The Homeless woman: I like the way you can reference her back to even the first season. (And didn't Jax first meet her at Donna's funeral and didn't he first give her that same blanket there? So full circle, she gives it back to him.)

Wow, that really was as bad as I remembered it. I just don't understand why they couldn't make the truck seem more real, and not just Jax sitting on a still motorcycle in front of a green screen with a big fuzzy truck approaching. It boggles the mind….such an important and memorable last image.

But they didn't have to show Jax smashed to pieces to make that last scene more dramatic, that's not what I meant. I didn't want to see that and didn't need to. It was those distracting CGI crows and and bread/wine/arms-extended literal Christ comparisons that made it laughable and made me feel like Sutter must think…

"I thought one of the best moments of directing in the history of
the show was having Jax’s first good self-aware, he gets it speech, the
one about his kids needing to hate him, end with his son calling for
him. It was startling and perfect
4. Was it just the effects of
the scotch and my being a father or was his…

I wrote this earlier and I agree it should've ended with Jax letting go of the handles with his arms out - but the horrible CGI and heavy-handed symbolism literally made me laugh and that's not what I wanted to do during that last scene. I wanted to feel devastated but instead I had laughed.

You know I'm not sure I'm going to explain right, but having Chiklis as the driver (along with the horrible CGI) just distracted me from what otherwise would've been a much more emotionally satisfying ending. It's like it was clever - having the one Shield actor everyone was hoping to appear show up so late in the…

"Because everything is betta with feta."

I did like the way the series ended with Jax ending his own life by letting go with his hands and having that euphoric look on his face. But the CGI was just so bad and the symbolism so heavy that I actually laughed at it which is what I'm left with. Instead of feeling this loss I fucking actually laughed. I just…

"Living your life fat, dumb and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

So, I'm trying to figure out why I was genuinely moved by last night's episode (at least the last part, not the gang Monopoly stuff) because I don't think it was earned. And I say not earned because I think the actions that got us to this point were ridiculously writer manipulated and forced - I can't think of any…

I agree last night's show was really good, but that doesn't give the season a pass because Sutter did not get get us here fairly. The characters are all in these wonderfully complex and emotional moral quandaries and crisis right now but it's because the writers put them there so artificially.

That was me, ProfesorCiruela - how the fuck that posted under Blogless I don't know.

My other prediction would be that the final scene shows Peggy Bundy in bed, waking up and shaking Al who's next to her, saying, "Al, I just had the weirdest dream about a bunch of scruffy old bikers. Al, are you listening to me?"

Well, damn, now you have me curious.

What more (spoilery) stuff did they show that was different from the regular preview? They always have misleading clues but I'm interested to hear what you thought about it.

I never watch those after-shows. Was that preview different from the usual one right after the episode?

After treading water for all these weeks, finally we're (sort of) getting some payoff - when the lie is finally exposed. I kind of see what Sutter was doing here - apparently the guys have (surprisingly) wiped out their enemies - the Chinese and Marks' gang. And by the way, who knew that Marks' gang seemingly…

It's to give to the D.A. ideally coupled with the proof (the letter)signed by the junkie wife that the pastor had been threatened/coerced by Marks. How that would get to the D.A. with no further questions asked and why that would work is beyond me.

Nope, it is legally self-defense. Jury went for his gun first and Jax doesn't have to be do the movie thing and demand he "drop it" and take the chance that the other guy won't just shoot.

Yes, it's one of the few times the writers got it right and earned the viewers ambivalence towards Jax.