Mob culture is itself sociopathic when you stop to think about it. You have to be able to acclimate yourself to that world in order to survive in it. Yeah, Richie seems to be a textbook sociopath, but when you look at him from the perspective of that world, his actions are more comprehensible. The whole thing where he…

Poor stupid Artie, everything worked out to his advantage, Tony pretty much took his side, and Benny was getting the short end of the stick all the way around, So what does Artie do? He just can't leave it alone, has to just go and fuck with Benny some more, and in front of his wife and parents at that.

Poor stupid Artie, everything worked out to his advantage, Tony pretty much took his side, and Benny was getting the short end of the stick all the way around, So what does Artie do? He just can't leave it alone, has to just go and fuck with Benny some more, and in front of his wife and parents at that.

I'll tell you where House started going wrong, was when it started trying to be cutesy funny along the lines of Bones, a show I genuinely despise. In my own ideal House finale, Robert Sean Leonard's character (maddeningly I can't think of his name right now) would have married Cuddy (in fact he made a statement to the…

I'll tell you where House started going wrong, was when it started trying to be cutesy funny along the lines of Bones, a show I genuinely despise. In my own ideal House finale, Robert Sean Leonard's character (maddeningly I can't think of his name right now) would have married Cuddy (in fact he made a statement to the…

A storyline the show never did I would want to see? Just off the top of my head, what if AJ had killed somebody, then fell to pieces over it, and Tony had to jump through hoops to have it covered up? He would have done it too if the story kept true to his character. People are always tossing around the word…

A storyline the show never did I would want to see? Just off the top of my head, what if AJ had killed somebody, then fell to pieces over it, and Tony had to jump through hoops to have it covered up? He would have done it too if the story kept true to his character. People are always tossing around the word…

I liked the Artie Bucco-Benny Fazio storyline better.

I liked the Artie Bucco-Benny Fazio storyline better.

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Eugene was the one she said was sweet, which might be even a little worse.

Eugene was the one she said was sweet, which might be even a little worse.

You're kind of seeing the New Hampshire town segments through Vito's POV, so you have to figure that Vito would focus on those things that would appeal to him. The happy gay couple in the diner, seemingly accepted by the other townsfolk, the jaunt to the antiques store, etc. A non-gay stranger in the same town would…

You're kind of seeing the New Hampshire town segments through Vito's POV, so you have to figure that Vito would focus on those things that would appeal to him. The happy gay couple in the diner, seemingly accepted by the other townsfolk, the jaunt to the antiques store, etc. A non-gay stranger in the same town would…

So did I, but it actually makes sense that Bobby did it on purpose.

You're right. In Chasing It, (MINOR SPOILER) it was Bobby who pointed out to Tony that Hesh couldn't do a damn thing to Tony, though I forget the exact words he used, making it plain that Hesh could be easily taken out if he insisted on being a problem. It sounded very sinister coming from Bobby, ordinarily a laid…

No.

The Juliana Skiff thing was meant to set up conflict between Tony and Christopher starting with episode 12. The Vito thing was meant to show how hard a pull mob life can have on somebody. Vito just couldn't stay away from it. In the "dream", Tony was for the first time his true self, which had been buried (his…

Very good stuff, I hadn't even considered any of that. I do agree that Tony dies. I read  somewhere that originally the MOJ guy was seen at the very end approaching Tony with a gun but that was cut out by David Chase, who wanted to have more of an aire of mystique.