David Hale
Charming’s own Captain America was unexpectedly killed in the season three premiere during a drive-by at Half-Sack’s funeral, run over by the fleeing gang van as he attempted to shoot the driver. After two seasons of being the show’s truest “good guy” and his incoming promotion to Chief of Police becoming a focal point through the premiere, his death was a shocking kick-off to the season and marked a major turning point for both the show and for Charming.
Fans of the show may know that Hale’s death stemmed from actor Taylor Sheridan’s request to move on, but it still feels premature in terms of where the character could’ve gone. His attempts to always do the right thing provided a fresh perspective in a town seemingly infested by the corrupt and, with how the show has played out, it’s hard not to wonder how things would look with Hale still in the mix.
Otto
Of all the characters on the show, the one that has arguably gone through the most punishment in the name of the club is Otto Delaney, played by Kurt Sutter himself. After being sent to prison shortly before the start of the series, Otto would go on to lose his wife, an eye and a tongue, get brutally beaten and raped multiple times and lose all faith in the family of brothers he had continually sacrificed everything for.
By the show’s sixth season, Otto had nothing left to lose. After killing Lee Toric with a shiv given to him by Clay, Otto is gunned down by prison guards responding to the scene, finally freeing him from the series-long pain and torture he had had to endure. As a figure of the series since its beginning, Otto was one of its most tragic and understandably conflicted characters, and his death was long overdue for what he had gone through, even if it was a major bummer to fans to finally have to let him go.
Piney Winston
As one of the club’s First 9, “Piney” Winston spent the first few seasons as a counterpoint to other First 9 member and then-current leader Clay Morrow. Believing Jax to be the leader the club truly needs, Piney eventually learns of Clay’s involvement in Donna’s murder, grows disgusted by the club’s involvement in drug running and even rightfully surmises that Clay was behind the murder of Jax’s father and original club leader, John Teller.
After Piney threatens Clay with the suggestion that he will tell the club all about John Teller’s desire to avoid gun running and the truth around his death, Clay murders Piney in his own cabin before arranging the scene to appear as though it was a cartel hit. Throughout the series, Clay had done a number of dastardly things, but had somehow managed to remain endearing due to his devotion to the club and Ron Perlman’s natural charm. But with the murder of Piney — a character that viewers had spent four seasons getting to know — Clay turned a corner for many fans, finally revealing the monster he can truly be and setting into motion a domino effect that is still being felt today.
Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow finally met his end near the end of the sixth season. For many fans, it was long overdue, despite the fact Ron Perlman had been an intrinsic part of the show’s DNA since it all began. After having managed to squeeze out of every situation where it seemed that certain death was in the cards for him, Clay wound up framed for the murder of Damon Pope at the end of season five and shipped off to prison.
Clay continued to worm his way out of meeting his fate in the prison’s general population by agreeing to a deal with Lee Toric, allowing him to buy more time. When Jax and Galen O’Shay explosively parted ways, Galen and the IRA reached out to Clay to have him build his own crew in Belfast, Ireland that could continue the gun running operation in Northern California. Needing their help to break him out during a prison transport, Galen used the SAMCRO boys, who successfully retrieved Clay and brought him to the Irish’s private hanger.
Seemingly home free yet again, Clay’s hopes were quickly dashed when Jax killed Galen — in another death that easily could’ve made this list — before informing Clay that the club had voted unanimously to kill him and make it seem as though he and the Irish all slaughtered one another in a shootout. After causing countless problems, irreparable damage and leaving numerous bodies in his wake, Clay finally met Mr. Mayhem and a weight had finally been lifted off Jax and the audience.
Opie Winston
“I got this.”
With those words, the hearts of countless Sons of Anarchy fans the world over shattered. After four seasons of effectively managing to find ways out of the club’s problems, Jax had no ability to maneuver when faced with Pope’s ultimatum that one of the Sons had to give their life in prison. Despite choosing to sacrifice himself than punish the others, Jax was taken by surprise at the last moment when Opie forcibly took his place.
After being roped back into the club only to lose his wife and then his father, Piney, Opie was an easy character to root for to find some kind of happy ending. When he found love again and got married to Lyla, things seemed to be looking up, only to quickly fall apart as the memory of Donna only continued to haunt him. The brutality of Opie’s death is unrelenting, and the different emotional reactions of Chibs, Tig and Jax are much like those of the fans watching it occur for the first time. Opie may be gone, but his ghost continues to linger over the show and changed Jax forever.
Tara Knowles
The death of Tara at the hands of Gemma — over a miscommunication, no less — is undeniably the show’s most devastating event. Emotionally traumatizing and sickening through the sheer viciousness with which Gemma attacks her, first using an iron, then smashing her head, then drowning her and then, most horribly, using a barbecue fork to stab her in the head and neck, it’s a moment fans are still reeling over months later.
While Tara had grown into a character that was far from innocent by the sixth season, her drive to get her boys out of Charming and far away from the crippling vortex surrounding the club life was more than understandable. Put through the ringer time and again, Tara had been pushed to desperate measures for the sake of making sure the vicious cycle of the Teller family would not claim her boys. If anyone could get anything resembling a happy ending in the show and break away from the violence, death and drama, it was bound to be Tara.
But with season six ending with a deceased Tara in Jax’s arms, an emotional powerhouse of a moment in itself, and her life cut short, the future of Jax and the boys is now more unclear than it’s ever been. The series has shown time and again that anything can happen at any moment to anyone and that nothing on the show is always easily predictable. With only one season ahead of us and the promise that it’ll all end in a pool of blood looming over the series, more death, shock and sadness is inevitable, but these are just a number of the ones so far that will stick with viewers long after the series has ended.
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder