[pixiedust]

I swear I waited the whole episode for Christopher to get whacked! First by Tony, then by Phils guys...or maybe they would miss and hit Juliana and then it would really be on! That had to be the worst season finally I have every seen! WTF was with the ending sitting in the living room like a freaking christmas card picture!

[jemisoutrageous]

, "listen you motherfucking shah-of-iran-looking cocksucker"

Mandolyn, I am so in love with you it's scary.

[karianne]

Mando, I agree. The LAST thing I wanted to see was AJ in bed with anyone. ICK. I can't stand him.

I like Juliana Margolis ok, but I don't like her character. I can't say I was surprised they relapsed together.

[mandolyn]

they should just drop the melfi sessions. there's not even any chemistry anymore.

i kept hoping juliana margolis would get whacked. i can't stand her and don't think she's beautiful at all. (not an ER fan, cantcha tell?) and fuck her for enabling christafah, even tho i know he's been using very well all by himself.

wtF with the precious chicken-soup-for-the-soul moment between tony and phil in the hospital? no no no! tony's supposed to bend down and whisper sweetly in his dying ear, "listen you motherfucking shah-of-iran-looking cocksucker, you come after anyone remotely near and dear to me and it'll be the last thing you ever do." if he was really a "changed man", would he still be insanely jealous of christofah & juliana?

loved the frozen look of horror on carm's face when AJ brought his 'new family' into casa soprano. and i could've lived my life quite happily never having to witness AJ getting it on in bed with that chick. that was oh so wrong. *shudder*

i agree. HBO sucks much donkeydong for making us wait another 9 months or year or whatever for the last 8 episodes. and only because they can. bastids.

[lot49]

yeah, booooriiiing. So, Tony discovers the meaning of life and now we all have to suffer?

[turbojenn]

YEAH, WTF!!! I'm pretty much chalking this season up to a big - pffft. So what. There's certainly portentous overtones of things falling apart, but we got very little action on that...and then all of a sudden its Christmas, and everyone is happy and smiling, and pretending like everything is fine....uh, I don't really care. Give me something to chew on.

I did like the scene in the hospital with Tony and Phil...that small little piece of the kind Tony came out.

BUT....looking ahead, new season of Deadwood next week...I'm gonna see if there's any interest in discussion in the community forum.

[karianne]

WTF was that?? I am utterly baffled. No cliffhanger, even.

[turbojenn]

final epi of this mini-season is this coming sunday....six more epis coming in January, and then that's it.

Honestly, I'm bored, over it, and *dying* for Deadwood to start and bring some sweetly foul cursing into my livingroom. ;)

[quietmadness]

Was that the last episode?

Why am I thinking there's supposed to be another one? Anybody?

Oh, yeah...Fuck HBO for taking away my Sopranos.
Fuck 'em hard with a broomstick.

The whole damned broomstick.

[jemisoutrageous]

Babbling Spoilers:

What the hell is up with this "last episode...of the year" boloney? Now there's going to be another two years of milling around and waiting for them to wind this shit up already?

I don't blame Carl and Silvio at all for stabbing that gross bastard that killed Vito and kept making those gross jokes about him. They loved Vito, regardeless of whether they thought he was a picklesmootcher or not.

The whole " 'faggotry is a sin' but we can anally rape and murder someone" shit from Phil really upset me, and his sanctimonious wife is a pig. That scene with Vito's kids reading the paper really blew my mind. (And yes, Phil coming out the closet was hillarious).

I'm not sure how I felt about the 'idyll in new hampshire/Vito shoots a guy in the head after hitting his car/Carmella in Paris sub plots---I mean, they were fine ,but where was my true love Christopher?

Johnny Sac saying that a mobster becoming a rat was like "one of your people becoming a Nazi' to his Jewish lawyer was BRILLIANT.

meadow can suck my dick, BTW. I am so done with her whining.
I loved Tony ,"You know who you should discuss this with? Your mother." and I LOVE the way they had him stand up to AJ the punk (finally) without reverting to beating his ass like Tony's father did to Tony, but then just when I'm starting to love him he's getting a blowjob from a stripper and totally dicking Johnny Sac ( Quiet, you're right,it was so LOW-RENT of the titty-tattoed Janice to go strolling through Ginny's house with a decorator while she was stil there-crying)and his wife out of his house.

I am not sad for Vito (although I loved him waddling all over NH with his mustachioed fireman, it was so cute!)--- he shouldn't have come back. 'Johnny cakes' totally had him pegged when he called Vito on missing 'the life' not his kids, and he did shoot that man in the head, which was totally out of line, I don't care how drunk/desperate he was. His dealth was especially brutal and uncalled for ,but he chose to go back to that life, what did he expect?

Drea looked so beautiful with her little beret and Rosalee is a piece of ass. you go on with your 26 year old,girl!

