Vito = teh pwnt.

5/21/2006 9:49:49 PM

all those "slow" & "bad" episodes have been for GOOD reason...DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!!!!

5/21/2006 9:56:25 PM

so was that the "last" episode of this season????

vito went out in brutal fashion, sorta like Big Pussy in season 2 finale, but it still didn't seem like a season closer....

5/21/2006 10:03:52 PM

that was a good one

although i wasn't crazy about the soprano european vacation

5/21/2006 10:04:04 PM

nah the season closer is in 2 weeks

next week they're showing the past three episodes including tonight's

5/21/2006 10:05:47 PM

2 weeks looks to be a very good closer. I hope AJ gets his ass kicked by those hoods

5/21/2006 10:08:26 PM

i hope junior shits his pants

5/21/2006 10:13:45 PM

Hellz yes, I was suprised they killed that mofo

5/21/2006 10:14:54 PM

I just hate that a good show that many people love and will watch no matter what presents a bunch of crap and expects people to just deal with it and wait even longer to find out what happens to Tony. Cause that is all we care about now, how he dies, gets caught, or makes some major change. We waited so long for this and to be honest I am dissapointed. I am still going to watch, but come on.

5/21/2006 10:15:38 PM

those last 8 episodes will be the war between tony and phil.... going to the mattresses to make up for season 6's lack of violence...

5/21/2006 10:18:03 PM

I guess we will see how many buttons New York has

5/21/2006 10:19:10 PM

yea..the European excursion was a waste of time to me..but the rest of the episode was flawless

5/21/2006 10:36:18 PM

The guy that died sais Vito had a 3 ball in his pocket.....things happen in threes like Junior said

3 characters have died so far.

I wander if anyone else will die this season

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5/21/2006 10:56:12 PM

I thought he was sposed to get get dragged 35 feet

WTF?

5/22/2006 1:33:55 AM

yeah i wonder if they changed that scene or if they're gonna show something in 2 weeks

5/22/2006 3:12:37 AM

im sure they filmed multiple variations of his death scene. the one last is what they went with.

