The Official Sopranos Final Season Thread!!!
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Unless they find Bobbys DNA on the shirt the guy ripped . So i also think he's getting caught.
And someone said the fight between Bobby and Tony came out of nowhere. I accually felt that something was going down , not that Bobby would start it and suckerpunch Tony like that .But when have janice and Tony ever gotten along for more than a couple of hours, during six seasons? They were having a TOO GOOD time , i just waited for something to go wrong lol. Not to mention they were drinking pretty heavy.
And someone said the fight between Bobby and Tony came out of nowhere. I accually felt that something was going down , not that Bobby would start it and suckerpunch Tony like that .But when have janice and Tony ever gotten along for more than a couple of hours, during six seasons? They were having a TOO GOOD time , i just waited for something to go wrong lol. Not to mention they were drinking pretty heavy.
Yanked this interesting post from the usenet....
Big Time Spoiler Warning..(BTW...did you guys know the bittorrents of this episode leaked over a week ago? Always check the bitties!)
......
Sopranos #78 : Sopranos Home Movies
In the 2004 flashback, Johnny Sac & Tony commiserate about how heavy is
the head that wears the crown- just as Johnny¹s burden is about to be
lifted. Tony dumps his gun in the weeds, and then follows that mistake
with a literal stumble into the snow.
The Star Ledger arrives telling us the ³2007 Budget Passes²; Tony and
Carm awake to the slam of the cops on the door. ³Is this it?!² she asks,
fearing this could be the day it all comes crashing down. Tony is
cuffed and hauled off in his boxers in front of the assembled
neighbors.
AJ, true to form, has slept through the crisis. He¹s dozing in a
³Beansies¹ Pizzeria shirt in the back seat of the SUV (in a perfect
cartoon of his role in the family dynamic) as the family rushes to bring
Tony clothes in jail. Asked to get a suit of his father¹s , he grabbed
one with tomato sauce stains, but claims it¹s not his fault because ³the
light didn¹t go on in your closet².
We see Tony in jail, which seems to be a literal "shithole" from the
camera angle.
Phil Leotardo is back in New York, after his lengthy convalescence in
Florida. He boasts of busting his gut on the recumbent bike. Even when
he¹s ³laid back² he¹s hitting on all cylinders. He claims he¹s here to
³enjoy my grandchildren² and smell the roses (in a nod to Tony¹s bedside
benediction), but his old crew has plenty of beefs to share about the
new guy. Disrespect for ³Pork Chop² Soprano is allowed in only some of
the NY crew. One lowly goon¹s crack is greeted with Phil¹s version of
³manson lamps².
AJ has tattooed Blanca¹s name one his forearm, but Blanca does not seem
to be ³on the team² for the Sopranos, greeting Tony¹s release with ³They
let him out already?!²
Viewing AJ & Blanca's son, Tony thinks maybe that excursion to Bobby and
Janice¹s place upstate might be just the ticket, after all!
The feds clamp down on the Jersey DA¹s ³popcorn fart² of a gun case. As
Tony gets the news of the locals dropping the gun charge, the music
echoes the Feds¹ POV:
³Uh, sleep all day, out all night,
I know where you're going.
I don't that's a-acting right,
You don't think it's showing. ³
Arriving at the lake house, Carm requests a Pellegrino water. Janice
asks if ³Shopright Sparkling² is OK.
When Tony complains about the landscaping, Janice declares that Bobby¹s
got his hands full because when Tony engineered the sweetheart deal of
the Bacalas getting the Johnny Sac McMansion, he released gardener Sal
Vitro from his indentured servitude at that property at least.
Showing Tony his present of a machine gun, Bobby speaks of his
³leveling the playin¹ field ³ in hunting deer.
Lakeside, the couples chat. Carm recalls to Tony of their near purchase
of the ³Whitecaps² property, which crashed as their marriage imploded.
Tony responds ³Any more stuffed mushrooms?²
Bacala tells of his grandfather¹s illegal immigrant beginnings, and how
he sneaked in from Montreal because of a criminal record. Not letting
his own history interfere with his ideology, bobby announces that ³they
ought to build a wall now, though². Carmela joins in the hypocrisy with
an ³Amen².
Janice commends Tony with a backhanded compliment about his emotional
growth. Carm agrees he¹s different in the wake of his shooting, but
would prefer to steer the conversation to nature worship: ³Oh look! the
fish are jumping!²
... And the cotton is high! But in the Sopranos closets, the old
skeletons are rattling.
