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Sopranos-The New Season Begins on Sunday Night--Official Thread
HBO ^ | 3/10/06 | Misterrob

Posted on 03/10/2006 10:52:47 AM PST by misterrob

I didn't see one had been started for the show so I thought I'd create one.

Last season left us with Tony having to exercise some leadership within his own organization in order to save them from a war with the larger and more powerful NY families. His nemesis is picked up during a sweep leaving a void in the mob heirarchy. Meanwhile Tony and his wife have reconciled (badly done mind you), Meadow is now engaged to her confused, brow beaten and somewhat afraid boyfriend. Initial reviews point to a good season with new cast members Ben Kingsley, Tim Daley and Juliana Margulies joining the show.


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To: eleni121

Wow. He dramatically comes into conscienceness, microseconds after dying.


261 posted on 03/26/2006 7:46:24 PM PST by lormand (...the wrong person came out of the water that fateful night in Chappaquiddick)
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To: eleni121; mslee
Well, at least we know from the previews "tony" comes back in full force next week.

I have a hard time with the dream sequences. Can't seem to follow where all the fictitious characters fit in.

NOTHING can keep me from watching the Sopranos tho :)

262 posted on 03/26/2006 8:13:53 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife (One flag..one language..one loyalty)
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To: lormand

He dramatically comes into conscienceness, microseconds after dying.
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He sure does... perhaps the subconscious fear that the "party house" is a bad place provokes consciousness...he hears the little girl's voice in the bushes (his daughter) and returns to the land of the living...and maybe a wish to make moral restitution


263 posted on 03/26/2006 8:29:42 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: spectre

my favorite dream sequence is just before big pussy gets whacked with the fishes.

I knew the big hotel was heaven before steve buchemi showed up. it looked like the religious paintings with all windows lit up.


264 posted on 03/26/2006 9:58:12 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (what?)
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To: 0siris

brokeback mafia


265 posted on 03/26/2006 9:59:46 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (what?)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

I think the house represented Hell. Didn't the woman inside the house seem like Tony's mother?


266 posted on 03/27/2006 6:00:14 AM PST by mslee
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To: mslee
Yeah...that was Livia, all right. One of my favorite scenes was Paulie clipping coupons on his kitchen table.

And the stare Carmela gives him as the elevator doors close. Chilling...

267 posted on 03/27/2006 6:04:14 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: Publius
Chris' intervention was a classic, especially when Paulie grabbed him and started beating the crap out of him.

My absolute favorite Soprano scene. Especially Sil reading his testimony in a dead pan voice: "When I came in to open up one morning, there you were with your head half in the toilet. Your hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting."
268 posted on 03/27/2006 8:44:17 PM PST by Welsh Rabbit
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To: mslee

I thought so. Maybe it proves that if you make peace with god, you can get to heaven. I doesn't matter how much of a bitch you are in life.


269 posted on 03/28/2006 6:30:05 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (what?)
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To: mslee

I meant God, not god.


270 posted on 03/28/2006 6:30:37 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (what?)
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To: misterrob

Tonight's show was all over the place. I give it a 6/10. Paulie finds out about his real mother...and goes berserk...beating up poor salf centered Jason..and cutting off his "mom" at the posh nursing home.

The born again Colson minister stops by and Soprano and boys are quietly respectful... they actually pray together in the first meeting although the bit about the dinosaurs was exagerrated.


272 posted on 04/02/2006 8:47:43 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: eleni121

I didn't care at all for tonight's episode. One of my least favorites in the show's history, right up there with the Columbus Day episode and the one with the creepy JFK/Papa Soprano's girlfriend. The episode was too preachy (New Age Hollywood Buddhist preachy), and riddled with stereotypes. I didn't see who wrote it, but it wouldn't have surprised me if Imperioli wrote it, because the last episode that had characters talking according to stereotype (HMO person, the rappers, the easy target creationist, the "enlightened" scientist who acted as the "voice" for the episode), was the Columbus Day one that he scripted.

Has Oliver Stone or Scorsese gotten to David Chase's ear? The valoration of an old Ojibwe saying reeks of pretentious and desperate anti-Western Civilization identification. What's next, a close up of an eskimo shedding a tear when Tony kills someone in the next couple of episodes? Why not an episode thematically built around a phrase from one of John Locke's works, or Friedrich Hayek's, or Roger Bacon's, you know, authors/philosophers whose views of the world have been validated time and time again--instead of this sanctimonious Rouseau-ian valoration of the "noble savage"? Ah, because the Zinnchomskys of the world would call you a fascist if you did that.


