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Sopranos begins its swan song
Edmonton Journal ^ | 04/07/07 | Alex Strachan

Posted on 04/08/2007 4:29:13 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

It's never over till it's over" goes the familiar refrain. This time, though, it's truly over for The Sopranos.

The quintessentially American family epic raises the curtain on the first of its nine final episodes tonight. The final aria will be sung June 10. The final scene was filmed in a wholesome family ice cream parlour, in Bloomfield, N.J. and includes James Gandolfini's gangster don and family man Tony Soprano, Edie Falco's pragmatic -- and legit -- mob moll Carmela Soprano and Tony Sirico's immaculately coiffed capo Peter Paul Gualtieri, a.k.a. Paulie Walnuts, a movie buff and debt collector given to saying things like, "I was born, grew up, spent a few years in the army, a few more in the can and here I am, a half o' wise guy."

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To: Pukin Dog

Cool, thanks for the heads up.


61 posted on 04/08/2007 7:16:43 AM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: All
Okay, one more......

Tony gets a very pleasant birthday present.

62 posted on 04/08/2007 7:17:06 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: onward_xtian_soldier

Sure that’s what we need, more nanny state government! We don’t have nearly enough intrusion. I need a gov’t watchdog to tell me how to change channels, turn off the TV or just not purchase HBO. Thanks for the idea, COMRADE!


63 posted on 04/08/2007 7:18:07 AM PDT by StoneColdTaxHater
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To: Graymatter

And so is mine, so I know what I’m talking about! (It’s a joke, OK?)


64 posted on 04/08/2007 7:21:26 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Wormwood

OH Man! I watched the clip and am now just weeping. THat was the best, saddest ending of a show I have ever seen.


65 posted on 04/08/2007 7:21:51 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

The dimwitted sportscaster, Sid Rosenberg, revealed on the Imus show that Christopher gets “shot.” Now, Christopher seems to get shot every season so I don’t know how final the situation is.


66 posted on 04/08/2007 7:24:05 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: onward_xtian_soldier; aculeus; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; Billthedrill; Senator Bedfellow; ...
One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely. And that other show someone mentioned, the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent. I pray for that day, and others should join me.

Having seen many books, short stories, and plays mutilated for the screen by Hays Code requirements, I can only say no thank you.

67 posted on 04/08/2007 7:25:59 AM PDT by dighton
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To: miss marmelstein

If Christo-fuh gets offed, I won’t be sad after Adriana got offed b/o his blabbing.


68 posted on 04/08/2007 7:35:06 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Puppage; All
Since when is evil swiftly punished??
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

The Importance of Being Earnest.


69 posted on 04/08/2007 7:38:17 AM PDT by dighton
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To: miss marmelstein

OK.


70 posted on 04/08/2007 7:39:15 AM PDT by Graymatter (FREDeralist)
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To: cajungirl

I thought the death of Adriana was the very best episode in the entire series. What performances!


71 posted on 04/08/2007 7:44:32 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: napscoordinator

I watch Las Vegas, but it is so over the top it’s more comedy than drama.

Numb3rs is the only crime drama I can stand on network TV. Even though the math is unrealistic, it’s at least interesting.

All the rest are so faithful to the EWG (evil white guy) doctrine that they are pathetic. No matter the type of crime, or location, or victim, you can be sure a white guy in a suit did it. Drive-by shooting at a crack house, bum gets stabbed down by the docks, lesbian killed in a gay bar, mugging outside the opera goes bad, etc. You can be sure the plot twist will be the initial suspect is innocent, and they find some evil white guy in a suit actually did it. It’s especially comical when they have one of their “ripped from the headlines” stories, but “certain attributes” of the bad guy are changed, lol.


72 posted on 04/08/2007 7:45:51 AM PDT by fnord (If gun owners, pot smokers, and poker players start a political party, they'd never lose an election)
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To: Condor51

Never a big fan, I switched off completely when the idiots who write and produce this thing felt it vital to shove the homosexual agenda down our throats (pun intended).


73 posted on 04/08/2007 7:57:11 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
A&E has butched up the show. You’re seeing only 3/4ths of a typical program. Plus the commercials, five or six at a time, interrupt the events.

It's pretty obvious they have cleaned up the language.
We tape it since my wife goes to bed around 9, just when the show is starting.
We watch the 2 taped shows the next night, FF through the commercials.

Have any idea what season is running on A&E?

74 posted on 04/08/2007 9:03:21 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: angkor

Thanks, we must be watching the current season.


75 posted on 04/08/2007 9:06:18 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Kid Shelleen

bump


76 posted on 04/08/2007 9:11:06 AM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Wormwood

Six feet under became too in your face gay, I stopped watching.


77 posted on 04/08/2007 9:13:26 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: Vinnie

I believe they are in season Two, check here

http://www.aetv.com/thesopranos/sopranos_ep_guide.jsp?episode=218353


78 posted on 04/08/2007 9:18:20 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: Wormwood

“I really, really don’t want to post this. Taken out of context, the scenes lose their emotional impact. If you must proceed, however, then here it is: The last six minutes of the series.”

Thanks for posting that. I rarely let things get to me, but that one does - I’d been dealing with the death of my father and uncle when that show ended, and it hit hard. Death is a touchy subject, one that I’d prefer not to be skilled at dealing with. That show got me - well written, well acted, and did’nt preach - it show flawed humans at their best and worst, during life and death. SFU was a powerful series, and it’s ending one of the best of the best, they bowed out gracefully with no loose end, after all, we all go sometime, and all debts are wiped clean.

(as for pushing the gay agenda...whatever. I dealt with that a long time ago accepting gay family members. Like them or not, they are part of our world, and not going away, and they live and die and feel joy and pain and sorrow like the rest of us. I don’t support the political activists of their community, nor engage in or dwell in their culture, but they’re human beings.)

As for the Sopranos...I have hopes, but not too high. The series has been very good...and very mediocre. I never “cared” about the characters, like SFU, but...I don’t know. I’m going to just watch and see if Chase can pull it off. There’s rumor of a Sopranos movie, so he may not wrap up all loose ends. It’s a good show, had a great run, I hope he puts it to bed with a BANG (pun fully intended).

The Sopranos entertains me, much like movies like “The Godfather”, or Goodfellas”. But they don’t hit me where I live like SFU did. Maybe it was what I was going through at the time, but SFU will always rank as the ONLY show where I actually cared about the characters...and would’nt change a single thing.

Sunday nights were good there for a while, with the Sopranos and SFU. I hope HBO has some good stuff up it’s sleave in the future!


79 posted on 04/08/2007 10:15:38 AM PDT by ByDesign
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To: Kid Shelleen

You must be Canadian. Americans in NJ who post something about the Sopranos get thrown into the smokey backroom or general/chat.


80 posted on 04/08/2007 10:22:24 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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