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Post by Archie on Nov 16, 2018 23:31:05 GMT
The greatest scene in television history:
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Post by Viced on Nov 24, 2018 17:02:17 GMT
Finished 6a... on its own, easily the worst season. I mean... the Vito saga goes on WAAAAAAAAAY too long. The only great thing we get out of it is this:
Could have been better if the guy that plays him was a better actor, or if Vito was a character that anyone actually cared about.
Also don't really like any of the stuff with Julianna Margulies.
But outside of that, the first episode is fantastic... all the purgatory stuff is great (as well as the rest of the family in the hospital)... Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request is a favorite.
Just feels like these 12 episodes are missing a little something... season 1 had Livia, 2 had Richie Aprile, 3&4 Ralph, 5 Tony B... idk. Still great overall, just a step below the rest of the series for me.
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Post by IceTruckDexter on Nov 24, 2018 19:52:41 GMT
Tony Soprano is the greatest of all TV villains, seemingly incapable of any lasting decency. I have no doubt in my mind he would let his entire family fall on the sword if it meant saving his own life, power and money. His pettiness, selfishness, arrogance and Machiavellian instincts are incredible and terrifying to behold. I despise him like no other character from film and television. All this magic was on the page, but James Gandolfini took it, and brought it to life in a way few actors have ever done with a role. He made the detestable unmissable and I would comfortably call it the greatest television performance I've seen from an American actor.
You've completely misjudged the guy.
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Post by IceTruckDexter on Nov 24, 2018 19:54:10 GMT
Finished 6a... on it's own, easily the worst season. I mean... the Vito saga goes on WAAAAAAAAAY too long. The only great thing we get out of it is this: Could have been better if the guy that plays him was a better actor, or if Vito was a character that anyone actually cared about. Also don't really like any of the stuff with Julianna Margulies. But outside of that, the first episode is fantastic... all the purgatory stuff is great (as well as the rest of the family in the hospital)... Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request is a favorite. Just feels like these 12 episodes are missing a little something... season 1 had Livia, 2 had Richie Aprile, 3&4 Ralph, 5 Tony B... idk. Still great overall, just a step below the rest of the series for me. The Vito stuff was hilarious.
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Post by Viced on Dec 4, 2018 22:06:11 GMT
Finished 6b...... well I finished it a few days ago but it's hard to put into words just how brilliant most of it is.
Soprano Home Movies has always been a favorite.... and that ending makes me tear up every time. Just beautifully fucked up.
The ending of Walk Like a Man also wrecks me... I always hated how badly Tony treats Christopher's sobriety in seasons 5-6... but at the time he's slowly realizing that all his work to make Christopher his successor has been worthless so maybe it's just those feelings manifesting. And of course Kennedy and Heidi wrecks me even worse... first time I watched the show Christopher was my favorite character and I was stunned that it happened. Tony in Vegas afterwards is pretty remarkable too... I've read some fan interpretations of it which really makes it even stronger for me.
Then The Second Coming... I was never an AJ hater (except when he was a real asshole with the Van Helsing look in 6a) so him and Tony in the pool is one of the most emotional scenes of the series for me. Also love Phil in the window after refusing to meet with Tony.
And then of course the series ends with maaaaaaaybe my favorite two episodes of all time. I don't think it's said enough just how well directed these two episodes are either... specifically Bobby and the trains and Holsten's. When the screen cuts to black my eyes just well up with tears... maybe just because the series is over, maybe because I think Tony's about to die, maybe because I'm just a little bitch.... I still am not 100% on board with any ending theory, and I think that's part of why I love it. It'll always be fascinating to me.
Nowwwwwww I'll move on to top 10 performances of the series...
1. James Gandolfini - I mean, come on.... 2. Edie Falco - am I crazy, or is she supporting? I honestly think Christopher might be the focus of more episodes than Carmela. 3. Michael Imperioli 4. Dominic Chianese 5. Joe Pantoliano 6. Drea de Matteo 7. Nancy Marchand 8. Aida Turturro 9. John Ventimiglia 10. Lorraine Bracco
hard to leave off Frank Vincent Curatola too... and the brilliant performances that weren't around long enough like John Heard and Annabella Sciora.
And how about top 10 episodes?
