Soprano's Season 6 discussion......... - Page 11

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.
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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.

Rent the DVDs and check out Milch's interviews. Basically, he defends the language in two ways.
First, a lot of these guys were used to heading up livestock, wagon train, bull sleds, and those gutteral, sharp words were effective in keeping the muscle in line.
Bleeding into the second; This was a land on no laws. It was Indian territory by treaty and the Feds were casting a blind eye to them looting it, while offering them no formal protection. And the town was growing by leaps and bounds, a few hundred in the fall, 100,000 the next spring, 1/2 a mill the next year, mostly lawless, wanted, shifty types. And among all those strangers, all you had was your 'presence.' So everybody was a bunch of Tony Montana's, with their word and their balls, neither to be broken by nobody. And the notion spread that heaping on the obscenities told people you were not someone to be trifled with, without the necessity of killing someone or beating their balls off.

This wasn't the lonely prairie of Bonanza, where you could sip iced tea on the porch. It was an instant urban scene with lots of money to be made by being rougher, tougher, smarter and harder working than anyone else.

Your critique is a little like seeing "Do the Right Thing" and saying "that was nothing like the New York movies I remember like "Annie Hall.""
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Originally Posted by SLAG02:
I have not read any of this thread

Well my wife and I are brand new to sopranos we just got done watching all the ones they had on HBO on demand, Cant wait for the next one, I had seen a few episodes from the Previous seasons but never got into it or never had HBO, How long is their current contract with HBO did i join in too late?

You're going to miss alot of references and back-story that happened before this season. And when I say "alot"...

The show, IMHO, is actually that good where it's worth spending $9 on a Netflix account, getting caught up and then watching the finale before joining in at this point if you really want to enjoy it.

It's a revolutionary piece of television, like Twin Peaks meets Goodfellas.
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I think we've had this discussion before. You grew up in the generation that saw the west idealized in films, and that's become "reality" to you, despite the fact it's no more real than Star Trek.
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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.

Tony didn’t talk him out of making films as much as he approached him with an ultimatum; 'pursue film or the family, you can't have both'. Christ-a-phuh agreed to pursue becoming a part of T’s crew with the understanding that he would leave film making behind him.

He’s essentially breaking an agreement which allowed him to become soldier and now capo.

Also, the film he wants to make, Saw meets Godfather II, “Butcher” (heh) has an undertone of what everyone thinks happened between T and Ade the night they got in the car accident.
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Originally Posted by Gunther_Fan:
That was an iteresting episode. There wasn't so much action, but probably more to think about than any recent episdoes. There's allot of spiritualism and "meaning of life" issues and questions. Paulie seems ready to blow a gasket. I wonder if Tony will get religious?

When someone say's “meaning of life” I think it’s typically interpreted as “why are we here” and “what is our purpose”. Outside of Tony’s kinder and gentler look at the world I think the theme was more along the lines of conflict between who we are, how we got here and how that relates to Carmela accepting she's a mob wife, the kids now fully aware of who thier Dad is and T's upcoming (my guess) dilema of who he is, the damage he's done and how he drug the only people he loves into 'that' world.

Chase is laying on the symbolism and metaphors a little heavy. I love trying to dig through the above and put it into perspective but wow, too much to interpret.

That was hilarious when the TV hit the pavement and the old lady went by on her scooter oblivious to what just happened.

Chris rivaled his “but his apartment looked like shit” line with the “I don’t think that way” when he and T were having the philosophical debate.

I got nothing better at the moment, too tired.
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