OK - I haven’t seen a thread discussing the show with spoilers, so here goes. If I’m late & there is another one, please shut this one down.
Is it just me, or is the scariest thing about tonight’s episode the fact that Janice has procreated? :eek:
VCNJ~
All I could think is “Please tell me they took away all of the senior citizen’s guns. Please.”
“Aw crap.”
Holy shit. Uncle June has totally lost his marbles. I can’t believe that they’d actually kill Tony in the first episode so I’m sure he’ll live but that was quite a jolt.
This show hasn’t lost a step.
I hadn’t watched much of the last two seasons, but I couldn’t miss this. Let me just say: Yipe. :eek:
We speculated that Tony’s blubber will save him. He’s gotten HUGE.
It was actually worth the wait!
Damn good episode. Most compelling hour on TV is right.
Funny, they shoot people, people hang and what gets me is Carmela showing off her stupid car and Tony pulling the BS of I forgot my wallet and walking off with the sunglasses. WTF, he is suppose to be using him to side step Phil to talk to Johnny Sacks.
Jim
The following is the phone message from my 68 year old Jewish mother tonight: “Hi. It’s your mother. I’ve left you two messages and I haven’t heard from you in a week. Call me back as soon as you can…Oh, don’t call back during The Sopranos.”
I thought the same thing. WTF? Give the guy a couple hundred for the glasses, it’s pocket change.
What an episode. No previews this week. They’re really going to keep us in suspense.
Tony better watch out for Vito.
It’s sort of funny to me, after everything that happened in the first season, that Junior ended up “getting” Tony after all. I’m sure Tony will live, but you know what I mean.
I’m not a huge fan of the show, but overall, I thought it was a lot of drawn-out boring stuff before a big surprise. Who the heck cares about Eugene anyway?
Gotta say, I preferred tonight’s episode of Desperate Housewives.
They’re really playing with the Vito thing. Anyone else laugh when he ate the sausage? (Or whatever it was. It was phallic, in any case.) Plus, the flamboyant suit.
Meadow striptease. Good stuff. This distracted me from the words to the song, which probably had some meaning or something. (Does anyone have the words? Better yet, does anyone have a clip of Meadow?)
Interesting that AJ has long hair. In some flashbacks, a young Tony Soprano had similarly long hair. A sign he might follow in his father’s footsteps?
Jonny Sac’s star is definitely falling, and it sounds like the FBI is still more interested in bringing down New York than New Jersey. Good irony with the comments about Ray being a loyal crook. 
Not enough Arty, but of course there was so much going on in this episode that it’s understandable that he got short shrift. Is he serious about him and Charmaine? I wonder how things will work out there. May be a good counterpoint (or reinforcing point) to anything that happens with Tony and Carmella.
Bobby with his trains was funny. Especially the hat. I hope Bobby has some interesting stuff to do this season. If we only see him being a dad and a husband (or playing with trains) I’ll be disappointed.
“… retirement community.” “It’s a nursing home!” I loved the reversal. I really wish the actress who played his mother hadn’t died. I would have loved to see what they would have done with her. Some of the best parts of the earlier seasons were between her and Junior.
In another thread, I predicted that Junior would have most of his marbles back this season. I may have been ever so slightly wrong about that, a little bit, maybe.
(I don’t always catch names very well. Can anyone confirm whether the guy Junior was rambling about was Little Pussy, the guy he wanted to whack at Arty’s restaurant waaaaay back in Season One?)
Finally, an episode worth the wait.
Bonus points for carryover on story lines from last season.
More Bonus points for Meadow’s dance.
Still More Bonus Points for not showing any more of Janice’s breast than they did.
The agents just can’t catch a break. Everybody they get in their grip ends up getting whacked, dying of natural causes or committing suicide. They’re like the grim reapers of law enforcement.
I was figuring the guy’s wife (can’t remember his name) would meet Tony to “negotiate a release” so they could move to Florida.
Carmela - what a piece of work she is.
I think Tony will survive - this time.
I’ve read a few books about mobsters. A recurring theme is that they don’t like paying for anything. Some of them (I would guess especially those at Tony’s level) feel it is their right not to pay for anything they don’t have to.
It’s ironic that Tony had just been lecturing AJ about how his friends would all betray him and that family was all he could trust right before he went over and got ventilated by Uncle Junior (he also seemed to have forgotten that his own mother tried to have him whacked).
Who would have thought the scaled saying Tony was 280 lbs was foreshadowing! 
Yeah, Tony’s girth will save him from the bullet. If not, this could be a very interesting season, though I’m not sure they pull a “Nate” to borrow an event from Six Feet Under’s final season.
Does anyone know what that Seven Souls stuff was at the beginning? It seemed to sorta coincide with the short scenes, but I need to watch it again to be sure. I do remember that when he said something “Ka” and “adolescence”, we saw A.J. making a face into his cell phone.
Meadow’s fiancee looked more interested in whatever was playing on the TV.
It was nice seeing Ade again, if only in Carmela’s dream.
Funny, Tony and Carmela talking about how well everything was going, when it’s really the same old shit.
Great first episode.
Are we certain that he didn’t think Tony was someone else? He’s already at the point of thinking dead people are still alive; perhaps he thought Tony was some enemy of his from years ago.
Maybe I’m misremembering, but I thought Uncle Junior yelled someone else’s name at Tony when he shot him…like he thought that Tony was the (five years dead) guy who Junior was sure had stolen his buried loot.
He apparently thought Tony was “Little Pussy” Malenga from way back. I don’t think Junior was consciously doing anything - as I say, I missed a lot of seasons 3 and 4, so I was surprised by how senile Junior was - I’m just talking about how it ‘really’ worked out.
By the way, that was pretty shrewd of Junior to hide the gun under his bed. No one will ever find it there.