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i typically do the same thing.. watch the episode, read the column, and then watch again. It's amazing how much I don't pick up the first time

4/10/2006 11:33:37 AM

i end up watching teh episode a couple times just because i always have friends who miss it on sunday

4/10/2006 12:05:51 PM

^yep, same here

4/10/2006 12:11:36 PM

I always end up watchin it more too...but thats because i have nothin at all better to do with my life

4/10/2006 12:12:10 PM

Quote :

"i typically do the same thing.. watch the episode, read the column, and then watch again."

Quote :

"i end up watching teh episode a couple times just because i always have friends who miss it on sunday "

damn good season so far!

4/10/2006 12:46:58 PM

^^, ^^^^ link pls.

[Edited on April 10, 2006 at 2:59 PM. Reason : sorry I was at the bottom of the previous page. link for article referenced there pls.]

4/10/2006 2:44:54 PM

http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1144665306227460.xml?starledger?etv&coll=1

Hopefully that was the link you were lookin for

4/10/2006 3:07:12 PM

http://www.nj.com/sopranos/

4/10/2006 5:13:49 PM

cop: "Sir what is this?"
Paulie: "Nitroglycerin, whatdya think?"
(always wanted to say that )

"You think bid-laden's getting married in there!"

AJ's gf: *puffs a big cloud of smoke* "I don't eat fish, the toxins"


By the way was I the only one who started laughing up a storm when Ginny kealed over?

Why were the terrorists only asking for *semiautomatic* tec-9's, surely the Mob can get a hold of the fullauto ones?

4/10/2006 8:28:56 PM

i avoided this thread all day today so i could watch it tonight--another goodie from the family

4/10/2006 10:56:55 PM

sopranos = crack

4/10/2006 11:12:37 PM

Oh youre not the only one who laughed when Ginny fainted...i nearly died...i thought there would be a crater..."tilt her head back and let me check her airway"

4/11/2006 12:20:59 AM

i dunno i thought all the fat jokes got old after the mole joke

4/11/2006 3:44:56 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/060413

Jason Whitlock's take on the new season

4/13/2006 6:17:50 PM

^ lame

4/13/2006 6:22:07 PM

yea

pretty much

complaining about a TV show that makes him think

4/13/2006 6:22:56 PM

here are the episode descriptions for the next TWO episodes...i am posting the 2nd one just because I dont think it really gives anything away...however just cause, I will give the obligatory

** POTENTIAL SPOILER WARNING!! **

"Live Free or Die" (Original air date - Sunday April 16, 2006)

Tony debates giving a top earner a second chance; Tony looks abroad to settle a local dispute

"Luxury Lounge" (Original air date - Sunday April 23, 2006)

A rival restaurant and a staff scandal jeopardize Artie's business; Christopher and Little Carmine pursue a new venture.

4/13/2006 7:47:55 PM

4/16/2006 1:37:12 PM

woooooooooooooooooooooo wooooooooooooooooooooooo

4/16/2006 8:56:25 PM

i heard vito was a rigatoni

4/16/2006 9:15:46 PM

Krissy just made THE point about the cartoon.

4/16/2006 9:16:42 PM

what is this the news?

4/16/2006 9:18:03 PM

i feel like the show is getting ready for something. the whole "episodes that arent boring but dont have me on the edge of my seat" thing is making me expect a huge surprise in a week or two.

4/16/2006 10:11:11 PM

I am waiting for something big to happen that makes Tony want to get out of the business. But I think he is so used to the lifestyle that the show couldn’t go that way.

Also, the way Sill explained what was going to happen with Vito being let back in was very enlightening.

4/16/2006 10:24:12 PM

Christopher never disappoints with his dialogue!!! hahaha

4/16/2006 11:09:22 PM

obviously its a coup, but when and who?

4/16/2006 11:14:14 PM

carmela with the candlestick in the conservatory.

4/17/2006 12:06:24 AM

I tell you I never get tired of seeing Jamie Lynn half naked


"that Senator Sanitorium" hahaha

4/17/2006 2:50:04 AM

"He's a come from behind guy"

4/17/2006 2:31:19 PM

^i laughed like crazy when they said that

4/17/2006 2:57:25 PM

Where the guide to this episode?

