Is there really not a Sopranos season 6 thread?

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Great, great episode (@Stu: I live in teh Netherlands, where it also isn't aired yet, but Bittorrent is everybody's friend, no matter where you live!).

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!

Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, exactly. i think i already know how janice and bobby got that baby.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i thought they made it clear that he was a DIFFERENT rat!

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

Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

now i'm beginning to doubt myself!

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

haha an episode devoted to how janice and bobby got that baby followed by an episode of autopsy would be like the best crash diet ever

j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i thought they made it clear that he was a DIFFERENT rat!

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.

baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah. there you go. they certainly suggested that petrille was curto in the last season though!

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...

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Interesting that Finn is at the center of the promo photos for the new season
Pretty sure that's AJ, at least in this one:
http://i23.ebayimg.com/03/i/06/7a/e6/32_1_b.JPG

Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link

OTM S1ocki. i think that this, the last season, will see the massive decline of almost everyone. Only Meadow will make it out realitively unscathed.

I loved seeing Carmella visit johnny sacks wife. you can tell that Carmella is finally starting to realize how this lifestyle ends...

JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

My prediction for the big suprise of this season: when Titus Pullo appears out of nowhere to save somebody from getting whacked.

The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

(And it turns out he is really the father of Janice and Bobby's baby.)

The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Where does D'Angelo Barksdale's ghost fit into this?

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I loved seeing Carmella visit johnny sacks wife. you can tell that Carmella is finally starting to realize how this lifestyle ends...

not to mention "let's go the spa to take your mind of the asset seizures...oh yeah, that is my new porshe"-- was there bad blood betw them & carm did that on purpose, or was that a look of "oops" on her face when ginny complemented the wheels?

W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 05:08 (eighteen years ago) link

there were a few scenes of her showing off the porsche

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah. i just thought she would be sensitive/aware enough not to flaunt it around ginny sack, considering.

W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

you should write a letter!

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm confident the show's fans and advertisers will punish mr. chase sufficiently for his lack of insight into human psychology

W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

it's true though, i wonder if this means carmela's gettin' corrupted!

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought the whole point of the spa visit/etc., was to show off the Porsche. Like, "Oh, that? Yeah, Tony gave it to me. NO BIGGY."

Made the part where she got upstaged at the end that much more poignant. Vettes are pretty cool, and they're cooler still when you PAY FOR THEM YOURSELF.

God I've missed this show.

gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it was showing off unintentionally, seeing as how Sack's wife had to tell her husband in jail that they're losing their car (did I get that rite?).
On Carmella getting corrupted, I can see that. Allthough I think 'hedonistic' is more appropriate. After all those catholic-guilt-ridden years, the escapism-gone-bad (Furio) and the Tony-screwing-around suffering, I could understand her saying finally: fuck it, I'm gonna enjoy everything that could be mine, developpe my own hobby(real-estate/stocks) and just live it out. Fear went out the window, yo!

Gerard (Gerard), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Random theory for the rest of the season. If something hapens again with Vito and Finn (Of course assuming the narrative is going to move forward, a Meadow/Finn wedding shouldn't be out of the question.) and Vito decides to silence him Meadow knows enough about the situation from the night of the sootcase to be very suspicious about such an event. Especially as Finn isn't involved in the business and it's happened to her before. I'd expect Meadow to have a word with her father about Vito, captain or no captain.

MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Carmella's been corrupted since at least the day she decided to get married.

dr lulu (dr lulu), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

MitchellStirling, my impression of events was that Finn proposed partially (or even mostly) for immunity. No one would dare kill off the husband (or fiancee) of the Boss's daughter, at least not without the Boss's approval. It was a way for Finn to stay with Meadow, which I do think he wanted, without having to worry too much about the Vito situation. Just my take.

Jouster (Jouster), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Jouster's right.

Although, Finn isn't made, so he doesn't have immunity per se. Just that extra layer of protection. And besides, Vito will have to contrive a reason to whack him, since he can't say "dude caught me sucking cock."

