Best Sopranos character (aside from the big guy)

Net cost for the whole series = $50, after selling S2 and S3 boxes on Amazon.

* Steven Van Zandt — Silvio "Sil" Dante

^my vote - the tilted head walk fuckin kills me

btw i want to read this thread but im only through season 1 - should i read it or is there too many spoilers wrt deaths and what not

There are a few spoilers up there, if you really don't know anything about what happens after Season 1.

I'm kind of amazed you guys thought the Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie was fulla Eyetalian stereotypes when you LOVE all these characters. (leave 'quality' whatever that is aside for a minute)

i mean, Little Steven is fine on this show, but it's like he stepped outta the pages of MAD magazine.

* Jerry Adler — Herman "Hesh" Rabkin 0

>:(

Has anyone accused David Chase of making his grand theme Blame It All On Mom? He has broadcast that Livia is quite directly based on his mother, which is a pretty cold move. It could be an Achilles heel he shares with Ingmar Bergman (they both do better with dream sequences).

i'd be curious if he had another plan in mind for livia that was altered due to nancy marchand's passing.

that theme recedes somewhat in the post-Marchand seasons but it's always there. and dealt with pretty explicitly imo

the plot arc that was planned for season 3 was for Livia to testify against Tony on racketeering charges related to the airline/bus tickets iirc

(that all went out the window, obviously)

also i really find Steve Van Zandt's always-screwed-up-face caricature as Silvio distracting. He's almost always in sketch comedy realm even compared to the other frequently funny goombahs.

DC says on one of the DVDs that when he thought he was going to have to make Sopranos as a single movie, it was all about the capo and whether his mom would betray him.

it's a bit of a caricature but also i think SVZ looks like that irl a lot of the time.

Silvio's probably the most one-dimensional of Tony's inner crew, apart from some stuff that happens later ("University" for ex.) that I won't go into for Morbz sake

that being said, he never really gets as fully fleshed out as Paulie or Bobby or Junior or Hesh. there's no "day in the life of silvio dante" episodes.

I'm on the fourth season; my favourites thus far have been Bobby, Junior, Hersh, and Johnny. Richie's been the scariest--and until I looked at the list above, I never realized he was Tony from Mean Streets.