Meanwhile, Dominica enjoys her parallel vacation with her nanny.
Tony interrupts the reverie with a morbid anecdote about the tragic
injury of a three year old at a pool party. It¹s like a brief visit
from Livia herself! ³I can¹t get dat story outta my mind-- don¹t know
why² says Tony. But we do.
Tony starts the day with Carm¹s early birthday gift of an oral offering.
Next on her list is calling AJ to remind him to close the cellar windows
in case of rain. AJ is ensconced in the master bedroom, playing Scarface
with Blanca.
Janice¹s therapist said Livia was ³a splitter, pitting us kids against
one another to toughen us up, I guess². Carm gets the Janice Maternal
Seal of Approval for her conversation with AJ.
Tony & Bobby fish and drink in the Chris Craft. Tony muses on his fate,
with 80% of bosses ending up in prison or on the embalming table. He
expresses his disappointment in the unnamed Christopher, and offers
Bobby a bump in the projects window job. Tony observes that Bacala has
never actually killed anyone, and also states that murder is a ³big fat
pain in the bawls² for the shooter (not to mention the victim).
Tony claims he wants no presents, ³Just a few kind words² echoing Johnny
Boy¹s standard line. Bobby says he ³gets the joke, believe me², but
those jokes are not funny anymore to him. Janice offers the Sopranos
home movies and Carm gives Tony some new golf clubs.
Karaoke offers some truth telling as Janice wails in her off key Stones
cover (taunting the recovering boss):
³But you can't come back and be the first in line, oh no
You're obsolete my baby
My poor old-fashioned baby
I said baby, baby, baby you're out of time²
And Carmela, who¹s in a position to know , sings:
³Love hurts, and scars/ it wounds and mars²
...as the camera pans across the assembled liquor collection of wine,
beer, grappa, gin, vodka, remy, etc.
They sit down to Monopoly, but Bobby doesn¹t like the way the game is
played in the Soprano family.
Carm defends the Soprano house rules, saying ³It adds a whole new level
of excitement to the game². Are we still talking about the board game?
Bobby would rather ³level the playin¹ field².
Janice catches Tony palming a $500 from the bank, in his own new rule
change. It takes a thief...? Bobby grouses that ³you take a game of
skill and make it all about luck².
Janice tells the story that Tony claims ³never happened. and if it did,
it¹s not for public consumption!², about Johnny Boy taking a potshot at
Livia¹s beehive hairdo in response to her backseat driving. Tony feels
that the story ³makes us look like a fucking dysfunctional family².
Bobby says ³You Sopranos, you go too far².
In response, Tony insults Janice obscenely repeatedly and provokes a
brawl with Bobby. Tony loses the clash of antlers in a grim reminder of
his weakened state. Bobby rushes to his SUV and backs it into a tree.
Carm flicks a hotel from Tony¹s cheek, like he feels his power & kingdom
being flicked from his control.
The battered Tony awakes at 4:04 am to tell Bobby he beat him ³fair and
square².
Wikipedia on ³404 File Not Found² errors:
³indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but
either the server could not find what was requested, or it was
configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why²
Tony¹s (drunken) processor can not compute the dynamic that he could not
best Bacala. In the morning as Bacala dumps the bottles, the clatter
resounds like artillery in Tony¹s hungover head. Carmela berates him
for the second time, blaming him for the fight.
Tony and Carm want to leave right away, but Bobby has mixed up Ramos gin
fizzes and Janice who¹s made frittatta, tells all that ³It¹s a sin to
waste food!². It¹s nice to know there¹s one sin, at least, that they
avoid in the Soprano household.
Tony broods on his wounded pride and diminishing empire by the lake. The
bobbing boat tolls its bell (for thee?); a duck bursts into flight,
fleeing like Tony¹s dream of a happy functional family. ³This Magic
Moment² breaks the silence, only to be broken itself by a report on
suicide bombing in Iraq.
Carm is making small talk about her house, Meadow¹s study in med school;
Tony is avoiding listening, and wants to wallow in his defeat last
night. ³You had it coming. You get away with murder because you¹re the
boss² she says, speaking literal truth, but intending it figuratively.
