Heh, heh. Stuff like that is funny considering where you are in the show. BTW, if you still like it, considering you are in the midst one the period least liked by long-time fans of the show, that's rather promising.

Not even Opie? ' /> I don't think you are supposed to though. This is like the Sopranos - it's about a gang of criminals, and there are no good guys. In season 4, IMO, they get an upgrade as far as the law goes, with some law enforcement people you can sympathize with, even if they are trying to take down SAMCRO, and who aren't compromised by local loyalties the way Deputy Chief Hale is.

I am thinking you are thinking here of the delightful agent Stahl? Because that's the only one I can think of from the point in the show where you are, and all I have to say to that, is ROFLMAO. You haven't seen NOTHING when it comes to hateful & frustratingly powerful villains.

Yeah, but I think that's the point. The evil bad guys of one season might be business partners the next. I don't want to give away specifics, but that happens with at least one group from the early seasons, while allies of those seasons become enemies in the current season.

Zoebel is just about the only one I can think of in the early years who did that. There are the rival gangs, but gangs just don't get wiped out. They might take hits, but a new group of jerks fills the ranks eventually. I think Zoebel might be like The Greek in "The Wire," the one who represents the money, and the guy who does business with anyone and has no real ideology or code beyond his own profit. The guy like that always gets away on shows like this, that are trying to say something about power and institutions. Granted, SoA is hardly in The Wire's class when it comes to that, but there were a lot of nods to those sort of notions in the first season, in JT's manuscript, to give credence to the idea that this is the background ideology of the show.

In someways, the show is like the club itself, in that it has stated for itself a higher ideology and purpose, but keeps getting distracted with being badass and sick and profitable.

You may be disappointed, but most people seem to think the way Season 3 played out was acceptable, and the Season 4 opener moves right where it left off into a pretty good resolution of some issues.

Not really, this show can sometimes be a little flagrant about contrived escapes, but a lot of times they pay it off with something better down the road.

I am not sure which characters' lack of deaths you are so frustrated with (Clay, for instance, is almost too big a character and central to the mythology of the show to die before the end, so expecting justice for Donna would be too much, and as I said, the utility of some other characters gives a good reason for forgoing deaths), but aside from Zoebel getting away at the end of last season (although Weston, the actual racist & rapist did not), I think most of the non-killings are fairly well-served in the long term.