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Definitely a nice choice in song, although I'm a bit biased as it's one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. And I suppose that it looses something if you don't know the lyrics to the song. But there are all sorts of ways you could read into "I'm going to tear you to little bits" (probably in both support and opposition

I wouldn't be surprised it that shit really worked back in the day. These days, maybe not so much, just becuase people are so damn paranoid about everything. But with the right confidence all you need is some little bit of physical evidence to sell someone on whatever fiction you're spinning.

It's even better once you have kids (but not with your wife in the car) they can't get enough of that shit. They're also an excellent excuse to do cookies in the cul-de-sac - I didn't WANT to do cookies in the parking lot (I'm a respectable adult, I don't enjoy such things), but the kids kept asking and they were to

I'll come to Lt's defense here, becuase I think the people he's complaining about aren't the people posting here. It's the people who simply don't want to acknowledge that there's a fairly clear conclusion that you reach when you watch the scene critically becuase they don't like that particular ending. I think most

There are no "elaborate plots" needed to connect Member's only guy with the bathroom and Tony. It's all there in the direction; we're shown MOG in the diner multiple times, including him looking at Tony. We're shown him going to the bathroom, and we're shown that there's a direct path from the bathroom to a clean kill

True, but she gets "hot down there" talking dirty to a guy in a coma. Surely that's a point in her favor, no?

There's definitely a conflict there, becuase the show's been consistent about there being an afterlife (doesn't a guy that Christopher whacks come back to haunt him at some point, and even knows something that nobody else could know?). But the cut to black would imply otherwise. Perhaps it's intended to be taken on a

I think the argument that the cut to black invites interpretation and is not evidence that Tony was killed is a false dichotomy. Personally, it seems fairly clear to me that Tony was killed. but I acknowledge and respect the ambiguity. In fact, I'm damn glad that they left it ambiguous, becuase it would have been so

that's a good point, and it reminds me of Carmela's story about them listening to "American Girl" on the weekend when they all went to the shore, and Charmaine and Arty were broken up at the time. I don't know if that's a reference to Tony sleeping with Charmaine back in high school or not, but IIRC in an earlier

That's a good point. I wouldn't hold all those tangents against the strength of the main arguments, becuase they truly are tangental. Some of the things he points out may have been deliberate clues, but some of them are likely to be coincidences. Even a show like The Sopranos can't manage to purposely included THAT

I disagree; I thought Carmela and Meadow handled the situation pretty well. Carmela was upset and emotional, but she didn't make an obnoxious scene like Janice did (nobody can quite make it all about herself like Janice). Meadow was a bit annoying, but she was just looking out for her dad. and sometimes you've got to

There were signs of demential before that, but they were very subtle. They could have just been character development that established that he's a cranky old man, but there were occasional mental slips here and there going back to season 1.

the show definitely brings you right into those scenes. I couldn't help  thinking of my dad, who was breifly in a coma about a year ago after a surgery and was at risk of sepsis as well. Our family is about as far removed from a mob family as you can get, but those scenes had a chilling realism and relatability (the

There was a scene like that last season, I think Tony was making dinner for Junior and trying to ask him for advice, and finally has to give up asking for the advice.

I was wondering the same thing myself; it seems so realistic (aside from the point Conor C. makes above about snapping the neck, but that's an intentional creative decision), I was wondering if they refered to some sort of archival footage of someone being executed or something like that. As for how it was actually

Nah, she's not just greedy. I suppose you could interpret it that way, But to me that's too dumb of a mistake to make if she's really, honestly taking the project seriously. Some corners are worth cutting and some aren't; she might have saved a few bucks by hiring her dad, but this puts the whole project at risk. She

This is the first season I'v watched on Blu-ray, and needless to say, I quickly found it to be well worth the extra cost…

Hardly anyone remembered the whole Vito / Finn plot from season 5? C'mon, don't be silly here. I mean, you've got a point that he wasn't always featured prominently. In retrospect if you know he's going to be featured much more prominently going forward, it's easy to see that they're starting to set that up now. But

This was a really great episode, IMO. It feels like they've taken all of the recurring themes and dialed them up to 11, without making them overbearing. Of all the examples of Tony's compulsive greed, him taking a taste of Eugene's inheritance and then still not letting him retire has gotta be one of the shittiest

That's my understanding as well, Ralf and Florian were always the main 2 guys.