November 13, 2025 • 21 mins
SPOILER WARNING for Sons of Anarchy. In this full Belated Binge episode I’m exploring a hypothetical world where the members of SAMCRO were dropped into an Urban Fantasy universe. What supernatural creature best describes some of the main characters of SOA?Characters discussed: Jax Teller, Clay Morrow, Tig Trager, Gemma Teller-Morrow, Tara Knowles, and Opie Winston. Please SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@belatedbingeJoin Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BelatedBingeSocials:IG: https://www.instagram.com/belatedbingeTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@belatedbingeFree FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1bZFKLYbkM28Hg8v/
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(00:00):
Today we're reimagining Sons of Anarchy through the lens of this
question. What if Sam Crow took place
within an urban fantasy? The Belated Binge podcast Hi,
welcome to Belated Binge. I'm Zach, former radio host and
lifelong sports fan. Discovering the magic of urban
(00:20):
fantasy. Today we're doing something kind
of new on the show. And by kind of new, I mean
incredibly new. Never been done before and I'm
excited about it. But also, this could go in a ton
of different ways. If you've been here, you know
how much I love the Sons of Anarchy TV show.
I've even done episode recaps and some topic episodes on my
(00:43):
podcast before. And while there's been interest
in that content, some of those episodes are actually my most
downloaded and on the audio players and also have the most
views on YouTube. There was a bit of a challenge
for me in a couple of areas withthat content.
Most notably, thematically, my podcast was sort of all over the
(01:08):
place for a little while, and I was, for lack of a better way to
put it, losing the plot. I started off only talking about
Harry Potter for two years and then tried to branch out from
there. And quite frankly, although I
thought about it painstakingly at the time, in retrospect I
should have considered some of my own concerns a bit more
(01:30):
heavily because some of them definitely did come to fruition.
One of them being adding TV shows to a podcast about a book
series, which caused me some problems in my show category,
getting the show in front of theright people to actually see it
and actually want to listen to it.
(01:51):
Another was a complete lack of audience overlap between Harry
Potter and Sons of Anarchy fans.I was starting to get in front
of a very, like, fractured community, I guess you could
say, and it was very difficult to essentially engage with, kind
of be everything for everyone. And I couldn't do all the things
(02:12):
for all the people. And I think I probably lost as
many or more listeners than whatI gained because they were only
interested in one series I was talking about.
And instead of getting one everyweek, now they got like 1 every
2-3, maybe four weeks on the topic they actually cared about.
And then you add in the hiatus that I took for personal
(02:35):
readings, personal reasons, because I can't seem to talk.
I was sort of starting from scratch.
And I had to re evaluate what the show was going to be when I
came back and try to do it in a way that really filled up the
my, you know, creative cup, if you will.
(02:56):
And that's where discovering urban fantasy was born, as a
theme which allowed me to keep talking about Harry Potter as I
had for years already, but also expand beyond that into several
other series that I've really, really enjoyed and like to talk
about, but that all still fit within the same urban fantasy
(03:20):
genre. However, that meant cutting ties
or cutting my losses with some of the shows that I had done
before, at least for now. But like The Office was a bit of
a dud. I found that doing a solo
podcast that aims to be kind of,I don't know, sarcastic, maybe
(03:40):
bring some witty humor to the table to a show that was written
to be sarcastic with witty humorand cringy humor.
There wasn't a whole lot for me to say aside from like, you
know, hey, remember that part ofthe episode that was funny and
(04:01):
based on the download numbers from those episodes, you all
agreed. So not a huge loss with the
office. Then Breaking Bad is what I
brought in to replace the officeas a test.
And I thought that would have atleast more audience overlap with
Sons of Anarchy because they areboth in that sort of, you know,
(04:22):
I don't know, criminal underworld, like, you know, anti
hero vane. And it was also possible that
some of the Harry Potter audience would also enjoy that
because Breaking Bad was just soinsanely mainstream, popular as
well. So I thought maybe that one had
(04:44):
some legs. And there was the added wrinkle
that it was also a show that I'dnever seen before.
And so that was my first reaction to it.
