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Sons of Anarchy - Season 6 - Tuesdays on FX

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kirblar

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CCH Pounder's wig looks ridiculous. Totally understand the need to give her a different look than Claudette but...yeah.
 
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Redd

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I use to like Jax but not anymore. He just a younger version of Clay. Does things his own way behind the clubs back. Ever since Opie and his pop left there's only one character I like anymore. I'm watching this only for you now Chibs.
 
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strafer said:
Jax and Tara are done. The last scene, she felt nothing.
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"Give me an old pro like Robert Redford and I'd jump right into bed with him. And I wouldn't just lie there, Michael Bluth, if that's what you were thinking."

That's all I could think of during that scene.

Also, did I miss a detail about who might have turned Tara in? She told Gemma she found something in the kids' toy chest, but it was just papers with orange marker scribbled over them. Then they talked about Wendy.

Are we to think Jax turned her in to prevent her from taking the kids away?
 
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Not the greatest episode, but not bad either. Nice to see Tara out of jail and secretly planning to divorce Jax. Adds some much needed tension and makes her somewhat more interesting. Also, the cop whose sister was killed is crazy as fuck, just what this season needed. Hope he really shakes things up and doesn't serve as device to merely move the plot forward.

Not sure I'm happy about the direction the school shooting story is going, seems to be something Sutter thought would be shocking (and it was) but he lacks the chops to turn into something interesting and impacting long term. Hope I'm wrong, but his past failures in exploiting tragic events tells me otherwise.
 
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strafer said:
Is it just me or does the guy riding with Bobby look like Otto a bit?
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when he was lying back on the motorocycle i thought for a second it was an otto flashback lol

its that dude from shameless

and yeah cch pounder wig looks ridiculous but at least they were self aware about it (oprah wig)

im not liking tara's new hair but i havent noticed any weight gain?
 
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kirblar

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Miles Quaritch said:
Not the greatest episode, but not bad either. Nice to see Tara out of jail and secretly planning to divorce Jax. Adds some much needed tension and makes her somewhat more interesting. Also, the cop whose sister was killed is crazy as fuck, just what this season needed. Hope he really shakes things up and doesn't serve as device to merely move the plot forward.

Not sure I'm happy about the direction the school shooting story is going, seems to be something Sutter thought would be shocking (and it was) but he lacks the chops to turn into something interesting and impacting long term. Hope I'm wrong, but his past failures in exploiting tragic events tells me otherwise.
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I like that the show has saved this plotline until a point where the audience is going to agree with Tara's decision, keeping her out of the "no fun zone" territory that causes viewers to get annoyed with them.
 
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Mononoke

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I'm glad Tara is divorcing Jax, it makes the plot more interesting vs. her just doing nothing as their marriage inevitably implodes. The fact that she's already planning ahead, makes me like her more. That said, I don't understand why she didn't just make a deal with the Mashall. The Marshall could have put Jax in jail, and allowed her to take the kids to a new location with new identities.

The only thing that makes sense is that she would be afraid he would kill her. Okay. I could buy that. BUT why wouldn't Jax kill her if she divorced him, took the kids, and made him unfit by the courts to be near his kids? He wouldn't kill her over that?

At least with the Marshall, it would guarantee that Jax was in jail, and she would be given the means to hide. I guess I see the difference between betraying the club, vs betraying Jax. But I don't REALLY see the difference when it comes to the risk and consequences.
 
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inm8num2

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Cornballer said:
4.6M viewers this week and a 2.5 in the 18-49 demo

Next week's episode is slightly longer than usual and clocks in at 71 minutes.
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I'm starting to wonder if it's a good thing that FX gives Sutter free reign on episode lengths. I love all the extra time as it allows characters to breathe a little. Sons has such a huge cast of characters and sometimes it's nice to check in with them even if they're not critical to a particular episode.

But some reviews I've read seem to think that the storytelling and pacing suffer from extra length.
 
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inm8num2 said:
I'm starting to wonder if it's a good thing that FX gives Sutter free reign on episode lengths. I love all the extra time as it allows characters to breathe a little. Sons has such a huge cast of characters and sometimes it's nice to check in with them even if they're not critical to a particular episode.

But some reviews I've read seem to think that the storytelling and pacing suffer from extra length.
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I think some of the extra length that Sutter was given for a few episodes towards the end of seasons made sense, but at this point I feel like it just makes him a little lazy in terms of editing and story bloat. Trimming superfluous material isn't a bad thing.
 
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inm8num2

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Cornballer said:
I think some of the extra length that Sutter was given for a few episodes towards the end of seasons made sense, but at this point I feel like it just makes him a little lazy in terms of editing and story bloat. Trimming superfluous material isn't a bad thing.
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I agree with that, but I trust Sutter enough that he has a reason for including each particular frame.

Last night's episode felt like it could have been shortened, but again I do enjoy how characters and scenes can breathe a little without having a sensation of needing to be rapidly carried from one scene to the next.
 
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Vintage_Creep

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Cornballer said:
I think some of the extra length that Sutter was given for a few episodes towards the end of seasons made sense, but at this point I feel like it just makes him a little lazy in terms of editing and story bloat. Trimming superfluous material isn't a bad thing.
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Usually SOA picked 3 episodes a season to be longer, the premiére, the ?x09 (following Chase's mi) and the season finale.
Basically, those were the 3 most important episodes of the season, that's why they were longer.
Now it just seems like, I don't know. 71 minutes is crazy though. Even more than 6x01.
In 6x02 it didn't happen much to justify the length, I hope this time around it will.
 
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inm8num2

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If I hadn't watched season 5 before buying it, I'd be a little cautious of spoilers.

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Frankie Williamson

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don't know why but i am getting tired of this show..
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I hear you, I've been way into the show from the start and was always excited for each new season (even after ones that weren't stellar...I'm looking at you Ireland) but I found myself skipping through scenes already in this new one.

Oh, and I'm definitely in the pro-new hair Tara boat. Yum.
 
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Vintage_Creep

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It's very stupid to put that spoiler in merchandise, also because it doesn't make any sense. RIP Opie? What the fuck? Why would someone who isn't familiar with the series buy something which has written on something like that? Totally ridiculous.
 
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Funky Papa

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kirblar said:
Or their market research suggests that the people who buy the series on DVD have in large part already watched it.
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It's still a dick move.

I usually gift my parents TV shows I enjoy, and plenty of people catch up/purchase them on recommendation of other consumers. There's absolutely ZERO reason/incentives to put a spoiler on the package just like that. It adds nothing.
 
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