Sopranos?

[Woodsy]

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77


Chrissy should get some more power, the gambling hall, etc passed to him, assuming he doesn't get back into the H.

wadafukk?!?
Christophu couldn't even handle the Cigerette trade without fuckin it up, had a drug hit in the club with out knowing it, & damn near got turned by the feds.
hes a user who thinks he can "cheat " with his addictions.
hes a weak link & if he wasn't family would be dead by now already, capish?!?

[bagtagley]

FACK

Stupid cable company cut us off 4 days too early. No HBO = No Sopranos. Damn college town, nobody has HBO. I'd try to download it, but I have cable internet.

[CaddyDaddy77]

Originally posted by Woodsy
wadafukk?!?
Christophu couldn't even handle the Cigerette trade without fuckin it up, had a drug hit in the club with out knowing it, & damn near got turned by the feds.
hes a user who thinks he can "cheat " with his addictions.
hes a weak link & if he wasn't family would be dead by now already, capish?!?

Haaaa!

It's going to happen, worthy or not, some more responsibility is going to be pushed his way.

On that note was it just me or did they mention that they were getting sweated by the feds for the cigarette tax stamps and then totally dropped it, no mention for the rest of the episode. ???

Methinks the feds are going to grab Chrissy, probably all fucked up celebrating after getting a promotion.

[Benny Profane]

So my TV gets fried last week by a passing storm. and I finally get a new 32", just like Tony's. So. like, I'm back. Well, well, she dropped fast.

Why do some people, after, what, like 70 episodes, keep insisting on predictions?

[yogachik]

I'm getting excited about Sunday, and this article I just read helped boost it:

Sopranos' to Air Its Fifth-Season Finale

49 minutes ago

By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - Poor Adriana: Scuttling on all fours across dead leaves in a forest until Silvio, Tony Soprano's consigliere, popped her with two shots. That was Adriana's ghastly end on the most recent episode of "The Sopranos," underlining how business is business in a mob family — even for Ade, a terribly reluctant FBI (news - web sites) informant whose own fiance, Soprano soldier Christopher Moltisanti, set in motion the hit Tony ordered.

"The Sopranos" airs its fifth-season finale Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO.

Exactly what awaits Tony, his New Jersey mob and the family at home is known to only one man: series creator David Chase. But mounting evidence ensures that few, if any, of these characters will dodge some measure of damnation. Or deserve to.

Just consider their accelerating moral slide this season.

Early on, Tony (James Gandolfini ) welcomed back from prison his cousin Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi ), who resolved to go straight, but quickly caved. Then, after joining the Soprano mob, he betrayed that cause, too, by settling a grudge against a member of another gang. "Tony B." has now put "Tony S." in the grim position of sacrificing him to appease New York boss Johnny Sack (Vince Curatola).


The season found Tony in turmoil over his separation from wife Carmela (Edie Falco), while their sulky teenage son, A.J. (Robert Iler), sank further into life as a hump. Spoiled daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Discala) became engaged to Finn, a squeaky-clean fellow college student whose health has already been endangered by his ties to her.


And in the most recent episode, Tony made a successful bid to reconcile with Carmela, vowing that "my mid-life crisis problems will no longer intrude on you anymore." Dubbioso. Nonetheless, Carmela has reclaimed her place in his world just in time, it seems, to join him as he swirls down the drain.


Ever since the show's first episode, when he had a panic attack beside his swimming pool, Tony has lived on shaky ground. This season, viewers got new information why.


He's been plagued by guilt since missing the heist that sent Tony B. away for 15 years. And, worse, his absence wasn't from a mugging hours earlier that put him in the hospital, as he always claimed, but, shamefully, because he had a panic attack after an argument with his mother — then collapsed and cut his head.


He is still pained by memories of high school sports, which inspires one of the season's most touching moments: He tries to reason with Alzheimer's-afflicted Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese (news)), who keeps bringing up Tony's failures as a jock.


"Why does it gotta be something mean? Why can't you repeat something good?" Tony asks. "Don't you love me?"


And he discovers, to his shock, that his cherished childhood dog ended up in the home of his father's mistress and her kid, after his monstrous mother made his father get rid of it.


One measure of the greatness of "The Sopranos" is how Tony's increasingly stark image as a fiend is counterbalanced by these new revelations into what shaped the fiendishness.


From the beginning, Tony has wrestled with his tortured psyche in therapy sessions with Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco (news)). But during a memorable episode this year, his psyche was laid bare in a 21-minute dream sequence that, among other startling sights, found Tony in his living room astride the racehorse that last season perished in a fire. From the sofa, Carmela laid down a condition for his moving back home: "You can't have your horse in here."


This season, as usual, "The Sopranos" has been rich with violence and blood, and, even more, with brooding tension. But, as always, it's been funny, too.


Poor Adriana (Drea de Matteo), tormented by her status as a snitch! She fretted herself into a case of irritable bowel syndrome. Sad — but funny.


Meanwhile, not-so-wise-guy Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) was good for an inadvertent howler, such as when he counseled Tony B. against doing business with Koreans: "Word to the wise: Remember Pearl Harbor!"


And maybe the funniest line of all came from serial screw-up Christopher (Michael Imperioli).Summoned by his Uncle Tony for a reaming, he came armed with excuses, but for the wrong offense: "This about the Easter baskets?"

"I don't even know what THAT is," Tony sighed. "And to tell you the truth, I don't want to know."

What is awaiting Tony this Sunday, and beyond, that he doesn't want to know? Viewers are itching to find out!

[Anxious Mo-Fo]

A shame that my favorite two favorite characters from the past year have been shown the door: Feech and Johnny Sack.

Last night did have a classic exchange though, the bit about Alcoholics Anonymous.

[xboat]

"We're from Alcoholics Anonymous"

"What's your name?"

"We're anonymous!"

[CaddyDaddy77]

There were some good turns last night.


AJ, looks to be a promoter from the jist I got, maybe the next DK?

Liked Tony's decision to deal with his cousin, but it was still an eye-opener.

The end was interesting, wonder how he gets his caddy-lac back?

[yogachik]

Tony was inspired by the painting of himself as a General... gotta love that- great writing.

[Woodsy]

i dunno, anti-climatic if you ask me.

sac gets popped? isnt that

CON VEEEEnient!

2 much spec home bullchit.

disappointedon this end, but hey 6 feet under starts soon

[splat]

It appears that by not overreacting to all the bullshit going down, Tony saved himself and his crew, coming out on top with the Brooklyn crew getting taken out by the feds. That puts him squarely in the drivers seat and all his boys kicking themselves in the ass for doubting him. Yes?

[tuffy109]

then technincally, he didn't have to kill buscemi

edit: it would've been cool if they had a doogie howser cameo at the hospital

[Benny Profane]

Found this interview with David Chase in the NPR archives:

http://freshair.npr.org/guest_fa.jht...AEJVLA5AINSFFA

Bet they are offering him a King's ransom to take it beyond the next season.

[Anxious Mo-Fo]

The actor who plays the fat gay guy (the one Meadow's boyfriend saw gettin' busy with the security guard) was on Howard Stern recently, and he said they won't begin production of the final season until next April... which means we've got a long wait, probably October 2005, for new shows.