Well, that turned out to not be very great because I wasn't
really enjoying the show, and the process of stopping the
episode every couple of minutes to write down notes about what
(05:05):
my reaction was not a great way to consume it either.
So honestly not super sad to seethat one go either.
But that leaves Sons of Anarchy,which I absolutely love as ATV
show. I've got a Harley in my garage.
My closet is nothing but sports team T-shirts and Harley shirts.
(05:27):
In case you're wondering, no, I don't wear pants ever.
And while I have had some challenges in doing the work on
that particular show, same concept watching a show, but
then like stopping it so periodically to write down the
(05:48):
the thoughts that you have and the points that you want to make
and outline the, you know, episode for you.
It it's a it's a little clunky and can get tiring at times, but
I'm having a harder time let that one go and a hard time also
finding its place within the newtheme.
(06:10):
And I had this idea for a show for some of these episodes to be
and I thought, what better placeto start than with Sons of
Anarchy? So I first have to give credit
to the podcast that inspired this idea.
It's no longer active, unfortunately, but the podcast
is called but make it scary. You can go listen to the
(06:30):
Evergreen episodes that are on there.
They're just not currently churning out new ones that I'm
aware of. And that I say, unfortunately,
because I think it's a phenomenal podcast.
The premise is simple. They take popular movies,
typically in the romance or likeROM com genre, and then they
rewrite the plot to turn them into a horror movie.
(06:55):
And when I started thinking thisthrough, like in this new urban
fantasy theme that I was planning out, I was struck with
the idea of doing something very, very similar.
But instead of making popular things scary, we can turn them
into urban fantasies, starting with Sons of Anarchy.
(07:18):
And here's where things get experimental because I've got a
few different ideas of how this could be done and how it can be
imagined. And so I thought this episode we
just start with like a characterexercise.
So today we're going to make Sons of Anarchy an urban fantasy
by taking the main characters and choosing a supernatural
being or creature that closely matches their character from the
(07:42):
show. And I should probably tell you
that almost all of my frame of reference for these creatures
comes from the Dresden Files series, which I think is one of
the coolest things about that series is that it brings all
these different supernatural things into one universe.
And the rules all still make sense.
So you may think of a completelydifferent creature from fantasy
(08:04):
lore for these characters that I've maybe never even heard of.
But hey, that's what makes this thing fun.
I also posted a short version ofthis on social media at Belated
Binge. If you're not already following
me, you should be. I post a lot of shorts and some
of those video topics are exclusive to social, so give it
a follow. We are going to start with the
(08:27):
primary main character on the show.
Obviously it's Jax Teller. And for Jax Teller, I am
thinking his Supernatural crossover would be a vampire.
But like the succubus kind, Jax is the definition of sex appeal
in the show. If you post about Sons of
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Anarchy on social media to this day, you are bound to have at
least one woman in the comments section claiming him as their
husband or complimenting him as if he's the one that's actually
making the post. Seriously, it's sometimes
alarming. So for me, I immediately thought
(09:09):
vampire, but not the kind that'slike creepy brute force and bat
like, but the ones that are likeincredibly attractive, whether
that's a mask over their true like monstrous form or if
they're just like human like enough naturally that they look
super hot but also are super dangerous using the art of
(09:35):
seduction to get what they want.And I think that Jax Teller does
this on the show and it's super heavy in the first season where
he literally like sleeps with the crow reader in exchange for
her sleeping with Skeeter for the favor that they need from
him in the morgue. I also think that he turns on
(09:56):
the charm several times throughout the show when he
needs to get someone, especiallya female character, on his side
for pretty much any reason. Even if he's not actually doing
the do, he's making them comfortable in good ways and in
bad ones. Think about how he plays Wendy
(10:17):
to go to rehab and the whole time he's also with Tara and how
he gets into her apartment to blast her with that speedball.
Think about how he got Susie to tag along to Nevada, how he got
Agent Stahl even to cut a deal with him in the club, how he was
with Trinity who ended up being his half sister, how he worked
(10:41):
with Luann and with IMA, and even how he worked with Lila,
hell even Venus. Like he had a way with these
women regardless of his motives and he knew how to use it.
