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]
I don't think anything happened to Tony. The entire diner sequence just made the viewer experience what it must be like for someone like Tony every day, always looking up to see who's coming in, never knowing if the regular-looking guy at the counter is the one who's going to pull the gun.
All the quick shots to random people in the diner helped build the tension, and showing Meadow delayed with her car helped foster the notion that something would happen. You're already filled with tension, and you see Meadow struggling with the car, and you think that something's going to happen and she'll just miss it because she's late. Or being late will cause something to happen to her that wouldn't have otherwise.
And tension just builds and builds and, at the end, nothing happens. It's what every day must be like for a guy like Tony.
I'm not saying it was a good ending, but that's what I got from it. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRock:
I don't think anything happened to Tony. The entire diner sequence just made the viewer experience what it must be like for someone like Tony every day, always looking up to see who's coming in, never knowing if the regular-looking guy at the counter is the one who's going to pull the gun.
All the quick shots to random people in the diner helped build the tension, and showing Meadow delayed with her car helped foster the notion that something would happen. You're already filled with tension, and you see Meadow struggling with the car, and you think that something's going to happen and she'll just miss it because she's late. Or being late will cause something to happen to her that wouldn't have otherwise.
And tension just builds and builds and, at the end, nothing happens. It's what every day must be like for a guy like Tony.
I'm not saying it was a good ending, but that's what I got from it. :-)
And that's why this was brilliant on the director's and writer's part.
There are a million theories now and they all could hold water.
I personally liked his meeting with the old dude. I think that's when Tony realized that it all doesn't really matter. That the this guy couldn't even remember what was supposed to be the highlight of his life.
I kinda wish I started watching earlier now. [Reply]
Well, I'm not actually that disappointed. I was so braced for seeing them all get wiped out, that I was relieved to see a semi-happy ending. I did think it was a little uncool that they did the flip-to-black with no resolution, though. I, too, believed my DirecTV had cut out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by runnercyclist:
Now that The Sopranos is over, is there any recomendations for other series to tivo?
If so, please give a short description and why you like it.
Thanks!
HBO has a series in the works called A Song of Ice and Fire. It's based off of my favorite series of novels by George RR Martin. The series is pretty macabre & features incestuous royals in a setting similar to Agincourt. There are some fantasy elements to it but none of the ghey cliche BS like hobbits, elves, sprites, orcs etc.
If HBO really commits to it and does it right, it'll be bigger than LOTR. (bigger as in scale not fanbase) [Reply]
Now that The Sopranos is over, is there any recomendations for other series to tivo?
Originally Posted by runnercyclist:
If so, please give a short description and why you like it.
Thanks!
The Tudors, King Henry the VIII descention from the Cathic church, and the inner struggle for power which makes it quite interesting. Also their is alot of gratuitous T&A with the characters philandering exploits. [Reply]
OK, at first I was really angry. I mean really, really angry. I can't believe though that no-one has posted by now what happened. The only thing I saw that was right, was that in the last scene we are seeing through Tony's eyes. Remember when he was speaking with Bobby...basically saying that you don't see it happening?
So here is what I found out. The guy at the bar is also credited as Nikki Leotardo. The same actor played him in the first part of season 6 during a brief sit down concerning the future of Vito. That wasn't that long ago. Apparently, he is the nephew of Phil. Phil's brother Nikki Senior was killed in 1976 in a car accident. Absolutely Genius!!!! David Chase is truly rewarding the true fans who pay attention to detail.
So the point would have been that life continues and we may never know the end of the Sopranos. But if you pay attention to the history, you will find that all the answers lie in the characters in the restaurant. The trucker was the brother of the guy who was robbed by Christopher in Season 2. Remember the DVD players? The trucker had to identify the body. The boy scouts were in the train store and the black guys at the end were the ones who tried to kill Tony and only clipped him in the ear (was that season 2 or 3?).
Absolutely incredible!!!! There were three people in the restaurant who had reason to kill Tony and then it just ends. This was Chase's way of proving that he will not escape his past. It will not go on forever despite that he would like it to "don't stop". Not the fans!!! Tony would like it to keep going but just as we have to say goodbye, so does he. No more Tony and I guess we are supposed to be happy that Meadow didn't get clipped as well (she would have been between the shooter and Tony) since she is the only one worth a crap in that family.
Thank you David Chase for making it so obscure that I feel bad for hating you at first. Absolutely amazing!!!!
Interesting if those really are the people that were in the diner. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Cocina_Basement:
Per another board:
On the HBO board:
OK, at first I was really angry. I mean really, really angry. I can't believe though that no-one has posted by now what happened. The only thing I saw that was right, was that in the last scene we are seeing through Tony's eyes. Remember when he was speaking with Bobby...basically saying that you don't see it happening?
So here is what I found out. The guy at the bar is also credited as Nikki Leotardo. The same actor played him in the first part of season 6 during a brief sit down concerning the future of Vito. That wasn't that long ago. Apparently, he is the nephew of Phil. Phil's brother Nikki Senior was killed in 1976 in a car accident. Absolutely Genius!!!! David Chase is truly rewarding the true fans who pay attention to detail.
So the point would have been that life continues and we may never know the end of the Sopranos. But if you pay attention to the history, you will find that all the answers lie in the characters in the restaurant. The trucker was the brother of the guy who was robbed by Christopher in Season 2. Remember the DVD players? The trucker had to identify the body. The boy scouts were in the train store and the black guys at the end were the ones who tried to kill Tony and only clipped him in the ear (was that season 2 or 3?).
Absolutely incredible!!!! There were three people in the restaurant who had reason to kill Tony and then it just ends. This was Chase's way of proving that he will not escape his past. It will not go on forever despite that he would like it to "don't stop". Not the fans!!! Tony would like it to keep going but just as we have to say goodbye, so does he. No more Tony and I guess we are supposed to be happy that Meadow didn't get clipped as well (she would have been between the shooter and Tony) since she is the only one worth a crap in that family.
Thank you David Chase for making it so obscure that I feel bad for hating you at first. Absolutely amazing!!!!
Interesting if those really are the people that were in the diner.
Interesting. I think it's kind of gimmicky for David Chase's style to conveniently put so many players in one place at one time out of sheer coincidence. So I doubt it's true but I'm certainly open to the suggestion until proven wrong.
I think it just ended and it's all open to interpretation.
That is wrong. It seems like nobody understood the ending. Tony is DEAD.
Remember earlier in the season when Tony and Bobby were on the boat and Bobby asks "what do you think happens when you die?" and Tony replies, "nothing, it just goes black."
