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Nice breakdown Lockedge! Well written! Cheers!Originally Posted by lockedge
I don't think Tara turned Jax soft so much as the kids and his dad's writing did (in relation, of course, to the Clay Morrow-clone he was becoming).
It's more that he doesn't want the ones he loves in danger. At one time, that was just the club. Since the show started, it's expanded, and he's tried his best juggling both priorities. That and the writings only push him further towards his kids and Tara, so long as he knows his club will be fine without him.
Tara's kind of totally gone haywire and I'm really dreading the anticipated "Tara doing her best gemma Impression" vs Gemma rivalry. I enjoy Gemma's character, as sinister and evil as she is, but their direction for her is really just the writers beating themselves off over how awesome they made Gemma, and now they'll make another one to show a progression of "how Gemma came to be" through her...which is just bad writing.
I mean, Tara's not my favourite character in the show, but she's top 4 or 5, and to see her character develop artificially across the past season has been really weird. I mean, she lost pretty much the only thing she owned, her ability to perform surgery. A lot of her character's progression has been built upon the conflict between her job and her relations with Jax. That job is gone, a large part of her identity is absolutely destroyed in an instant, and that will change a person. For them to change into a clone of an already present character though is a bit artificial, and that's how I've noticed a lot of characters develop in this season. Yeah, shit happened, but there are too many coincidences that make the writers jobs really easy.
All in all, I think in terms of plot-development and character-development, this season has been a huge mishap. The only season-wide constant has been Chuck's clutch comedy, and Gemma's lower-jaw tremble.
I get Juice's development, out of them all. Dude was incredibly committed, and that was shown when Jax wanted to go Nomad. When it was brought up that his dad was Black, you're taking that foundation and family he's built his life on and put it all at risk, over something that's getting held over his head and rather believable. The stress of that, combined with the RICO case over his head, he had a lot of shit stirring up emotions. After the incident where he got a prospect killed, I could understand his suicidal efforts. Juice isn't a character like Clay who can't admit he's wrong, he's a big team-player guy who's always trying to help. So every misstep he took put him further at risk. Made sense.
However, the fact that it was dispelled so easily later on was a bit much. I mean, I get that the excuse was Juice is dumb, but it was pretty unbelievable.
Otto was understandable as well considering all he did for the Sons, while his single request got lied about due to some small-time issue that had other solutions at the ready. They screwed with Otto and used him, and he paid dearly for the Sons. I meat, he's made to be a rat with the deal, but the Sons are all complicit in not respecting the club by ignoring his request.
Opie's always been on the verge of being a decent character, but he's constructed into the strong-silent type persona. Truly, he takes to it, and his character's only depth revolves around guilt over Donna's death. I just would have liked to see some development over a span of 4 seasons.
