Writers: Kurt Sutter and Chris Collins
Grade: A
I know there was a lot of drama tied to the “SAMCRO in jail” storyline, but the things that stuck out to me most were about Opie.
Opie’s mom may not have been great with him when he was a kid, but I can’t blame her for ditching him this time. Piney tried talking to him, she tried, and she got Jax to try, all with no success. She didn’t have much choice but to leave in order to force him to stop using her as a crutch and act like a dad again.
Opie’s scenes with Lyla were the first time I’ve liked him in ages, though. He was so adorably determined to look her in the eye and not ogle her boobies.
And I can totally understand why Tara and Gemma reacted to Lyla the way they did—snottiness aside, they did the right thing in not sending Opie’s kids off with someone they had no information about other than that she’s a porn star. Still, I don’t dislike Lyla at all (not yet, anyway…). She may be a coke-snorting porn actress, but she was very insistent about getting her son to school a couple of episodes ago, and she was also sensitive and caring toward Opie in this episode. She had sense enough to offer him help with his kids rather than try to blatantly seduce him, which scores her some major points in my book. I’m not thrilled with the prospect of him getting involved with someone so soon after Donna’s death, but it could be a lot worse…
Miscellaneous Stuff
-I think I was supposed to find Juice’s “liason” with Dion funny, but I just felt bad for him. That would be a seriously frightening situation! And man would I have been pissed if he’d been killed. He hasn’t even had a real storyline of his own yet, and he’s nice eye candy (I thought he was cute back when he was Veronica’s “unattractive” stalker in an episode of Veronica Mars).
-I didn’t like the “untrustworthy homos” motif they had going on with Dion and the “tranny dealer” who shot Trammel. It may have been unintentional, but I certainly noticed and didn’t care for it. Don’t get me wrong, I think most of the members of SoA being homophobic would be realistic, but that’s not what happened—there’s difference between the characters acting homophobic and the writers inserting homophobic subtext into the show.
-I was wondering when they’d bring back last season’s young rape victim to interact with Gemma, so I thought it was well done without laying it on too thick.
-Perlman and Hunnam really went for it with that fight scene. It was convincingly brutal and quite satisfying, and if they used stunt doubles, I couldn’t tell.
Quotes
Bobby: “You and Clay, whatever it is, it’s gonna land on you to make it right.”
Jax: “Pfft. What makes you think this would land on me?”
Bobby: “Because Clay is old, he’s mean, and he is never gonna admit that he made a mistake. … And he’s earned that.”
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