Tony faces the music: ³I¹m old and my body has suffered a trauma from
which it will probably never recover from.²
Dominica's innocent song of ³Five Little Ducks² again reminds Tony of
his broken dreams.
Bobby wants to chat about snakeheads in the lake, but Tony¹s snaky head
wants to relive the brawl. ³C¹mon, let¹s go² he tells Bobby. Bacala
rides on one ass cheek as they pass all sorts of lonely wooded roads.
Tony¹s Livia like story has worked its magic. Janice freaks out at her
little Dominica, who is at the age of ³separating from mom, starting to
talk and have ideas² is resisting Mom Janice¹s paranoia.
Carm tells Janice that the beehive shooting story ³was worth the price
of admission² (the brawl?). Janice offers a honey drenched rewrite of
her killing the abusive Richie Aprile. In the end ³he went his separate
way² (into the meat grinder at Satriale¹s).
Janice observes that she¹s like Johnny boy, but Tony¹s a mix of both
parents. Livia could ³wait out in the weeds for days, years waiting to
strike² in an ominous note for her husband.
Despite her blaming Tony earlier, Carm shifts gears and constructs the
fictional narrative of last night¹s fracas: ³There¹s no excuse for the
way Bobby blind sided him². When she senses Janice¹s concern for Bobby,
she adds this capper: ³Tony is not a vindictive man².
At the meeting with the Montrealers, Bacala is pained by the notion of
someone ³separating a child from his mother²- like Janice¹s abandoning
her firstborn Harpo? ³What kind of person does that?² asks Bobby.
Tony gives the hit on the Montrealer¹s ex-brother in law to Bobby. On
the ride home, Tony has perked up enough to flirt with the bikini clad
water-skier, but Bobby is consumed with foreboding, understanding he
must commit the blood sacrifice that Tony has assigned. If Tony can not
get well, he can at least take solace in making more of the people
around him sick instead. As they pull up, Janice is particularly
thrilled to see tony is not flying solo on his return trip.
Bobby finds his quarry, and lines up the shot, as some sneakers in the
dryer at the laundromat beat out a requiem tattoo for the drummer. All
his various religious totems cannot spare him from Bacala¹s coup de
grace, but the head shot does not come easy, with the bloody victim
clutching and ripping Bobby¹s shirt as he delivers it.
Tony watches the Sopranos Home Movies at home as his lawyer calls to
tell him the gun charge is to be rolled into the RICO case as a
predicate.
Bobby has his own ³Magic Moment² after his entry into the realm of the
damned is complete, he returns to his family lakeside. He gathers up his
baby girl and clutches her to his chest.
³Everything I want, I have
Whenever I¹m holding you tight²
Big Time Spoiler Warning..(BTW...did you guys know the bittorrents of this episode leaked over a week ago? Always check the bitties!)
......
Sopranos #78 : Sopranos Home Movies
In the 2004 flashback, Johnny Sac & Tony commiserate about how heavy is
the head that wears the crown- just as Johnny¹s burden is about to be
lifted. Tony dumps his gun in the weeds, and then follows that mistake
with a literal stumble into the snow.
The Star Ledger arrives telling us the ³2007 Budget Passes²; Tony and
Carm awake to the slam of the cops on the door. ³Is this it?!² she asks,
fearing this could be the day it all comes crashing down. Tony is
cuffed and hauled off in his boxers in front of the assembled
neighbors.
AJ, true to form, has slept through the crisis. He¹s dozing in a
³Beansies¹ Pizzeria shirt in the back seat of the SUV (in a perfect
cartoon of his role in the family dynamic) as the family rushes to bring
Tony clothes in jail. Asked to get a suit of his father¹s , he grabbed
one with tomato sauce stains, but claims it¹s not his fault because ³the
light didn¹t go on in your closet².
We see Tony in jail, which seems to be a literal "shithole" from the
camera angle.
Phil Leotardo is back in New York, after his lengthy convalescence in
Florida. He boasts of busting his gut on the recumbent bike. Even when
he¹s ³laid back² he¹s hitting on all cylinders. He claims he¹s here to
³enjoy my grandchildren² and smell the roses (in a nod to Tony¹s bedside
benediction), but his old crew has plenty of beefs to share about the
new guy. Disrespect for ³Pork Chop² Soprano is allowed in only some of
the NY crew. One lowly goon¹s crack is greeted with Phil¹s version of
³manson lamps².
