The Sopranos

PhillyPhreak54 · March 20, 2006, 02:32:38 PM

Yep.

And Christopher was pimping Johnny Sack's Maserati too. Remember Johnny's wife said he wanted to buy it and pay cash and Johnny got pissed/ Well, she sold it to him. That might not mean much, but it'll piss off Johnny Sack for sure.

NGM · March 20, 2006, 05:05:42 PM

Quote from: Seabiscuit36 on March 20, 2006, 06:47:19 AM
His wife was definitely Dr Melfi on the phone. At one point she was psycho analysing him over the phone. The Monks were alitte unexpected. there had to be some significance to the watchtower light and tony always looking over at it?

I thought the light was either coming out of the coma (doctors looking at his eyes etc.) or him going "towards the light." I don't think Tony is going to get any offers from up above though.

SunMo · March 20, 2006, 05:11:01 PM

i think the light is from the airport, where he has to go so he can get home aka come out of the coma.

MDS · March 20, 2006, 06:34:04 PM

article on yesterdays episode

some revealing stuff, if you didnt pick up on it.

little factoid:

QuoteThe voice of Purgatory Tony's wife wasn't played by Annabella Sciorra, or any other actress who's been on the show before; she's just a generic non-Carmela female voice.

With what this article is saying, does this mean......no more earth Tony?

PhillyPhreak54 · March 20, 2006, 07:43:00 PM

Good find. You have served your purpose on thie board. Extra desert for you from the chow line tonight, pal.

MDS · March 20, 2006, 07:45:42 PM

it was on philliesphans, foxworthy.

PhillyPhreak54 · March 20, 2006, 07:56:35 PM

Well, there goes your credit. No extra ice cream for you, jerk.

MDS · March 20, 2006, 07:59:41 PM

i dont even like ice cream, so ha.

PhillyPhreak54 · March 20, 2006, 08:04:02 PM

What are you? A communist or something? everyone likes ice cream.

Anyways...back to the Sopranos...

I guess my girl was right about that purgatory shtein.

Good stuff now that we know exactly whats up.

MDS · March 20, 2006, 08:07:34 PM

yea, i figure what could happen is he gets "sent back" to earth because "god" or whatever cannot decide if tony should go to heaven or hell. tony then decides the right the wrongs in his life, and attemps to start a new life away from the mob (sells them out)....but probably will die before that (series finale).

NGM · March 20, 2006, 08:29:47 PM

That was a damn good article. I disagree though with the author's contention that Tony is going to hell. It seems to me that he has a choice in the matter. That would be to wake up and account for his sins. That airport light is surely the route to heaven, although indirectly.

Susquehanna Birder · March 21, 2006, 08:04:36 AM

I think I've come up with a theory. Kevin Finnerty is one of Tony's previous lives. The Buddhist monks kind of tied it in for me. Perhaps being Tony is serving some sort of karmic penalty for his previous misbehavior. He's not Tony in this purgatory-like plane, and he's no longer Finnerty.

Seems to me that we can't be dealing with classic Christian concepts. If we were, and given Tony's works, I have no doubt that Tony would have no doubt where he was headed. And these scenes seem to imply that there is some variability with regard to the fate of his soul.

I'm a little unsure with the name Kevin Finnerty, though, since it seems to be a play on the word "infinity."

ice grillin you · March 21, 2006, 08:35:58 AM

really enjoyed last night's episode, but i'm really sick of hearing people bitch about it. you wanna see hits, go watch Goodfellas

or the wire

btw all this over anaylization of a tv show will mean nothing a month from now when tony is back to his normal self and these first two episodes mean next to nothing

the only thing that matters here is the fight for power within the family...which is why out of 57 minutes the other nite only two minutes of it mattered and that was the 'meeting' at the funeral home...the rest is psycho babble bullshtein that wont ever be addressed again on the show

SunMo · March 21, 2006, 08:40:51 AM

Quote from: ice grillin you on March 21, 2006, 08:35:58 AM

the only thing that matters here is the fight for power within the family...which is why out of 57 minutes the other nite only two minutes of it mattered and that was the 'meeting' at the funeral home...the rest is psycho babble bullshtein that wont ever be addressed again on the show

i agree that it won't be addressed again, and i'm ok with that, because i enjoyed Sunday's episiode, that's all I can ask.

it's no surprise that many of the things that happen in these episodes aren't addressed again, Chase has said many times that his original idea for the Sopranos was a series of one-hour movies, independent of each other, but eventually with it's popularity, he had to introduce some serial elements to it.

NGM · March 21, 2006, 08:53:38 AM

Quotei agree that it won't be addressed again, and i'm ok with that, because i enjoyed Sunday's episiode, that's all I can ask.

I couldn't agree more, well said.