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[MDS]

i disagree, though i did like bobby canavalle's character

maybe itll take some time to get used to but the episode was like the first week after someone close to you dies. their space is just missing. its just empty. they should be there but they aint.

eventually you do readjust and move on...so maybe itll be like that. though again the jew was awesome and now hes dead, too.

[PhillyPhreak54]

yes, its good but clearly missing jimmy and now the jew gangster

killing jimmy will go down as the worst creative decision in recent tv memory. shows still good, it just aint the same.

if it goes seven more years then maybe you can say it will miss him...but if it ends in two or three years of top notch quality episodes then its a brilliant move...i hated it so much when they killed him cause he was such a good character but at the ame time i love when shows take chances like that....basically it was winter mirroring the sopranos killing off pussssssie

i mean if you go by the first episode since his killing its not only not missing him its stepped its game up

Solid analogy with Sopranos killing off BP...I too hated it when they smoked Jimmy and was worried about how they'd move on. Also loved Cannavale and thought he set the tone as what type of prick he's gonna be. I might have missed it but who is he connected to? He dissed every last one of those dudes at the table and left without a scratch.

Richard taking the 12gauge to homeboys face was a nice touch - he's going to avenge Jimmy's death as best as he can and I wouldn't be shocked to see him take out that Jimmy's farged up mother too

[MDS]

bp was a supporting character

a better one would be if sopranos killed off christopher well before they actually did, even though jimmy meant more to BE than chrissy did to sopranos in s2. once the adrianna stuff started he became a different level character.

[ice grillin you]

bp was a supporting character

so was jimmy...in fact pussssssie was exactly to tony what jimmy was to nucks....it was identical and it couldnt have been more obvious what winter was going for

[MDS]

incorrect

jimmy was essentially a co-lead with knucky by s2. they never went on episode long tangents about bp like they did with jimmy. the actor who played bp was awful and couldnt carry an episode much less a scene

where as michael pitt is farging outstanding and beyond stole the show from buscemi.

[ice grillin you]

incorrect

jimmy was essentially a co-lead with knucky.

yeah not even close....i dont even know what to say to that

nucks is so clearly the lead of the show its not even funny

[PhillyPhreak54]

Nucky is the king with everyone else being an off-shoot ala Tony. I never saw Jimmy as a co-lead because even though he had his time in the spotlight, it always worked back to Nucky and his motives.

Anyways - I am curious as to how VanAlden ends up. The encounter with the guy in his flower shop where he offers him a job and then getting stiffed on the sales bonus...does he go muscle up for that guy?

[ice grillin you]

the van alden story line was the one thing i didnt like....way to convienant for him to leave new jersey and magically fall into the capone mix...if he actually starts working for that dood it will be pretty ridiculous imo

[MDS]

incorrect

jimmy was essentially a co-lead with knucky.

yeah not even close....i dont even know what to say to that

nucks is so clearly the lead of the show its not even funny

co-lead isnt lead...its second position or a 1c to nucks 1a. and im talking plot focus and screen time, not thematically which of course boils back to the actual lead.

no matter how you slice it you cant compare pussssssssssssssssssssssssssssy to jimmy. in BE speak pusssssssssssssssssssssy is capone or rothstein

[ice grillin you]

in a word or less.....no

[MDS]

if you think you can beat me in a tv-off you are a farging moron

in fact in your state right now i could beat you in a college football off

[MDS]

i totally forgot prez and ziggy were in treme

plus anthony bourdain co-wrote this episode

the wire will never die

[Susquehanna Birder]

Boardwalk Empire blew chunks. Perfect ending to a lousy Sunday.

[Seabiscuit36]

Nucky is the king with everyone else being an off-shoot ala Tony. I never saw Jimmy as a co-lead because even though he had his time in the spotlight, it always worked back to Nucky and his motives.

Anyways - I am curious as to how VanAlden ends up. The encounter with the guy in his flower shop where he offers him a job and then getting stiffed on the sales bonus...does he go muscle up for that guy?

I really liked the introduction of Dean O'Banion.  I've ready quite a few books on the assorted mobs of the era, and O'Banion was crazy.  For me the historical introduction of well known mobsters makes the show better than just straight fiction.  The Vanalden scene with him holding up the vacumm box was actually decent work, though hard to believe he's magically fall into that spot at that time.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Boardwalk Empire blew chunks. Perfect ending to a lousy Sunday.

That is disappointing to read. I haven't seen it yet...although my boss told me that it sucked too