People overlook it because the show is MC content and can be taken at face value, but SoA is also top level satire and a deconstruction of media culture and long form television as a medium.
People overlook it because the show is MC content and can be taken at face value, but SoA is also top level satire and a deconstruction of media cultu...
interesting take anon, thats good analysis in my opinion. do you have any recommendation for other similar pieces of motorcycle club (MC) content? thanks in advance
SoA is its own thing in the subgenre. Obviously you've got Mayans but the tone and style of the show are markedly different. Thankfully there is a new SoA series or movie coming out so there will be something to fill the void that the show ending left in the media environment. Plenty of other great MC content out there, but SoA is unique for what it was.
>analysis
He didn't analyze shit. He just made a claim without giving any examples of the satire or deconstruction.
Did you even bother to read the thread?
Why do you make all of your posts like you were either a marketing team or a chat bot? You never actually post or reply in a way that addresses people
There were some good songs on this show.
>I ain't cutting my hair 'till the good Lord comes
I ain't open my eyes 'till we all walk free
he was so hot in queer as folk uk
The show being based on Hamlet is well known, and we see the progression from normalcy to absurdity that we should expect in line with Ophelia's descent into the lake, the stabbing of Polonius, but the show's own internal commentaries on the media landscape might just as well be The Murder of Gonzago as much as they are Hamlet, using "the play within the play" device multiple times to skewer the nature of content that must extend and propagate itself by virtue of season contract lengths demanded by studios. Jax is not only unable to kill Clay and Gemma and quickly resolve the situation and save his family and the S.A.M.C.R.O MC because he is an analog for Hamlet, he is unable to do these things due to the ordinance of God, the network television system. At the essence of tragedy is the bitter, unsatisfying resolution that could have been easily avoided but was also impossible to avoid, and at the heart of that are questions about the nature of free will. To be or not to be, these are questions that Hamlet and Jax can ask but ones they can never actually be given the power to answer due to the nature of circumstance, destiny, and being a slave to one's own drives and inevitable mortality. Through the baseline connection to Hamlet, we see history first repeating as tragedy, and as the show moves through recycling and updating previous story cycles it has already brought to the screen, we see tragedy repeated as farce. The progression of Tig's character, Otto (Kurt Sutter) biting his tongue off and other exploits in the both symbolic and literal prison of the show, Marilyn Manson, Gemma's songs, it's an extremely well organized and exercised piece of metafiction that can also be appreciated in the pure sense as MC content.
>it was bad on purpose
>hes gay on purpose
You either get it or you don't.
>post thread
>immediate digits
People who hate SoA have media illiteracy.
BRAVO SUTTER
There's a starman waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet us but he's afraid he'd blow our minds.
Interesting.
The Sons of Anarchy MC is a metaphor for America and how because we drove the Nazis out of town are able to run, traffic and sell guns irresponsibly and irrevocably have to deal with the blowback from people we armed for the sake of doing business.
I can see that interpretation.
It has a good two seasons, then shit itself. 1% would have been better but Sutter colluded with Barger to destroy it on the ground, everyone who saw it said the pilot was magic.
I miss hanging with the samcro fellas
Counter-point: the show just isn't that good.
Comments like this suggest you barely, if at all, understand the serial tv medium. Serial television veers towards the absurd or caricaturesque almost inherently by virtue of its form, owing to the fact that serial television is typically crafted to be long running, and so the injection of motorcycle club (MC) culture into the narrative template established by Hamlet (arguably the greatest play in the Western canon) winds up being perfect and builds tonal metacommentary as it progresses through multi-season arcs and ultimately concludes with the sacrifice and martyrdom of Jackson Teller.
>sacrifice and martyrdom of jack teller
I like the show but he kills himself because he’s so fricking stupid he ruined everyone’s lives and killed everyone he knew and he couldn’t trust his own dumb ass to raise his children at this point so he killed himself
>have to set up a meet between brown and yellow so we can get out of guns but know there’s gonna be serious blowback from white
JESUS CHRIST
A racially sensitive progressive left biker gang that hates meth
Dude I got my friend killed trying to kill my other friend, I’m going to drink in a graveyard alone
There's a clear parallel to Hamlet.
Hamlet was also a suicidal idiot, and I don’t say that negatively either. Both the characters are depressed dumbasses
Yep, it's part of the character.
BRAVO SUTTERSPEARE
>A racially sensitive progressive left biker gang that hates meth
is this true? really fricking pathetic. I bet they blow cops too
I wish Tara had done full frontal in season 1
Jax was a good boy
Pretty much every biker I've ever met was an actual homosexual
is it true that the Baker guy is a child molester? found this pic online
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Is it true that pretty much every biker is a meth user and homosexual?
is baker the same "Ballsack Baker" from gay biker boys?
I wonder how good the average biker is at smoking Pole
i once crashed a bike into a street light in GTA IV multiplayer, said "aw man i smoked the pole" and my friend said "typical biker" and we laughed about it for months.
thanks for reminding me of that one
haha
typical biker
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your posts annoy because you refer to biker media as mc content. and ive only seen the first season and its crap until the last 2-3 eps because theres no internal conflict within the gang and the fbi/mayans barely get any characterization to make you give a shit about anything going on
Good show but quality drops off hard around season 4 and becomes formulaic
>Opening song sometimes sung by Gemma's actor with slow pans of the family and everyone looking sad
>Biker's on their way to meeting
>"We gotta work with brown to payback black, we might get some blowback from yellow but once we do this we're out for good bros."
>Something goes wrong
>Shoot out/bike chase
>Gemma does some fricked up betrayal shit to somebody on their side
>Another sad song with pans of everyone looking sad
not enough gay sex for my organic discussion MC content discussion threads
If it makes you feel any better in SOA they hug each other a lot for way too long and say "Love you brother"
>soa
not watching that shit even if im dying of boredom
It could have been a nice B tier drama during the golden age but they fricked it all up by having everything revolve around Sutter's wife. She was like 4 years past her expiration date by the time she finally got it.
>actually knowing this shit
I quit watching long before it ended but read wikipedia to catch up and watched the last several episodes.
>ridin' thru this worllllll
All alone...God takes your soul...you're on your own
THE CROW FLIES STRAIGHT