Mediocre one last night, but definitely set up some stuff...and it actually made me feel sorry for Vito.

But how long will the Vito sidestory really last?

4/17/2006 3:10:28 PM

i thought the episode was fine. not every one can be full of body bags.

4/17/2006 4:39:39 PM

Quote :

"A place to live free or die Monday, April 17, 2006 WARNING: This column contains major plot spoilers for last night's "Sopranos" episode. Did you hear the one about the Jersey mobster who walked into a Norman Rockwell painting of New England? Neither did I, because usually you can't get there from here. My hat's off to David Chase and company for once again defying expectations. I read a lot of theories in the last week about Vito: that he was going to kill himself in that motel, that he was going to turn federal witness to avoid the wrath of Tony and Phil, that Phil would find out before Tony and blackmail Vito into helping him get revenge for his brother. That last one was mine, and it was about as far away from what they actually did as the friendly confines of Dartford, New Hampshire, are from the valley of the malls that Vito fled. No strip clubs and big box stores allowed in Dartford, no sir. In Vito's picture-postcard hideout, his landlady doesn't need cash in advance, the local diner makes its own sausages and, most importantly for Vito, a gay couple fits right in. That Vito should find safe harbor in a place marinating in its own authenticity makes sense, since his inability to be who he really is drove him out of Essex County. This episode was called "Live Free Or Die," but in Soprano country, it's not a choice but a combination: Live free and die. Newcomers to organized crime are promised a glamorous life where they won't be bound by the rules of society. What no one ever tells them is that they're trading one set of laws for another, and sometimes the new laws are worse than the old ones. (When Phil broke the bad news to Vito's wife, he sounded like a prosecutor: "The witness has no reason to lie.") Since Tony came out of his coma, I've had a running argument with our other TV critic, Matt Seitz, about whether Tony has been changed by the experience. After last night, I'm with Matt: Tony wants to learn and grow from what happened, but the business he has chosen won't let him. He didn't want to beat up Perry last week, but it was the only move he could make to survive. (Not coincidentally, Christopher is now on board with the Rusty hit.) As Tony told Eugene -- another man who realized too late just how restrictive his career choice was -- there's no retiring from this. Tony may want to show vulnerability, may want to cut Vito some slack on the gay thing, but he knows that kind of thinking will only catch him another bullet. Once I got over the abject horror of Vito in the leather outfit last week, I noticed that as he was dancing, he displayed an emotion we rarely see on this show: pure joy. As a gangster, the thing that made him happy might get him killed, just as the fatty foods he loves are bad for his health (he left his diet and Jersey behind at the same time). Meanwhile, Carmela continues to recalculate the price tag that came with her McMansion lifestyle. She learned last season that she can't be with a man other than Tony, and now she's discovering that she may never be able to have an income separate from his. Between Tony's deliberate inaction with the building inspector and the greed of her own father, the spec house seems doomed. And if she thinks she can join the Family rank-and-file like Angie Bonpensiero, she's kidding herself. Carmela's been edging ever closer to the Family business since that therapy session in episode three, but no way does Tony let his wife on the payroll. That's another rule you can't break. So what happens next? After seeing the whole of "Sopranos" fandom fail so spectacularly at predicting the newest direction for Vito's story, I don't want to guess. But as we head into the second half of this spring season, I keep returning to something Chase told me last month: "Once we realized we were doing a show in which characters would and could die, that was very liberating in a way. Because it meant that they could change also." As I said before the season began, the opposite is true, too: on this show, when people change, they usually die. So let's not be picturing Vito as an antiques mogul just yet. Some other random thoughts: # A time and space crunch last week made me shortchange Vince Curatola, who was brilliant at showing Johnny Sack's joy and pain. So I don't repeat that mistake, let's just say my dust allergy kicked up as I watched Joseph Gannascoli kissing Vito's kids goodbye. # Meadow's pro bono case with the Afghani family may have seemed random, but they're in the same situation as the mobsters: escaping the rules of one society for another that's not as free as it was cracked up to be. # Irony on location: Dartford doesn't exist, and its main street is really in Boonton. # Know your Family: Carlo Gervasi, to whom Tony gave all of Vito's construction jobs, has been a background fixture at captain's meetings since the start of season four. Tony B. reported to him, as does Perry. Carlo also runs the ports and the Bloomfield Avenue casino. # Speaking of Perry, last night should kill the theory that the fight was staged. Like the notion that Vito killed himself off-camera, it ignores how this show operates. Chase and company aren't interested in big twists and surprises; if something important happens, you'll know immediately or soon after. # With four of the show's best writers (Chase, Terence Winter, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess) getting script credit, you knew this one was going to bring the funny, and it delivered. Among the laughs: Christopher and Tony separately insisting they always knew Vito's secret, Tony's panic over whether Melfi believed he slept with men in jail, Paulie's disgusted reaction to the full Vito story ("How much more betrayal can I take?"), and Christopher rationalizing that his Arab clients can't be terrorists because one of them owns a springer spaniel. # Loved Tony trying to impress Melfi by quoting the "go about in pity for themselves" line -- which, run through an Ojibwe-to-Sopranos translator, comes out roughly as "Poor you." # Boy, do Meadow and Finn not like each other anymore. Since he probably only proposed to save himself from Vito, now he has no excuse not to run screaming from a world that so obviously horrifies him. # Why is a Yonkers wiseguy collecting on Phil's turf, and why wouldn't he tell Phil first? "

