‘Sons of Anarchy’ season 5: Kurt Sutter justifies shocking [spoiler]
Now that we have had a little bit more time to process what happened on Tuesday night’s episode of “Sons of Anarchy,” it is a little bit easier to look at objectively. If you still haven’t watched the episode, don’t read on; you really don’t want to be spoiled on this one.
From one standpoint, it’s easy to understand why so many are waking up angry and threatening to never watch the show again. Opie is dead, and he was one of the show’s most-popular and interesting characters. But at the same time, this show lives within a world where people like Opie die while Clay and Damon Pope get to keep on living, and it was necessarily in our mind that someone close to Jax had to bite the dust both to pay for his mistakes, and also to pave the way for what is going to be happening next.
So what sort of explanation does executive producer Kurt Sutter have for what happened here? Outside of tearing into bloggers and retweeting a message from someone saying that they would never watch again, he chose tto keep things fairly simple:
“and as in life, sometimes the good ones die.”
So where does SAMCRO go from here with Opie dead? This is the mystery that we are going to try and solve over the next week. Stay tuned, as we are going to have so much more on this question, including previews for the upcoming episode along with more scoop from behind the scenes.
Do you think in some ways that Opie’s death was a necessarily evil, ad have to been able to get over it at all just yet? Be sure to not only share some of your thoughts on this subject below, but also head over here to read our initial reaction to the death.
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janice kuczek
October 3, 2012 @ 4:16 pm
you guys recked the show by killing opie off he was one of the best actors on son’s,you mean to say you could’nt come up with some thing better than killing opie off (come on)
gareth
September 28, 2012 @ 3:28 am
the whole show is about Jax always has been and in clay not being killed it shows a side of Jax that is difficult for him to understand. but in Opie being killed this will show another side, as you get to see in Jax’s eye’s at the end of the epidsode he really is not bothered about who die’s now or how, that is why he offered tig to pope once he is finished with him. Opie being killed was the only way to make a sudden impact and change on the way that Jax’s will run things and decide on things and now any chance clay had of getting tig back on side and using him for his own benefit is gone as not only has his daughter been killed but he is also solely responsible for the direct death of not only one of the sons but the Presidents best friend, tig is now truely in Jax’s pocket and it will be good to see how Jax uses this to his advantage and what will he make tig do over the rest of season. great show and the twists and changes that are to come could make this the best season yet
Melissa
September 27, 2012 @ 6:44 pm
my son’s girlfriend had to run from the room when Opie got killed. Wow, what a shocker this season has been. Pretty gruesome, can we cruise for a few weeks?
Nick
September 27, 2012 @ 12:28 am
i thought trager was the person to die. He did such a stupid thing in retaliating to the so called “9ers attack” on clay and put them in this mess. It would have made sense for him to put himself in Opies position to being killed…..
Shaney
September 26, 2012 @ 5:47 pm
its Bs that Opie is gone!!!!!Should of been Clay!
lee
September 26, 2012 @ 12:42 pm
Sigh and in the horrible season 2 ending he said sometimes the bad guy gets away…even when he is surrounded by 10 guys. He just wasted a strong character and an amazing actor. For what? He kept Clay alive but offs Opie. Like All of season three except for that season ending. This season is just more bad writting.