turnonmyheels | (no subject)

I helped Heather move Saturday morning. It was coldish and rainy and probably not the best way to spend the day considering my sinus infection. Considering Heather helped me plant my first flower bed last year [and wound up in the hospital], helped me paint, helped me move ... you get the picture. I was the first one there and the last to leave. She's not actually finished moving yet. We just got the big stuff Saturday in about two weeks it'll be all the little stuff.

So I'm home alone Saturday night recovering from the move. There is *nothing* on TV and I debate with myself:

Warrior
Serenity
Star Trek Reboot
Sons of Anarchy Season 1

If you guessed SoA you get a gold star. Things I had forgotten about season 1:

* in the very first episode Unser says he's retiring in 60 days due to the cancer. Clay forces him to stay on

* I have hated Clay since the very first episode. The only "good" thing he's ever done [castrate the child rapist] was still evil since he used it for blackmail

* As a prospect, Half-Sack was allowed in church -- he didn't get a vote but he wasn't kept in the dark. He was fully involved in every aspect of the club, not just the hazing/grunt stuff. The current crop of Prospects are essentially baby sitters/body guards

* Juice was more than a hacker. He had snitches at city hall! And the Sheriff's department! And other sources as well. He was essentially the only source of info the club had, other than Gemma's town gossip. Theo Rossi was also listed as guest star up through episode 4

* Opie had been out of prison a while.

* my god Piney was sick -- they have looking like he's at death's door the first time we see him.

* Juice to Half-Sack: It's not gay! I've been shaving for years.

* Jax literally whores himself for the club. Chibs is the one who brings him the trick

* Luanne and Gemma were legitimately friends

* The first interaction we see between Gemma, Tara, and Jax is at the hospital. There is no sense of familiarity, other than using first names. Gemma treats Tara with respect. It's only when Able is out of the woods that Gemma starts up. There's a shot of the two of them standing side by side ... I have all the feelings in the world about this and I swear to god, someday I will write the essay about how Gemma = Tara and that frame will be the cover. Not to mention the scene where Gemma suggests to Tara that Tara would be better off sleeping with Gemma

* Happy has been there since the very first episode. For whatever reason I didn't think he came along until later.

* The entire plot of SoA hinged from the first episode where the Mayans stole their guns and burned down their "factory" every single step since then came from that one plot point. The Mayans are one of their best allies in season 4.

And that's just what I've forgotten in the first four episodes.