|
FlamingLiberal posted:I think the coma stuff just goes on too long. It's not bad in theory, but it's like 3 episodes. yeah I was telling my friend while watching it for the first time this year, right before starting season 6, "I like it but I really hate dream sequences in general, and in this series every time they show up they seem to take longer and longer" he didn't have the heart to tell me 
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 21:47
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 18:27 |
|
|
The coma dream is what made the writing team of Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, who had been around since the beginning, leave the show to create Blue Bloods.
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 21:51
|
|
|
The rapper stuff in the hospital recuperation episode is the cringiest poo poo. The whole episode reminds me of the Columbus Day one in a bad way. Like the writer just filled the episode with poo poo from Reader's Digest. Oh, rappers get a career boost when they get shot. Religious pharmacists get fired for not filling prescription. Paramedics do "wallet biopsies" to make sure you can pay for the good hospital. We're all part of the same quantum field and merely temporary disturbances in the universal energy. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Nov 10, 2023 |
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 21:54
|
|
|
My favorite recurring bit is Tony learning one superficial line of moral or psychological thought and repeating it to everyone for a whole season.
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 22:00
|
|
|
He takes the Ojibwe saying and turns it into an insult.
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 22:03
|
|
|
 
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 22:30
|
|
|
Get your pencils and your crap and the rest of your poo poo, and don’t be here tomorrow!
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 22:32
|
|
|
huge self-own by Junior. That was like the one legitimate relationship he had on the show and he threw it all away
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 23:21
|
|
|
Oh absolutely. And he continues to ask about her as time goes on. Like when Bobby saw her buying a fountain of a kid pissing at Fountains of Wayne. “Must’ve bought a house”
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 23:28
|
|
|
theflyingexecutive posted:My favorite recurring bit is Tony learning one superficial line of moral or psychological thought and repeating it to everyone for a whole season. The way they take a single nugget of wisdom and go "yeah i think i got it" and then misuse it forever is such a certain kind of guy, it's great. Like Paulie listening to sun tzu before going ham on the landscaper
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 23:40
|
|
|
Sun Tuh-zoo.
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2023 23:59
|
|
|
Pattonesque posted:huge self-own by Junior. That was like the one legitimate relationship he had on the show and he threw it all away He threw away Bobbie and got… Bobby
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 00:09
|
|
|
I get it. He drives a Lincoln.
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 00:17
|
|
|
the Kevin Finnerty episodes were so good in my opinion. He gets shot at the end of Episode 1 and is conscious again by the end of episode 3, so it's really not that long. I wasn't particularly fond of The Test Dream, mostly because of its placement right before the penultimate episode. The fact that coma dreams start the season, made it feel like it wasn't interrupting other storylines.
Help a goon out! Lots of books - horror, nonfiction, classics and more for sale.
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 01:48
|
|
|
One of my absolutely favorite parts of The Test Dream is that when he calls Carmela on the phone after waking up, he just mentions that he had one of his "Coach Molinaro dreams" and she immediately, gently asks,"Were you unprepared as usual?" and it just serves as a perfect reminder of what he had with her that he threw away because he just refused to exhibit even the barest modicum of self control and not sleep around on her.
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 01:51
|
|
|
Pope Corky the IX posted:One of them really sounds like Charmaine to me. Same
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 03:01
|
|
|
I dig the coma stuff, but The Sopranos in general is just extra cinematic and it's easier for me to go with than other shows. I'm watching another show where a lead character has been out of commission in a hospital bed awaiting surgery for several episodes, a sci-fi show, BSG s2, and it really has made for a couple of my least fav eps so far. Awesome show overall though. In general that's a big hurdle for a TV show I think. (Edit: the next couple eps ruled for the record.) You want it to feel like big things are happening etc, but we kind of know the characters will be back as ever sooner than later so it can feel like they're just going through the motions. But I think I often feel that way when a TV character gets injured or in a coma or whatever. It is tricky stuff folks. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Nov 11, 2023 |
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 04:09
|
|
|
If Sil is having a coma dream at the end, what do you think that’s like?
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 06:20
|
|
|
I'm currently on the coma episodes. I really like that Paulie almost loving kills him just by talking lol Also I really love all the dreams about death and afterlife. So ominous and yet strangely serene. The scene in front of the house talking to Tony B makes my skin crawl every time.