AJ has tattooed Blanca¹s name one his forearm, but Blanca does not seem
to be ³on the team² for the Sopranos, greeting Tony¹s release with ³They
let him out already?!²
Viewing AJ & Blanca's son, Tony thinks maybe that excursion to Bobby and
Janice¹s place upstate might be just the ticket, after all!
The feds clamp down on the Jersey DA¹s ³popcorn fart² of a gun case. As
Tony gets the news of the locals dropping the gun charge, the music
echoes the Feds¹ POV:
³Uh, sleep all day, out all night,
I know where you're going.
I don't that's a-acting right,
You don't think it's showing. ³
Arriving at the lake house, Carm requests a Pellegrino water. Janice
asks if ³Shopright Sparkling² is OK.
When Tony complains about the landscaping, Janice declares that Bobby¹s
got his hands full because when Tony engineered the sweetheart deal of
the Bacalas getting the Johnny Sac McMansion, he released gardener Sal
Vitro from his indentured servitude at that property at least.
Showing Tony his present of a machine gun, Bobby speaks of his
³leveling the playin¹ field ³ in hunting deer.
Lakeside, the couples chat. Carm recalls to Tony of their near purchase
of the ³Whitecaps² property, which crashed as their marriage imploded.
Tony responds ³Any more stuffed mushrooms?²
Bacala tells of his grandfather¹s illegal immigrant beginnings, and how
he sneaked in from Montreal because of a criminal record. Not letting
his own history interfere with his ideology, bobby announces that ³they
ought to build a wall now, though². Carmela joins in the hypocrisy with
an ³Amen².
Janice commends Tony with a backhanded compliment about his emotional
growth. Carm agrees he¹s different in the wake of his shooting, but
would prefer to steer the conversation to nature worship: ³Oh look! the
fish are jumping!²
... And the cotton is high! But in the Sopranos closets, the old
skeletons are rattling.
Meanwhile, Dominica enjoys her parallel vacation with her nanny.
Tony interrupts the reverie with a morbid anecdote about the tragic
injury of a three year old at a pool party. It¹s like a brief visit
from Livia herself! ³I can¹t get dat story outta my mind-- don¹t know
why² says Tony. But we do.
Tony starts the day with Carm¹s early birthday gift of an oral offering.
Next on her list is calling AJ to remind him to close the cellar windows
in case of rain. AJ is ensconced in the master bedroom, playing Scarface
with Blanca.
Janice¹s therapist said Livia was ³a splitter, pitting us kids against
one another to toughen us up, I guess². Carm gets the Janice Maternal
Seal of Approval for her conversation with AJ.
Tony & Bobby fish and drink in the Chris Craft. Tony muses on his fate,
with 80% of bosses ending up in prison or on the embalming table. He
expresses his disappointment in the unnamed Christopher, and offers
Bobby a bump in the projects window job. Tony observes that Bacala has
never actually killed anyone, and also states that murder is a ³big fat
pain in the bawls² for the shooter (not to mention the victim).
Tony claims he wants no presents, ³Just a few kind words² echoing Johnny
Boy¹s standard line. Bobby says he ³gets the joke, believe me², but
those jokes are not funny anymore to him. Janice offers the Sopranos
home movies and Carm gives Tony some new golf clubs.
Karaoke offers some truth telling as Janice wails in her off key Stones
cover (taunting the recovering boss):
³But you can't come back and be the first in line, oh no
You're obsolete my baby
My poor old-fashioned baby
I said baby, baby, baby you're out of time²
And Carmela, who¹s in a position to know , sings:
³Love hurts, and scars/ it wounds and mars²
...as the camera pans across the assembled liquor collection of wine,
beer, grappa, gin, vodka, remy, etc.
They sit down to Monopoly, but Bobby doesn¹t like the way the game is
played in the Soprano family.
Carm defends the Soprano house rules, saying ³It adds a whole new level
of excitement to the game². Are we still talking about the board game?
Bobby would rather ³level the playin¹ field².
Janice catches Tony palming a $500 from the bank, in his own new rule
change. It takes a thief...? Bobby grouses that ³you take a game of
skill and make it all about luck².
Janice tells the story that Tony claims ³never happened. and if it did,
it¹s not for public consumption!², about Johnny Boy taking a potshot at
Livia¹s beehive hairdo in response to her backseat driving. Tony feels
that the story ³makes us look like a fucking dysfunctional family².
