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Gemma
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Gemma Teller from the television series, Sons of Anarchy
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Kurt Sutter
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One of the most prominent moments in the text is in the final episode. It is important to note that this is the only episode in which Gemma is absent. This is Jax, for the first time, without his mother. Unlike Hamlet, who never escapes his mother, Jax does. He exists, despite the shortness of the moment, without her. Yet he is still operating in the fallout from her web of deceit and manipulation. Gemma's subterfuge creates a space where her son can no longer exist. Her agenda, to be the mother of a king, destroys them both. This is an irony that does not escape Jax. In the closing scene of the series, Jax returns to his father's memorial on the 580 freeway, to speak his final monologue:
JAX: I think the struggle I understand best even more than all the things you wanted for SAMCRO and all we eventually became the one I feel the most is the war of the mind.
Happens when you try to get right with both family and patch.
That fear and guilt crippled me.
I realized, as I think you did, a good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.
I'm sorry, JT.
It was too late for me.
I was already inside it.
And Gemma she had plans.
It's not too late for my boys.
I promise, they will never know this life of chaos.
DISPATCH OVER RADIO: Copy, please stand by.
I know who you are now.
And what you did.
(crow caws) I love you, Dad.
This conversation is important because in the start of the series viewers have John Teller's manifesto narrated through Jax's psyche. In it, he wishes for his son to not be part of SAMCRO. It is this plan, that of John Teller, that most jeopardizes Gemma's agenda. It is this father's mantle that Jax attempts to pick up when he destroys all evidence of himself, his sons' connection to SAMCRO, and Gemma. He is not aware that Gemma has beaten him to punch by giving Jax's ring, etched with the word "son," to Abel. This makes the line, "And Gemma, she had plans" even more impactful. It is evident that Gemma's plans do not end with Jax, that there are more sons to be consumed by the outlaw medea.
JAX: I think the struggle I understand best even more than all the things you wanted for SAMCRO and all we eventually became the one I feel the most is the war of the mind.
Happens when you try to get right with both family and patch.
That fear and guilt crippled me.
I realized, as I think you did, a good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.
I'm sorry, JT.
It was too late for me.
I was already inside it.
And Gemma she had plans.
It's not too late for my boys.
I promise, they will never know this life of chaos.
DISPATCH OVER RADIO: Copy, please stand by.
I know who you are now.
And what you did.
(crow caws) I love you, Dad.
This conversation is important because in the start of the series viewers have John Teller's manifesto narrated through Jax's psyche. In it, he wishes for his son to not be part of SAMCRO. It is this plan, that of John Teller, that most jeopardizes Gemma's agenda. It is this father's mantle that Jax attempts to pick up when he destroys all evidence of himself, his sons' connection to SAMCRO, and Gemma. He is not aware that Gemma has beaten him to punch by giving Jax's ring, etched with the word "son," to Abel. This makes the line, "And Gemma, she had plans" even more impactful. It is evident that Gemma's plans do not end with Jax, that there are more sons to be consumed by the outlaw medea.
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