Chronologically:
I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano Funhouse University Pine Barrens Whitecaps Marco Polo Long Term Parking All Due Respect The Blue Comet Made in America
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Post by stephen on Dec 4, 2018 22:09:35 GMT
A top ten without Li'l Stevie? Sad day.
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Post by Leo_The_Last on Dec 10, 2018 22:10:27 GMT
It has been a few years, but good God, what a tremendous experience this show was for me. It was funny as hell, sad, surprising, everything I wanted it to be and so much more.
I only watched it when its run on HBO was already a thing of the past, bought the whole thing on DVD and watched one or two episodes a day, and... I don't know, I can't even articulate it, certainly not while speaking in foreign tongues (I'm swiss), but the whole thing really got me. Not just in the "what-a-great-achievement"-way, but it really reached me, deep down. Laugh at me as much as you want, but it nearly felt like a spiritual experience, which probably had as much to do with the show itself as with my own life at that particular moment in time.
Just thinking back on it really gets me. It's ridiculous! For example Join the Club, an episode I don't think is that great itself, but thinking back on it, at the end, Tony sitting on his bed in that imaginary hotel room, then there's that lighthouse thing you see outside the window, "When It's Cold I'd Like to Die" playing over the scene...
It was such a special experience for me. I'm probably never going to watch it again.
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Post by Viced on Jan 10, 2019 15:22:26 GMT
20 years ago today..... it all began.
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Post by Viced on Jan 11, 2019 4:54:10 GMT
I cried like a bitch on two occasions.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 12, 2019 18:49:42 GMT
Here's a really good interview with probably my favorite character on the show:
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2019 19:18:36 GMT
Alright, now that I'm done I can safely look through this thread. Some great stuff on here...
I'll add my rankings/lists cuz why not... but take these with a grain of salt cuz I only watched it one time through (so far):
Seasons Ranked 5 6B 3 4 2 6A 1
All of them are phenomenal tho.
Top 10 Episodes 1. The Blue Comet 2. Long Term Parking 3. Made in America 4. Funhouse 5. Pine Barrens 6. Whitecaps 7. I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano 8. The Test Dream 9. University 10. Denial, Anger, Acceptance
HM: Soprano Home Movies, The Knight in White Satin Armor, All Due Respect
Top 10 Performances 1. James Gandolfini 2. Edie Falco 3. Michael Imperioli 4. Drea de Matteo 5. Joe Pantoliano 6. Dominic Chianese 7. Nancy Marchand 8. Frank Vincent 9. John Ventimiglia 10. Tony Sirico
HM: Steven Van Zandt, Steve Schirripa, Vincent Pastore, Steve Buscemi
Also I'll add Top 10 Favorite Characters: 1. Tony Soprano 2. Bobby Baccalieri 3. Christopher Moltisanti 4. Ralph Cifaretto 5. Adriana La Cerva 6. Junior Soprano 7. Paulie Walnuts 8. Silvio Dante 9. Artie Bucco 10. Carmela Soprano
HM: Phil Leotardo, Johnny Sack, Big Pussy, Patsy Parisi, Hesh, etc.
Also, about the ending - I think it's pretty clear Tony's dead, right? I know it's intentionally ambiguous, but (to me at least) it was pretty apparent. The way it's executed is so fucking good... I've been thinking about that whole sequence non-stop for basically the last 24 hours.
This series really does give Twin Peaks a run for its money... planning on rewatching the whole thing with a friend, so that'll be amazing... hopefully I can relive some of the excitement of watching it for the first time vicariously through him. It's also very possible that a rewatch could push it to my new #1 of all time...
