Is there really not a Sopranos season 6 thread?

I just watched seasons 1-5 (had never seen 5 until this last week) thanks to Netflix, and I really liked season 5. I'm on pins and needles.

my work started a sopranos death pool (pick a character, pick when said character will be dead by.) ive got bobby bacala in 6 episodes. just a hunch (no one could be married to janis that long and live...)

they've been running the entire series over the past few months on our cable and we've watched the whole thing, picked up a few things i never really caught before (like patsy parisi's twin brother) and i am freaking out in anticipation of season 6 and then season 6.5.

Bring it on!

the next 19 episodes might be the best shows ever on television. (i might regret this)

HOW FUCKING GOOD WAS THAT?!?

That was fucking good. Glad it was Tivo'd, too, since it was so fast. They packed a whole lot into the... I figure with the intro and previouslies maybe 45 minutes. But the ending left no doubt at all that I will watch next week. None.

Poor Uncle Junior. He's regressing into a baby. A very violent baby.

or

"Finally. I started to grow mushroom out my ass."
"There's an image."

I suppose it's possible. It took some serious balls to end the first ep that way, so who knows how much balls we're talking about? Still, though, I kinda doubt this theory. Too much future plot was set up for things not to go forward. The "where's Ade" question could be particularly fruitful.

also that particular gimmick is lame and over-used.

(xp)

Lame, yes. but overused by who?

I didn't think there was any doubt about that. But I don't think Tony knows it.

I do however think the theory posted above is bogus. For an extensive recap of what happened all year, shouldn't this episode have been *very* surprising to us viewers? I mean, shouldn't major events have taken place we can't grasp yet? It didn't. Surely, things happened: Junior's dementia is in an even worse (final?) phase, Chris is a captain now, Janice & Bobby's baby, but all of that isn't really *that* surprising is it?

Anyway, great episode, and I'm very anxious about next week!

Did they? As per usual, I missed a critical detail. And I watched the episode twice!

johnny sack's rat was jimmy petrille (a new york guy who i don't think has appeared on the show), raymond curto (heart attack guy) was one of tony's capos.

ok here's my half-baked theory on what the shooting aftermath won't be: it definitely won't be a flashback seaz, we've established that. but what i think MIGHT happen is that tony will more or less have to kill junior; alzheimer's or not you don't take a shot at a boss, at the boss, and tony will realize that he has to "retaliate" or look weak. which would mean killing his doddering old uncle. at leas that's how it may play out...

Two, Gloria Trillo threw a steak in his face before she killed herself

-- Dom Passantino, Monday, October 29, 2007 2:46 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

funny you remember that particular ep huh.

Zing would work better if it wasn't the most famous episode in Sopranos' history ("The Pine Barrens"), but bipolar bitch lulz always welcome: 7/10

What was the other steak reference?

Johnny Boy Soprano killing that dude at the butchers

he didn't kill him he just chopped off some fingers

and also it wasn't steak that Johnny Boy brought home from that it was "gabbagool" (some kind of capicola...?)

also I thought it was eggs = death, not meat

thanks for the pedantry.

meat, in that atthe butchers ep and the one dom mentioned, was important to tony.

sure, its a running theme

Book-length examination of the final scene: http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/

that is really terribly written and riddled with nonsensical logic, couldn't get past the opening paragraphs of Part I.

Phil Leotardo: Leonardo was a great Italian and that was our name originally, Leonardo. But many years ago, when my grandpa came over from Sicily, they changed it at Ellis Island from Leonardo to Leotardo.
Boy #3: Why'd they do that for?
Phil Leotardo: Because they're stupid, that's why. And jealous. They disrespected a proud Italian heritage, and named us after a ballet costume.
[girl raises her hand]
Phil Leotardo: Marissa.
Girl #2: That's for modern. In ballet, you wear tutus.
Boy #2: It doesn't make a difference.
Phil Leotardo: That's right, it doesn't.
[sits at bar]
Phil Leotardo: That cocksuckin' piece of shit Tony Soprano's cousin - I can't even say his name - murdered Billy. And what did I do about it?... My weakness. Sometimes I think it's in my DNA. My family took shit from the Merigans the minute we got off the boat.
Butch DeConcini: Come on, the fuck you talkin' about?
Phil Leotardo: Leotardo. That's my fuckin' legacy... No more, Butchie. No more of this.