I'd more interested to see how the families would deal with an outed Vito. Whackable "offense?" I mean, it's totally against all the mob's macho values, but would they turn and kill him?

gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I agree it's not without it's holes. It's cetainly not clear cut that if Vito was outed as a "naked hot dog eater" (yes DC, I saw that in opener)it would immeaditdly recult in a wacking. I also agree that a part of the proposal Finn was saving his own skin.

However we all saw how easily the Tony B thing could have come back into play this week,(Tony would do anything for the old Jew wouldn't he.) If something flared up between Vito and Finn then it would be the easiest way to suck Meadow into Tony's world. She's more intellegent than her mother and much better suited to it than her brother.

MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

good god, the look on vito's face when he picked up the sausage and started eating it (at the badabing)... that is acting!

baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Carmella's been corrupted since at least the day she decided to get married.

We were just talking about this today. For all that the major shocking events of the Sopranos reflect badly on Tony, they reflect even worse on Carmella. At least he accepts responsibility for what he is, while she in some way likes to think of herself as a good person.

I think that the showing off of the Porsche (which presumably he bought (at least in part) with his cut of thingy's inheritance) was meant as a counterpoint to the grim suicide scene.

accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

x-post to gbx

In early 1992, after some high-level discussions, the DeCavalcante family sent out a hit team to whack acting boss John (Johnny Boy) D'Amato (left) for committing an unconscionable and most dishonorable crime: Being gay.
(this is one of the real life families that David Chase has used for source material on the show. they are set in Elizabeth NJ

JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

What happened between Vito and Finn in the previous season? I completely forgot what their beef was.

Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Finn saw Vito sucking construction worker cock.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Then stood him up at a Yankees game!

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah! Now I totally remember that :)

Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"He Marvin Gaye'd his own nephew, the boss of this family!"

The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Diarrheastan

Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 20 March 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

amazing episode.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 04:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not reading this thread, since I'm watching right now. So this may have been covered already. Nonetheless:

EDIE FUCKING FALCO

rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 20 March 2006 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link

this season is going to be relentless. jesus. I was sure tony would be ok until i saw this episode, now im thinking "would they?"

JD from CDepot, Monday, 20 March 2006 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link

wtf that ending!?

chaki (chaki), Monday, 20 March 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link

great episode except for AJ .... damn, that dude can't act

Renard (Renard), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

you crazy

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

actually, AJ seems exactly like a lot of teenagers I know--bad actors, all.

the best rumor I heard is that the first episode this season (last week, for those of you playing at home) is actually the second to the last episode of the series and that Tony will die on the last episode. In the intermittent 18 episodes (eps 2-19), we will fill in the blanks of the past two years and finish the series off with his death in #20.

Needless to say, last night's episode makes that theory a little shaky BUT the premise of not necessarily going a long ways forward in the timeline seems very possible.

don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

we already talked about that story. it is a bad theory.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean, we already talked about that theory, and it is a bad theory.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link


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!

-- Gerard (dronkenschi...), March 13th, 2006 3:39 PM. (Gerard)
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yeah, exactly. i think i already know how janice and bobby got that baby.

-- s1ocki (slytus...), March 13th, 2006 3:41 PM. (slutsky)

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

My theory is that those boys who are at the bing will be mistaken for suicide commandos but while they are getting whacked by Paulie and Chrissie the real commandos will be executing their mission.

The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

AND THE WHOLE SEASON IS A BUILD-UP TO 9/11... HINT: YOU NEVER HEAR WHAT YEAR IT IS.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

r u srsly?

Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

surely 9/11 has already been mentioned on the sopranos

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

It has

Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

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

That's So (Eazy), Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link

four years pass...

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.

goole, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

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

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 October 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 October 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link

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

... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 April 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

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

https://youtu.be/6r4nFbFXZIs

Invisible (Noel Emits), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link


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