Almost like it was a superpower,like a succubus.
He was also ruthless, destructive, and capable of
(11:05):
going on literal killing sprees,all while playing a manipulative
long game inside of the chaos like a vampire.
The next character that we're going to do is Clay Morrow.
I initially thought that he was going to be a werewolf, and I
could still kind of be pushed there, but I think there's
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something sympathetic to werewolves that is hard to
assign to Clay, and I think that's going to come up a little
bit more later. For now, I think Clay is pretty
much just a selfish, destructivedude, and for that I felt like a
demon was more appropriate. Still super strong, but without
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the sympathy or the empathy. Nobody made him the way that he
was, he just was. I know Opie and Jax both made
the case at different points of the show that say that Clay is
what the club made him, but I honestly don't buy that.
(12:08):
Sure, he became what they made him as far as how much power he
gained, how he wielded that power, the decisions he made,
and ultimately how he craved that power along the way.
But this was him long before he sat at the head of the table.
Think about the Gemma storyline.Think about the Irish storyline
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with McGee. Think about the Piney storyline.
This man was openly sleeping with his best friend's wife, who
was conspiring to murder his best friend because he wanted A
not just to keep sleeping with the man's wife, but also to
actually take the man's wife, tobe with her, to marry her, to
(12:53):
claim her as his own old lady, his property, and B.
Because he wanted the club to sell guns and dive deeper into
the dangerous side of their business model as opposed to
getting out of it like JT wantedfor selfish greed.
This man also was capable of murdering A fellow member of the
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first nine for making a decisionbehind the club's back for
money. He pushed him off a roof.
No vote, no democracy, just a choice made to murder him for
his greedy choice, then turn around and make a deal with a
cartel behind the club's back for money and for greed, putting
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the whole club in danger for it.This man was capable of
murdering another member, Piney,the man who brought him into the
club in the 1st place to hide his secret of killing JT from
the club. Any man who is capable of all of
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these things, these selfish choices, is not a victim of
anything. He's just a demon.
So for Clay's right hand man, Tig Traeger, I don't think this
needs a ton of explanation to behonest.
He is a ghoul. Ghouls are pretty messed up, and
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Tig is pretty messed up. And if there's a better
supernatural creature to explainTig's level of messed up, I've
simply never heard of it. This dude is a killer, but not
just a killer. He's a dirty work killer among
killers. He's also a character that not
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only admitted to, but volunteered the information of
sharing his pleasure from havingsexual encounters with dead
bodies. So given that ghouls feed on the
corpses and prey on the living, it's not that much of A leap to
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get to Tig. Not to mention the picture I
found of a ghoul actually kind of looks like him, and that'll
make the most sense for the video audience.
Now we're going to do Gemma, whoI've got as a Winter Faye queen.
The Faye are deceptive, manipulative, and the Winter
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Court is depicted as being the ones that are ruthless, violent.
That's Gemma. Ruthlessly manipulative of
everyone in her orbit, regardless of who they are.
She manipulated multiple romantic partners, conspired to
kill a couple of those romantic partners.
She manipulated her own son. And if she could do that, the
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other club members, Yeah. The women, the families that are
tied to those other club members, they had absolutely no
chance whatsoever to avoid Gemma's wrath. 1 scene in
particular stands out when she was mad at Nero's business
partner, maybe half sister or something if I'm remembering
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that right. And instead of doing something
about it herself directly, she found Tara, who was angry and
manipulated her into starting a fight with Nero's partner while
she had a broken arm. She beat the woman's head in
with her cast. This show is not for children.
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I believe that it was on Reaper reviews that I first heard the
phrase Jax is the son, Gemma is the anarchy.
And that's exactly what I think of when I think about the
Winterfey. Manipulative organized anarchy.
Which is kind of a juxtapositionI suppose, but still feels very
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fitting. She's also doing it from a place
of power within the relationshipstructure that they have in this
outlaw world. She holds power over all the
women as the toppled lady. She holds power over the club as
their pseudo mother figure. She holds power over the
leadership of the club as well, because she's the wife of or the
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mother of the guys who run said club.
In short, she's the Queen, QueenGemma of the Winter Faye.
