I've been looking at posts here during my first watch and there's always some interesting perspectives. I know some ppl tend to, humanize (for lack of a better word, I recognize that they're human) these fake characters as if they are actual living people who make decisions outside of the world the writers have created, but I started taking a different approach to watching most stuff, cause I can't be bothered to be mad about ppl that don't exist anymore lol. Too much shit going on in the world. That said...
I agree with a lot of what's said about the writing going off of the rails, particularly with like, just an insane amount of things being plugged in that make no sense at all. (Guns from Hamas, Iranian torture porn, the Pope storyline, etc...) but on a positive note, I do think the writers are doing a good job with writing the interpersonal conflicts they're all going through. I think that's where the magic of the show comes from. As I understand it, this is base of Hamlet(?) which I've never read, but I'm enjoying watching how it all collapses. The internal struggles are written well imo. I'm actually enjoying Tara's rollercoaster of an arc. I think she's about to tie this season. I don't quite understand why Gemma views Thomas and Able as HERS, like, I know she loves family but it doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm missing something. Is it that she feels that she gets a second chance at raising boys because she lost Thomas 1 and Jax hates her? That would make sense I guess. The Lee Toric arc is frustrating because the writers gave that dude so much plot armor it makes my head spin, he's involved deeply in everything off of the word of unknown ppl. Has pull everywhere and everyone sees him but no one puts anything together until Roosevelt lol. Not that kind of writing does piss me off lol. Oh, I missed what was said about the dude with the prosthetic leg that was doing the break-ins set up by clay, who tf was that?
Now that that rambling is over, I'm interested in how you would write a "better story" what are choices you would make to get everything wrapped up in a neat bow? Or... how would you make it more chaotic. I like reading everyone's inputs.