The death of Tara at the hands of Gemma over a miscommunication, no less is one of the shows most devastating events. Emotionally traumatizing and sickening through the sheer viciousness with which Gemma attacks her, first using an iron, then smashing her head, then drowning her and then, most horribly, using a barbecue fork to stab her in the head and neck, its a moment that left some fans cheering and others in tears. Though Opie's death may have changed Jax, Tara's death changed everything. While Tara had grown into a character that was far from innocent by the sixth season, her drive to get her boys out of Charming and far away from the crippling vortex surrounding the club life was more than understandable. Put through the ringer time and again, Tara had been pushed to desperate measures for the sake of making sure the vicious cycle of the Teller family would not claim her boys. If anyone could get anything resembling a happy ending in the show and break away from the violence, death and drama, it was bound to be Tara. But with season six ending with a deceased Tara in Jaxs arms -- an emotional powerhouse of a moment in itself -- and her life cut short, the future of Jax and the boys seemed quite bleak. The fallout of Tara's death and the lies spun by Gemma to protect herself from the truth shaped the course of the final season, impacting nearly every character, story beat and relationship in a way that no character's death had done.
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