Sopranos 6/3 - Second to final episode

Tony going to Carmella and AJ and telling them they had to leave shows that his real family is just as dilusional and moronic as his criminal one. Carmella's acting like she's just learning that she's the wife of a Mob boss. And I already addressed the whiny little bitch earlier.

AJ, "What do you mean he 'got shot?'" What fucking house have you been living in for 20 years?

 

I've been saying this for three weeks. It's a Newhart-esque ending. "Hun, you'll never believe the dream I just had. I was a north Jersey mob boss and I had this bumbling idiot family...oops, make that plural."

 

I liked how Sil took out Burt when he went out for the paper, sort of justifying Tony's paranoia this season about that.

 

Gotta be Butchie.

Millions of viewers nationwide -- including one James S. Rockford of Malibu, Calif. -- will pump their fists when that little fucker finally bites it.

 

Phil's always bitching about his time in the can. It almost seems like poetic justice for him to go back.

 

Yeah, for about 1/2 second, I thought it was Tony, until I saw that a) his ankles weren't fat enough, and b) the house in the background was a suburban split-level, not Tony's gated mansion.

The episode ends with Tony curled on the bed in the fetal position with a machine gun in his hands, and the camera pans in on the closed door. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

My completely wild guess at this point: Tony rolls to the Feds, gets sent off to a new life as Kevin Finnerty, salesman; Phil goes off to the slammer, Little Carmine (who keeps claiming he never wanted to be a boss) ends up in the driver's seat for BOTH NY and NJ.

Sil I suspect still has some role to play -- if Chase was going to just kill him off, he'd have been killed in the shootout. There's some reason for him to still be alive.

 

Heading into this season, while I still loved the show, I was pretty apathetic about this being the final season.
But this season has been really good, with the last few episodes among the best the series has ever put out. Great stuff. Tonight really made me miss Christopher. I would've loved to seen how he would've handled all this. Would he have came to Tony's side, or would Tony's suspicions been proven right?
I have a feeling after next week, I'm going to miss EVERYONE.

 

My thoughts pretty much align with yours but it would be really weird to see Tony go state's evidence ala Henry Hill at the end of Goodfellas ... and watching that family turn into taxpayers could be a whole new show on its own.

 

Just throwing something out here. There hasn't been a payoff yet on the asbestos stuff, right?

Does that get pinned on Phil somehow? Would be a very true-to-life mob takedown, which is usually the way Chase likes it.

 

I just can't see how a character like Leotardo that came around pretty late in the game can wind up walking away the winner. No way. Tony has to strike back. He should have taken care of it himself to begin with and he's going to finish it himself to make sure it gets done right. No hiding was what was the only thing that came across the screen at the end.

I see it as an all-out battle. I'm saying right now 5 prime characters go down. At least.

 

1. What a fantastic episode. I was on my seat from the time they showed up outside of "Phil's house" until the very end.
2. I can't believe the series finale is only 1 hour.
3. I really hate the guy that spoiled Bobby's death a couple of weeks ago. When the phone rang and he went into the train store, that guy's post came back to me and made it a little anticlimatic.

 

That would be a suitably ironic way for Phil to finally be pulled under. Mob bosses always worry about getting nailed for murder, RICO or tax evasion charges, and instead he would go down for an EPA environmental violation -- the 21st Century equivalent of a ticket for littering.