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Post by Viced on Jan 17, 2019 20:37:03 GMT
Also, about the ending - I think it's pretty clear Tony's dead, right? I know it's intentionally ambiguous, but (to me at least) it was pretty apparent. The way it's executed is so fucking good... I've been thinking about that whole sequence non-stop for basically the last 24 hours. I think it's made pretty clear, but at the same time it's easy to interpret it a bunch of different ways. - Tony dies. - Tony doesn't die, but will be a paranoid nut until the day he does. - The audience was whacked. - Life goes on, and don't stop believin'. - Tony chokes on an onion ring. etc...... If you haven't stumbled across it yet, I'd recommend this very old blog post where this guy goes waaaaay too far in depth about how Tony dies at the end: masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/Some of it can be skimmed, and he gets a little kooky at times... but pretty great stuff. It's so well known among Sopranos fans that even David Chase knows the guy who wrote it exists.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2019 20:53:14 GMT
Also, about the ending - I think it's pretty clear Tony's dead, right? I know it's intentionally ambiguous, but (to me at least) it was pretty apparent. The way it's executed is so fucking good... I've been thinking about that whole sequence non-stop for basically the last 24 hours. I think it's made pretty clear, but at the same time it's easy for me to interpret it a bunch of different days. - Tony dies. - Tony doesn't die, but will be a paranoid nut until the day he does. - The audience was whacked. - Life goes on, and don't stop believin'. - Tony chokes on an onion ring. etc...... If you haven't stumbled across it yet, I'd recommend this very old blog post where this guy goes waaaaay too far in depth about how Tony dies at the end: masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/Some of it can be skimmed, and he gets a little kooky at times... but pretty great stuff. It's so well known among Sopranos fans that even David Chase knows the guy who wrote it exists. I actually did see someone link that post on the Sopranos subreddit. I didn't read the whole thing yet, but looks interesting. And yeah, you've got a point about different interpretations. Tony dying just makes so much sense to me... and after reading more into it, and rewatching the scene a few times, my belief that he was whacked has been reinforced. At the same time, a part of me would like to believe he survived. idk... either way, it's a perfect ending.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 17, 2019 12:52:56 GMT
Just starting my first re-watch in a possibly four years. I waited a while, as I did over-watch the show at one point in the earlier 2010s. Still, it's the 20th anniversary year, so no better time to run through it again. So I will post things as I go, probably season by season (I'm 3 episodes in). I will just note a few things I've thought or noticed so far. - 20 years on, the clothes / hair / decor is looking rather dated. - James Gandolfini, while overweight already, still looks rather healthy in that opening episode. - The opening episode is actually pretty average, but thankfully the next two are great. I was sorta panicked after episode one, that I was suddenly not going to like one of my five or so top TV shows anymore. - I always forget and under-value how great Nancy Marchand was in the show. - People whine all the time about AJ, but Season 1 Meadow is a just as awful. - Michele deCesare is fucking atrocious and putting her in this part was trash move on the part of Chase. - Jackie Aprile Sr. was a great character, and I wish he hung around a little longer in Season 1. An episode or two more would have been great. - I never noticed until this time that episode one Fr. Phil is a different actor. - J.D. Williams really was Mr. HBO back in the day.
- I kinda felt a little bad for Brendan Filone this time around, which was never the case before. - gabagool ...I forgot how much I love this word.
Anyways, I have my fingers crossed that I still love the show as much as I always have. I'm looking forward to finding out.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 19, 2019 14:21:57 GMT
Season 1
This is still pretty great stuff. It has some stuff I didn't notice so much in the past, that I'm not crazy about anymore. In the first half of the season in particular, it has a lot of freeze framing and strange scene transitions, which are barely a step up from star wipes, and this really cheapens it at times, but I guess this was a show finding its feet and I don't think it's something that comes up much in the future (aside from that notoriously awful freeze frame on Carmela in a few seasons time).
The season itself develops excellently. It's actually much more of a slow burn than I recall from past viewings. The character development is great where it counts, and for the likes of Paulie and Sil who don't get much of a look in, it feels right for the story being told up to this point.
It isn't without it's drawbacks though. "A Hit Is a Hit" is still a chore and it really drags the momentum down. It has always been my least favourite episode, and I'll be shocked if this changes. They could have taken the actual main plot relevant moments from the episode and shoved them into the previous or next episode, and it would make no difference to the history of the show, if that whole episode specific music stuff never happened.
I also must say that I do remember loving this season in the past, and I wouldn't throw the love word at it anymore. It's really great for sure, but I'm not necessarily expecting it to be at the top of the pile when I'm done.
Ranking and Rating the Episodes
01 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" A 02 "Nobody Knows Anything" A 03 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano" A 04 "46 Long" A 05 "College" B+ 06 "Meadowlands" B+ 07 "Isabella" B+ 08 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" B 09 "Down Neck" B 10 "Pax Soprana" B 11 "Boca" C 12 "The Sopranos" C 13 "A Hit Is a Hit" F
Top Performers
01 Nancy Marchand 02 James Gandolfini 03 John Heard 04 Dominic Chianese 05 Edie Falco
Season Rating
B+
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 22, 2019 9:38:54 GMT
S02 E02 · Do Not ResuscitateGonna post a few thoughts on this episode, as I really enjoyed it. More magic from Mama Soprano. We get the first signs of what a great character Janice will become. The great, chilled out reveal to the audience that Pussy is up to what he's up to. I love how dismissively its played. More cringe comedy from "Chip and Dale". I totally forgot about these guys, and how many laughs are to be had at the expense of them.
