The times make the men. Piney and John are the nucleus of SAMCRO at the very beginning: Vietnam veterans who served together, they returned from the war to find, like other vets, that public opinion was against them and the mood of America sour when it came to talk of the war. Disenfranchised and disillusioned, John and Piney find themselves alienated from society itself. John Tellers manuscript makes it clear that he considered the formation of the Sons Of Anarchy as a revolutionary act, a way of stepping outside of the culture he was born into and that rejected him upon his return from Vietnam. Thats his version of the sixties counter culture: personally radical but politically disinterested. Itll be fascinating to see how the prequel deals with the sixties and seventies period setting, and how that setting affects the central characters. Only time will tell: but Sutters certainly got his work cut out for him when hes able to devote the time to crafting the prequel properly.
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