Ok who watched The Sopranos tonight?****possible spoiler alert****

ok i was wrong about Syl being the rat but holy shit for the rest of it and my wish that tey kill everyone so there will never be a movie looks like it might just happen.

I will watch it ONDemand tomm.. but I kind of want to be spoiled.

Now I can't wait to watch it.

what an episode. Nobody spoil it for those who haven't seen it. You don't want to know what happens.

I have to go somewhere. I'm the only one in my house that watches it.

I've seen every episode. Ever. And I was wanting to scream out 'OH MY GOD" but I would wake the baby...

:wow:

The mad dash home to get his family out. Whoa.

From a TV show!!!!!!

It was all I could do when I shot up when they whacked Bobby not to wake him. Then with Silvio - I was covering my mouth!

I guess I'm blind, but I totally didn't seeing it going that way until Italy screwed up their hit.

Especially when they were talking to the guy in the porn store. It was so OBVIOUS they had gotten it wrong- but that dumb shit just kept saying whatever!

...were Chrissie still alive, would he have screwed the hit up that badly?

Of course, Tony and Sil admitted they had no chance to get Phil because went "to the ground" so early.

lol...but seriously what a brilliant fucking episode! Last season was only so-so but they have really stepped up their game with this year's installment. I can't wait to see how it all ends...the way they are setting it up, it is probably going to be one of the greatest series finales ever...I'm so excited!

Did anyone notice that they were playing "The End" by The Doors in the Bing right before all that shit went down?

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I have to go back and watch the episode...maybe I was trying to read too much into the episode and thought I heard it lol

...half-expecting it to be "The End" but after a couple of measures realized it wasn't. It's either "Moonlight Drive" or "When the Music's Over."

turn out the lights. I noticed that too.

The music is your only friend
until the end. Until the end.

Mz Pip
:dem:

Bobby??? That was just wrong.

No More Hiding.

I'll miss this show.

just...wow...!

(the show, not your post)

Unbelievable. That scene in the train store. I'm stunned and totally shocked. :wow:

the sheer number, yeah that was a message.

what was the set-up? Why did Phil go into hiding?

And: is Dr. Melfi going to blame herself for what happens/happened?

They called Italy to come over and hit Phil, but the idiots got the wrong people. Phil went underground.

That the wrong guy got whacked by foreigners?

Did they show anything in the opener about Phil going underground? Or was that supposed to be a surprise for us, too?

Sheesh... I'm wiped out. But I'm still gonna watch the show on HBO-West.

take out the Soprano crew. He just gets up from the table and says something like make it happen.

i thought we were going to see a Scosese death montage ala Goodfellas.

I thought he did but not certain.

:( I liked Syl.

I believe the proverbial shit will hit the proverbial fan next week.
This totally sucks that its over.

and return to the hotel/house in his dream, to be greeted by all of the guys.

I really think he's going to get hit next week.

Damn. Next thing you know, JK Rowling will kill off Harry too. My whole summer will be ruined :)

Phil might still get whacked. :)

Yep Billy Batts. :D

:)

THAT EPISODE WAS FUCKING INSANE!!!

In a good way. ALOT happened. I was shocked by Bobby's death- and the brutality of it. And then the attempted hit on Syl. I know they said he probably wont wake up but a girl can hope right?
I love Syl!

I guess the only way out of the show is to kill Tony... but god I hope not

Tony ends up a near vegetable, and moves into the same hospital as Uncle Jun. They could be roommates.

or better yet they both have hosital beds moved into the living room of Janices house and kills them and then herself.

If Janice gets whacked, I'll cheer. Even if she does it to herself.

If you're gonna go, you may as well go out with a bang! But damn!

Is it really over??? :(

This was on the second watch of the episode, of course! I think it was TWENTY TWO. TWENTY TWO freakin' bullets in Bobby.

The train wreck was perfect.

Helluvanepisode!!

Bake

I sure hope the hotel gets HBO.

Unfortunately, I don't have a laptop, so I can't check in with you guys. :(

but I'm a little weird like that!

If not, there's bound to be a restaurant or bar with the show on.
Come to think of it, that could be fun!

Was kind of brutal as well. Emotionally brutal.

How DARE he violate a sacred trust!!!! :grr:

And look how Melfi completely caved. It was a memorable scene when Tony whipped out the steak recipe and stuck it back in the magazine.

That would be a memorable closer.

That it would.

I was actually a bit worried that Tony was going to lose his temper with Dr Melfi and put her in a choke hold or something -- kind of like he lost it with AJ in the bedroom.

and I was very dissapointed that Dr. Melfi took that shit.
I would have left- and I certainly would not be seeing him as a therapist anymore.

She should have walked out, take a breath, and realize that her buttons were getting pushed, big time.

Tony got it right when he told her, "you know, as a doctor, I think what you're doing is immoral."

when Dr. Melfi kicks Tony to the curb.

:cry:

Those are the two most important characters to keep around if they ever want to do a movie. The rest are expendable.

Furio would have done the job correctly!

...Tony sent Furio back to Italy before Carmela revealed her feelings for him.

And off him. It would make sense cause I think Tony would kill anyone even peripherally involved with Carm. She as much as said so to the guy she did sleep with.

It may not have happened though.

Will he see that there is no other way out? He has a friend in the FBI who keeps popping up.

The FBI dude gave him the tip. They've been pretty chummy this season, haven't they?

Sweet. :evilgrin:

hand i am really going to miss the show but on the 3rd hand (whaaaa?) i really don't want to see a movie, i need it done, really done, all doors closed and no open windows.