273 posted on 04/02/2006 9:25:43 PM PDT by 0siris
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To: 0siris
I enjoyed the episode. Once again, Paulie stole the show. He had all the good lines and he delivered them well. Let's not forget, he is the 2006 Honoree For Excellence in Recycling (did you notice the pinky ring).

He had many funny lines. How about his advice to Jason ("Effen Momma's Boy) Barone? - "There's allot to things to take into account. Do you even know what JA-EBITDA is (A-mor-tiz-ation).

Paulie let Tony know who his father was in a colorful way ("That C*** Suck*r GI named Russ). He told his mom (aunt) that she is the "goose with the golden eggs". He mentioned he got her the massage chair from "Sharpers Image" and that he paid 2 grand for the flat screen TV for "a woman I don't even know".

Did you catch "Nurse Bruce" inform Carmella she had a phone call?

I thought the message Schwinn (Hal Holbrook) preached (dichotomy does not exist) was brought out visually by Chase at the end of the episode, with panoramic views of the wind passing through the trees crossing between good and evil.

Look for more about Johnny Sack and the two Muslims next week.

274 posted on 04/02/2006 11:29:17 PM PDT by UnBubba
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To: 0siris

One of my least favorite episodes also.
Way to preachy. I don't tune in to Sopranos to be
lectured to by lib writers.


275 posted on 04/02/2006 11:41:43 PM PDT by 2rightsleftcoast
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To: UnBubba
With Paulie they showed a lot of depth in the character. Pain, disappointment, self-doubt and hate towards someone who had a mother that loved him and the need to persecute that person to mask his own pain.

Tony seems very torn spiritually and not to mention adrift as if he is looking for something. The evangelical who disputed the dinosaur was rather amusing but the writer was also mocking that faith and telling Tony that his answer is not in that path. Holbrook's (writer's) slant was more of a simple belief and that is that we are all connected. What was not expounded upon though was how the actions of one affect us all and that is something they missed.

The shooting of the rapper in the ass was hysterical.....
276 posted on 04/03/2006 4:42:56 AM PDT by misterrob (Islam is a hate crime)
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To: misterrob
The shooting of the rapper in the ass was hysterical.....

LOL!! That's really going to improve his 'cred' on the street. I wonder if it backfires on the rapper? No pun intended.

Overall, I thought this episode was pretty good. It will be interesting to see where it leads. If Tony gets too philosophical, that will create a serious rift within his crime family.

277 posted on 04/03/2006 8:41:11 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Closing in on 3000 posts, of which maybe 50 were worthwhile!)
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To: Night Hides Not

Next week you will see him start to reassert control over his operations with some instances of brutality. The pack is sensing his weakness and will turn on him soon otherwise.


278 posted on 04/03/2006 10:19:15 AM PDT by misterrob (Mo Dowd--More Mileage Than A 75 VW Bus)
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To: misterrob

You're right, rob. I think we caught a hint of that in the previews for next week.


279 posted on 04/03/2006 1:46:05 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Closing in on 3000 posts, of which maybe 50 were worthwhile!)
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To: 0siris

I'm a newcomer to the Soprano soap - since last fall watching the last season before it went off the air - so I am not familiar with all the past episodes. You point out a theme developed around Hayek...Certainly the economic essence of the families would not be appreciated by Hayek...this proto-capitalistic bunch seek to control sectors of the economy much like the guilds did in the middle ages. Far easier to delve into mysticism and the angst of the post modern world and its effects on these primitive creatures.

I appreciate (at least so far) the intricacies of plot of the show...it captures the tragico-comedic flair of the gangster genre and it's just plain fun watching some really fine actors doing their stuff.

So far, this season does not contain the magic of the past IMO. I admire the chutzpa of the writers inserting the born again minister and his interactions with Tony mentioning Colson...that was intriguing. it was as respectful as it can get on HBO. I agree with the "rapper" bit - that was so awful and pandering to what? an expanded audience? And the enlightened scientist---I got that differently from you. He seemed to be talking gibberish most of the time...and was juxtaposed to the pastor's born again rap. I guess Tony is supposed to be the intermediary between the 2 xtremes...LOL.

You have to wonder what is happening with the writing staff. Trying to appeal to everybody it appears.


280 posted on 04/03/2006 4:15:21 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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