"I got this." With those words, the hearts of countless Sons of Anarchy fans the world over shattered. After four seasons of effectively managing to find ways out of the club's problems, Jax had no ability to maneuver when faced with Pope's ultimatum that one of the Sons had to give their life in prison. Despite choosing to sacrifice himself than punish the others, Jax was taken by surprise at the last moment when Opie forcibly took his place. After being roped back into the club only to lose his wife and then his father, Piney, Opie was an easy character to root for to find some kind of happy ending. When he found love again and got married to Lyla, things seemed to be looking up, only to quickly fall apart as the memory of Donna only continued to haunt him. The brutality of Opie's death is unrelenting, and the different emotional reactions of Chibs, Tig and Jax are much like those of the fans watching it occur for the first time. Opie may be gone, but his ghost continues to linger over the show and changed Jax forever.
Writer, film enthusiast, part-time gamer and watcher of (mostly) good television located on the fringe of Los Angeles, who now has his own website at www.highdefgeoff.com!
