SOA S1E3 FULL REACTION
Added 2024-05-09 02:54:00 +0000 UTCComments
Of course Wendy's culpable for what she did, but that doesn't mean her motivation was to kill her child or that she's an evil person. The lack of empathy is a little concerning. đ Addiction is a sickness and human beings aren't black and white. It's a bit like telling depressed people to just stop being depressed. it doesn't work that way.
Teth
2024-05-09 18:25:01 +0000 UTCYep. Wendy isn't powerless but there's a limit to what you can expect of an addict. They're not mentally well or in full control of themselves. If they were, they wouldn't be addicts. They also mentioned that she was doing better before they got back together, so of course that affected her mental state. Being pregnant and alone would be stressful even when you're doing well.
Teth
2024-05-09 18:20:50 +0000 UTCThey're only genitals, c'mon. Grow a pair, then remove their pair.
Molly McAllister
2024-05-09 10:54:42 +0000 UTCThat may be true, but it's certainly not in-evidence with this group and it'll come up more than once over the course of the series. And I was being a big admittedly over-simplistic, leaving-out the obvious double-standard.
Molly McAllister
2024-05-09 10:53:46 +0000 UTCGood on you admitting there is a gap in your perspective here. And good on you never having messed with that stuff and all you and yours having avoided messing with that stuff, it's really super nasty. I haven't personally experienced it myself, but I have paid attention, coming from a rural background where Amphetamines and Opiates are not unheard of. Once that dependency sets in, it's a whole other level. Human beings are not as sentient as they like to believe, the mind isn't it's own thing divorced from the body, the chemical soup your brain sits in influences you in ways you're not fully consciously aware of... and when you introduce psychoactives to the mix, it can sound like a great idea at the time but the consequences...? While under addiction and without successful treatment, refusing that next hit is nothing like, "Oh, I'll just not have this beer, I'm driving." It's more like.... You've been two weeks without food, here's a sandwich. But don't eat it, your child will die. You've been two days out in the desert, here's a pitcher of water. But don't drink it, your child will die. Don't *BREATHE*, your child will die. It is literally re-wiring the survival centers of your brain telling you what is necessary for sustaining your existence. Someone I used to know got really down bad with alcohol. Not 'tipsy on the weekend' with alcohol, i'm talking over twenty bottles of vodka a week bad. I'm talking kept a puke-jar next to their desk so they wouldn't have to get-up bad. They finally realized there was a problem, they had re-wired their own brain to perceive Booze as Food. That's what was feeding their brain, not Glucose, Ethanol. So, they tried quitting, cold-turkey. The thought they were such a big man they could tough it out. They now have a permanent blind-spot in their field of vision, their eyes are perfectly healthy it's just that the part of their brain that would process information from those receptors is now corpsified and gross. A legitimate medical doctor told them, "You need to drink More, or you will Die." They finally managed to gently wean themselves off the stuff, but yeah... chemical dependency can get Wild.
Molly McAllister
2024-05-09 10:45:55 +0000 UTCFalse. That's an exceedingly broad statement. I know monogamous bikers, and bikers where the dude fucks around, but if the woman does, it's baaaad news. And all sorts of wild shit... People are people. We all tend to have the same flaws and strengths, regardless of whether we are outlaw bikers, or garbage men, or ballerinas. Some are good. Some are bad. Most of us are somewhere in between.
Mike MIchelsen
2024-05-09 10:40:40 +0000 UTC"Build some sort of machine" You would make cutting a man's balls off a whole project.
SLEEPY_KING
2024-05-09 10:39:05 +0000 UTCPretty much this. Someone in Wendy's situation needs someone There... Right There... Constantly... to tell them No, and back that up with force if necessary. She didn't have that, she didn't have Jax, so she never pulled herself up enough to gain the momentum she needed to avoid backsliding.
Molly McAllister
2024-05-09 10:27:36 +0000 UTCThing is, the way drugs like that work, I can almost guarantee you she was not 'excessively high'... at the time. She'd probably not been 'excessively high' for years, probably barely even felt 'high' at all during that time. The way the drugs work, and the body building-up resistances, getting legitimately 'High' stops being attainable. that's when the chemical dependency and withdrawals start becoming an issue.
Molly McAllister
2024-05-09 10:22:00 +0000 UTCI, and many others here, firmly disagree with you that Wendy should be in jail. Ultimately that's not justice, it's vengeance, and that's a very hollow thing. She has definitely abrogated her adulting privileges until she's show herself fully capable of resisting the siren song of smack, and she should've been put in that situation long before this all happened. Someone like that needs a Lot of help to get away from the drugs, and that help takes the form of someone else making their adult life decisions for them until they get better.
Molly McAllister
2024-05-09 09:42:47 +0000 UTCFour packs a day? Yeah, that tracks. Addiction is a helluva thing.
Molly McAllister
2024-05-09 09:09:12 +0000 UTCOh - and it looks like you ended before the last scene of the episode. There's another couple of minutes there, with one important development.
Dor
2024-05-09 06:51:42 +0000 UTCIn terms of why Jax assigns culpability to himself instead of/alongside Wendy, my impression is: 1. He knew she was a repeat addict when he slept with her 2. When he found out she was pregnant he left her 3. He mostly avoided the situation because he didn't want to deal with it 4. Ergo, he left his unborn son in a position that was *almost certainly* going to go exactly the way it did, predictably. Agree that Wendy had agency here and gets most of the blame, but it seems respectable to me that Jax is taking some of the blame on himself - he could have prevented this and didn't.
Dor
2024-05-09 06:44:10 +0000 UTC"This time it'll be my hand..." Yeeeah, physical monogamy isn't really a thing in relationships in these clubs, this is known on both sides.
Molly McAllister
2024-05-09 05:52:48 +0000 UTC
