seemed like sutter wanted to set it in a postapocalypic/dystopian future like the mad max movies but changed it to modern day for whatever reason. like the way you rarely see anyone that lives in charming that isn't a cop or in a gang. the universe of the show seems so desolate.

i don't suppose it helps that Sutter is an insufferable, idiotic prick and the worse this series gets the higher the viewer figures seem to go.

― xelab, Sunday, October 19, 2014 4:18 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is this based on? not saying its not true just wondering

I don't know about that, but certain things made more sense when I realized he played Otto and all the terrible tattoos are real. Unfairly judging a book by its cover and a couple of interviews but he seemed like a creative writing MFA who really wishes he'd been a badass biker instead.

He's been a confrontational dick towards certain critics on Twitter. Not a good look.

otto's downward spiral character arc was one of the best things abt the show

I'm glad you didn't say the absolute best, because that was Clay's pussy sermon IIRC