During a rewatch of Sons of Anarchy, I was watching Season 6 episode 9.
And in the episode, a girl who lost her mom due to a pileup as a result of John Teller's "accident" lashed out after finding old newspaper articles and broke a window of a business the Sons owned and attacked one of their bikes.
When Jax was investigating, he sees a photo of the mom and he tells her father that she looks like someone he knows.
Later on in the episode, we see the girl walking by after a conversation with Jax and who do we see? The homeless lady who stops what she's doing to take a look at her.
I didn't realize the homeless lady was revealed to be the ghost of John Teller's accidental victim.
Thoughts?
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Yup that’s her. Sutter has said it’s Jesus Christ on his personal YouTube over a decade ago but it was when season 5 was airing. Then in season 6 she’s in the form of Brooke’s mom Emily. Other than what Sutter had said and how Homeless lady is Emily’s Spirit that’s all that been mentioned. I don’t know if he switched it up later but yea.
I feel like this version makes it creepier!! And the fact she just stared at her daughter means there is some part of her still left. 💀
I always went with my headcannon, the mother had mental issues like her daughter did. When the j.t. crash happened she survived but in her mind it was a way to save her family from having to care and worry for her, so she fled. I mean crazy people do crazy things right? When she saw Jax she felt a connection through him and helped here and there. Till the last episode when she said it's time to go home. Then after jax's death she went home. It makes the ending a little better in my mind.
Didn't Sutter also say something along the lines of "I beat the audience over the head with the religious imagery" when speaking about the Homeless Woman?
No he didn’t say it was Jesus Christ. He said it’s up to the audience to interpret what they think she is. He mentioned that people THOUGHT she was Jesus Christ, huge difference
It’s around 5:25 in video where someone asks about the homeless lady and Sutter response at 5:40 in the video “I’ve answered this question a thousand times it’s Jesus Christ”
https://youtu.be/WdDWG_znKlE?si=vgW6nbU56MD1kj0-
He did on his YouTube a long time ago.
I always saw her as a grim reaper, she always seemed to be around just before somebody died
Seemed to me she was always around when Jax was having to make very important decisions.
Yes, true, for example when Jax was in Ireland trying to find his son, she appeared there as well.
I kept thinking the homeless lady was gonna be an undercover ATF, CIA or some shit..because she was always around the guys and Gemma.. like secretly watching but doing it in a way that noone would find her suspicious
Lol she testifies then immediately after the court room ceiling opens up and she transcends to heaven.
I guess the genius aspect of the show is how we all interpret characters and scenes so differently as fans..
Kurt Sutter has said she was Jesus, I know some fans didn't like that reveal
He's never said that. He said people think she's Jesus. That's been misinterpreted ever since he said it back during season 5.
The only "definitive" answer he's given:
"The Homeless Woman -
She's the magic that anarchy summons and the
mortality it extinguishes.
She's the bringer of eternal light and the harbinger
of all things dark.
She's the ying, the yang and the yong.
She's the alpha and the omertà.
She's the first breath of life and the final gasp into death.
She's the mother, the father and the holy goat.
She is everything you need and nothing you want.
She is the chicken and the squirrel and all their
broken eggs and rotting acorns.
She is the binge, the purge, the hunger and the shame.
She is you, me and your Uncle Murray"
I personally like to think that she's the ghost of Emily but in death she became much more than she was in life; she's a symbol of all things. Good and bad, light and dark. And Kurt's own quote about her (in a comment further down in response to someone misquoting Kurt re: her being Jesus) only reinforced my thoughts on her.
She isn't human anymore, but she's not just Emily anymore either. More than a ghost, but less than the Almighty. Maybe she's death? Maybe she's some other avenging angel that doesn't adhere strictly to a black and white morality, and can see the good in people even when they do terrible things, like telling Jax that it is time, and giving him her wool blanket so he can murder August Marks to avenge Bobby. I don't think Jesus would do that. He was a pretty groovy non-violent cat.
I saw that on my second watch and it blew my mind tbh I may have seen it on my first idr but either way it blew my mind
I didn't know this. I thought people said she was meant to be an angel or something.
What’s weirder for me is that I am shit at sticking with a tv show for too long before I end up dipping into another one, and I went back to sons this weekend after a year and the episode I picked back up on was S6 ep 9 so I literally just watched this the other day and had the same thoughts and now it’s the first thing I see on reddit.