Was/is... who cares? You of all people should have appreciated my excellent Phish analogy but you were too hung up on my verb tenses to enjoy it. Rather than nitpicking technicalities how about you tell us what you thought about the episode?
wow.
i\'m not hung up on your verb tenses, i\'m hung up on the fact that you went into this episode expecting a big \'season finale\', when that\'s not what it was or ever meant to be.
anyways, i thought it was a solid episode, but i also didn\'t go into it expecting it to be anything more than another episode in season six. sure, you\'re not left with any major cliffhanger for the next 7 months, but even with the real season finales, the sopranos has never been that kind of show.
i thought the christmas card ending was absolutely fantastic, and a GREAT note to go out on before the break. it shows you the entire family together, at peace, and happy. and i have a feeling that\'s gonna be the last time we see them like that.
just when the NY/NJ thing starts to heat up, phil has a heart attack, which seems like it will completely diffuse that storyline.. i don\'t think that\'s the case though.. i think it will only ignite things more. what will happen if phil dies? the NY crew seem like a bunch of loose canons - just look at the way phil\'s goon got in tony\'s face on his way out of the hospital..
i don\'t like the fact that the carmella/ade thing was set up in several episodes, then tony just keeps her busy with the house to get her mind off it.. now i\'m hoping something more happens there because that\'s a weak payoff.
but my biggest complaint about the episode? lack of nudity. i mean, come on.. you\'ve got Julianna Margulies and Dania Ramirez getting fucked nine ways to sunday in every other scene, and not a single shot of tit, ass, or bush?? :mad:
phil had the best line of the episode - "I gotta go try and take a shit." :lol:
and how about the fed dropping the tip to tony?? interesting, i thought.. but who\'s the one in danger?
well, here\'s a little farfetched theory to play along with
wildcoyote - what if julianna was sent in by NY to take down chris, via an overdose??
think about it - it\'s a way for NY to take down one of NJ\'s top guys with clean hands. a julianna-influenced christopher overdose would look like it\'s his own fault, when in fact it was Phil & co. that took him down.. :chin:
no, i don\'t really believe that, but it\'s something..
anyways, i thought it was an average episode, and overall, an average season so far. i think it started off really strong, but started dropping off along the way, and has started to show the padding that has been needed to stretch out the show. remember folks, this show was originally written for
four seasons. there\'s a lot of stuff happening that was never originally intended to happen.
