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I USED to feel that Jax became that, well, monster he became in the final season as that being more of a deterrent to his sons than his actual death with the idea being "me doing all this fucked up shit is why I killed myself so avoid it" type warning.Yeah there was some dumb shit, but I still loved it. The more you think about it, the less Jax's sacrifice makes sense.
I mean, his dad killed himself, or allowed himself to be killed, and Jax still ended up in the life. So, killing himself to protect his kids is pretty illogical. I would've preferred Tara living, and Peggy getting hers in the end, with Jax leaving with his family for a normal life.
I'm kind of a sap, though.
Now that I am finishing the series again I feel like that "dark" side was always there and Tara dying removed the last check on it. You can see Sutter wrote it in at Sack's wake:
There's obviously instances prior to that but at that stage he was still fully invested in the "leave the life" crusade he was on and he STILL went apeshit on the guy