So then if that's Gemma, if we look at Tara, Tara is the
literal opposite of Gemma, but groomed to sort of become her
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heir apparent. And that's why I've got her as a
Summer Faye, because she's coming at it from the opposite
motivation as Gemma, where Gemmaclaimed that she did everything
for her family, She did it from a selfish motivation of keeping
control over her family because she had her plan of what was
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best for them and she was going to force them to follow it
because it's what she wanted. Tara came from a selfless
motivation. She wanted to save her family,
protect them. And where Gemma was ruthless,
Tara was desperate. And even just in her actual
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career outside of the club, she was a surgeon.
But not just a surgeon, a surgeon who specialized in
saving babies in the club. She saved them from bullet
wounds, dog bites, knives, bombs, crashes.
Yeah, you get it. She was a healer.
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And when I think healer in a supernatural, like urban fantasy
setting, I think Summer Faye, the last character we're going
to do today, is Opie. And Opie is the reason that I
realized that Clay was not a werewolf, because Opie is.
While werewolves are ridiculously strong, incapable
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of being incredibly violent, generally speaking, their
condition wasn't their choice. In a lot of werewolf lore,
they're bitten and turned, making them actually a victim.
Clay is definitely not a victim,but Opie is.
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Opie is one of the most tragic characters in the entire Sons of
Anarchy show. He starts off having already
gone to prison for the club, losing time with his wife and
his children and making it difficult for them to adjust to
just having him around suddenly.And then he basically loses them
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to the club when he gets back inorder to try to get them out of
the massive amount of debt that they compiled while he was
locked up for the club. Then he literally loses his wife
when Tig the Ghoul. Kills her thinking she's OB
himself. Then he loses his father when
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Clay kills him and along the wayhe loses himself.
Distancing himself from his children, distancing himself
from his best friend, splitting from his second wife Lila, who
was always just an attempt for Opie to find himself again in
the 1st place, and ultimately sacrificing himself for his best
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friend and for the club. He's the ultimate Sam Crow
victim. Ruthless, yes, Violent, yes.
But he could have been different.
He could have been better if he hadn't kept losing everything he
loved, like werewolves do when they're bitten.
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What do you think? Was this fun?
Do you have ideas for more characters for Sons or Anarchy?
What other shows, movies, might this be a fun exercise to do?
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And as always, thanks for hanging out with me on this
episode of Belated Binge.
Today we're reimagining Sons of Anarchy through the lens of this
question. What if Sam Crow took place
within an urban fantasy? The Belated Binge podcast Hi,
welcome to Belated Binge. I'm Zach, former radio host and
lifelong sports fan. Discovering the magic of urban
(00:20):
fantasy. Today we're doing something kind
of new on the show. And by kind of new, I mean
incredibly new. Never been done before and I'm
excited about it. But also, this could go in a ton
of different ways. If you've been here, you know
how much I love the Sons of Anarchy TV show.
I've even done episode recaps and some topic episodes on my
(00:43):
podcast before. And while there's been interest
in that content, some of those episodes are actually my most
downloaded and on the audio players and also have the most
views on YouTube. There was a bit of a challenge
for me in a couple of areas withthat content.
Most notably, thematically, my podcast was sort of all over the
(01:08):
place for a little while, and I was, for lack of a better way to
put it, losing the plot. I started off only talking about
Harry Potter for two years and then tried to branch out from
there. And quite frankly, although I
thought about it painstakingly at the time, in retrospect I
should have considered some of my own concerns a bit more
(01:30):
heavily because some of them definitely did come to fruition.
One of them being adding TV shows to a podcast about a book
series, which caused me some problems in my show category,
getting the show in front of theright people to actually see it
and actually want to listen to it.
(01:51):
Another was a complete lack of audience overlap between Harry
Potter and Sons of Anarchy fans.I was starting to get in front
of a very, like, fractured community, I guess you could
say, and it was very difficult to essentially engage with, kind
of be everything for everyone. And I couldn't do all the things
(02:12):
for all the people. And I think I probably lost as
many or more listeners than whatI gained because they were only
interested in one series I was talking about.