Bobby says ³You Sopranos, you go too far².
In response, Tony insults Janice obscenely repeatedly and provokes a
brawl with Bobby. Tony loses the clash of antlers in a grim reminder of
his weakened state. Bobby rushes to his SUV and backs it into a tree.
Carm flicks a hotel from Tony¹s cheek, like he feels his power & kingdom
being flicked from his control.
The battered Tony awakes at 4:04 am to tell Bobby he beat him ³fair and
square².
Wikipedia on ³404 File Not Found² errors:
³indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but
either the server could not find what was requested, or it was
configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why²
Tony¹s (drunken) processor can not compute the dynamic that he could not
best Bacala. In the morning as Bacala dumps the bottles, the clatter
resounds like artillery in Tony¹s hungover head. Carmela berates him
for the second time, blaming him for the fight.
Tony and Carm want to leave right away, but Bobby has mixed up Ramos gin
fizzes and Janice who¹s made frittatta, tells all that ³It¹s a sin to
waste food!². It¹s nice to know there¹s one sin, at least, that they
avoid in the Soprano household.
Tony broods on his wounded pride and diminishing empire by the lake. The
bobbing boat tolls its bell (for thee?); a duck bursts into flight,
fleeing like Tony¹s dream of a happy functional family. ³This Magic
Moment² breaks the silence, only to be broken itself by a report on
suicide bombing in Iraq.
Carm is making small talk about her house, Meadow¹s study in med school;
Tony is avoiding listening, and wants to wallow in his defeat last
night. ³You had it coming. You get away with murder because you¹re the
boss² she says, speaking literal truth, but intending it figuratively.
Tony faces the music: ³I¹m old and my body has suffered a trauma from
which it will probably never recover from.²
Dominica's innocent song of ³Five Little Ducks² again reminds Tony of
his broken dreams.
Bobby wants to chat about snakeheads in the lake, but Tony¹s snaky head
wants to relive the brawl. ³C¹mon, let¹s go² he tells Bobby. Bacala
rides on one ass cheek as they pass all sorts of lonely wooded roads.
Tony¹s Livia like story has worked its magic. Janice freaks out at her
little Dominica, who is at the age of ³separating from mom, starting to
talk and have ideas² is resisting Mom Janice¹s paranoia.
Carm tells Janice that the beehive shooting story ³was worth the price
of admission² (the brawl?). Janice offers a honey drenched rewrite of
her killing the abusive Richie Aprile. In the end ³he went his separate
way² (into the meat grinder at Satriale¹s).
Janice observes that she¹s like Johnny boy, but Tony¹s a mix of both
parents. Livia could ³wait out in the weeds for days, years waiting to
strike² in an ominous note for her husband.
Despite her blaming Tony earlier, Carm shifts gears and constructs the
fictional narrative of last night¹s fracas: ³There¹s no excuse for the
way Bobby blind sided him². When she senses Janice¹s concern for Bobby,
she adds this capper: ³Tony is not a vindictive man².
At the meeting with the Montrealers, Bacala is pained by the notion of
someone ³separating a child from his mother²- like Janice¹s abandoning
her firstborn Harpo? ³What kind of person does that?² asks Bobby.
Tony gives the hit on the Montrealer¹s ex-brother in law to Bobby. On
the ride home, Tony has perked up enough to flirt with the bikini clad
water-skier, but Bobby is consumed with foreboding, understanding he
must commit the blood sacrifice that Tony has assigned. If Tony can not
get well, he can at least take solace in making more of the people
around him sick instead. As they pull up, Janice is particularly
thrilled to see tony is not flying solo on his return trip.
Bobby finds his quarry, and lines up the shot, as some sneakers in the
dryer at the laundromat beat out a requiem tattoo for the drummer. All
his various religious totems cannot spare him from Bacala¹s coup de
grace, but the head shot does not come easy, with the bloody victim
clutching and ripping Bobby¹s shirt as he delivers it.
Tony watches the Sopranos Home Movies at home as his lawyer calls to
tell him the gun charge is to be rolled into the RICO case as a
predicate.
Bobby has his own ³Magic Moment² after his entry into the realm of the
damned is complete, he returns to his family lakeside. He gathers up his
baby girl and clutches her to his chest.
³Everything I want, I have
Whenever I¹m holding you tight²