Sean Gismote totally beat Jay Landsman and Terry Jeffords to the punch, as the great modern braces wearer. AJ indirectly putting his foot in it again. He really causes a tonne of shit in these early episodes, and he doesn't have an ounce of an agenda; he's just a plonker. "To the victor belongs the spoils." Oh Bobby! "Why don't you look in the mirror, insensitive cock sucker". Go Bobby! Juniors Cadillac joke...oh boy. I shouldn't have laughed. Tony carrying Junior at the end is super touching.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 23, 2019 9:27:00 GMT
S02 E04 · Commendatori
Gonna post a few thoughts on this episode, as along with "A Hit Is a Hit", this is (I think) the only episode of the series that I truly dislike.
If you're going to send some of your cast all the way to Italy, why not come up with a better reason and make it last couple of episodes. It was all so rushed and poorly done.
The levels of cringe moments in this episode from Paulie is just too much.
It does give us some interesting stuff back in Jersey with Pussy and his issues in is marriage and his snitching, but when offset these decent bits against the stuff in Italy, it just gets overwhelmed by the bad.
I guess it did give us Furio, who was a good character for a short while at least.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 24, 2019 7:12:21 GMT
S02 E08 · Full Leather Jacket
Another winner, so a few points.
Old Jimmy 'Manson Lamps' Aprile is pretty much at his very best here. I always hated Jimmy more than your average mobster monster on the show, so props to David Proval; job done I guess. Also, this was perhaps the only episode when I felt a little sorry for him. Tony did unnecessarily disrespect him here.
Oh Adriana, you idiot. You should have listened to your mother.
The whole Meadow and what college she is going to go too, was never interesting to me. The Meadow of the early seasons is an arsehole, and in my ideal show, she got rejected from them all.
Carmela the hypocrite shows her darker side. Those scenes with the neighbour and her sister are hard to watch.
Oh "Chip n' Dale", such laughs you gave me. Later days to Sean Gismonte. He was handsome, he was a dapper dresser and his hair was always perfect...until it was covered in his brains at least.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 27, 2019 11:56:04 GMT
Season 2Opening with the much loved "It Was a Very Good Year" sequence, Season 2 of The Sopranos is where the story truly starts to grow and the characters really start to develop. Tony, now in power, is starting to show the first big signs of what kind of person he truly is. Carmela is a much more interesting character than in Season 1, as her conflicts and hypocrisies are given time to breathe. I'm really enjoying the Tony and Carmela relationship at this stage, as it can turn on a knife edge. Melfi is already redundant at this point in terms of being some who can in any way help Tony, outside of indirectly making him a better boss, and therefore worse person. I actually found her therapy sessions with Kupferberg, and the few scenes we see of her personal life, far more interesting than almost any scene with Tony. The smoking argument is an absolute riot. On the side of the antagonists, Richie is a pretty great Season long arc, but I'm always itching for him to go sooner than he does, as it becomes a bit same shit, different day with him. Janice is a brilliant character, and for me the best antagonist of the Season, and my favourite moment of the Season is whatever she did offscreen to get Meadow cleaning the trashed house. Mama Soprano is not so much a villain this year, and has become simply a shit stirring irritant, but what a fantastic one she is. I'm going to miss her. I don't really see Junior as an antagonist in this period, as he an Tony get onto pretty good terms again through the Season, and Junior is more or less spent as any kind of force for now. Still, Chianese remains one of the stars of the show. Overall, I think I preferred this to Season 1, which was never the case previously. Quick Notes- Shut up Meadow! - That smirk Mama Soprano gives when Tony falls over... Pure TV Gold! - The fart noises in "Funhouse" are so funny and I'm so childish. - I love what this show does with dreams, and "Funhouse" is one of the great examples.