And instead of getting one everyweek, now they got like 1 every
2-3, maybe four weeks on the topic they actually cared about.
And then you add in the hiatus that I took for personal
(02:35):
readings, personal reasons, because I can't seem to talk.
I was sort of starting from scratch.
And I had to re evaluate what the show was going to be when I
came back and try to do it in a way that really filled up the
my, you know, creative cup, if you will.
(02:56):
And that's where discovering urban fantasy was born, as a
theme which allowed me to keep talking about Harry Potter as I
had for years already, but also expand beyond that into several
other series that I've really, really enjoyed and like to talk
about, but that all still fit within the same urban fantasy
(03:20):
genre. However, that meant cutting ties
or cutting my losses with some of the shows that I had done
before, at least for now. But like The Office was a bit of
a dud. I found that doing a solo
podcast that aims to be kind of,I don't know, sarcastic, maybe
(03:40):
bring some witty humor to the table to a show that was written
to be sarcastic with witty humorand cringy humor.
There wasn't a whole lot for me to say aside from like, you
know, hey, remember that part ofthe episode that was funny and
(04:01):
based on the download numbers from those episodes, you all
agreed. So not a huge loss with the
office. Then Breaking Bad is what I
brought in to replace the officeas a test.
And I thought that would have atleast more audience overlap with
Sons of Anarchy because they areboth in that sort of, you know,
(04:22):
I don't know, criminal underworld, like, you know, anti
hero vane. And it was also possible that
some of the Harry Potter audience would also enjoy that
because Breaking Bad was just soinsanely mainstream, popular as
well. So I thought maybe that one had
(04:44):
some legs. And there was the added wrinkle
that it was also a show that I'dnever seen before.
And so that was my first reaction to it.
Well, that turned out to not be very great because I wasn't
really enjoying the show, and the process of stopping the
episode every couple of minutes to write down notes about what
(05:05):
my reaction was not a great way to consume it either.
So honestly not super sad to seethat one go either.
But that leaves Sons of Anarchy,which I absolutely love as ATV
show. I've got a Harley in my garage.
My closet is nothing but sports team T-shirts and Harley shirts.
(05:27):
In case you're wondering, no, I don't wear pants ever.
And while I have had some challenges in doing the work on
that particular show, same concept watching a show, but
then like stopping it so periodically to write down the
(05:48):
the thoughts that you have and the points that you want to make
and outline the, you know, episode for you.
It it's a it's a little clunky and can get tiring at times, but
I'm having a harder time let that one go and a hard time also
finding its place within the newtheme.
(06:10):
And I had this idea for a show for some of these episodes to be
and I thought, what better placeto start than with Sons of
Anarchy? So I first have to give credit
to the podcast that inspired this idea.
It's no longer active, unfortunately, but the podcast
is called but make it scary. You can go listen to the
(06:30):
Evergreen episodes that are on there.
They're just not currently churning out new ones that I'm
aware of. And that I say, unfortunately,
because I think it's a phenomenal podcast.
The premise is simple. They take popular movies,
typically in the romance or likeROM com genre, and then they
rewrite the plot to turn them into a horror movie.
(06:55):
And when I started thinking thisthrough, like in this new urban
fantasy theme that I was planning out, I was struck with
the idea of doing something very, very similar.
But instead of making popular things scary, we can turn them
into urban fantasies, starting with Sons of Anarchy.
(07:18):
And here's where things get experimental because I've got a
few different ideas of how this could be done and how it can be
imagined. And so I thought this episode we
just start with like a characterexercise.
So today we're going to make Sons of Anarchy an urban fantasy
by taking the main characters and choosing a supernatural
being or creature that closely matches their character from the
(07:42):
show. And I should probably tell you
that almost all of my frame of reference for these creatures
comes from the Dresden Files series, which I think is one of
the coolest things about that series is that it brings all
these different supernatural things into one universe.
And the rules all still make sense.
So you may think of a completelydifferent creature from fantasy
(08:04):
lore for these characters that I've maybe never even heard of.
But hey, that's what makes this thing fun.
