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]
Originally Posted by Cocina_Basement:
Was the use of "blowed" a humble homage of Tony's muddled vernacular?
I will totally understand if some thought the finale blew, but after I took some time to let it gestate, I have a different take than my initial reaction.
That's exactly how I feel. I was originally pissed at the ending, but the more I think about it, the better it becomes. I may try to watch it again tonight so that I can actually take it in this time. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chiefs_Mike_Topeka:
Your wrong..... see post #690. They guy was credited as "Guy in members only jacket" And those 2 black guys were not the same guys that tried to kill Tony.
Originally Posted by Shales:
These great mythic characters, who have captivated HBO viewers for nearly a decade, are now suspended in space and the national imagination forever.
The more I think of it, the more I'm convinced that this ending was the best possible.
Any other ending would have discarded all other possible endings as irrelevent. Now, all the things hanging over Tony's head is alive and viable, subject to our continued ruminations and speculations. And that's how Tony lives his life, with all those threads of danger out there ready to snap. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Tom Shales sums it up;
The more I think of it, the more I'm convinced that this ending was the best possible.
Any other ending would have discarded all other possible endings as irrelevent. Now, all the things hanging over Tony's head is alive and viable, subject to our continued ruminations and speculations. And that's how Tony lives his life, with all those threads of danger out there ready to snap.
Me too.
Really, IMO, there wasn't a clear-cut way to end the show that would have made the majority of the fans happy.
On a side note, who's got the 411 on the girl who played Rhiannon? Not getting a whole lot from the search engines. Her name is Emily Wickersham. The perv in me is curious how old she is..... [Reply]
Originally Posted by noa:
Its an unusual speed-bump at a Jersey gas station...
Gotcha.
More thoughts:
I'd need to go back and watch the final scene again, but wasn't AJ sitting on the same side of the booth as Carmella?
If so, and if you buy into the theory that the guy from the counter walked out of the bathroom to whack Tony......
Then Meadow's tardiness plays a role. Had Meadow been on time, she likely would have sat on the outside, leaving no clear shot for the shooter, unless he's willing to walk right up behind him with Carm and AJ facing him.
Just a thought.....
ALSO......
I know it's flaky, but something tells me that cat was Adrianna reincarnate. [Reply]
I don't have a problem with the lack of a big "drastic" ending (something like Tony getting whacked, arrested, put into witness protection, other family members dying, whatever). The problem I have is that the episode flet like it was really building towards some kind of real "ending", but instead it built toward ... nothing. When the Journey music kicked in loud, and the scene kept jumping around, it really felt like something special was going to happen, something that forever would make you think of "that awesome final scene from the Sopranos" every time you heard "Don't Stop Believing". But instead of the final scene being a crowning, redeeming achievement for the series, it was the last, greatest disappointment in a string of recent underachievements.
To me it felt like Chase tried to get too cute with the ending, and instead it came off as him being a lazy, selfish jerk. [Reply]
Does anyone think they were going "into the program" and THAT is why (maybe) Tony got whacked?
Talk of AJ working in Hollywood.
Carm looking at architectual drawings of a beach house around the 54 minute mark, followed immediately by Tony raking leaves and looking around the property with a look of "I'm gonna miss this place" on his face?
Carm with a slight look of worry when Tony says he'll meet everyone at Holston's. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Uncle_Ted:
I don't have a problem with the lack of a big "drastic" ending (something like Tony getting whacked, arrested, put into witness protection, other family members dying, whatever). The problem I have is that the episode flet like it was really building towards some kind of real "ending", but instead it built toward ... nothing. When the Journey music kicked in loud, and the scene kept jumping around, it really felt like something special was going to happen, something that forever would make you think of "that awesome final scene from the Sopranos" every time you heard "Don't Stop Believing". But instead of the final scene being a crowning, redeeming achievement for the series, it was the last, greatest disappointment in a string of recent underachievements.
To me it felt like Chase tried to get too cute with the ending, and instead it came off as him being a lazy, selfish jerk.
The main part that pissed me off about the final episode is the viewers still had to put up with more psychiatrist shit. The shrink stuff was okay for the first couple seasons to set up Tony as a mob boss with real problems, but it didn't need to drag down every single episode.
I have a question for the Soprano experts out there. Who was the character that popped Phil? I know the actor is the guy that played Bill Guarnere on "Band of Brothers", but he seemed to come out of nowhere this season. I'm thinking maybe it was an actor replacement for a character that has been on the show for a while. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Swanman:
I have a question for the Soprano experts out there. Who was the character that popped Phil? I know the actor is the guy that played Bill Guarnere on "Band of Brothers", but he seemed to come out of nowhere this season. I'm thinking maybe it was an actor replacement for a character that has been on the show for a while.
LOL, I watched it last night and did not even realize it was the final episode. All in all that is an interesting way to end it, no big blowout ending. It also leaves open endless possibilities for some sort of encore showing. [Reply]
