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[SD]

do people actually think bb is better than the sopranos?

I do

[ice grillin you]

wow thats surprising

ive actually been watching the sopranos on hbo lately...for some reason they are replaying it every night at 8...and god damn was it good - even better than i remember

breaking bad is ok but sopranos is like grown folk tv when compared to it

the writing is phenominal

[SunMo]

wow thats surprising

ive actually been watching the sopranos on hbo lately...for some reason they are replaying it every night at 8...and god damn was it good - even better than i remember

breaking bad is ok but sopranos is like grown folk tv when compared to it

the writing is phenominal

yup, i've been watching them too.  you're right, it's better than i remember it being.  i think there was a big time backlash after it was over of people saying it was overrated and whatnot.  i think that is why it's better than i remember

[ice grillin you]

part of the problem was the couple of weaker seasons it had probably cast an unfair hate on the show as a whole (the repeats are only up to the end of season 2)

also when the sopranos was bad it seemed to be really bad....the dream sequences and peyote shtein...but time usually heals these kinds of wounds and i suspect even the "bad" episodes will play better now...well see...its one of the reasons im rewatching it....more to see if the weak parts were truly as bad as i remember them

but damn it doesnt get better than these first three seasons

[Zanshin]

The Sopranos was great and a pioneer in a lot of ways. That said, I think it suffered from a few problems 1) the inevitable backlash against everyone who said it was great, 2) sometimes unreasonable time layoffs between seasons and 3) storylines that people became invested in and that were dropped between seasons.

Still, it was great.

[SunMo]

the storyline point is a good one.  it never bothered me, but i know it annoyed a lot of people.  specifically, i remember that a lot of people were always really annoyed by the fact that the russian who got away in the Pine Barren episode never came back into play.

[General_Failure]

I only watched most of the first season. It was good, but didn't hold my attention.

[ice grillin you]

the unfinished storylines never bothered me...sometimes nothing happens and shtein just ends...i thought the russian storyline was actually good because by making you constantly wait for him to reappear and wreck shop it puts you into the characters shoes as you can totally imagine pauly and christopher feeling the same way....wondering if that cat is gonna be behind the next door they open...sleeoping with one eye open...ect...

my major beefs were bad storylines late in the show...again the dream sequence shtein...and soap opery storylines...the son getting with a hot latina....that politician just happening to hook up with tonys russian ho...paulys aunt being his mother

[SunMo]

any aj storyline was hideous.  from when he was a young fat kid getting drunk on communion wine to the latina, to the suicide attempt, to his stupid car starting on fire.  not one redeeming story with his character

[MDS]

no one ever talks about how sopranos s 1-3...its the last 3 years where it got really kind of bad and ruined its reputation

start to finish BB has a chance to be better. but outside of the wire s1 and s2 of the sopranos >>> everything else

[ice grillin you]

until i rewatch the sopranos later seasons i wont be able to say for sure and thus i will admit breaking bad perhaps didnt have as many lows and thus was more consistent...but unless you put a high floor above a high ceiling then no way in hell is bb even close to the sopranos...seasons 1-3 of the sopranos (again a full three seasons not a few episodes) are so much better than anything bb has ever done that bb couldnt possibly ever approach it

imo breaking bad is good show that has a bunch of great moments.....sopranos was a phenominal show with some weak moments

[SD]

The Sopranos was great and a pioneer in a lot of ways. That said, I think it suffered from a few problems 1) the inevitable backlash against everyone who said it was great, 2) sometimes unreasonable time layoffs between seasons and 3) storylines that people became invested in and that were dropped between seasons.

Still, it was great.

I love the Sopranos and never watched an episode until 2010 when I blew through the entire series. But the storylines being dropped were a biggie for me. There was no consistency with character development. For instance, Chris is supposed to be Tony's nephew, and he treats him different than others because of this, but they're not actually related. That was a really big farg up in writing. I hated the way they just threw new characters into the fold. Like Buschemi's character...oh yeah this is my cousin who's been in jail for 10 years and now he's out and wants to do massages.

[Rome]

The Sopranos jumped the shark when Tony left (or was thrown out by) Carmela.   They lost me there and I never went back.    The first season was legitimately spectacular, though.  Acting, writing, directing, cinematography, hell, even the music score... it had it all.   

[Seabiscuit36]

The Sopranos was great and a pioneer in a lot of ways. That said, I think it suffered from a few problems 1) the inevitable backlash against everyone who said it was great, 2) sometimes unreasonable time layoffs between seasons and 3) storylines that people became invested in and that were dropped between seasons.

Still, it was great.

I love the Sopranos and never watched an episode until 2010 when I blew through the entire series. But the storylines being dropped were a biggie for me. There was no consistency with character development. For instance, Chris is supposed to be Tony's nephew, and he treats him different than others because of this, but they're not actually related. That was a really big farg up in writing. I hated the way they just threw new characters into the fold. Like Buschemi's character...oh yeah this is my cousin who's been in jail for 10 years and now he's out and wants to do massages.

Doesn't your name end in a vowel?   You should know how "Nephew" or "Cousin" works. 

[SD]

It doesn't work like that and that's not how they intended it.