I also posted a short version ofthis on social media at Belated
Binge. If you're not already following
me, you should be. I post a lot of shorts and some
of those video topics are exclusive to social, so give it
a follow. We are going to start with the
(08:27):
primary main character on the show.
Obviously it's Jax Teller. And for Jax Teller, I am
thinking his Supernatural crossover would be a vampire.
But like the succubus kind, Jax is the definition of sex appeal
in the show. If you post about Sons of
(08:48):
Anarchy on social media to this day, you are bound to have at
least one woman in the comments section claiming him as their
husband or complimenting him as if he's the one that's actually
making the post. Seriously, it's sometimes
alarming. So for me, I immediately thought
(09:09):
vampire, but not the kind that'slike creepy brute force and bat
like, but the ones that are likeincredibly attractive, whether
that's a mask over their true like monstrous form or if
they're just like human like enough naturally that they look
super hot but also are super dangerous using the art of
(09:35):
seduction to get what they want.And I think that Jax Teller does
this on the show and it's super heavy in the first season where
he literally like sleeps with the crow reader in exchange for
her sleeping with Skeeter for the favor that they need from
him in the morgue. I also think that he turns on
(09:56):
the charm several times throughout the show when he
needs to get someone, especiallya female character, on his side
for pretty much any reason. Even if he's not actually doing
the do, he's making them comfortable in good ways and in
bad ones. Think about how he plays Wendy
(10:17):
to go to rehab and the whole time he's also with Tara and how
he gets into her apartment to blast her with that speedball.
Think about how he got Susie to tag along to Nevada, how he got
Agent Stahl even to cut a deal with him in the club, how he was
with Trinity who ended up being his half sister, how he worked
(10:41):
with Luann and with IMA, and even how he worked with Lila,
hell even Venus. Like he had a way with these
women regardless of his motives and he knew how to use it.
Almost like it was a superpower,like a succubus.
He was also ruthless, destructive, and capable of
(11:05):
going on literal killing sprees,all while playing a manipulative
long game inside of the chaos like a vampire.
The next character that we're going to do is Clay Morrow.
I initially thought that he was going to be a werewolf, and I
could still kind of be pushed there, but I think there's
(11:27):
something sympathetic to werewolves that is hard to
assign to Clay, and I think that's going to come up a little
bit more later. For now, I think Clay is pretty
much just a selfish, destructivedude, and for that I felt like a
demon was more appropriate. Still super strong, but without
(11:48):
the sympathy or the empathy. Nobody made him the way that he
was, he just was. I know Opie and Jax both made
the case at different points of the show that say that Clay is
what the club made him, but I honestly don't buy that.
(12:08):
Sure, he became what they made him as far as how much power he
gained, how he wielded that power, the decisions he made,
and ultimately how he craved that power along the way.
But this was him long before he sat at the head of the table.
Think about the Gemma storyline.Think about the Irish storyline
(12:29):
with McGee. Think about the Piney storyline.
This man was openly sleeping with his best friend's wife, who
was conspiring to murder his best friend because he wanted A
not just to keep sleeping with the man's wife, but also to
actually take the man's wife, tobe with her, to marry her, to
(12:53):
claim her as his own old lady, his property, and B.
Because he wanted the club to sell guns and dive deeper into
the dangerous side of their business model as opposed to
getting out of it like JT wantedfor selfish greed.
This man also was capable of murdering A fellow member of the
(13:16):
first nine for making a decisionbehind the club's back for
money. He pushed him off a roof.
No vote, no democracy, just a choice made to murder him for
his greedy choice, then turn around and make a deal with a
cartel behind the club's back for money and for greed, putting
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the whole club in danger for it.This man was capable of
murdering another member, Piney,the man who brought him into the
club in the 1st place to hide his secret of killing JT from
the club. Any man who is capable of all of
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these things, these selfish choices, is not a victim of
anything. He's just a demon.
So for Clay's right hand man, Tig Traeger, I don't think this
needs a ton of explanation to behonest.