- With a Sean Gismonte off the scene, Sil is already coming into his own as the best dressed man on the show. - The scene with Chris and Jon Favreau in the hotel is just excruciatingly painful to watch. - Davey Scatino is such a sad character, and Robert Patrick knocks it out of the park. - Artie really was a hoot for a while, then he starts to get irritating soon. - I'm not digging Paulie on this go around.
Ranking and Rating the Episodes01 "Funhouse" A++02 "House Arrest" A+03 "Do Not Resuscitate" A04 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" A05 "Full Leather Jacket" A
06 "The Happy Wanderer" A
07 "Big Girls Don't Cry" B+08 "From Where to Eternity" B09 "Toodle-Fucking-Oo" B10 "Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." C11 "Bust Out" C12 "D-Girl" C-13 "Commendatori" DTop Performers01 James Gandolfini
02 Nancy Marchand (A little more screen time, and I think I'd have still marked her out as MVP)
03 Edie Falco 04 Aida Turturro
05 Robert Patrick
Season Rating
A
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 19, 2019 12:56:39 GMT
Season 3
Another Season done, and what a wonderful Season it is. Opening with a brilliant, almost sitcom quality episode, that probably wouldn't have existed as it is, but for the death a Nancy Marchand, this Season really soars. It's lowest ebbs, are still better than your average TV shows highest highs. Character development is key in this Season, with the existing main events becoming even more fully formed, and several characters, previously little more than jumped up extras, now starting to become fleshed out and important to proceedings.
On the Tony front, via his increasingly redundant therapy, we start to learn at this point that there is no hope for him, he will never become a better person and any evidence to the contrary are merely gestures to placate those around him, and more importantly himself. His sessions with Melfi throughout a lot of the Season are simply going through the motions, and on those rare occasions when they have a 'breakthrough', Tony, weak as his is, will never do anything with it. The incident in Employee of the Month with Melfi, well done as it was, is in many ways a plot device to keep her wanting Tony in her life, just when it looked like she would drop him. Her usefulness never recovers, and as a character she should have been written out of the show at around this point in time, or in Season 4 at the latest.
Elsewhere, Carmela was given the score in that brilliant scene with Dr. Krakower, but she does nothing with it and will spend the rest of the show wrestling with her morals vs her hypocrisy. Thankfully the brilliance of Edie Falco can make the fact that her arc is often quite samey, not matter too much. Still, coming into Season 4, I am dreading a certain arc of Carmela's, as I never cared for it in the past.
Chris is still an interesting fella at this point, and we are about to enter the great Adriana storyline now, so it's good that she gets some time to matter in Season 3, as it makes whats to come hurt that much more. As far as the Soprano kids go, I've always liked the AJ character and how he develops over time, and that has carried through this time around. Meadow on the other hand can fuck off and die. She's such a smug, irritating bitch.
So the smaller fry, who offer up some of the grandest moments. Well, Ralphie and Paulie are just delightfully entertaining pieces of shit, and Sil can actually be bracketed in with them, though he's perhaps not as bad. Jackie Aprile managed to single-handedly be a bigger moron than Season 2's Matt and Sean combined. It was a little bit of a repeat, story line wise, but it offered plenty of laughs. Still, it's a relief that they barely tread this ground again. Uncle Jun and Bobby B, who is a favourite character of mine, offer up some great moments too.
Quick Notes
- If you can get through the scene in "Proshai, Livushka" when Janice asks everyone to talk about their memories of Livia, without looking away from the screen, then you are a machine. It has to be the most cringe-inducing scene in the history of film or television. - Charmaine is a boss.
- One could be forgiven for forgetting Furio exists. - It's hard to choose between Burt Young and Charles S. Dutton in "Another Toothpick" as to who was better, but they are two of the best guest stars on any TV show I've seen. Charles S. Dutton was also a fantastic one time appearance on Oz. - I would still love to have seen Noah try knock out Tony. - The cringe was up to 90 this Season. "He is Risen" is nearly as bad as "Proshai, Livushka".
- The scene with Bobby as Santa was such a laugh. - Not to flog a dead horse, but fuck Meadow. Still, at least I know she gets less annoying.
- Some many amazing lines could be mentioned, but this exchange has to take the win...
