This season was such a bumpy ride for everyone, but the person that really stepped out of the queens (aka. Gemma Teller-Morrow) shadow was Tara Knowles! After her time in prison she was a changed woman....you hear that a lot, but to actually see that is just hard to watch. The brilliant surgeon turned into the woman she hates the most: her mother-in-law!! She faked a pregnancy and a miscarriage to keep her kids Abel and Thomas away from Gemma and even managed to have Wendy on her side.....well at least for the most part. To be honest no one who watches SOA really thought she could get away with it, but the way that Jax found out about her plan was the worst!! First of all this season showed that there is a new "dream team" in town and it´s called Gemma and Nero (should we name them Gero??;) )......those two seem to agree on so many levels and they also seem to really care for each other. For some reason there is a real connection between those two, and it even looks like Nero can keep up with Gemma. I´m just not shure, if this could not end up bad...but let´s wait and see. Anyways with the help of Nero, Jax finds out trough Gemma (who else....she could just not wait to rub it in his face), what Tara did to him, or was planning on doing: divorcing him and also take the kids away from him. No one thought about the fact that, a long time ago this was Jax AND Taras plan (to get their family out of Charming)......oh wait, no! They just talked about it LAST season!!!!!! I can understand, how hurt Jax must have been, being played by the woman he clearly loves (the whole hooker thing...I don´t read too much into it. Don´t get me wrong, I hated what he did, but you can´t take it back now!) but I still don´t know, why he did not talk to her? That was always the key to this relationship, they tried to be as honest as they could with each other.....but somewhere in season 5 this started to fall apart:(
After Tara found out about Jax knowing about her plan, she lived in fear of her own husband and this was the first time my heart broke: The disconnection between Tara and Jax was something I thought I never would have to see! To be honest I was almost 100 percent positive, that Jax would eventually cheat on his wife, because this is just his way to blow off some steam but I never thought, that this couple would have such a huge emotional distance between them. What probably shocked me the most is that Jax did not even TRY to get the connection back. Okay there was this whole talk about how she has not been able to say "I love you" since she has been back from Stockton, but that´s it! Why wouldn´t he take advantage of her fear of him and sit her down to talk?! It´s all just really weird. The only explanation I have for Jax not trying to talk to his wife is, that he was to focused on getting the club out of guns and by this showing her, that he is a man of his word.
Jax ´s goal to get the club out of the weapon business (especially with the Kings) was immensely triggered by the school shooting in the first episode of season 6. It is the first time the club actually SAW and FELT the consequences of their wrong doing. I am very shure, that this shooting will come back to bite Jax and the Sons. There is no way that the DA will just let him and the club walk! Also now that Nero knows the truth about Jax telling Juice to kill Darvany, you can be shure there will be some kind of confrontation......
Speaking of Juice: He is the character that, next to Tara, changed most in the course of this season. Still living with a lot of emotional stress, he tried all season long to earn back the trust of the club and Jax. By letting him kill the boys mother Jax triggered something that he can not stop now......Juice is ready to die and does not seem to care for much anymore. So seeing the preview for next weeks episode, I am not shure how Jax will punish him for his "betrayal". but what betrayal is there really? JAX was the one, who let him kill Darvany and after that lied to Nero! Jax betrayed Nero!! I have a feeling that for Jax killing Juice would be too easy, because this is exactly what the broken club member wants: to die. My thought is that he will kick him out of the club and leave him with nothing! The MC is Juice´s family and with that gone, he´ll be all alone!
Let´s see what other characters do we have to look out for?? For one there is Wendy, who tried all season long to get close to her son and ruined everything by telling Abel in last weeks episode, that she is his mother......if Jax finds out, she signed her death certificate by blurring out this huge secret. Also I think Unsers time may have come.....it was just kind of odd, how it took him 6 seasons to tell Gemma, that he loves her, weird timing by the way! ;)
So what can we expect from the season 6 finale titled "A Mother´s Work"?!
Knowing Sutter we can expect everything....something tells me, that Bobby will play a huge role in the finale. He did not have the little "Jax always need someone to be around" talk with Tara for nothing, and also his timing to tell her, that the club loves her was not for nothing^^ Maybe if Jax would really have the guts to take a vote on Taras fate, Bobby would be the one to vote "No"......just remember, he has the balls for it.....he did it with Clay too. I´m going to be honest with you guys: If Jax really let´s the club decide to kill or not to kill his own wife, he will be just like the person he hates the most: Clay. I kind of refuse to think, that he will go this route....it would just be too much!
Let´s get to the big elephant in the room.....Tara! What will she do? Will she keep on running and try to hide with the boys as long as she can or will she wait until either her husband or the DA find her? Judging from the released promo pictures (that always throw us off by the way ;) ) Jax and Paterson seem to be in the hotel room, but Tara seems to be gone. My hope is, that Jax tries to find her and convince her to come back.....or at least to give her Abel. It would be kind of ironic if a little hotel room of all things would give them the privacy they need to sort things out.
Also, it´s kind of obvious, that Jax found out what Juice did, so this will be interesting. Will Nero show his crew side and actually try to hurt SAMCRO? I smell an other meeting with Alvarez!! One could think back to season 5 where Jax and Nero had the talk about how close both of them were to get out of this life, for their families sake......this seems so far away now! Nero knew, that he did not wanted to get sucked in into all the weird business that the Sons have with weapons and stuff, but I think in last weeks episode, he realized, that his trust that he gave them and especially Jax, was built on a lie. The wound that this betrayal left is deep and I´m shure Jax will feel that in the season finale!
An other secret, that could come back to haunt Jax in season 7 is, that he still does not know just how deep his own mother is connected to his fathers death. With only Nero, Gemma, Tara and probably Unser knowing about the fact, that Gemma gave her blessing on killing JT and at least one of these people on edge there is a pretty big chance, that he might find out about it. And no one knows what this will trigger in him?!
On one last note, let´s talk about Gemma. She seemed kind of jealous when she realized, that Tara almost outplayed her. And with taking the boys now, she fears, that she may never see "her boys" again! Knowing Gemma, my heart is heavy and I´m kind of scared for Tara......she might be smart, but she also knows if Gemma gets to her first, there is a pretty good chance, that only ONE woman will leave with Abel and Thomas. So let´s hope it does not come to that.
So as you can see there are soo many loose ends and there is so much room for so many cliffhangers that one thing is for shure: We need some very strong nerves for "A Mother´s Work"!!
Let me know about your thoughts on this season and what you think will happen in the season finale!
Let´s talk tv!!
xoxo Nici
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