No movie, no sequel, no "next generation".

but it's all about 'me' at this point, and I just don't want to say good-by forever to these characters that I have come to love. :cry:

Fulfilling the dream sequence he had while in the coma -- the regular salesman guy, stuck in a strange city, and missing and wanting to get back to the family that he loves and is so devoted to. His struggle between living the gangster life and being the regular family guy would finally be over.
Awwww. I like that ending. I've always pulled for Tony to go straight.

...live happily ever after, that is. He is a Soprano and a sociopath. That parallel life while in limbo was a guy who had a completely different upbringing, set of parents and genetic predisposition.

For Tony, the die were cast a long time ago, just like like with his sociopathic sister Janice.

Either by having Tony flip or foiling a hit on him, maybe taking out one of Phil's guys in the process. God is the final only an hour long? I hope not.

Most of the eps haven't been a full hour long, this one might be; after all, they still need time for the credits. :)

to save Tony's own life. Unbelieveable story last nite, 2 got whacked already.

Probably the only plausible one, come to think about it.

Who killed Big Pussy and why?

...was one of Tony's oldest friends in the family and captain of one of Tony's crews. He was pinched by the feds for moving "H" (heroin) and they put the squeeze on him to turn evidence or do time in a federal pen. Pussy turned.

Word came back to Tony through a crooked cop that there was a rat loose in the family. At one point it looked like the family made Pussy but they zeroed in on another guy as the rat and Sil whacked him.

Pussy developed Stockholm syndrome, going through a phase where he was acting like a "Jr. G-Man," had a wreck while following Christopher to a boost and got in trouble with his contact agent. The agent underscored to Pussy that there was no way he could parlay his informant role into skipping jail, that he would testify, serve a reduced sentence, then go into relocation.

At this point, Pussy started realizing he was in a no-win situation.

Tony became suspicious but wouldn't admit Pussy's complicity to himself until his dreams started screaming it to him so loudly he could no longer ignore it. Tony, Paulie and Sil took Pussy out on a boat Tony was looking at, shot him below deck and dumped him into the drink.

It haunted Tony for a while.

Remember Tony had food poisoning the night he dreamed about Pussy? He had eaten Indian food and became violently ill. I remember him screaming 'fuckin' vindaloo!!!' as he was bent over the toilet, heaving his guts out. That was funny!

He absolutely drains the energy out of the room.

I'm in the middle of one myself and since I'm not a teenager I'm maybe a little less self absorbed but think of how scary it would be to be told you literally have to run for your life when you're barely coping as it is.

but I hope nothing happens to him or Meadow.

Just before they went into hiding.
What was that all about?

...It's time for a war and they're breaking out the siege mentality.

I have no idea what is going to happen, I just thought I would make this prediction.

I liked Bobby! I've noticed that they've made his character smarter and smarter over the seasons, he doesn't seem under Janice's thumb so much.

Great episode, I was on the edge of my seat.

Would AJ do that? He has to get his ass out of bed first.Whoever said it in this thread was right the actor playing AJ has depression nailed

Syl too. I hope the final is a two-hour show. But I don't see Tony surviving if he doesn't flip. I could see AJ getting into the business to avenge Tony's death if Tony buys the farm.

How can they wrap this up in just one hour?

No two-hour ending.

... about all of this than many of the fans are.

Chase realizes, foremost, these guys are monsters. The beauty of the show is that he has drawn us into them but still never lets us forget--if we choose to look--how horrific they actually are.

Chase also knows there are only so many possible outcomes for these type guys and none are really good. You go to jail or you die, that's about it. Sometimes both.

A couple of things about tonight's show:

One, I found Janice's grief hard to stomach coming from a woman as twisted as she, someone who was as cognizant of the whole scenario, as eager to manipulate it as anyone else in the family. This is the woman who shot Richie Aprille at point blank range at the table one night. Deep down, she's as cold as any other character on the show.

Two, I found it hard to believe Sil and Patsy were caught as unawares as they were while leaving the Bing. I would have thought in that situation, they would been in all out paranoid mode, armed to the teeth and ready to plug anything that cropped up.

Three, I'm amazed no one else caught a bullet in the train store. Poor stupid Bobby.

Something like this always brings mixed feelings for fans. You enjoy good storytelling and love the suspense and drama and well fleshed out characters, but at the same time there's a relief inside that the story is reaching the finale of its arc. Ultimately, we always want to know the end. Resolution is always bittersweet satisfaction.

There was a real sad quality to the dinner scene where Tony and Sil start slow motion boxing to the music from Raging Bull, a movie that was as softly tragic as anything Scorsese ever did where no one died in its course. You could really feel at that point the end was near.

It's been fun for sure.

They totally telegraphed it at the beginning: Phil and his goons discussed who runs the family, said it's Tony, Sil and Bobby, and Phil gave the order to "decapitate." From that point on, I was just waiting for when. The camerawork in the train store was brilliant (but again, no surprise that's where Bobby got whacked), and you knew Sil was next. 'Cause they told us who they were going to hit.

Even last week's weird scene with the disembodied Phil yelling at Tony from inside his house was a big hint that Phil was going into hiding, and that usually only means one thing (turf war, the boss lays low).

Excellent, excellent show.

how do they kill the other side? Who goes outside first?

Tony's side screwed up the hit on Phil, and was left scrambling when the other side went into action, then down goes Bobby, down goes Sil.

I could have guessed that Bobby would get whacked, but seeing Syl get hit was tough. I really liked that little sociopath!

that they must be informed, unfortunate for Bobby, brutal murder scene, and Syl that was bad too. Now the finale is coming up I wonder if Tony will be eliminated, well, I guess they won't have a Sopranos reunion show.

"You're husband, Janice, exile on main street!" I know it's a Stones title, but what did Tony mean? That was before Bobby got hit.

And yes, it looks like only ONE hour next week. Damn!

Bake