[sassygrrl]

So, I was watching "Sopranos" about a month ago at my parents house. It was one of those scenes with Meadow talking about her career.

My mother turned to me, and said: "That sounds like you."

So, I also find her character believeable. Also, I still react that way with my family about my relationships doubts.

[mermaidgirl13]

I do think Meadow is a believeable character. I loved when Carmella said "I thought you two were having problems" to Meadow (about Finn) and Meadow got all pissed and said "I never said that."

As a mid-20's gal, that's exactly how I'd react if I'd confided in my parents about relationship doubts only to have them bring it up later. I like Meadow a lot and I don't want her to be written off but I feel like she has no storyline of her own now that Finn doesn't have to worry about Vito anymore.

[celimene]

I'm really surprised any of you "loved" this episode. Speedy is right...it was Dull, dull, DULL. It seems like somebody new is directing or something. The season started out with real penache and was really exciting, and the last three episodes have been a snooze fest. As for Meadow being written off the show, I hope not. I really like her and think her character is totally believable. AJ is the one who is the TERRIBLE actor and who needs to be killed off. He's just bad, plain and simple. The stabbing of the random guy by Carl was really disgusting and unnecessary. I seriously doubt that would happen - he just went into a temper and lost control of a butcher knife, with no consequences, just an eye roll from Tony?? And all those long sequences in Paris with Carm were terrible. I think SHE was the one who wasn't being the good friend by bringing up the death of Rosalie's son and spoiling her vacation, then giving her a hard time about hooking up with a hot 26 year old. Carmella was totally raining on Rosalie's parade and ruining her trip, all because she was homesick and sad herself.

[turbojenn]

yeah, speedy, I was kind of shocked at my response on sunday, when things finally started happening, that I really didn't care. The Vito storyline was the only one in the show that had any heart, and now its gone already. This season feels like a last look at the family to be sure, but I had high hopes earlier in the season that the unraveling would be much more interesting to watch than it has been.

But yes....Phil coming out of the closet...a brilliant piece of visual folly!

[speedy]

Turbojenn, you read my mind: this season's shows, in my opinion, reveal how boring The Sopranos really is. I think it was intended to be boring, as part of David Chase's rarefied commentary on the conventions of serial television. Usually, the banality, the sheer lassitude of mob life, is my favorite part, but now that we know everybody's schtick in the show (and more than ever, it really does seem like schtick and less like characterization), the episodes feel like run-throughs: Carm sit here and do your nagging thing; Tony sit here and glower and huff and whinge, etc. etc. Even the cast looks bored! I loved the Vito substory, but it's over. And I don't think David Chase is even remotely interested in tying up any "story arcs." He seems to have conceived the show as this intermittent, not-especially-sequential look-see at a bunch of hoods stuck in a Beckett-like loop of barbarism and tedium. He should just return some of HBO's money and call it a day. Nobody's really feeling it any more.

[quietmadness]

I just got to watch Sunday's episode tonight...

Phil came "out of the closet" with Vito. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAHHHAAAAAA!

[nickclick]

i was totally hoping carmella would run into furio in paris!

ro's a good friend i think, the other wives maybe not. and why does carm keep dreaming about adrianna?

so tony's over his guilt about slobbing around with other women, huh? i suppose it made him feel "manly" after pussing out with vito.

i absolutely agree - AJ needs a smack, meadow can stay in CA, and phil in the closet cracked me up!

[karianne]

I thought last night's episode was good too. Everyone knew that was coming to Vito. I don't know what he was thinking going back there.

I too was so happy to see Tony FINALLY come down on AJ. I want to smack that kid. Mr K & I wonder if AJ will be killed off. There was a lot of foreshadowing.

I was shocked when that Carl stabbed that man.

I wouldn't mind if they wrote Meadow out of the show.

[mermaidgirl13]

I really loved this episode.

I loved that Tony finally seems to be kicking AJ's ass into gear without Carmella involved.

I loved Carmella's introspective comments in Paris, although all the shots of the sculptures, etc, got a little old.

The scene where they beat Vito to death was disgusting. But when Phil came out of the closet in the motel, that was a hilarious visual, even though he's quite a foreboding guy.

I'm wondering if Meadow's move to California means they are basically writing her out of the show.

I can't ever decide if I like Rosalie or if she's really a good friend or not. Sometimes I love her comments and sometimes I just don't like her. I liked how straight she was with Carmella about AJ in the hospital in the second episode of this season, but many other times I just felt 'eh' about her. The same for all the wives - are they really friends or are they just together because it's easier to have friends who understand where you're from/your husband's work?

[turbojenn]

I finally watched last week's epi last night....and..meh. I know they're building things up, but shit - this season is SO slow!

And really, I *hate* the dr. melfi scenes...so stiff, stilted and rehash rehash rehash....bah.

I'm totally just watching out of habit now, not because I'm all that interested. It makes me sad.