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Meta
Please…no spoilers.
Please…no spoilers. I’m still waiting for Hoat to send me a copy…he had the damn tape sitting in his trunk for a week.
I won’t – – – that’s why I kept it short and sweet. Had to get that out there.
ANYONE POSTING – use discretion…SR – tell us when you’ve seen it
Because of Hoat, I am way behind, like four episodes behind. I’m tempted…REALLY TEMPTED… to ask what happened.
Hoat seems to be operating at a typical ‘government’ level of effectiveness – – – They’re on my ondemand here at home, but I don’t have the disks required to pull it (using my DVD burner) – – – it’s a Phillips and only uses Phillips disks. Boo Hoo – – – with new seasons of shows, I prefer to get it that way rather than hop on a torrent…just in case that was the episode or season they decided to refer to the Justice Dept.
“I always feel like, somebody’s Watchin’ me”
remember that song?
Oh yeah, I know that song. Good teaser as I don’t know what is going on. Somebody watching Vito?
Save those episodes. You didn’t forget that my ass will be there next month did you?
Nope – I don’t remember anything about you comming here…where do you get that from?
I knew about this?
You haven’t bought tickets already have you?!?!?!
Hmmm – – – – – – – – – – – –
Just Kidding Jeff
Looking forward to seeing you – trying to teach Max and Sam some Russian before you arrive.
If you’ve got those boys talking already, I’ll be impressed.
Hoat and Adam have sent me some tapes. I should be caught up soon.
Hoat and Adam need to stop treating me like a lepper!!!
It’s almost like I DIDN’T doom their futures with my alcohol-ridden subversion.
At least a “HEY, FUCK YOU!” every once in a while would be SOMETHING!
Shoot – here I am babblin’ like Trixy
Shit man, it is heard enough to get them to visit my blog too.
Yea – we really needed to see some action together…I thought we did, but with Iraq, ‘action’ takes on a new meaning.
HOAT’s still pissed that I was given the key to the city in Charlston for that speech I wrote for the KKK in ’98.
I know. Hoat was a total shoo-in for it too!
Great music selection with Simple Man as Tony was giving that person a ride home.
You could cut the irony with knife – – – helsing, what’s your overall impression of the season?
Big spoilers ahead for those who haven’t watched.
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I really enjoyed a couple of the story lines this year. Johny Sac story lines were great- the wedding, losing his house, everyone shitting on him for pleading guilty. Paulie’s character was incredible this year with both acting and writing from the entire Church carnival episode to the last episode with the scene with him at the table and they get the news about Vito and he doesn’t say a thing but the looks between him and Tony are great. Another one I liked was how Carmela feels the need to be more like her friend Angie who is a succesful business women, but when Carmela is in Paris with Rosalie she sees how unpolished she is and realizes that she is nothing more than a housewife. One thing that irked me this season is that it didn’t flow well, whether it was the writing or the directing it just didn’t seem right. For example, out of nowhere Chris is married to some girl who is pregnant, will this be followed up or is this going to be just like the Russian in the Pine Barrens episode?
As I post quite late, I will say that I agree with Chris – this episode was dark. Cold Stones. I remember thinking, “Enough of this Paris bullshit.”
Important because of the conversation she had with Rosalee about Jackie Jr…it had been weighing on her mind up until then about how Adriana died, and her dream confirmed what she had suspected, as you’ll notice she’s walking her dog…the one that Chris sat on all smacked-out and killed.
It’s the moment when she realizes (perhaps only subconsciously, as you can never be sure whether a character remembers their dreams or not), that when people close to the family die or disappear suspiciously, it’s probably business related.
Adriana’s dead…she knows that, because she said she ‘found Cossette’
Does Furio come back into the picture, or is it the Russians?
How about the junky he hired to act as a middleman for the foreigners shipped in to take care of the ‘mayor of munchkinland’? Notice that when they regroup, when Chris pays him (shorts the guy, knowing he’s jonesing, includes a bag of H, knowing that he won’t call him on it)…the junky mentions the guy by his name, and Chris says, “yea, nice job”…food for thought, the fact that Chris puts all this trust into “someone who could be fliped over a dimebag”…
Not to mention the arabs he’s selling guns to…
Lots of threads here, all of them lead to DOOM
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My take on the Paris thing: I read somewhere Chase likes to go to Paris right before the start of the Sopranos season. Good for Drea to get a trip to Paris. There were an extended number of scenes filmed there probably to justify the filming trip. Maybe also Chase wanted to convey Carm’s journey to ultimate and profound realization of life and parallel it with Tony’s in the first few episodes (Join the Club-Mayham)…’who am I? Where am I going?’ and ‘we all go about in self pity for ourselves while a great wind carries us along’ (paraphrase)…very existential. Still, I like how the direction of the episode (Carm in Paris snapping a picture of the Pig. Then, the next shot of the fellas at Satriales, Murmur telling a joke about a pig). Overall, It was a dark episode, like most of the other episodes in this season, conveying the sense that this organization (omerta as well as the immediate family)is about to come to an anti-climatic end. Yet, there where many hysterical moments (Phil coming out of the closet, before Vito is killed and the antics with Sal Vitro) as well.
What about the Paris spotlight? Seems like the spotlight signifies mortality, or the end of it (spotlight was the end of life for Gandolfini in LA).
Yeah,
that’s another important reference with the Eiffel Tower. There are others: the briefcase ‘my life’s work is in that’ in ‘Mayham’ (before T comes out of the coma) and Carm in this last episode with the Louis Vuitton “vittoon” wallet/gift from Tony, filled with dollars.
The insignificance of life. What is really all about even if we are immortalized is some ‘cold stones’?