My wife and I are excited about the upcoming season of Sopranos. We've been waiting for about 2 years for this next season. This show is addictive.
Originally, I missed the first few episodes of season one. I've never seen them. But HBO has been showing all of the Sopranos episodes in order lately. I started watching every episode, starting with season one, episode one about a month and a half ago. It's been great. I watch it every weekday night at 7pm. I'm picking up allot of stuff that I missed the first time around. Also, seeing the entire series from the beginning, in order, episode after episode is really making things more clear. There were some things that I was foggy about. There's such a long offseason between seasons that you can forget important details sometimes. The timing will be just right. I should finish the final episode just prior to March when the new season starts. I can't wait.
Discuss.......
After reading another Soprano's thread, the topic of SPOILERS came up. So I thought there should be some RULES about spoilers for this thread.
I would say that one should read and post at your own risk. We will bump this thread to the top after each episode and have a discussion of that episode. I don't know how you can have a discussion without revealing spoilers. I don't even know why they'd be considered spoilers if the episode has already aired and most of America has seen it. So, if you want to post a "spoiler warning" in your post, that's fine. But if you don't, no one should complain. If you haven't see the current episode, you should not read this thread until you have.
With that said, if you have some inside information about an upcoming episode that would be a spoiler, you SHOULD NOT post that on this thread. I can't imagine that happening, because the Soprano's producers gaurd their secrets like Fort Knox. But, if you know something about an upcoming episode, keep it to yourself until after the episode airs. This is really common sense stuff, but I thought it should be spelled out just to keep arguments to a minimum. [Reply]
Anybody besides me find the whole make a movie subplot trite, nay inane? Especially them pratling on about how the body parts would not all end up in the same dump. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Gunther_Fan:
Deadwood and The Wire totally suck. But after this season of the Soprano's there will be 6 "bonus" episodes about 9 months later. Don't ask me what "bonus episodes" are. I don't know what they mean by that.
Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav:
Anybody besides me find the whole make a movie subplot trite, nay inane? Especially them pratling on about how the body parts would not all end up in the same dump.
You're right...But it is just filler. I guess it beats the total bore fest of watching Tony walk around arguing with Monks. [Reply]
Oh...and if you really think that Deadwood sucked, I suggest you turn in your man-card at the Cooont booth.
No kidding. Someone burnt me seasons I and II recently. I watched the entire first season in two days, driving my wife absolutely crazy in the process...especially when I started calling everyone in the house (including her, the kid, and our dog) c0cksuker. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav:
Anybody besides me find the whole make a movie subplot trite, nay inane? Especially them pratling on about how the body parts would not all end up in the same dump.
I found it hilarious, and it's probably one of the more true-to-life aspects of the show. Harkens back to Chrissy and his buddy expanding into skimming that stock trading house back in Season 1. The thing of their is always in search of the next emerging market. Gambling and protection are their bread and butter. Larceny they pick up when they can. Drug trade is an avenue, but not universally embraced [like they say in The Godfather, leave that to the schwartzes].
So they're on the lookout for these avenues, airline vouchers, stock houses, internet porn, phone-sex, regular porn [notice Carmine jr referencing his porn line as one of his 'sub-species'].
And remember, before he was made, Chrissie had wide-eyed dreams of being a movie-mogul. Tony had to talk him out of leaving the life for it. [Reply]
The last two seasons of The Soprano's drew 9.8 and 11 million viewers and continues to kick ass. The first season of Deadwood had 4.5 million viewers. The second season of Deadwood was down almost 50% and had 2.4 million viewers. Apparently, 2 million viewers, or almost half of all viewers, thought it sucked and stopped watching. Sounds like I've got some facts on my side. I don't know the stats on The Wire, but I think it also sucks. There doesn't seem to be a fan following of The Wire as there is with the Soprano's. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Gunther_Fan:
The last two seasons of The Soprano's drew 9.8 and 11 million viewers and continues to kick ass. The first season of Deadwood had 4.5 million viewers. The second season of Deadwood was down almost 50% and had 2.4 million viewers. Apparently, 2 million viewers, or almost half of all viewers, thought it sucked and stopped watching. Sounds like I've got some facts on my side. I don't know the stats on The Wire, but I think it also sucks. There doesn't seem to be a fan following of The Wire as there is with the Soprano's.
By that logic, mash and three's company are better than the sopranos. [Reply]
The Wire and Deadwood are both better shows than The Sopranos (which is in no way saying The Sopranos is bad). However, quality does not always equal viewership, as any number of great shows that never got a toehold throughout the history of TV will attest to. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
I found it hilarious, and it's probably one of the more true-to-life aspects of the show. Harkens back to Chrissy and his buddy expanding into skimming that stock trading house back in Season 1. The thing of their is always in search of the next emerging market. Gambling and protection are their bread and butter. Larceny they pick up when they can. Drug trade is an avenue, but not universally embraced [like they say in The Godfather, leave that to the schwartzes].
So they're on the lookout for these avenues, airline vouchers, stock houses, internet porn, phone-sex, regular porn [notice Carmine jr referencing his porn line as one of his 'sub-species'].
And remember, before he was made, Chrissie had wide-eyed dreams of being a movie-mogul. Tony had to talk him out of leaving the life for it.
Thanks BL I am a semi regular viewer and I learned a bit more about the show from that exlanation. [Reply]
Deadwood is a good show but there is just something about a show set in that time period that makes me cringe with that much of the language being explicit that turned me off the show. I of course grew up with the old westerns and it just feels incongruous to hear so many f*cks and c*cksuckers. I am by no means a prude nor am I offended it just somehow causes me to drift. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav:
Deadwood is a good show but there is just something about a show set in that time period that makes me cringe with that much of the language being explicit that turned me off the show. I of course grew up with the old westerns and it just feels incongruous to hear so many f*cks and c*cksuckers. I am by no means a prude nor am I offended it just somehow causes me to drift.
yeah after watching Back to the Future Part III and then Watching Deadwood something doesnt seem as wholesome [Reply]