5/22/2006 8:59:03 AM

5/22/2006 10:04:05 AM

and the column

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"Sins of the past catching up with everyone Monday, May 22, 2006 WARNING: This column contains major plot spoilers for last night's "Sopranos" episode. Hey, it could have been worse. Fat Dom could have told Carlo to go home and get his shine box. "The Sopranos" cast has so many "Goodfellas" alums that the writers can't help but pay occasional homage. In season one, it was Christopher shooting that baker in the toe, and last night it was Carlo and Sil's virtual re-creation of the taunting-inspired murder of Billy Batts -- played by smilin' Frank Vincent, the man at the center of this new mess. This is very, very bad what these two did. Phil can get away with killing one of Tony's captains because Vito was marked for death anyway and because, hey, he's the boss of New York. Even if Tony wanted to go to the mattresses, he doesn't have the manpower to do it. But if/when Phil -- who's wanted Jersey blood since the Tony B. thing -- figures out what happened, he can rain five boroughs worth of fury down on Tony and what the late Carmine called "a glorified crew." As Tony drove away from Satriale's, you could see him figuring out exactly how much trouble he's in. And after he finished that mental calculus, what's the first thing he did? He called his construction buddy to get AJ a job, because he knows he may not have much time left to straighten the kid out. (The shakycam scene in the garage, where Tony's desire to help AJ battled mightily against his impulse to smash his face through that windshield, was one of James Gandolfini's finest moments.) And while Tony was realizing how small and vulnerable he is compared to New York, half a world away, Carmela was having her own sense of self smashed to bits. In Caldwell, she may be hot stuff, but when she sees France with all its treasures and history, she realizes she's just another insignificant speck, and that "it all gets washed away." History was everywhere in last night's episode, which featured more callbacks to old events -- chopping up bodies at Satriale's, AJ's nihilist phase, Carm and Roe's aborted trip to Italy, Mr. Wegler's book about Abelard and Heloise, Richie Aprile's gay son, the deaths of Jackie, Jackie Jr., Cosette and Adriana -- than any "Sopranos" hour I can remember. The sins of the past are catching up with everyone, and the future is cloudy at best. With Meadow moving out, her business in ruins and AJ a lost cause, Carm can't think of anything to do but hit Paris with Rosalie. Melfi asks Tony how he wants to live his life, and he changes the subject because he can't imagine what he might want -- or whether he'll be around to get it. We know the show is ending, but suddenly it feels like the characters know that, too. Last week saw the end of Johnny Sack's life as a respected wiseguy, and last night saw the end of Vito's life, period. After looking like a man with a death wish last week, he made a half-baked attempt to get back in with the Family, only to wind up dead and impaled on a pool cue at the hands of Fat Dom and Gerry the Hairdo. (To make sure Vito got the message, Phil even came out of a closet to confront him. Guy becomes boss and suddenly he's Mr. Symbolism.) RIP, Vito. We'll always have Johnny cakes. Meanwhile, Carm's unease over Adriana's disappearance reached its conclusion with that dream about Ade and Cosette reunited. As soon as Carm checked into a hotel in a strange city, you knew she was in for at least one disturbing dream, and David Chase once again used a nightmare to tell a character a truth they would never accept in the waking world. The whole trip seemed like a dream for Carm -- and not a good one. (Her final glimpse of the Eiffel Tower's searchlight scanning the horizon even echoed Tony's view of the Costa Mesa beacon.) Though she initially had her breath taken away by this grand old setting, the weight of the place, and the presence of Rosalie as traveling companion eventually put her in a morbid frame of mind. Roe's not just Carmela's best friend; she's the widow of the previous boss, and she had a son who died because he was just as big a selfish screw-up as AJ. Though "Cold Stones" featured two murders, it kept the muted, disappointed tone of the season to date. With only one more episode to go before this spring season ends, I still see an implosion coming, not an explosion. Thanks to Memorial Day, we'll find out in two weeks, followed by one last hiatus before the final eight episodes in January. Some other random thoughts: It's nice to see that Phil, like every other tough guy on this show, is really controlled by the woman in his life. Outraged as he may have been about Vito's secret, would he have had such a mad-on to brutalize the guy if he didn't have to listen to his devout wife droning on about the evils of homosexuality? And would he have bothered to tape Vito's mouth shut if Mrs. Phil hadn't reminded him about repentance and Heaven? A tale of two cities, told in edits: Carm looks at a sculpture of a beautiful woman and we cut to someone scraping bird splutz off the Bing sign; she looks at a Virgin Mary statue and we see Tony getting a happy ending from a stripper; she snaps a picture of a neon pig restaurant sign and we cut to Murmur telling a dirty joke with a pig as the punchline. David Chase flees to Paris at the start of every hiatus; nice to know those are working holidays. Portrait of an open marriage: Carm all but tells Tony to sleep around while she's gone, and he takes her up on it. In Paris, Carmela dreams about Adriana being dead, and when she returns to Jersey, one of the first things she does is take a load of laundry down to the very spot where Christopher ratted Ade out to Tony. The river denial: Not only does Vito think he can survive a return to Jersey, but when Carm mentions that Meadow and Finn were having problems, Meadow -- who last week would not shut up about that -- snaps, "I never said that!" Is Rosalie the most down-to-earth, likable character this show has? Not complicated or bound up with neurosis like everyone else, she's game to hook up with the Belleville biker ("They got a Belleville in France!"), and when Carm has her own AJ-esque nihilistic moment, Roe calms her down by humming a little Edith Piaf. Roe rules. "

5/22/2006 10:23:35 AM

I didn't catch the real meaning of Phil coming out of the closet last night, but its fucking perfect in highsight

5/22/2006 1:24:52 PM

i liked last night's episode a whole lot

5/22/2006 1:29:48 PM

"how's the Euro doing?"

5/22/2006 2:14:10 PM

what a good episode! so much happened.


one line i liked a lot was when tony told aj he should be kissing carm's feet bc if it wasnt for her, "i'd have knocked all your baby teeth out in one swipe"


aj should be more scared of tony

5/22/2006 2:57:47 PM

i like when they find out vito's dead, the one guy is like "i should've borrowed some money from him" and the guy who he saw in the grocery that is $20,000 richer gives a sly grin

5/22/2006 4:02:44 PM

he should have tired to get more, but that was pretty slick

5/22/2006 4:05:44 PM

Think you guys were excited about this set of episodes? You are all going to freak after this next episode and right before the new set of episodes.

