I resented but understood that Sutter didn't want to waste time on Tara. We never got a good love scene between Jax and Tara—the camera had to quickly pan to Gemma and one of her scrooly boyfriends/girlfriends/both. They never finished a conversation because mama or the club interrupted. Even "Hands" which was…

Clay and Gemma and Lowell Sr. are the ones who knew.

#9 for sure. He was eaten up with guilt from S1. Death looked like a relief, and he had no confidence he could ever change. "I was too late trying to get out."

At the time, I wondered about the staging.

Because it symbolizes…because we're all into interpreting this literary play.

Debatable is right. On this show the only possible ones to be trusted with children were weak, nonentity Wendy and weak Nero.

Your points 2,3, and 4.

Exactly

Everybody who holds his arms out is a Christ figure?

Gemma gave Jax the letters, minus the ones that showed her and Unser in a bad light.

S1,E1: sort of a hippie commune, a brotherhood.

And he was the truth teller from time to time, saying to Gemma and later Jax what I wished someone would tell them.

JT's intro to his manuscript: Thomas is already safe, and may Jackson never know this life of chaos. He didn't know his bike had been tampered with. That was Gemma deceiving Tara to lessen her guilt in it all. Sometimes, Gemma killed people, sometimes she instigated others to do it.

DNA

Me too! A critic remarked on what a great actress she is—on the rare occasions she gets the opportunity. That other female actress was clearly the writers' fav, in fact, the lead of the show.

Yes, JT was the "ghost" talking to Jax, whereas in Hamlet his father's ghost talked to him. But also in Hamlet, there was an unexplained apparition. Sutter said he wanted that in his story too. You have to admit, both Shakespeare's and Sutter's generates a lot of talk.

Thinking back, the structure of the club and the values it lived by were so far from sane, that was a sharp learning curve for me in trying to understand how they thought. Is it time to collect words that the club had no understanding of?
Truth
Love
Family

That occurred to Jax as well. Hence, the riding into a truck.

None of Tara, right? She was not in the Aftershow although Opie was resurrected to be there.

Yes, for fear they will admire him.