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Hogan, by the way, is the author of Prince of Thieves, which was the basis for the Ben Affleck film The Town.
John
Today I learned that SK will be in the next issue (12/16) as well. The cover says he'll be writing about the cast of the AMC show The Killing.
Also would love to read his thoughts on the recent season finale of Sons Of Anarchy. It really wimped out this season. Enough to cross the show off my viewing list.
The Danish version of The Killing ruined the US version for me -- it was so much better.
Jax gets to president but he is a puppet. Clay gets to walk away from everything he has done; killed Jax's father, Opie's wife, Opie's father, trying to kill Tara, and beating up Gemma: because the Irish will only deal with him and the CIA wants the deal done.
All false drama because there is no payoff.
The initial attraction of the show for me was the 'brotherhood' aspect of a motorcycle gang. That has been totally ruined.
Hit the road SAMCRO! You are done Charming me. :)
Yes, I mean all of those things. The appealing aspect of the show to me is that it gets us to root for some very, very, very bad people. To a man they are murderers. And yet we want them to prevail against the authorities. However, every now and then they should get some comeuppance for their evil ways, and this season they did. Not the false tension of last season with Jax's son, but true consequences.
Clay isn't walked away. You might as well kill me, he told Jax when Jax stripped him of his presidency. Clay has lost everything, and he's going to be forced to sit there and take it all without being able to explain or defend himself.
Agreed and that was predicated on the brotherhood aspect of the gang + honour amongst thieves. Totally lost now.
If a non-lead character other than Clay had done the same things they would either be dead or in jail. Clay's 'punishment' hardly fits his extensive list of crimes.
If a show is not prepared to deliver on a season long arc of character assassination then they should not go there in the first place.
Plus character-wise it is impossible for me to buy that Jax and/or Opie would not have killed Clay regardless of the CIA.
Lastly, now that the show has carried us through a season long arc only to undo it all the end, how are viewers to trust any new storylines going forward?
For me, it was all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Stephen King talks about telling a story honestly. This one left me feeling cheated.
Glad you enjoyed it though. And I'm sure the show will do fine without me.
On page 56: SK on The Killing.
Quote:
Like others, I was dismayed by The Killing’s decline from event television to plain old series television. But even if the destination sucked, the journey was still a pleasure. Ms. [Mireille] Enos was stunningly good as the job-obsessed Linden, and the prickly camaraderie that developed between her and Holder was a joy to watch. Better yet, in The Killing we had a series that showed the true consequences of murder for those left behind. I ended up not caring a whole lot about who killed Rosie Larsen, but I cared a great deal about her grieving family.
I added the word in brackets; otherwise that's the full item.
Also, one of EW’s Entertainers of the Year, George R. R. Martin, says his Entertainer of the Year is SK (page 61); in an online poll for favorite author, SK places third, behind Suzanne Collins and Martin (page 62); and even though most reviews for Bag of Bones have been not so good (as reported by Bev in another thread), EW gives it a B+ (page 72).
Stephen King... What I'm Reading Now
I'm reading George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series--deep into the second volume. I never thought I'd get into another long fantasy, especially one featuring knights of old and ladies bold, and I'd never read Martin before, but he's a born storyteller with a one-in-a-million imagination. When I'm not reading about Westeros, I'm thinking about it, even dreaming about it. The HBO series is terrific--I especially loved Sean Bean as Eddard Stark--but the books are even better.