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I just finished the last DVD last night and I'm really glad I watched the whole series. A few of my friends said to stop after season 3 but I didn't feel there was any drop-off in quality until the beginning of season 6, which seemed like it took a few episodes before things got moving again. The first episode in season 6 felt like it was from a different production company. The lighting and the dialogue especially seemed really off. I read the Wikipedia episode summaries as I went along. They were a big help for pointing out plot details that I missed, but unfortunately I spoiled some huge stuff accidentally, like how Christopher bites it. I also saw Tony linked to "List of FBI informants" and I thought he would flip at some point during season 6. Until the very end, I kept waiting for something sufficiently awful to happen so that he'd go running to Agent Harris, but it looks like it was just for how he was ratting out the Pakistani guys. The end of "Made in America" reminded me a lot of how Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ended. That type of ending seems merciful to me instead of having to see something bad happen to a character you like. If we're posting favorite lines then I always remembered the part where Tony and Furio were trying to intimidate that doctor and Furio clocks the guy in the head and says "You have a bee in you hat!"
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| # ¿ Apr 2, 2008 16:47 |
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| # ¿ May 23, 2013 16:46 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:Stupid-a loving game! insideoutsider posted:Any thoughts? If there are good tracks on other seasons feel free to throw those out too, I'll probably end up finishing out my collection this weekend.
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| # ¿ Apr 7, 2008 03:33 |
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It's better if you don't hear about the alien abduction plotline ahead of time, it loses a lot of its impact. On a different note, has Sopranos completely ruined mafia movies/TV shows for anyone else? They seem so trite by comparison after you see lengthy plotlines dealing with how mobsters would actually live. If I watch anything with mobsters now it seems like they're just guys with cliche Italian accents and suits.
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| # ¿ Apr 22, 2008 18:02 |
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This just popped into my head recently. Was it ever conclusively shown that Feech was deliberately framed by Tony so they could throw him back in the can? Was Christopher just unlucky that he trusted Feech to hold onto the stolen TVs, or did they actually tip off his parole officer in any way? Whoever wrote the Wikipedia entry seems to think it was deliberate.
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| # ¿ Jun 7, 2008 18:28 |
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Hey look, a box set!quote:Due Nov. 11, just in time for the holiday gift season, it weighs in at 10 pounds, with 86 episodes on 28 DVDs. Three CDs of soundtrack music. And two discs of bonus material, including 16 "lost" scenes, an interview of creator David Chase by Alec Baldwin, roundtable discussions with writers and stars and Sopranos spoofs from The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and Mad TV. There's also a panel discussion from the Paley Center for Media among "Whacked Sopranos" actors reflecting on their regrettable but necessary exits. There's more at the article, as well as another article with some additional info about the extras. 400 bucks! I can think of a whole lotta other things I could get with that much cash. It does represent a lot of hours of entertainment, though, and those extras sound interesting. Maybe they'll let the price fall after 6 months or a year. It definitely doesn't cost them that much to print it!
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| # ¿ Jun 23, 2008 20:33 |
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Ishamael posted:drat! I already have all the DVDs, but they are very very light on bonus features. Maybe I will netflix the bonus features discs.
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| # ¿ Jun 23, 2008 20:58 |
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discstickers posted:Imagine how much the boxed set of Blurays is gonna be. 
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| # ¿ Jun 24, 2008 15:22 |
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The articles announcing the DVD set say that even though the idea of the movie was floated in the past, it's still pretty much out of the question since James Gandolfini says he's done with Tony and David Chase doesn't think it's a viable idea.
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| # ¿ Jun 26, 2008 14:11 |
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I dunno if they thought it all through when they were making the pilot and setting up the house in the first season, but you could argue that Tony is so good at his job that he reaps the financial benefits far more than anyone else in the family.
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| # ¿ Aug 17, 2008 17:43 |
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Did anybody see the full-page ad for the box set today in USA Today? It had an election-style state map with blue for Obama, red for McCain, and black for "The Sopranos". The whole nation was colored in black and the text at the bottom said "The one show everyone can agree on." Maybe the box set costs so much to recoup the costs of that ad! It says the set is coming out on the 11th.
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| # ¿ Nov 5, 2008 22:02 |
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$200 isn't so bad, that's only $28.57 per season if you figure there are 7 seasons, which is how they sold the original box sets. I'm not surprised they lowered the price seeing as how this is probably a really bad environment to sell a $400 DVD set.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2008 16:15 |
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I didn't feel like the Johnnycakes stuff was tacked on more than any other subplot. The significance of Vito liking dudes was that it was yet another source of stress for Tony, who is at that point in the show in another period of mental decline. Vito was competent and brought in cash and Tony had no interest in punishing him for anything, but Phil was able to use the whole issue as yet another greivance. I guess the overall plot wouldn't have been any less coherent if Vito had hid out and not found Johnnycakes in the first place, but if the only evidence of Vito being bisexual was his presence at a gay bar, it would have seemed more like a thin ruse to kill his character off very quickly.
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| # ¿ Dec 29, 2008 03:05 |
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| # ¿ May 23, 2013 16:46 |
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A SHAMEFUL CAT posted:Why is so much credence given to Melfi's conclusion that Tony is a clinical sociopath? There's never any indication in the series that he is incapable of empathy. The whole "Ralphie beats stripper to death" subplot is almost explicit in how Tony is able to emotionally relate the dead stripper to Meadow, even if outwardly showing remorse for some stripper isn't permitted in the mob.
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