No shit. And people wonder why some people have a problem with Feds and the upper echelons of Law Enforcement. As far as I'm concerned, that little town, with the arrangements between SAMCRO and the local authorities is pretty good system of keeping the community and the people in it in-check.

I just about pissed myself when I saw they were going to settle it "Outsiders"-style with a good old fashioned rumble. That's gonna' be ****ing EPIC. Though his character will ultimately lose, I've witnessed Henry Rollins throw down live and in person with nazi-skins and other assorted ****heads during and after a show, and let me tell you; that mother****er can FIGHT.

Opie is the mother****ing MAN. And it looks like he and Jax are on their way to planting the seeds for a coup d'etat of the MC.

I wonder if there isn't going to be a Corleone style conclusion to this season. They've already set up the Belfast SoA's presence for dealing with Chib's family. They can turn Westin against Zobell but in the end both will need bullets. And please let something really bad happen to Zobell's daughter. Jimmy O has to be dealt with and just letting him go down to the ATF might not be the way to keep the Real IRA connection. As well as the father/son IRA dudes. A lot of threads to clip in only two episodes, the last a 90 min one.

They also have been setting Clay up for an end to his presidency. The arthritis would have been enough but now that the Opie deal is more widely known Clay's going to have problems.

An interesting idea, depending on what they want to do with Pearlman, is to have Jax succeed at the end of the season or beginning of the next. Being king isn't as simple as being prince and there's the little detail of Stalh knowing what happened to Agent Kohn. He might find being in charge is like riding a tiger.

Thing is, the IRA is the one aspect/faction of that show that is somewhat difficult to get real read on due to it's international scope. SOA Belfast can't pull a full-on Corleone against the IRA; there is just NO ****ing way.
But they could, over time, infiltrate and assume gradual power as Jax and Opie work their thing stateside. This is just guessing of course, but I can forsee Chibs taking back what was his, and heading back home to his family while overseeing SAMCRO's stateside interests.
The other factions are your basic, California gang fodder. I applaud the writers and producers for not going half-assed and just throwing the Russian mob/gun suppliers directly in to the mix because that's not a hard one to figure out.
And with the success of the show, I think SAMCRO's battles will have to be fought one at a time and methodically. This was hinted at, more or less, when Jax proclaimed that it was time to get smart and start working the angles.
We'll see.

The Belfast guys would only have to lay hands on Chibs family, nothing seems to imply they mean anything but to Jimmy O. Could easily explained away any problems as "a personal fight between Chibs and Jimmy O". The Real IRA seems to need the SoA enough to let them look past anything about securing Fiona and daughter. The big question would be what Jimmy means to them and if SAMCRO lets the ATF do their thing I could see problems. Also the father/son duo would be on their list if it got back they were singing.

The only issue with slowly working the angles is that there is only 2 episodes left. I have to figure the LOAN situation will be resolved by the closing credits of the season. It could be that the next one sets Zobell and Weston against each other and the finale has SAMCRO delivering the coupe de grace. I'm not sure I've ever anticipated an episode or two more than these next. Defiantly didn't see all the stuff coming up/together in the last one.

In there too is the Luann/Big Otto situation and when does Tom Arnorld get his. Or, maybe, Tom's character had nothing to do with Luann. This could easily be saved till next season though.

i couldn't believe how everyone just came clean in this episode. i like the ass kicking that goes on with the show, but this story line has me enthralled. can't wait to see what happens in the next two episodes.

It would be a good show if it was just about a** kickings.

What makes it a really good show is that it goes alot deeper than that with the family dynamics and multiple storyline arcs. The writing is really strong.

heh...id love to see Gemma and Tara, team up to give her a beat down.

They have been forshadowing Tara turning completely "bad girl" for awhile.

Love Opie. Sometime's it's hard to believe that's the same actor that played Gary Bertier in "Remember the Titans". (Ryan Hurst)

I'm a good six weeks behind, I gotta catch up.

Right, but you can't resolve every story/character arc at the end of this season or basically, there's no more show to write.

Finally got myself caught up, man what a season.

TONIGHT WE RUMBLE!

Your best 10 against my best 10.

WOOT!

LET'S GET IT ON!