Sons of Anarchy, Season 2 Postmortem

A quick programming note.  I'm going to take a brief hiatus so I can wrap up my own writing before the end of the year.  And I have been summoned for jury duty - God help the poor bastard if I get selected from the pool.  Maybe I'll live tweet the waiting room if it is an entertaining freakshow.   We'll see.  


This also crossed my radar.  I'm not entirely sure what to make if it.  Werewolf bikers WTF? If it turns out to be a major plot element in Season 3 of True Blood, I might blog about it.  Nine months is a very long time so if anyone is interested in writing a guest post that is SOA, motorcycles, or outlaw culture related, send me an email at kayteadee at gmail dot com.


Okay, on with the show...        


Here is your handy-dandy round up of reviews, interviews and musings related to the finale of Sons of Anarchy Season 2, Na Triobloidi.  There have been a lot of interviews with Kurt Sutter as the season wrapped.  For starters, Maureen Ryan conducted an amazing and extensive interview with Kurt Sutter about Season 2 and ideas for Season 3.  As did Alan Sepinwall also held a post-finale interview - you can read it here.  There was a podcast interview with Mr. Sutter done by Tim Goodman that is quite good if not the best audio quality.  TV Guide also did an interview with K-Sut.  And, perhaps in the oddest fit, hustle on over to The Wall Street Journal for another interview.  Finally, in case you missed the Fancast interview with Sutter and Charlie Hunnam, you can read a transcript of it here.

There have been a lot of reviews of Na Triobloidi, a list of the major ones is as follows:

• Allan Sepinwall's review, titled "Sons of Anarchy, Na Triobloidi:  From Able to Zobelle" 
• Cinema Blend was less than satisfied but still enjoyed the episode.
• Buzz Focus had a favorable review 
• TV Squad's nail biter review.  
• Buddy TV's review they also do a nice round up of the best moments from Season 2
• Monsters and Critics review.
• Ken Tucker's mixed review.  
• Check out what the Watchers of Anarchy have to say about the finale over on their podcast.
• Also, listen to Angela and The CrowBlogger's reaction to Na Triobloidi over at the SAMCRO podcast.    

Interested in the book on tape that Otto was listening to just before he got revenge on the white supremacist?  Well, thanks to some excellent research from Jersey Girl, it is from The Dublin Review, 1886, Third Series, Volume 16, page 19.  You can find it here in Google Books and the text can be copied here.  Here is the quote:

Intellect throws each  man back upon himself, into a solitude from which he looks out with absolutely strange eyes on society. And if the spectacle touches him, if it rouses interest and compassion, his feeling will be for those tender ones of the great human flock whom the shepherds shear, and starve, and sell, but do not feed.

Imperfect education makes the rank and file of revolutionists; but from time to time a leader steps down to them out of the highest circles a Mirabeau, a Rochefort, a Prince Krapotkine. The desire of the sons of anarchy is, indeed, to dispense with leaders ; for since all men in the formula are equal, it is un-reasonable that one should lead rather than another.

And last but not least, here is a Twitter brief written by K-Sut about reaction to Na Triobloidi and the major plot points in the episode.