That may be my favourite exchange in the whole series

http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/img/cast/character/phil_leotardo.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/53940841_a81f0e5ef8.jpg

Oh wow, I started this thread. Neat.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/bo5ton/simpsonsoftheweek/Homr/24.gif

heidy and kennedy may be the best hour of television ever.

It really does have everything, doesn't it? It's actually not my favorite episode of the show, but it's pretty incredible.

i never noticed this moment before:

Hesh's daughter: You can disagree with the evangelicals but they're great friends of the Jews. They believe Israel is the holy land.

Hesh (under his breath): Just wait.

I love Hesh.

the bit in Season 1 where Hesh tells the family not to get involved with the hasidim = classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFM00-rOMo

"Where'd he get this bread, the bread museum?"

watched all six seasons of this in about 6 weeks. unemployment to the max. so am i the only one who thinks season 6 is the best? way classier than the other five seasons, better endings, just better flow to all the episodes. thought the ending was fine, not amazing or massively disappointing either.

throughout the six seasons have to say paulie's one liners are one of the best things about this show, and the way they get progressively weirder and funnier. eg when they find out about vito and he says "if i get my hands on him i'll shove something up HIS ass"...then realises what he's said and is like even angrier: "and it won't be no cock neither!"

is there anyone who DOESNT think tony gets it in the last episode?

eh, I like the ambiguity of it, that he's condemned to a perpetual state of paranoia/fear/suspicion

very Catholic

but the stuff about "you probably don't even feel it when it happens" and the "it's just a big nothing" lines seem like pretty obvious signposts so yeah

ya, and the dude going into the bathroom...

i dig the ambiguity, but the more i think about it, the hard cut to black etc etc... is MY personal take

iyo did tony die at the end of "the sopranos"

i can't tell if "doesn't die" won on a shipley-led technicality or if people actually think he lives past that moment

hahahah me too

good technicality and i totally agree BUT at the same time, everyone's got a theory in the back of their head right?

jesus all those psychos, misogynists and murderers in the sopranos and somehow AJ still comes out the worst cunt in the whole racket

good when tony stamps on coco's head tho

AJ still comes out the worst cunt in the whole racket

dunno how anyone could draw this conclusion

well he's probably the most annoying tv character of all time. Dunno if I'd call him a cunt though

AJ was a complete fuckup and super annoying but his last gf was pretty hot

his last two girlfriends were both stunning

cunt as in person

worst was probably a bit strong but he's consistently v.v.annoying

yeah I was interpreting "worst" in a moral sense there... I do feel like he's the most outwardly pathetic. I've noted elsewhere that I don't think he has a single scene that doesn't involve him being humiliated in some way

he's tragically, flailingly, depressed and unable to see beyond himself

like father...

when you put it that way

Watched "Heidi and Kennedy" last night. Amazed at its density, how much ground it covers in an hour. And all that asbestos.

i had been watching thru this again; past about mid-s4 watching for the first time. i watched the final 2 and half eps yesterday -- in a strange coincidence, the 5 yr anniversary of gandolfini's death. RIP.

i found it tough going a lot of the time, despite the complete magnificence of s6 A and B. i wasn't really enjoying spending time with these violent lying deluded people! and i stopped caring what happened, what they did to each other, or how the writers would find ways to show them failing to solve their obvious problems in the same ways over and over again. i skipped over the middle of s5. peace to david strathairn.

i ended up loving rosalie aprile. i ended up completely hating dr. melfi. wisdom never turns up where it's needed, is that the point?

has the finale been compared to the seinfeld finale at all? i'm sure, somewhere, on a blog... i loved it. a great fuck you to us for identifying, for wanting to see them off cleanly, one way or another. the comment above that tony could be killed 5 sec or 20 years later, is right on.

the last scene with tony and junior was wonderful.

just started on season 6 on my rewatch of the sopranos. the way they take eugene pontecorvo, a complete bit part character, and make him sympathetic and fully-fleshed in that first episode of season 6, and the horrendous suicide scene, *kisses fingers*.

i hadn't watched the show since it was originally broadcast and I've got to say the rewatch has only confirmed to me that this is my favourite tv show ever

feel like it was a real turning point in TV, one of those rare genuine milestones that is also really rewarding to return to

Bobby Baccala, discussing his family's immigration history: "They should build a wall now, though"

Potential spinoff with AJ as the new MAGA NJ crime boss.

best episode of the season so far also AWESOME USE OF EARLY GIORGIO MORODER SONG IN THE BADA BING! THIS season has had the best music!!
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:28