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 06:40
|
|
|
Pirate Radar posted:If Sil is having a coma dream at the end, what do you think that’s like? disgusting
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 06:47
|
|
|
I wish they would’ve showed Chris’ vision of hell.
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 08:09
|
|
|
Jerusalem posted:One of my absolutely favorite parts of The Test Dream is that when he calls Carmela on the phone after waking up, he just mentions that he had one of his "Coach Molinaro dreams" and she immediately, gently asks,"Were you unprepared as usual?" and it just serves as a perfect reminder of what he had with her that he threw away because he just refused to exhibit even the barest modicum of self control and not sleep around on her. I like this too, it's a nice world building detail that Tony actually does or has confided his dreams with Carmela (to what degree that is his expression of openness or vulnerability is left to us; I suppose it helps that she also knew the coach), and she demonstrates familiarity while Melfi expressly notes he's never brought it up to her.
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 09:28
|
|
|
ruddiger posted:I wish they would’ve showed Chris’ vision of hell.  I feel like we catch a glimpse whenever someone loses big at the executive game (David Scatino, JT) in just how quickly their lives become a "hell" afterward
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 09:31
|
|
|
wilderthanmild posted:Also I really love all the dreams about death and afterlife. So ominous and yet strangely serene. The scene in front of the house talking to Tony B makes my skin crawl every time.  this is far and away the most unnerving scene not in Employee Of The Month
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 09:33
|
|
|
Also let’s not forget Tony dreaming of being an Italian immigrant, encountering a Livia-esque phantom on the stairs!
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 12:04
|
|
|
Pope Corky the IX posted:Yes, it was confirmed that it's not Edie Falco and they never revealed who it is. The voice even seems to change between the two coma episodes. One of them really sounds like Charmaine to me. im 99% sure its Gene Pontacorvo’s wife.
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 18:19
|
|
|
this is the most heartbreaking scene in the show, such a good pie,
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 19:34
|
|
|
GolfHole posted:this is the most heartbreaking scene in the show, such a good pie, 
|
|
#
?
Nov 11, 2023 19:44
|
|
|
AJ: "Why do you keep talking about event planning? I don't even know what that is!" How is this kid THIS dumb?
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 03:33
|
|
|
I love how AJ is such a mirror of Tony in his therapy sessions. first he gleefully joins in on beating up the african bicycle courier, and then he cries fake crocodile tears to his therapist just to wash away his guilt
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 18:20
|
|
|
MrMojok posted:Also let’s not forget Tony dreaming of being an Italian immigrant, encountering a Livia-esque phantom on the stairs!  absolutely the most horrifying scene in the show. turbo nightmare poo poo
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 18:28
|
|
|
that scene never scares me for some reason, its just a very standard fear of the unknown. these are everywhere, even in everyday life. when you open a cabinet the items in the back are hidden. when you turn off the lights at night shadows dance on the walls. to me this is a very standard fear personified into a person since humans tend to recognize people foremost. also the context. he's about to get a job! this is the same feeling that everyone gets when they walk into a job interview. maybe im one foot in hell already.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 19:18
|
|
|
remind me to post this on wednesday at 3
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 19:22
|
|
|
https://youtu.be/EV9e14vzVco
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 19:28
|
|
|
GolfHole posted:that scene never scares me for some reason, its just a very standard fear of the unknown. these are everywhere, even in everyday life. when you open a cabinet the items in the back are hidden. when you turn off the lights at night shadows dance on the walls. to me this is a very standard fear personified into a person since humans tend to recognize people foremost. You are as good a psychiatrist as Melfi
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 19:39
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-P3DrkCLxY
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 20:15
|
|
|
Pattonesque posted:
Somebody pointed out in this thread something I had never noticed before, that it comes down the stairs trailing its fingers along the wall instead of the banister, and somehow that just adds even more to the wrongness of it all.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 20:19
|
|
|
It’s where the track for the chair lift would be.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 20:20
|
|
|
sacre bleu, there is me mama
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 20:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 18:27 |
|
|
Dokapon Findom posted:You are as good a psychiatrist as Melfi 
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2023 20:30
|
|