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Only Two People Deserve a Happy Ending on Sons of Anarchy, and They Are...

Should Gemma and Juice make it out alive by the end of the FX series?

By Tierney Bricker, Sydney Bucksbaum Dec 02, 2014 9:58 PMTags
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After tonight's episode of Sons of Anarchy ends, there will be only one episode left of the series. One. Episode. Left. Ever.

Start hyperventilating now, because we're pretty sure that some of our fan-favorite characters that have lasted almost seven seasons without meeting Mr. Mayhem are going to die before the FX biker drama wraps its run. Come on, how can they not after everything that went down this season?!

By the end of the last episode, Jax (Charlie Hunnam) finally learned the truth that his own mother Gemma (Katey Sagal) murdered his wife Tara (Maggie Siff), and Juice (Theo Rossi) helped cover it up, sparking a violent and bloody gang war over false intel. Now the entire club and Nero (Jimmy Smits) knows the truth about Gemma's sins, Gemma is on the run and Juice is about to get killed in prison.

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As much as we want to see a last-minute reprieve for all our favorite characters, after everything that everyone has done over the past seven seasons, does anyone on this show deserve a happy ending?

We asked Katey Sagal and Theo Rossi that very question, and they both came up with pretty much the same answer: Only two characters really deserve hapiness: Jax's two boys. Abel and Thomas.

"I don't know if the club will survive, I don't know if Jax will survive, [but] I think those boys definitely deserve a happy ending, the little kids," Sagal tells us. Beyond that? "I don't know...You have to ask yourself: If you have to be alive with the conscience of doing heinous things, what's better, being dead or being alive?"

When Rossi was asked the same question, he was a bit more optimistic, but echoed Katey's two picks.

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"You hope from an outsider perspective that [Jax's] kids, Abel and Thomas, are OK," Rossi told E! News. "I would hope that, in one way, every single person finds closure in whatever it is that happens to them...I think that in an innocent way, it's really hard to find anyone innocent in the whole thing. I mean, even people like Chucky [Michael Ornstein] have done bad things." 

"I think that's why Maggie affected me so much," he added, "because truly, when you sit back and get away from the leather and love of anti-heroes that we have in today's culture, if you look at Tara, what did she ever do wrong? Nothing, all she wanted to do was protect her family. She truly got caught in the crossfire. She's an innocent and all she wanted to do was protect her sons…she paid the ultimate price for it. If anyone did deserve it, I think it would be here, but that didn't work out. Besides the boys, I don't know who necessarily deserves a happy ending."

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That's why Rossi is so surprised that most of the characters still standing have lasted this long.

"I'm surprised Gemma's lasted this song," Rossi said. "I'm surprised anybody's lasted this long. I mean, the truth is, it's the stuff with Tig [Kim Coates], from killing Donna [Sprague Grayden], Opie's [Ryan Hurst] wife, I mean the stuff that some of us have to do is crazy. So I don't know. I think the difference with Juice is that I always felt is he never did anything intentionally. I'm not saying that that doesn't occur now, bur what lead up to this was just all kind of mistakes in a way. It's all mistakes when you think about it and it's almost like misguided anger in a way."

He continued, "He just wants to be OK with the club and every single thing he does is wrong which leads to the next one…I've always said, his conscience is his biggest weakness. A lot of people are just blind rage in this world…there's no thought process. Every single thing he does he thinks about."

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And despite everything Gemma did intentionally and unintentionally, Sagal isn't surprised that she's made it to the final two episodes alive.

"I kind of figured she'd stick around," Sagal said. "Everybody needs a mommy and you need some women in there. There's very few of us there. No, I'm not surprised she's still there."

Sons of Anarchy airs Tuesdays at 10 pm on FX.