'Sopranos' final season to begin April 8

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

It looks to me like they have members of the crew killing people very sloppy. possibly leaving behind evidence. maybe one of these guys will get picked up and sing like a canary. And after the AJ stuff last night, I think the show will end 20 years in the future with AJ as boss

Yea AJ as boss and the frat boys as his crew. Anything can happen, only 4 left.

aNiMaL wrote:

Things are about to go down!!

I think about that each week when I sit down to watch the newest episode, but by the hour's end I feel as though nothing's ever going to happen.

Chris and Paulie have history. The beef over power drills/father-in-law/landscaping should be enough to set it off, considering the problems they've had with each other over the seasons. The dialogue even bordered on some kind of altercation, but the characters backed off.

It makes me wonder if the show really is going anywhere with these final episodes. The series has slowed down to a crawl these last couple of seasons.

For what it's worth, I think AJ will go to work for the family but we won't ever see him as boss. It looks more and more likely that he will inherit his father's disease.

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you're all crazy. aj will never be "in the business". swallowing handfulls of downers, doing multiple shots, and being a thug with his college buddies doesn't equate to being in the business.

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

Then again, they drop a billion hints that go nowhere, so.....

That's why I love this show so much.

that last episode was good...far better then the last one. I thought Christopher was going to blow away paulie...that was stupid him shooting that other guy.

moeaholic wrote:

nah, not stupid at all. it was always an unsaid understanding between the two of them that he was in the mafia. once j.t. opened his mouth, how could christopher let him live, knowing that he (j.t.) knew exactly what chris was all about. if he had just avoided saying that one sentence, he would have lived.

also the fact that j.t. was really the only person christopher could take his aggressions out on without being in trouble with "the family". he can't backtalk tony, he can't do anything physical to paulie, he can't show that what they were saying at the bar really hurt him.......j.t. should have just not answered his door when chrissy came knocking. everytime christopher went there, he beat on him. he should have known better.

oh, and on a side note: carmella is really pissing me off this season. she had to open her mouth to tony about the character in chrissy's movie resembeled tony, not only in physical appearance, but things that were done in the "movie", such as fucking around with the eventual killers woman. if she had kept her mouth shut, nothing would be brewing between christopher and tony. and then to top it off, she had to go blab to christopher about the same damn thing. and then this past week, when tony told aj to get a blowjob, and aj raised his voice a bit and tony told him to keep it down......carm comes busting into the room. why the fuck couldn't she just let her husband have a father/son conversation? she's really causing a lot of problems this season.

I have to respectfully disagree with your entire post.

It was stupid that Christopher shot JT. The whole scene was stupid, especially at the end of the show when I was hoping for something exciting to happen. They both knew that JT knew Christopher was in the mafia. When JT had the meeting with all the mob "potential investors" in "Cleaver", he was hesitant to say "mafia" in front of all of them. Why? Because he knew they were all in the mafia. Also, Christopher is not going to go away just because JT didn't answer the door.

First off, Tony had to know that the guy in the movie was a clone of him. It was stupid that Carmela had to even convince him of it. Christopher and Tony's problems go WAY beyond just Carmela pointing out that the guy in the movie was Tony. Christopher has been pissed at Tony a long time because he doesn't think he gets the respect he deserves.

beegirl420 wrote:

my point... babies. they're the future.

I thought he was gonna shoot Paulie right there.

cutback wrote:

i think the reason chris shot jt was chris knew he had let out too many secrets although he didn't give full details it might have been enough for the feds to investigate...........and chris knew he couldn't kill tony or paulie like he wants to so he shot someone that didn't matter in his eyes........the writing and acting these past couple episodes has been excellent.........can't wait to see what's next.......:)

Great comments, I feel the same way.

And were both on the train tonight

rrivers wrote:

I have to respectfully disagree with your entire post.

It was stupid that Christopher shot JT. The whole scene was stupid, especially at the end of the show when I was hoping for something exciting to happen. They both knew that JT knew Christopher was in the mafia. When JT had the meeting with all the mob "potential investors" in "Cleaver", he was hesitant to say "mafia" in front of all of them. Why? Because he knew they were all in the mafia. Also, Christopher is not going to go away just because JT didn't answer the door.

First off, Tony had to know that the guy in the movie was a clone of him. It was stupid that Carmela had to even convince him of it. Christopher and Tony's problems go WAY beyond just Carmela pointing out that the guy in the movie was Tony. Christopher has been pissed at Tony a long time because he doesn't think he gets the respect he deserves.

no, it wasn't stupid. and i didn't say the lone reason for shooting jt was because he finally uttered the phrase "you're in the mafia". all that aggression that was festering in him, all the disrespect from paulie, tony, and everyone else lead to jt getting shot, but jt saying what he said was what made the hammer come down. before that point, it was unspoken. it might have been known, but it was unspoken.

and the thing with carm....think about it. if she hadn't blabbed to tony about the deeper similarities (tony isn't as bright as you'd like him to be), he never would have thought that. and to make matters worse, she starts flapping her gums to chris, who was completely blindsided by that accusation. if she had kept it to herself, the animosity between tony and chris would absolutely not be as intense as it is now. sure, tony figured out that the physical actor was a carbon copy of himself, but he didn't pick up on the deeper similarities. did you see his face when carm said that to him? he had that "duhh..." look on his face.

i see what you're saying, but i just don't agree with it, that's all. that's what's cool about this show....one episode could have so many different interpretations.....like tony sitting on the dock in the first episode, just staring out at the water. what was he thinking about? actually, that's a bad example because he basically says what he's thinking when carm comes down to talk to him. there's other instances, but i really don't have the time to get into it that much. i'm at work and really need to get back to it

moeaholic wrote:

no, it wasn't stupid. and i didn't say the lone reason for shooting jt was because he finally uttered the phrase "you're in the mafia". all that aggression that was festering in him, all the disrespect from paulie, tony, and everyone else lead to jt getting shot, but jt saying what he said was what made the hammer come down. before that point, it was unspoken. it might have been known, but it was unspoken.

and the thing with carm....think about it. if she hadn't blabbed to tony about the deeper similarities (tony isn't as bright as you'd like him to be), he never would have thought that. and to make matters worse, she starts flapping her gums to chris, who was completely blindsided by that accusation. if she had kept it to herself, the animosity between tony and chris would absolutely not be as intense as it is now. sure, tony figured out that the physical actor was a carbon copy of himself, but he didn't pick up on the deeper similarities. did you see his face when carm said that to him? he had that "duhh..." look on his face.

i see what you're saying, but i just don't agree with it, that's all. that's what's cool about this show....one episode could have so many different interpretations.....like tony sitting on the dock in the first episode, just staring out at the water. what was he thinking about? actually, that's a bad example because he basically says what he's thinking when carm comes down to talk to him. there's other instances, but i really don't have the time to get into it that much. i'm at work and really need to get back to it

The shooting JT thing just came out of nowhere for me. One minute Christopher is talking about all this stuff that he knows and the next minutes he shoots the guy? I do agree that he shot him because he was pissed at Paulie and Tony. The whole scene with Christopher and JT didn't work for me at all. It seemed like the writers thought the audience wanted some bloodshed but they didn't want to kill anyone big (yet) so they just picked a side character to off.