http://www.nj.com/sopranos/ledger/index.ssf?/sopranos/stories/seasonsix_7.html

4/17/2006 6:28:14 PM

what was the joke chris made, I laughed my ass off when he told it, but now I can't remeber

4/17/2006 6:35:34 PM

my favorite part was the black inmate guy who picked up Vito's phone


"Fuck you, motherfucka!"

4/17/2006 11:04:56 PM

why does the blakc man gotta be an inmate? he cant work for DOT?

4/18/2006 1:49:02 AM

the last two episodes have been dissappointing to me.

..i dont need violence or sex or drugs or action, but i would like the plot to progress more then it has. you could have condensed everything that has happened in the past two episodes into about 30 minutes. the rest has just been filler. I'm usually upset when the show ends, but for the past 2 weeks, ive been staring at the clock every couple of minutes hoping that the show would finally end because it was just dragging along.

4/18/2006 8:36:28 AM

not me, I've been into every second of every episode thus far. watched sunday's episode three times already

4/18/2006 9:21:26 AM

gg....i wish i had the free time that you do.

4/18/2006 10:29:11 AM

I think the season is progressing at a nice pace and setting up for a flurry of events...


III

4/18/2006 10:31:36 AM

i sure hope so....cause im pretty dissappointed in the season so far.

4/18/2006 10:36:32 AM

Kinda seems like they are orienting everyones position to set up episodes where you cant explain why they react because alot is gonna happen.

I do agree with sober that it is kinda boring, but I will only classify it as such if they take any more time doing slow shows.

4/18/2006 11:30:48 AM

Number one reason the 2 Arab guys cant be in Al Qaeda:

"Muhammad and his girlfriend have a dog...a springer spaniel"

Christopher is the smartest man alive

[Edited on April 18, 2006 at 12:32 PM. Reason : ]

4/18/2006 12:31:47 PM

it's not that I have alot of free time. They replay that shit like every day and when I'm at home working on the computer I watch it. not to mention it was on last night at 10.

and I really don't see why everyone is so down on this season. I've been loving it. after watching all the previous seasons like a billion times, it's nice to see something a little different.

[Edited on April 18, 2006 at 3:20 PM. Reason : .]

4/18/2006 3:20:10 PM

^.

4/18/2006 3:42:57 PM

yeah ive definitely been happy enough with the 1st 5 seasons to not give up on this one...everything will fall into place

4/18/2006 4:21:10 PM

not only that, but I've been satisfied thus far. I mean, those first three episodes were fucking stellar! not to mention that the comedy has been at an all-time high. I laugh my ass off throughout the entire episode. Chris and paulie especially. Really, I think this season has the most plotlines in the works of any of the previous seasons. It's just going to keep getting better.

4/18/2006 4:55:25 PM

HE'S A FAAAA-AAAAG

ahahahahaha

4/18/2006 5:32:50 PM

"All the guys want head... what the fuck"

4/18/2006 6:51:38 PM

4/19/2006 10:21:12 AM