Ranking and Rating the Episodes 01 "Amour Fou" A++
02 "Second Opinion" A+
03 "Another Toothpick" A+
04 "Pine Barrens" A
05 "Employee of the Month" A
06 "Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" A
07 "To Save Us All From Satan's Power" A
08 "Proshai, Livushka" A-
09 "University" B+
10 Army of One" B
11 "Fortunate Son" B
12 "He is Risen" B
13 "The Telltale Moozadell" B
Top Performers
01 James Gandolfini 02 Edie Falco 03 Annabella Sciorra 04 Lorraine Bracco
05 Joe Pantoliano
Season Rating
A+ (Season 5 has some competition on it's hands now, so we'll see if it holds on to the top spot)
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Post by Sharbs on Aug 8, 2019 1:54:51 GMT
I'm not reading through this thread but I will say that Long Term Parking is one of the finest hours of television ever
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Aug 8, 2019 7:25:41 GMT
I gotta get back to my re-watch, when I stalled I was on Season 4, so I'm approaching that peak Season 5 greatness.
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Post by Sharbs on Sept 4, 2019 4:10:14 GMT
I'm Finished took forever to stir up the will to get through 6A, which is why it took so long after finishing 5, but all in all pretty damn masterful. I'll complete some thoughts tomorrow
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Post by Sharbs on Sept 5, 2019 1:22:07 GMT
Well fuck I had this entire massive thing typed out and my phone decided to refresh and delete everything.
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Post by Sharbs on Sept 5, 2019 3:06:23 GMT
Just a few scattered bullet points of what I writ wrat wrote -LOOOVED that cut to black, it's great pleb filter. I truly believe that all four Sopranos got clipped , but that's also the beauty is Don't Stop Believing what you want regarding the end. -Tony was so lovable until his gunshot. Even though he had a different optimistic mindset that is when he dis his most vile acts. Almost killing Paulie simply because he was annoyed by him and giving the bs excuse of "he talks too much next he'll talk to the feds". and of course the Christopher situation. -I agree with Helzapoppin that Tony would play Judas to Mel, AJ, and Meadow if it meant he would continue to be boss. -I love that AJ didn't get shafted like Henry from The Americans and was the most dominant child as far as story and screntime goes. what a little bitch. If AJ were a part of the business and Tony found him in the pool he would of expedited the situation ala Christopher in the previous episode which is a brilliant piece of sequencing of those two events. -now a lifelong fan of Edie Falco, I added all her movies to my watchlist after Whitecaps. -I've been talking through this series with a couple of guys at work that have seen the show and one of them watches it at least once a year and went to Italy and a NJ/Sopranos tour where he met Vito. Anywho, I told them that I can only take so much of the argument "well, things just happen without resolution in life so things come and go in the show" so much and if they ignored the Russian subplot I wouldn't be able to chalk it up to that, but rather it was just lazy. And by the end of it I just didn't care after 6B. What we got was so so so perfect, perhaps if Chase forgone the Vito storyline and dealt the Russians but again I just think I'm actually ok with it. Kinda the same thoughts regarding the events of Employee of the Month. -I feel like the only person that like the Carmela/Furio thing. When Furio almost Raiders of the Lost Arked Tony I was eating broccoli and did a spit-take in my room with all the bits. I, in that moment was prepared for the show to go on without James Gandolfini because the only I knew about the show other the immense praise was that it just cut to black. -Joe Pantoliano is the best actor to give a knock-off Joe Pesci performance. -Animal symbolism was never too much. When Tony comes home after JohnnySac gets pinched and Tony rustles in the bushes and for a sec we think it's the bear. my jaw dropped, Tony the Bear was watching over the home during the separation with Carmela. Also, was the Orange Cat a symbol for death? Seasons Ranked: 5 - Just about perfect. Marco Polo to All Due Respect is perhaps the best stretch of television of alltime. 6B - Made me look past a lot of perceived flaws 3 - Tony vs. Ralphie is incredible here. Plus features Pine Barrens 4 - Whitecaps and the intervention go a long way with this season 2 - Great stuff overall don't recall to many nitty gritty details 1 - too procedural for my taste. Tony has this problem and in 50 minutes it will get solved 6A - Nothing happens plot-wise and characters aren't given room to breathe. it becomes dead space. Top-3 Episodes (was going to do ten, but cutting down the next 20 or 30 to 10 would be too difficult 1. Long Term Parking 2. Whitecaps 3. Blue Comet Top-5 performances 1. Gandolfini 2. Falco 3. Imperioli 4. Chianese 5. Pantoliano
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