Sons Of Anarchy began with a familiar narrative cut and pasted from Shakespeare: the bare bones of the plot to Hamlet formed the skeleton of Sutters story. Jackson was the young prince whod lost his father, Clay the uncle whod married his mother and taken his fathers mantle and authority. Thats not to say that the show didnt eventually surpass this initial conceit, because of course it did and Jax isnt Hamlet, in temperament or disposition. But any spin-off from Sons Of Anarchy needs its own hook to hang the story on, either a high-concept idea or some form of framework that holds it together. Sons Of Anarchy had Jackson wanting to bring himself out of the corrupting influence of Clays version of the club, to keep his family from being infected, maybe even to save the club itself. No matter what plot points happened around him, that was the core of Jax narrative, and his failure was the arc that defined the show, the spine of the whole thing. Sutter is convinced that an Hispanic MC will have its own ethos, its own vibe, distinct from the outlaw pretensions of the mostly white members of SAMCRO. A show based around the Mayans will need a centre to the story that is wholly its own.
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