You may be thinking: but WhatCulture, Jax is supposed to fall from grace. Thats the ending they intended all along! And of course youd be right. Jacksons realisation that hes stepped beyond the pale and has to meet Mister Mayhem is the focus of the shows narrative but it doesnt happen quite as Kurt Sutter and co. intended. Throughout the early seasons of the show, Jax is increasingly at odds with his stepfather and the clubs president, Clay and increasingly committed to getting the club out of illegal activity and back into the spirit of freedom that his father had originally intended when he formed the Sons Of Anarchy. As time goes on, however, Jacksons machinations to make his dream a reality and to keep his family safe take on an increasingly violent and lurid tone. Committing more murders to eventually end violence, making more criminal deals to eventually end all illegal trade the fact is that Jax is off the reservation very, very quickly. The more in control he feels, the more he manipulates events and people around him, the further away he moves from the idealistic man his father had been, to the pragmatist Clay had been. The events of the season six finale didnt act as the catalyst for his downfall and his eventual end. Jackson had been headed downhill fast since the beginning; Taras death just took out the brakes. Jackson was a violent criminal in the pilot episode. The only change by the finale is that he has far too much blood on his hands, and has orphaned his children through his own actions.
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