Oh yay! I do not get to talk about SoA nearly enough. (I watched the entire first and second season this weekend in preparation for the finale on Tuesday. Seriously, it's an illness.)
1. Three canon things I love - The development of Jax's character. I was reading an interview with Kurt Sutter and he was talking about how FX wanted Jax to be older but Sutter held his ground because he wanted a character who had seen a lot but hadn't yet decided what kind of man he was going to be. It has just been so much fun to see Jax try to figure that out while dealing with everything his life throws at him.
- The development of Gemma's character. You think Buddy Garrity is the most unsympathetic character in the world? Uh-uh - it was S1 Gemma. Take a little Lady MacBeth, a little Queen Gertrude (I think that's her name - Hamlet's mom), and a WHOLE lot of bitch and that was Gemma. But the events of this season have done a lot to change her.
- Weston. I know, I know. He's an absolutely despicable human being (and that tattoo on his chest, tres classy) but he still managed to have a human side. He's a guy who has picked a really bad cause, but god help him, he supports it all the way. And when the choices he makes to further that cause have horrible consequences, he sucks it up and takes it like a man.
Honestly, it was really hard to narrow it down to three. I love Unser. Abel is the cutest baby in the world. Ryan Hurst deserves an Emmy. Tig....oh dear, his development in S2 was awesome and I so want to hear more about his backstory.
2. Three canon things I hate - The tease over the Men of Mayhem patch. C'mon, just tell us what it means already. - Fiona. Her accent is horrible and I still don't understand why Gemma finds her so scary, why Chibs is still in love with her, and why she looks so exotic. I hope this gets explored more in S3. - The way characters and storylines can just drop off the edge of the earth. Where's Darby? Did Trammel survive? What about those assault/gun charges at the church? This is something that happened in The Shield too, so I wonder if it's a bad habit Sutter picked up or if it's a deliberate part of the story telling style. (Or just a casualty of the g.d. 13-ep season.)
3. Two fanon things I love - I love SoA cross-overs. - Anything that provides Jax/Tara backstory.
4. Fanon things I hate - The rampant Tara hate. I just don't get it. - The proliferation of OC fics, particularly as a love interest for Jax. (I believe this would be related to the Tara hate.)
5. Two things from my personal canon Again, I haven't written enough to have developed a personal canon. But I have a feeling that's going to change during the long wait until S3. I made a list of ideas at work today and I'm very excited about a few of them.
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Date: 2009-12-03 08:02 pm (UTC)1. Three canon things I love
- The development of Jax's character. I was reading an interview with Kurt Sutter and he was talking about how FX wanted Jax to be older but Sutter held his ground because he wanted a character who had seen a lot but hadn't yet decided what kind of man he was going to be. It has just been so much fun to see Jax try to figure that out while dealing with everything his life throws at him.
- The development of Gemma's character. You think Buddy Garrity is the most unsympathetic character in the world? Uh-uh - it was S1 Gemma. Take a little Lady MacBeth, a little Queen Gertrude (I think that's her name - Hamlet's mom), and a WHOLE lot of bitch and that was Gemma. But the events of this season have done a lot to change her.
- Weston. I know, I know. He's an absolutely despicable human being (and that tattoo on his chest, tres classy) but he still managed to have a human side. He's a guy who has picked a really bad cause, but god help him, he supports it all the way. And when the choices he makes to further that cause have horrible consequences, he sucks it up and takes it like a man.
Honestly, it was really hard to narrow it down to three. I love Unser. Abel is the cutest baby in the world. Ryan Hurst deserves an Emmy. Tig....oh dear, his development in S2 was awesome and I so want to hear more about his backstory.
2. Three canon things I hate
- The tease over the Men of Mayhem patch. C'mon, just tell us what it means already.
- Fiona. Her accent is horrible and I still don't understand why Gemma finds her so scary, why Chibs is still in love with her, and why she looks so exotic. I hope this gets explored more in S3.
- The way characters and storylines can just drop off the edge of the earth. Where's Darby? Did Trammel survive? What about those assault/gun charges at the church? This is something that happened in The Shield too, so I wonder if it's a bad habit Sutter picked up or if it's a deliberate part of the story telling style. (Or just a casualty of the g.d. 13-ep season.)
3. Two fanon things I love
- I love SoA cross-overs.
- Anything that provides Jax/Tara backstory.
4. Fanon things I hate
- The rampant Tara hate. I just don't get it.
- The proliferation of OC fics, particularly as a love interest for Jax. (I believe this would be related to the Tara hate.)
5. Two things from my personal canon
Again, I haven't written enough to have developed a personal canon. But I have a feeling that's going to change during the long wait until S3. I made a list of ideas at work today and I'm very excited about a few of them.