Zardoz wrote:
No. You MUST watch the Oirish season without a break!
OK so I watched S03E01 last night and it was a good episode, however, I do wonder if the show overall is starting to head in TWD territory in my perception of it. Like, the bone-headedness of the protagonists is really starting to grate a bit.
I will spoiler this as it's more specific than my previous ten broad points.
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
So we kick off Season 3 with Jax and the 'club' having managed, between them, to have ACTUALLY HAD HIS BABY STOLEN. Literally fucking stolen. This is from an MC (lingo!) that's armed to the fucking teeth and apparently really bad ass.
They left the baby with 'Half Sack' (an MC 'Prospect' so not yet a full member), and a nice nurse called Tara. They did not prove to be a match for a psychopathic IRA murderer/bomber/gun runner, who had just had his own son killed. (Albeit not by the MC.)
The rest of the club were busy chasing MAIN BADDY Zobelle who had pretty much run rings round them for the entire season. However they finally had him cornered in an ice cream shop and were just waiting for the schoolchildren to get back in their school bus so they could kill him, unfortunately a phone call from from the baby sitters alerts them that all is not well and even though it'd take an extra 10 seconds to kill Zobelle, they all decide to leave immediately. (Which fails anyway because Half-Sack gets killed, Tara gets tied up, and the baby gets stolen.)
So here we are at the start of Season 3, wondering if maybe there'll be time for some quiet reflection and a think about what they want to do with their lives.
Nope. Gemma is now in hiding after being framed for two murders, she's safe in an MC-friendly motel out of town, and with a multi-state APB out and a reward on her head, you'd presume she wouldn't be in a hurry to leave the protective custody of some MC members, but instead she keeps trying to escape, including stabbing someone who catches her trying to steal his car. Way to lie low, Gemma!
The rest of the MC are getting ready for Half-Sack's funeral, and Clay (head MC dude) tells Jax that he's going to have to start looking a bit more killy-happy soon as the GUYS are wondering what's happening to him.
Lo and behold! After the funeral they're all stood in the church grounds having a sad chat about Half-Sack and a van full of drive-by shooters opens fire on the MC! As fire is returned (and Hale, the upright copper dude gets killed, more collateral damage from the IDIOT MC BRIGADE'S CAVALCADE OF BRAIN-FAILURE DIP-SHITTERY), one of the drive-by shooters falls from the van into the road, where he is quickly put under arrest by police.
Hooray! They have a perpetrator, they can find out who the shooters are, which is good as all the rest of them escaped.
But no! Jax is CONSUMED BY RAGE. And with Clay's motivational speech about having to kill some shit ringing in his ears, he takes it upon himself to kill the shooter by repeatedly bashing his head into the road. Which erm, the three arresting, armed, cops allow him to do because of reasons.
Well done Jax, you just killed the only perpetrator, all the others escaped!
Each episode stacks up with chains of events like this, and they just seem to end up in worse and worse situations.
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Oh yes the baby is in Ireland now. Karen Matthews could have done a better fucking job.