‘Sons of Anarchy’ Season 7 Finale (Recap): SAMCRO’s Final Ride Ended With ‘Hamlet’s Quote, ‘But Never Doubt I Love’
Not a great ending but a fitting one, FX biker drama series "Sons of Anarchy" ended its seven-year saga with Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam) meeting his fate after tying some loose ends. Episode 13 "Papa's Goods" holds the final moment for SAMCRO's president who wants nothing but the best for his sons, Abel and Thomas, and leaving them in the care of Nero (Jimmy Smiths).
The "Sons of Anarchy" Tuesday finale is a heartbreaking episode full of tears, blood, mayhem and goodbyes, but the most memorable one is the father and son's goodbye, Jax and Abel. Vowing that his sons "will never know this life of chaos," Jax saved his final moment with a last conversation with his long-dead father, John Teller, at the place where JT died two decades ago when his bike collided with a tractor-trailer.
"I think he was fated to be who he was. He was never going to be an electrician or a lumberjack," executive producer Paris Barclay told NY Daily News when asked about Jax's fate as SAMCRO's president. "Jax tried to resist (the outlaw life) but he was too driven by the impulses of it - the violence, the vengeance. I don't think he was a bad guy. I think he did bad things."
The "Red Rose" director also believed that the show's anti-hero was a good man who struggles to get out from the life he was living. Jax Teller is indeed a good man who did bad things and was trying to right the wrong for the people he love before riding off to his death.
At the end of the final episode, the bad guys (August Marks and Billy Brown) and Charlie Barosky (Peter Weller) did lose just like what Jax said to Tyne (CCH Pounder) when he confessed everything from his mother murdering Tara (Maggie Siff) and the trail of death he left for vengeance. Without the bad guys in Charming, his sons are now in the safe place with Nero and Wendy looking after them.
After checking off things on his to-do list, which includes breaking SAMCRO's race barrier, the tattooed biker caps his own goodbye to his dad before fading out. And in the end, it was Hamlet's quote that made the final say, "But never doubt I love."