And I think even Tara should have gone sooner, but that wouldn't have propelled us into the finale like it did. Juice lasted a lot longer than he should have, and he could have gone a few episodes sooner but he needed to be the one to tell Jax for sure what happened the night of the murder. Was there a character that made it to the end of the series alive that you thought was for sure going to die? Actually, I think every character that died actually lasted longer than they should have, and that's because we just loved their characters so much. Now, coincidentally, he's later coming down the road than he was supposed to be when he encounters Jax, and we just loved the butterfly effect of that. Milo decided to help Gemma get to her old man's place which was a little out of his way and took him off his route. Why did you decide to have the driver of the truck be Milo (guest star Michael Chiklis), instead of just some random truck driver that we never met before or even not even shown onscreen? Isn't that special? We have this thing on the show that because of the decisions you make, everything has ramifications, and even the simplest decision can have these huge consequences that you'll never see coming. And even that little look when he first saw the truck was amazing and subtle and great. Literally that was the first thought! But emotionally, when he raised his hands off his bike, and the look of serenity came over his face, I thought it was incredibly moving. When you saw the final version of the final scene play on screen for the first time, how did you feel about how it turned out? I think we should have spent more time on the visual effects. Speaking of breaking the cycle, that final scene really brought everything full circle when Jax went out the same way his father did. He's guaranteed that when his sons find out what happened when they're older, they're going to loathe him, and Nero has been instructed to help them on that path so they don't end up on the same path as Jax. A lot of suicide is meant to aim at other people where Jax's suicide was aimed at making his family hate him. This was on his own terms and the way he went out was part of his plan to ensure that his sons hated him. Now, he could have been shot by all the cops, he could have been done in by Nero as I'm seeing some people suggesting, someone thought Abel was going to get an Uzi and kill his own father the way Jax killed Clay, a lot of people had a lot of theories about tragic endings for Jax. A tragedy, going back to my English training here, actually usually ends in death of a major character. That would have been heartbreaking too! I think that would have been tragic, but that wouldn't be a tragedy. He still would have lost his family, his club, his friends and everything that really mattered to him, and he would have been all alone. That's a given! How we get there is the fun part of it and I think we got there in a way that was had action and amusement-not amusement in the sense of ha-ha-ha, but amusement in the sense of heart-tugging, touching stuff.Įven though you have called it a tragedy since the beginning, and we knew there was no way Jax could ever get a happy ending, did you ever discuss the possibility of having him just driving off out of town at the end and not killing himself? Would that really be a tragedy then? A lot of people are pissed that it's over and the way they're channeling it is, "I'm so pissed that Sutter did exactly what we thought he would do and kill Jax!" Well, spoiler alert, Hamlet dies in the end too, I hate to tell you. I always knew this was going to end badly. I knew that he wasn't going to end up at a carnival buying snow cones for his sons and that was the last shot. It has to end tragically and we all knew that when we were getting into it." It's always been a tragedy in the Shakespearean or Greek sense. I want to reach out to them and say, "Yo, what we're writing here is a tragedy. What surprised you the most about how the fans feel about the finale? What surprised me the most is when they disliked it, what I hear in their voice is largely the sadness of losing these characters and their expectation that Jax would die and their disappointment that that's what actually happened.
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