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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Mar 23, 2006 17:14:43 GMT -5
I was wondering if like many of you I am looking forward to a three things this week - the game on Friday, the game on Sunday and watching the Sopranos to find out if Tony is coming out of the coma.
I am still wondering what Junior said to Tony when he shot him - Kornheiser brought this up today on the radio and I still have no idea what exactly was said or if it was siginifcant.
However, the coma episode last week was rather slow and clunky however there were some interesting ways of weaving in things said in the hospital and around Tony into this dreams. Overall the coma was very Freudian and highly embued with lots of religious symols - creating a tension between Tony dying and Tony finding himself and waking up.
Let me know if you all are big fans of the Sopranos like I am.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2006 0:20:21 GMT -5
Show has gotten progressively less entertaining since season one. However, this season is looking like it has the potential to be as good as - say - season two. Just my $0.02.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Mar 24, 2006 11:22:19 GMT -5
I'm worried that Tony might be in the coma for a while. The last few seasons have really been bogged down by the dream sequences which the writers seem to love so much. I think Junior said something in Italian, and he souded pretty angry, but I don't know if what he said is significant or if they were just trying to further demonstrate how much he's lost it. My favorite moment from last week episode was definitely when Paulie took AJ to the movies to get his mind off Tony, "Van Helsing. Let's Go." Did that movie even make it to theatres?
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Post by BurleithBeast on Mar 24, 2006 15:05:25 GMT -5
Wasn't Paulie just making fun of his hair?
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Post by CTHoya08 on Mar 24, 2006 15:57:34 GMT -5
Probably, but I like my interpretation.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Mar 25, 2006 18:03:27 GMT -5
Yeah it was his hair that he was making fun of.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Mar 27, 2006 18:21:30 GMT -5
So somehow you can go into a coma, nearly die, and then have all of that shocked out of you via defib ... I liked the heaven and purgatory scenes and the freudian search for self - but I kind of feel like the producers wasted two episodes. Its pretty clear that now that Tony is back he's going to start ordering that those that were disloyal while he was in the coma be taken out.
By far the funniest moment of the show was the when Meadow's boy friend showed up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2006 11:15:48 GMT -5
[quote author=stpetersburghoya board=offtopic thread=1143152083
By far the funniest moment of the show was the when Meadow's boy friend showed up.[/quote]
While the hand rubbing was funny, I can't get the image of Paulie icing down his sack all episode out of my head. That was one of the funnier things I'd ever seen on the show.
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Post by kchoya on Mar 31, 2006 14:36:27 GMT -5
Paulie's reaction when he walks in and sees Tony was a definite tivo rewind moment.
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Post by Cambridge on Apr 6, 2006 0:20:58 GMT -5
yawn...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2006 8:12:28 GMT -5
Yawn?! Wait a sec... aren't you one of the dopes who jumped down my throat in Post-War for saying the show had been on a steady decline since season one? Flip-flop...
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Post by Cambridge on Apr 6, 2006 10:21:34 GMT -5
Nope, I've never ever been a fan of the show. Check my voting record. I stand by it.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Apr 9, 2006 21:08:09 GMT -5
Johnny Sac's daughter Allegra certainly takes after her mother...
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Post by StoneColdHoya on Apr 9, 2006 21:36:13 GMT -5
I think this season so far is up there with seasons 1 and 2. I love how they get in the little jabs at the life's little paradoxes, like the AJ's date at Alegra's wedding who says she won't eat seafood because of the toxins as she's puffing a cigarette. And I'm fairly certain they named Johnny Sac's daughter "Alegra" just so they could put in the one line for Christopher -- "what's a cold medicine got to do with happiness?" Having been taking allegra now for about 5 years b/c of my allergies, I thought that was fricking hysterical. The middle seasons didn't have those as much, I don't think.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2006 21:46:55 GMT -5
This is up with season two, I agree...
... but NOTHING is near season one. Please.
The whole Tony-Big Puss-Uncle Jun-Jackie Apriel-Johnny Sack saga from that debut season can't be beat.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Apr 10, 2006 1:48:06 GMT -5
I liked the last two episodes a lot - but things don't seem to be moving towards a conclusion in any of the story lines anytime soon. The tension with Johnny Sac and NY is far from cleared up, the Meadow wedding thing seems far off, Christopher is apparently funding terrorists with stolen credit card numbers and hasn't mentioned his movie again, AJ was barely in the story ... at least Tony is back in therapy ... I really enjoyed Sac and Tony pretending to talk to the old people while discussing business that was perfect comic relief.
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Post by nychoya3 on Apr 14, 2006 17:36:34 GMT -5
I'm loving this season. They've really reemphasized the primary dramatic tension of the show, which is Tony's desire to maintain some level of humanity and the various sociopaths and psychotics that he neccesarily associates with. This show is about Tony Soprano, and it's about time David Chase remembered that. All this talk about every day being a gift is going to run into the increasingly unhinged Vito and Paulie sector of his life soon enough.
To all the people listing various loose ends and unresolved tensions, don't hold your breath for all of them to be closed. The Sopranos isn't written to wrap into a neat little bundle and plot threads, but rather to be basically anarchy. We don't know what happened to the Russian because neither does Christopher or...was it Paulie? Anyway, I won't begin to ponder how it all ends because it's basically unknowable, like guessing Maggie shot Mr. Burns. That's why it's so freaking awesome.
I had been more into Deadwood and The Wire lately, but this season has been awesome.
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Post by kchoya on Apr 18, 2006 10:06:24 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 11:15:49 GMT -5
Worst. Letter to the Editor. Ever.
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Post by Gold Hoya on May 7, 2006 22:30:25 GMT -5
Anyone else thoroughly amused by Tony walking into the restroom and saying "You're doing a great job, Brownie" to Paulie?
I also was entertained by Father Jose, played by the same actor who played Sofia Lopez on Nip/Tuck.
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