I cried in spite of myself. I've hated Jax for so long, but I couldn't help thinking what a waste of life his was. You have to wonder what he would have done with his life w/o the club and his godawful mother.

I guess that was his role—meddling and never achieving anything.

I agree. Jax's redemption died with Tara. He knew that. When he came to the club after jail, there was no more talk ever about legitimate business or trying to be right in any way. Just vicious killing.

The homeless woman was present at the church when Gemma got religion with Unser. Nobody died.

She means nothing. Shakespeare had one in Hamlet, so Sutter wanted one in his opus. He just thought it was cool to have something unexplained.

Saw that. Pretty funny.

Tara's death meant the end of Jax's delusion that someday he was really going to be able to just live life with his wife and children. In his brain-dead state for several episodes, he was carefully not seeing what he was bound to have known about his mother, his club, the violence. When his consciousness returned,…

He's in the credits for some of the episodes as a writer.

The show was really over when Tara was killed. This has just been a very long last scene.

He doesn't have to get another acting job; he's also a script writer.

Shakespeare had a nameless, unexplained ghost, so Sutter said he wanted one too for texture, or some such artsy-fartsy reason.

The only time Jax and Gemma got their heads on straight was the 14 mos Jax was in jail.

He started out sickened by the killing. Clay had to coach and threaten him. Tig also thought he was "weak" because he didn't like gratuitous killing. I think he got the hang of it…

he said they would vote "the right way". The assumption was that they would vote Mayhem, but he never is a straight talker.

Got his throat cut first. The cast apparently laughed sometimes about how they never got killed in the big firestorms they were in continually. Magic cuts?

"She's a smart girl."

The deal was made secretly. Clay just needed Jax to sell it to the club. He cried when he couldn't get out of it. You don't leave a cartel. Or so I hear from TV gangster lore.

It wouldn't have happened. Jax, Nero, Unser, Wendy, and all the guys would have taken her back. None of them could stand up to her. Tara, like Donna, was just an old lady. Already forgotten.

A bullet in the back of the head was bloody enough. Part of the punishment would have been having to hear Jax's condemnation of her. Instead she directed him in fulfilling the club's rule, and cementing her rule over him. BTW, the show's logic was to do anything that shocked the viewers. Sutter said that early on.

Good way to put it. His diction is perfect, even in his unique accent.