Sons of Anarchy Reflections

As many of you fellow Sons of Anarchy fanatics know, the season six premiere was very intense. By creating a shocking and controversial plot, creator Kurt Sutter succeeded in stunning even the dedicated viewers. 

 

And those of you who decided to tune in to checkout Charlie Hunnam with hopes of discovering why he was cast as Christian Grey in the upcoming movie 50 Shades of Grey, I predict you were more than satisfied.

 

Sutter didn’t cease to amaze me with his creative plot lines and ability to cunningly integrate such profound implications and messages into a story focused around a biker gang.

 

I was rendered speechless after the end plot twist when the young boy shot up a school with a gun that the reaper gang supplies. This was pretty unusual for the show. As a viewer, you can always expect a gruesome level of violence, crude humor and nudity but some argue that such a controversial circumstance with such high intensity as an adolescent murder suicide has never occurred in the show. 

 

During the premiere, I was trying to figure out the connection this boy had to the club and until it was revealed that it was one of their guns he used, I thought he was Jax as a kid. Perhaps there is still a resemblance here however, as Jax is also playing a destructive role. It appears that he too is and suffering thoughts of confusion within himself. 

 

I am curious to see how the club is going to respond to the fact that it was one of their guns. At the end it showed one of Nero’s guys with a blond women that appeared to be the woman the boy kissed before he went to school. Is the child also the son of one of Nero’s men?

 

Another great occurrence in the first episode and one that left me fuming was the fact that Jax once again cheated on Tara! Why Jax?! With all honesty, this among other things leaves me with a horrible impression that my favorite TV show is in fact decently degrading to women. 

 

I also find it interesting hypocritical that Jax is writing to his sons telling them to reflect upon themselves and to make sure they can see a man when they calculate the inner workings of who they are, but then he goes out and cheats on his wife! That is not acting as a man or having respect for your wife or even your sons by degrading their mother that way. 

 

 

An interesting component to this however is Jax’s gravitation towards a maternal authoritative essence in a women, something that Sutter discussed with Entertainment Weekly. He is clearly a momma’s boy, and that doesn’t help Tara’s cause at all.

 

Tara had a chance to take a deal, get her kids out of the club and be able to see them but she refused to because she was not going to betray her husband. I don’t understand why she didn’t want him not to come to court and I understand his frustration about that, but I don’t think it justified making a rash decision to betray her despite everything she has done and sacrificed in order to stand by him and the club.

 

It appears Tara has accepted the fact that she is going to be locked up for a while and has decided she isn’t going to put up with being treated as an inferior inmate in the prison hierarchy. I think it was a good move for her to make her presence known and attack the woman that stole her blanket. In jail, authority matters and you have to make it clear that you aren’t going to take abuse from anyone. That is the only way to earn respect and be able to survive in such a hostile environment. For the time being we are left to wonder whether she will face backlash for this and if it could stop her from getting bail?