He is a ghoul. Ghouls are pretty messed up, and
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Tig is pretty messed up. And if there's a better
supernatural creature to explainTig's level of messed up, I've
simply never heard of it. This dude is a killer, but not
just a killer. He's a dirty work killer among
killers. He's also a character that not
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only admitted to, but volunteered the information of
sharing his pleasure from havingsexual encounters with dead
bodies. So given that ghouls feed on the
corpses and prey on the living, it's not that much of A leap to
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get to Tig. Not to mention the picture I
found of a ghoul actually kind of looks like him, and that'll
make the most sense for the video audience.
Now we're going to do Gemma, whoI've got as a Winter Faye queen.
The Faye are deceptive, manipulative, and the Winter
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Court is depicted as being the ones that are ruthless, violent.
That's Gemma. Ruthlessly manipulative of
everyone in her orbit, regardless of who they are.
She manipulated multiple romantic partners, conspired to
kill a couple of those romantic partners.
She manipulated her own son. And if she could do that, the
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other club members, Yeah. The women, the families that are
tied to those other club members, they had absolutely no
chance whatsoever to avoid Gemma's wrath. 1 scene in
particular stands out when she was mad at Nero's business
partner, maybe half sister or something if I'm remembering
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that right. And instead of doing something
about it herself directly, she found Tara, who was angry and
manipulated her into starting a fight with Nero's partner while
she had a broken arm. She beat the woman's head in
with her cast. This show is not for children.
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I believe that it was on Reaper reviews that I first heard the
phrase Jax is the son, Gemma is the anarchy.
And that's exactly what I think of when I think about the
Winterfey. Manipulative organized anarchy.
Which is kind of a juxtapositionI suppose, but still feels very
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fitting. She's also doing it from a place
of power within the relationshipstructure that they have in this
outlaw world. She holds power over all the
women as the toppled lady. She holds power over the club as
their pseudo mother figure. She holds power over the
leadership of the club as well, because she's the wife of or the
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mother of the guys who run said club.
In short, she's the Queen, QueenGemma of the Winter Faye.
So then if that's Gemma, if we look at Tara, Tara is the
literal opposite of Gemma, but groomed to sort of become her
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heir apparent. And that's why I've got her as a
Summer Faye, because she's coming at it from the opposite
motivation as Gemma, where Gemmaclaimed that she did everything
for her family, She did it from a selfish motivation of keeping
control over her family because she had her plan of what was
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best for them and she was going to force them to follow it
because it's what she wanted. Tara came from a selfless
motivation. She wanted to save her family,
protect them. And where Gemma was ruthless,
Tara was desperate. And even just in her actual
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career outside of the club, she was a surgeon.
But not just a surgeon, a surgeon who specialized in
saving babies in the club. She saved them from bullet
wounds, dog bites, knives, bombs, crashes.
Yeah, you get it. She was a healer.
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And when I think healer in a supernatural, like urban fantasy
setting, I think Summer Faye, the last character we're going
to do today, is Opie. And Opie is the reason that I
realized that Clay was not a werewolf, because Opie is.
While werewolves are ridiculously strong, incapable
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of being incredibly violent, generally speaking, their
condition wasn't their choice. In a lot of werewolf lore,
they're bitten and turned, making them actually a victim.
Clay is definitely not a victim,but Opie is.
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Opie is one of the most tragic characters in the entire Sons of
Anarchy show. He starts off having already
gone to prison for the club, losing time with his wife and
his children and making it difficult for them to adjust to
just having him around suddenly.And then he basically loses them
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to the club when he gets back inorder to try to get them out of
the massive amount of debt that they compiled while he was
locked up for the club. Then he literally loses his wife
when Tig the Ghoul. Kills her thinking she's OB
himself. Then he loses his father when
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Clay kills him and along the wayhe loses himself.
Distancing himself from his children, distancing himself
from his best friend, splitting from his second wife Lila, who
was always just an attempt for Opie to find himself again in
the 1st place, and ultimately sacrificing himself for his best
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friend and for the club. He's the ultimate Sam Crow
victim. Ruthless, yes, Violent, yes.
But he could have been different.
He could have been better if he hadn't kept losing everything he
loved, like werewolves do when they're bitten.
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Do you have ideas for more characters for Sons or Anarchy?
What other shows, movies, might this be a fun exercise to do?
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