The special appearance by Marilyn Manson was kind of lame and totally unnecessary. The opening scenes were to establish that Jax was going to be extremely ruthless and there was going to be plenty of blood spilled this season but I think it would have been better if that had been excluded. Then the visciousness of the murder of the Chinese dude would have been more shocking. I caught a spoiler from a story about Marilyn Manson's guest appearance on the internet a couple weeks ago. Two actors that were main characters a couple seasons then just disappeared are going to be back in action this season. If you saw the pictures that were posted of Marilyn on the set you know who I'm refering to but I won't reveal who they were in case you didn't and let it be a surprise.