I kept tuning out during all the gratuitous rape, and I think I missed something, somewhere. why was Jax asking Gemma about J.T.'s journal?

I think that when he feels all the loose ends are tied up that he's going to steer himself into the same boulder with his dad's initials that we saw earlier in the season.

Gotta say, given Sutter's MO, I'm surprised they didn't.

"As a showrunner, Sutter’s biggest weakness as a writer—bigger even than his inability to edit—is his infatuation with suffering, his apparent need to punish characters good and bad far beyond any necessity of narrative or convention. "

How about Gibby? How does that factor into his revenge?

Bullitt.

Everyone dies from alcohol poisoning 10 mins in.

I would up vote you 1,000,000,000 times if I could.

You know what? I'm going with that. Head cannon accepted.

Who's the SOA Org?

You're corrrect.

Finally getting around to this plot point in the 11 episode of a 13 episode season is quintessential dicking around.

Abel's R/L parents: BUY YOUR KID A BETTER ACTING COACH.

And AFTER Gemma assaults the hospital administrator…

The Kurt Sutter rape-assing hour.

When did Juice get out of solitary?

Unless…Jarry's in on the whole RICO thing (I really hope there's still a RICO thing), and she's sleeping with Chibb's to get close to the club, a la Carrie Mathison.

I am trying hard to come up with some plausible reason the Chibbs/Jarry subplot exists at all, but so far I've got squat.

Smuggling the guns out of Teller-Morrow via a sewer truck. It's been a very long time, though, since Jax has managed to pull off something clever. He can't even fake a pimp's suicide right!

He has been woefully underused this season.