Tony was given the perfect opportunity to rid himself of many present and potential problems, and took it. Cold blooded - yes, wise - probably so. Christofaa has allowed his personal baggage to outweigh his benefit. Never a good idea around these guys.
That and Tony, in his peyote funk seems to have gained his good luck now that Christopher is taking the big dirt nap. Haven’t seen Tony this happy in quite some time. I wonder what coming down will do to him?
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My dad called me about that light. I remember in the hospital, the light was from a helicopter, I watched this over and over and I don’t think I saw anything in it, the only thing I saw in it, I’m pretty sure was there becuase I was trying so hard to see something.
I thought she stayed pretty stoic, as usual. Besides, wasn’t that during the dream part. Or wait, did he tell her during the dream session and the real session?
“It’s the same principle as the solar system.”
I got to remember that next time I play the roulette wheel.
This is just some weird speculation on my part but does anybody get the impression that Tony’s affair with Christopher’s ex-girlfriend may turn out to be a hallucination like the one involving his neighbor’s maid from Season 1?
I don’t know–I thought that Tony, while quite miffed at Chris, was instinctually going to help him out after the accident until he saw (we got two close-ups of it) the destroyed baby seat and realized that the high Chris could just as easily have been driving with his baby girl. And we know what a thing Tony has about vulnerable females, like Tracee and Pie-O-My.
And then he probably thought, “Holy fuck, he was high but he was driving ME in the car!” while Chris is mumbling about a drug test and looks like he might check out anyway. Tone seized the opportunity. But I think he was shaken when it turned out that perhaps Chris’ thorax could have been salvaged and he might have lived.
At first I thought (black for grossness)
that it was Chris’ femur somehow having ended up in the back seat, and it was like putting a crippled horse out of its misery.
Sorry you looked, huh? But how freakish has this show been this season–first right after the Virginia Tech shootings, there’s an insane violent young Asian guy in Junior’s ward, then Gov. Corzine has his horrible accident with his femur penetrating bone on an NJ highway when his driver swerved to avoid a truck, driven by a guy they later found but let go since he wasn’t too bright and hadn’t meant to cause an accident and then took off–like Kennedy and Heidi.
I’m wondering now if Dr. Melfi is going to last the season.
Well, you realize Tony’s first ‘visit’ when he told her he’d killed before and who was a dream, right?
BTW, Gov. Corzine’s femur ended up penetrating his skin; the car he was being driven in had been going way too fast (91 mph). And he caught hell for not wearing a seatbelt, agreed he deserved it, and paid the $46 fine.
I think Tony deliberately killed Christopher, in a businesslike manner, because he realized that the accident and Chris’s lack of mobility gave him an opportunity to rid himself of someone who had always been a colossal pain in the ass and who was on a downward spiral anyway, and get away with it. I don’t think he did it to “put him out of his misery,” if by misery we’re talking about his immediate suffering and bleeding after the accident and not the overall misery of Chris’s life and his drug problem.
Oh, I’m not saying he didn’t–I’m just saying that the tree branch crushing the car seat helped him to make the decision, a lot. He did open the phone at first and then closed it, so he was thinking of calling for help.
I missed last week’s episode (read a brief recap online) … glad I didn’t miss this one! So much happens in these… dayum.
I think Tony is not a sadist. A cold-blooded, calculating guy who doesn’t have a problem with murdering someone? Yes. But the kind of guy that would join in the gang-beating of a black guy after he was hit by the door and then aggressively confronted as if he had done something wrong? I don’t think so. There’s never been any indication that Tony takes pleasure in being violent the way AJ and his friends seem to. From everything that we know about his character, I can’t imagine him being pleased if he were to see what AJ did.
In fact, even when Tony did beat up his bodyguard, “Muscles Marinara,” in the first part of the sixth season, he was obviously doing it in a calculated way as a means of re-asserting his strength. And he felt bad about having done it later, too - he even threw up afterwards, which could have been caused by his stomach wounds but were more likely caused by guilt.
The thing that confuses me about the direction that AJ’s character is going in is that he never really displayed any kind of sadism or violence in the past at all. He always seemed lazy, kind of dumb, lacking in ambition, and annoying, but he never seemed like a brute. Is the idea here that he’s enjoying the secondhand violence of Carlo and Patsy’s sons and getting some kind of thrill, or power, from being party to it? Is it that he’s realizing that he can go around with these junior mobsters and have them be his lackeys because of who his father is?
Obviously, I’ve got to do more mescaline the next time I’m playing roulette. Giant hairy bats and all that.
I have heard they already have plans for a series of full-length, major movie theater versions of The Sopranos after the series ends…however, at this rate, the cast will start off with about three people left standing.
I should have seen this coming when Christopher blasted the scriptwriter in the last episode (BTW, no mention of that murder on this episode, nothing in the news?).
It made Christopher a loose-cannon, but still…to have him killed off in the first few minutes of this episode certainly caught my attention!
Any predictions on what happens in the last episode…and any bets on the ratings for that episode?
I don’t know. The meaning I got was the doctors said Christopher could have lived if he’d worn his seat belt. Hey, Tony came out of it with some bruises and a strained knee, so presumably he was wearing his belt. I don’t see how Christopher could have lived with those kinds of internal injuries, but then again, I am not a doctor. And although I feel Tony deliberately hastened Christopher’s death by causing him to aspirate the blood he was coughing up, I don’t feel he directly caused it. Even though he may have thought he was and rationalized it by saying, “Hey, Chrissie wasn’t wearing his belt.”
Ooops…forgot to mention my own predictions:
Tony’s tip to the Feds on the Arab terrorists will pay off, big time, and give him a pass for all misdeeds.
Ratings for the last episode will be the best HBO has ever had.
Did anyone catch Tony’s malapropism for the week. I don’t remember the sentence but I remember hearing the word “prostate” very out of place.
He told Melfi he was prostate with grief. (or that someone was).
For a compleatly unrelated question, what’s with Tony’s heavy breathing? For the past two years or so, he’s been breathing very loudly. The reason I wonder is because it would be very easy to eliminate it (Jim, breath through your mouth), and it’s loud enough that there’s no way the sound guys arn’t noticing it.
I called this last week. J.T.'s assassination was about Christopher; not about making a murder-mystery pop-up. I was fairly sure that we wouldn’t hear too much more, if anything, about it afterwards.