5/22/2006 6:01:55 PM

^^^^^ That was fucking hilarious. and the look Carm returned was icing on the cake.

Was I the only one who thought Tony was having a panic attack only to realize he was blowing his load on the hooker... (and he let her kiss him right after! )

Personally, I much more enjoyed Fat Dom getting stabbed Goodfella style, he was more goddamn annoying than Vito! and the cellphone playing fur elise was a cute touch too, im not sure why but it was

Also, anyone notice the smashing of AJ's car windshield similiar to Tony's smashing of Big Pussys wife's car, way back in S3?

"Your friend, someone needs to tell her she's dead"

5/22/2006 10:27:03 PM

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"Was I the only one who thought Tony was having a panic attack only to realize he was blowing his load on the hooker"

nope.

and btw stripper /= hooker

or so they say...

5/23/2006 2:17:37 AM

from the column

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"she snaps a picture of a neon pig restaurant sign and we cut to Murmur telling a dirty joke with a pig as the punchline."

when i watched it again last night, after tony and everyone find out about vito, him and sil go into the other room to chat...when sil sits down there's a mural of a sow on the wall and a bunch of piglets nursing

5/23/2006 8:43:55 AM

god damn

one more episode this season

5/23/2006 10:22:13 AM

5/23/2006 11:53:23 AM

^hahahah

5/23/2006 12:39:39 PM

aj's friend fucked up the joke that he told

he said skateboarding in place of rollerblading

or maybe he meant it that way

5/23/2006 4:01:30 PM

hahah

5/24/2006 9:02:03 PM

Vito and Tony's meeting in the mall is fucking classic

5/25/2006 9:21:28 AM

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" Going into Sunday's telecast of "The Sopranos," cast member Joe Gannascoli thought he had a meaty part as gay gangster Vito Spatafore. That was, it seems, before his scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. In the episode, Spatafore is seen being pummeled to death. "The only thing I was upset about, they took some scenes out, I was really pleading for my life on that," Gannascoli said yesterday on Scott Shannon and Todd Pettengill's WPLJ radio morning show. "It was really heart-wrenching and they didn't show it." Gannascoli said he had about 60 people at his house to watch the episode. "It's the first time I'm seeing it, too," he said, "and I was a little bit disappointed in that." He said his wife got emotional watching him being beaten on the small screen. "I'm hoping I still get nominated [for an Emmy]," he said. "I put a lot into it." "

5/26/2006 10:15:57 PM

Wonder what his wife thought about all the fag scenes

5/31/2006 2:56:41 PM

bttt for tonight

6/4/2006 4:57:28 PM

9 more episodes left

6/4/2006 5:13:05 PM

6/4/2006 8:50:23 PM

...here we go

6/4/2006 9:00:33 PM

AJ's new girl is hot

6/4/2006 10:02:13 PM

and that teaser for the last 8 episodes was entirely inadequate

6/4/2006 10:03:01 PM

finooks, dominicans and now berets wtf...

well it was a good episode just not befitting a finale.

6/4/2006 10:08:34 PM

worst
fucking
season
ever

6/4/2006 10:09:30 PM

So uh, why do I want more violence and less of people getting their lives straight?

6/4/2006 10:09:44 PM

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"worst fucking season ever"

6/4/2006 10:10:51 PM

although it is a finale, i would prefer to call it a cliffhanger and a chance to wallow in the love we all feel for this family ergo the sentimental ending. at least before the shit hits the fan in january

6/4/2006 10:10:51 PM

Yea thats what we have been saying all season.

The only way next season has shit hitting the fan is if the entire point of this season was to tie up loose ends that cant have violence to concentrate on violence next season. Which I think is unlikely.

But I would be all for it.

6/4/2006 10:14:40 PM

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"So uh, why do I want more violence and less of people getting their lives straight?"

I dont think everyone is getting their lives straight. Chris is all fucked up AJ has a new set of problems and Tony has only held off his problems with new york, that tension with Phil's guy at the hospital speaks volumes. Also i hate it when people expect this show to be nothing but violence and sex. it ignores some of of the most brilliant things about the show.

6/4/2006 10:15:01 PM

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"it ignores some of of the most brilliant things about the show. "

yeah, we cant forget about those brilliant johny cake scenes.

6/4/2006 10:16:46 PM