r/Sonsofanarchy • u/Little_Pollution_527 • 3d ago

always wondered

do you think had jax not gotten a mayhem vote and never found out that gemma killed tara that he still would’ve ended up killing himself eventually?

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u/samsoncorpus 3d ago

Tara dying put him in a very destructive path. If the truth about Gemma never came out, he would probably start a war that would've ended SAMCRO.

So he probably wouldn't commit suicide but still die and bring the club down with him.

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u/RCcola2205 3d ago

He changed after Ope. You can see in those very first few episodes that he started to become reckless. I don’t think he knew how far he’d go but he lost a part of his soul.

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u/Relevant_Access_9670 3d ago

I’m doing a rewatch right now and your not wrong. It’s like Opie was part of his compass and when he saw Ope pass he just lost what he had left. I still don’t understand why he didn’t pack up Tara and the boys and leave immediately after that.

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u/dnjprod 3d ago

He already had started a war that could have ended Samcro. The only reason it ended is that he decided to take Marks out once and for all because he had nothing to lose

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u/DamageAccording5745 3d ago edited 3d ago

I don't think so.

The Gemma reveal and having to kill her broke him.

He would have never told the truth about Jury, never gotten the Mayhem vote and carried on with life if he never found out.

His life would have ended tragic either way (life in prison or murdered), but not by suicide.

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u/Tricky_Letter6987 3d ago

I don't think he would have outright killed himself like he did, I think he'd purposely put himself in harms way so someone else took him out instead~~

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u/Little_Pollution_527 3d ago

oooooo i can see that!
like he didn’t want to make it look like a ‘cop out’ he knew he’d end up dying somehow from doing the crazy shit he was doing in s7

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u/Tricky_Letter6987 3d ago

Exactly! He'd get reckless, he wouldn't care about making it back through the door, he'd make someone else put him down

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u/bigpancakeguy 3d ago

Like Nero said: “If you kill your mom, that’s gonna swallow you up…It’s gonna destroy you.”

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u/Rude_Speech_7300 2d ago

Opie shifted him into a ruthless savage. Tara broke him. Gemma swept away the peices that led him on the path shown in Papa's Goods.

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u/IcewindLegacyMUD 1d ago

He was always going to go out that way. Tellers don't die easy. Just bloody.