duly noted mr. hoity toity pants. "depth?" wtf are you even talking about?

I presumed the same thing from the preview: If they're gonna let him back in, they are going to make damn sure it is in a way that he'll be truly IN.

my friends and i have been watching since season I. there is unanimous agreement among them and my coworkers that the seasons have steadily declined since the end of season II and it continues now. the last 2 episodes were horrendous. anyone who is a fan of the show from the beginning knows this is not that same show we all loved. this stuff is crap. no story lines are finished, some are even forgotten about completely.....where have paulie and silvio been all season???? season 5 is challenging season 4 for irrelevance.

ps: the next week's previews mean nothing. the previews are completely and intentionally misleading.....if you see a preview clip of paulie shooting at someone, its most likely a dog that has sh!t on his mother's lawn or something......weak

silvio was there in the meeting with tony s and johnny sack, and he is still apart of the E street band so he couldn't be there more.

how many lines has silvio spoken this season? 3? 4?

Was that Linkin Park? I knew I had heard it somewhere else before. Has it been in a movie or two also? I am pretty sure that I've heard it somewhere else, and I don't listen to the radio. Actually, now I think about it...I may have heard it at a local strip club. Not nearly as good as the Bada Bing though.

wish i never found out that was LP.. i actually dug the song while it was playing.. now i feel weird..

is it just me, or is the 'episode music' section not-so-easy to find on the official site now??

I don't understand how he missed the point of the show since what he wrote was exactly what I was thinking. I tried to write it before, but this guy was more eloquent than me.

That is what happened on the show. So don't blame him, he didn't write it.

Yeah, I am definitely not a LP fan either, but I really dug that song. I thought they used to list the music in the credits of the show, but I didn't see it during Sunday night's episode. I can't find it on the official site either.

The internet should come with it's own tag line:

"Everybody's a critic."

its their instrumental song on "meteora"

Linkin Park is awesome.

Its a song by Linkin Park called "Session" off of their "Meteora" disc, and it was also in the end credits (and cd soundtrack) of "The Matrix Reloaded"

I have never mentioned 'surface action' as a qualifier for a good episode. Nor have I mentioned anything about 24. That aside...

Uh, IMO, what we've got right now is a soap opera. And as for Chase's 'each episode stands alone', well, maybe we're watching a different series. I seem to recall a number of weeks wondering what was going on with FBI informants, among other things. Now, each week, I am left with less and less to think about what'll happen next...and the 'hook' of wondering, in my mind, was what kept people into the show. Even the previews are getting pretty dull, and given the considerable impact of editing, that is saying an Awful Lot.

The direction now is truly stand-alone and the show suffers for it. Everything is nicely wrapped up by the last commerical a la 1966 Star Trek.

i agree.

The show was never -just- about who gets whacked this week. We're learning about Tony. Talking to his dad's old GF told us -A LOT- about him and what probably makes him tick.

well tv guide, gave the old woman who was Tony's dad's mistress a "cheers" as "she brought depth, grace, and sexual tension in her scene's with James Gandolfini"

well TV Guide needs a swift kick in the balls.

Yes, bump up the thread for the worst episode in Sopranos history.

Tough god damn crowd.