That 7 minute Sopranos video is hilarious. I love how they keep reusing the clip of Carm throwing the luggage over the railing at Tony. And the blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo by Will Arnett (complete with "Final Countdown") is the awesomest awesome thing that ever was.

I think so. And knowing Phil, he probably arranged for her father to be there at Phil's usual time, just to flush out (and fuck with) the Sopranos.

eh, here's every major sopranos whacking up to the end of season 6 pt 1 (not work safe since there's a little bit of nudity as well
<embed width="425" height="350"src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bvp45eE5dSM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" </embed>

Dozens of people getting killed and it's the nudity that makes it NSFW?

One thing noone has mentioned...when they went to the safehouse one of the guys asked if he could order a pizza. Now he is gonna be on the phone with someone telling them the address to possibly come take them out. He is possibly a rat??

I just saw this. It was just my third episode of The Sopranos, lol -- rented the first season but gave up after two episodes because it was far too slow. Looks like things have improved since then, and now that I've seen

Episode 1.01 "The Sopranos"

Episode 1.02 "46 Long"

The 7-minute Sopranos refresher course, and

Episode 6.20 "The Blue Comet",

I'm all set for the finale. Should be good!
My one major thing I picked up on since I last watched the Sopranos was that Tony's daughter got real hot, real fast.

are you serious?
leave this thread now

Seriously? Did I just read that right in that you dropped The Sopranos during its first season? Because it was "too slow?" The first season of Sopranos is many, many things, but "slow" is sure as hell not one of them.

But I almost forgot you have a hard-on for Lost. Maybe if The Sopranos had ended almost every week on some sort of artificial cliffhanger, you'd stick with it longer?

EDIT: And really, why would you watch the first two episodes of a show that has been on for nearly 7 years, drop it, and then watch the final two episodes? Hoping to get in on the watercooler discussion at your job, want to participate in the threads here, something else? It's like cracking open a book, reading the first 15 pages, and then skipping to the end.

The recap is extremely entertaining, and does a nice job of condensing years of a show into a tidy, brief package, but you're doing yourself a major, major disservice if you're using that to fill in the gaps of a show like The Sopranos.

It was Livia's house and that was Livia's bed. All of Tony's shit has been coming back to Livia.

Seems I touched a nerve with some of you.

Look, it's simple. I was curious after reading all the raves for this episode, so I checked it out, even though I dropped The Sopranos after giving it a try last year when I rented it. I thought it was slow, then. I thought this last episode was very good, much more eventful and tense than the episodes I'd last seen, and am going to watch the finale. How is that bad? Am I not "worthy" of seeing the finale unless I've seen all 85 episodes leading up to it? I can watch it however and whenever I please, and should be allowed to do so without it really affecting anyone else. People jump in to and out of shows all the time and I don't see anyone attacking them.

Is my watching next week going to lessen the enjoyment of the episode for you, or something?

The whole "I'm all set for the finale, now" thing was tongue-in-cheek, and I'm sorry if that was lost on you (no pun intended). Of course I can't claim to have caught up on all the stories and all the character arcs to be "ready" for the finale in that sense. But I'm still going to watch it, and enjoy it, and comment on it in next weeks thread.

Thats right. You are not worthy.
I'm kidding.
People are getting on you because you said season one was boring and because you said you caught up on the last 6 seasons by watching that youtube clip. I figured you were kidding, and so was I when I said "leave this thread now".
I dont really understand , though, how you could appreciate the final 2 episodes when you really have no idea whats going on.

When Bobby was killed, I actually felt worse for him than I did for Syl. For most of the Sopranos, he was bullied by pretty much everyone, Tony, Uncle June, even his wife. Now he finally has some respect and has become a mafia tough guy just to get killed shortly after.
Someone who has watched a total of 3 episodes cannot appreciate something like that.
Anyway, enjoy the finale.

I have a hard on for Lost too. How can you not ? Lost is up there with Sopranos.

I like Lost as well as The Sopranos, but let's not try to compare the two. They are two completely different shows.

Doesnt matter how dfferent they are from each other. They are almost equally good

Just watched it again. It wasnt Livias house.

During my second viewing I was getting the feeling the entire time that Paulie was somehow with the NY crew.

Wasn't that cardboard cut-out standee of Sil used in an episode a few seasons ago... I remember Junior keeping it for some reason... I thought it was being thrown away and Junior retrieved it... or something along those lines.

Nobody's saying you can't watch the series finale; it just strikes me as incredibly odd to do it, considering you've intentionally skipped over 80+ episodes. Not to get all pretentious here, but The Sopranos is not some show you can just drop in on at anytime and instantly pick up; plotlines and character actions are introduced and then resolved sometimes years after they've been seen for the first time. It'd be like watching 24, The Wire or Lost for the first time in the middle of a season--you might get the basics of what's going on, but there's a good chance you'll miss out on a lot of other moments, shots, dialogue and subplots that can really add to the enjoyment of the current episode.

But if you're going to watch the finale, please do; I hope you enjoy it, and maybe it might even inspire you to go back to the beginning. Seriously, I think I was just in shock that you found the first season too slow; I don't know of anyone who doesn't think the first season was the show's best.

No. Not to derail this thread any further, but while I watch Lost and enjoy it (sometimes), I think it has many flaws, both major and minor, that prevents it from achieving greatness. Not saying The Sopranos is flawless, because it isn't, but Lost is nowhere near Sopranos' league of quality.

Watching only the first and last two episodes of Lost would be a really stupid thing to do. So that's at least one thing they have in common.

Enjoyed that. It took me a while to place the music, as it's been a while since I've sat down to watch Raging Bull, but once the slow-mo punches started I put two and two together and was all

It's not Uncle Junior or Livia's house. I watched all the seasons back to back before Season Six Part 2 began, and that wasn't either Junior or Livia's kitchen. It probably was just a place the NJ crew had for situations like this, or it could be one of the houses that Tony bought off in the ghetto and had the crack heads scared off.

I just read this great letter at Salon.com where the writer talked about how, for them, thw whole season has come together with the realization that the DiMeo crime family really is nothing more than a "glorified crew." For five seasons we saw Tony's organization through his eyes and the eyes of his associates, and to them they were bigtime. Now, with a new boss in New York, we see things through his eyes, and in reality, Tony and his crew are small time, a bug that New York can squash if they start causing too much trouble.

I think the motorcycle guy who got crushed was Valery the Russian on his way back from the Pine Barrens for REVENGE! And he'll still keep coming!

Having just watch the previous 3 seasons recently and doing a direct compare, it's Junior's house. Definitely. The Kitchen is identical. I thought the cardboard cutout was a gag from a previous season, but couldn't find it.

My first gut reaction was that was Junior's house, just thinking back to the episode where he shot Tony.