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sirtacos 23 Jun 2011 14:51:14 8,279 posts
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Get fucked, cuntrag.

Dolly 23 Jun 2011 14:53:15 3,653 posts
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I think cuntrag just became my favourite new word!

andywilkie35 15 Feb 2012 22:49:33 5,327 posts
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What's the policy on spoilers these days?

Anyway, just onto episode 2 of season 4 (seen them a few times before), and I never get used to Adrianna throwing up all over the FBI desk, awesome stuff!

FWB 15 Feb 2012 22:53:15 56,369 posts
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Best drama show after Band of Brothers.

Deleted user 16 February 2012 00:43:06

There is a load of foreshadowing you get to see when you watch it for a second time.

Deleted user 16 February 2012 11:32:00

I love the show, my only regret is the increasing focus on the kids as the seasons progressed. The actors just weren't up to it. They weren't atrocious or anything, just not that great.

I guess another problem is the acting of a lot of the tertiary characters. Some of Tony's "capos" and the like. T'was below par, tbh (eg. Eugene Pontecorvo, Mikey Palmice, Jimmy Altieri, etc.)

Just nitpicking, though. It's still the best show I've seen, warts n' all.

matrim83 16 Feb 2012 11:37:10 5,713 posts
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Going off the (rather old) discussion of the finale over the last page, this is well worth wasting time with.

http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/

Its a little too ... in depth but I think it raises quite a few points that I initially missed.

Deleted user 16 February 2012 12:57:21

The clue to the ending was in the beginning. It's all a circle, see. That's why Tony was so round.

figgis 16 Feb 2012 14:04:56 7,721 posts
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fucking hell

Dougs 16 Feb 2012 14:08:19 100,414 posts
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That's the point though. No-one knows. Yeah, it's likely it goes the way as described above but we'll never know. Can be interpreted either way. I feel like I'm repeating myself.

Deleted user 16 February 2012 14:09:13

I'm glad you cleared that up for us, anthony. There I was thinking that David Chase had indeed come up with a novel and inventive way of showing a main character's death off-screen. But, as you say... nothing happened.

Please disperse. There is nothing to see here. Please disperse.

figgis 16 Feb 2012 14:13:36 7,721 posts
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The answer is obvious as the only scene in the entire series that is repeated refers directly to it.

It's not even ambiguous.

Deleted user 16 February 2012 14:14:37

Pine Barrens was actually directed by Steve Buscemi (Tony Blundetto in S5). Great episode. I love the bit where AJ overhears Tony on the phone with Paulie discussing the Russian: "Is there any way the package could survive?"

Deleted user 16 February 2012 14:15:32

And of course: "He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorater".

Deleted user 16 February 2012 14:18:04

I do think Tony dies in the end, mainly because all the other gangster characters also die. The main theme to the show imo was crime doesn't pay and like I just said all the characters involved in the mafia rather get shot or die of cancer.

Edited by Hindle at 14:18:41 16-02-2012

Dougs 16 Feb 2012 14:19:49 100,414 posts
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cianchristopher wrote:
And of course: "He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorater".

The standout episode imo. Mayonnaise, Freaking Mayonnaise!

Deleted user 16 February 2012 14:20:04

And yea Pine Barrens likely the best ep in the series imo.

Edited by Hindle at 14:20:24 16-02-2012

Deleted user 16 February 2012 14:23:03

I love Pine Barrens, but it's very difficult to say what's the "best" episode.

College is a great one, as it's totally self-contained - almost like a movie-of-the-week (the one where Tony drives Meadow to all the universities, and finds the Mafia snitch Fabian Petrullio). I think it's David Chase's favourite.

Deleted user 16 February 2012 15:17:11

Damn straight nothing happened. If anyone brings it up again, they'll have to answer to anthonypappa and me. Okay?

Dougs 16 Feb 2012 15:17:55 100,414 posts
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In your opinion. Which is what it was all about, as you rightly say.

andywilkie35 16 Feb 2012 15:22:54 5,327 posts
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Hindle wrote:
And yea Pine Barrens likely the best ep in the series imo.

Edited by Hindle at 14:20:24 16-02-2012

Definitely one of my favs, was certainly the episode I was looking forward to the most when I started rewatching!

ronuds 16 Feb 2012 15:40:39 21,781 posts
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That Paulie. Guy never used his head.

Where does the ep. with Paulie and the horse painting rank on everyone's list? That's probably one of my faves.

Vortex808 16 Feb 2012 17:07:29 15,593 posts
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Facepalm wrote:
currently re-watching on Sky Atlantic (Wednesdays) and it's still brilliance. Up to Season 5 now.

Is 5 the last series? I never saw the last half of the final series for some reason(lost in the mists of time), despite watching it from the very start on C4 which annoys me massively. I may start watching this to finally see the end.

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