Sopranos - Season 2

Well I think it's clear from the show that Tony is a much much more successful gangster than Junior is, but that Junior is still a cut above most of the rest of these guys.

My fave Richie quote from this season...

Tony: I thought I told you to back off Beansie!
Richie: I did. Then I put it in Drive.

he lives in a rather bleak apartment as i recall from the whole decorating it w/tonys horse painting scenario - did obv have some cash to drop on the retirement home tho

If memory serves, I believe this was based on a real-life NYC/NJ capo who was pretty high-up and wealthy but lived rather spartanly in an apartment over a butcher shop.

yah junior/paulies living situations prob hav more to do w/bachelorhood than any financial realities

much like young attorney roommates sitting in a blank apartment before a lol hueg tv smoking weed they are just environment indifferent

ya exactly

and i gotta say i am NOT a fan of dream sequences as a rule but sopranos is a huge exception... they are really brilliant and totally integral to the show

ok I ws on crack

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/3096975269_a473876f71_o.gif

urgh

are you trying to give me a migraine

but im glad you acknowledge you were on crack

fixed, apols

are you referring to the GIF or your opinion of that ep?

man, this show packs in SO much. so dense.

for instance. i started this thread last night not having seen that episode yet (well, not yet re-watched it), and i TOTALLY forgot that pussy gets it this season!! i had just been assuming it was in season 3!

and i also totally remembered livia dying in season 2!

she livias on in our hearts

lolz Philosophy 101 with AJ in this season

nitch

anyone get the complete boxxx?

I bought it a year and a half ago for $100

master P vs kierkegaard

anyone get the complete boxxx?

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ya that's why im going thru the seasons!

it is a ridiculous box.

the livia cgi shit was the low point of this show

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080410/ghostbusters_l.jpg

Shakey, that site we both bought the complete box from is out of business now. I'm glad we got while the getting was good...

there's a BIZARRE CGI shot in one of the S2 episodes... when the garbage gets dumped on the deli owner's parking lot and he's calling to complain about it and the garbage is in the foreground and it's clearly a static plate that's been pasted in... so weird

the livia cgi shit was the low point of this show

? where does this happen

the episode when she dies, she has a scene with tony... nancy marchand died suddenly so they didn't get a chance to film anything with her.

huh - haven't gotten there yet. Don't remember it jumping out at me before. Oddly I DO remember that garbage thing you mention, that was weird.

like, real garbage is so hard to come by, you know?

obviously the shot was fucked for some reason or they were unhappy with it so it was a last-minute fix, i'm sure. totally weird tho.

I don't remember the shot, but I remember rewinding the Livia scene once I saw her haircut change about eight times.

don't remember the trash shot.

don't remember pleasant plains rewinding the livia scene.

someone needs to pay more attention

I bet I pissed off a lot of Sopranos viewers when I did that.

the livia cgi might have bothered me less if the dialogue didn't feel like it was just scraps from previous episodes and the conversation between tony and livia in that episode didn't come across like him talking to a computer program. would have worked better as a dream sequence.

do not envy david chase in that position tho. also had to scrub his whole season arc apparently.

nancy marchand kinda got a raw deal too.

Ha, what?

where is Cheers episode w/her as Frasier's mom

oh here it is

Ha. Martin Crane's Tony's step-dad.

haaaaa!

fwiw I didn't really notice the CGI'd Livia scenes and probably wouldn't have registered them at all except for the comment on this thread about the changing hairstyles. With a character as semi-senile and prone to repetition as Livia, having a bunch of lines cut in from other scenes was not all that distracting. (How many times does she say "I wish the lord would take me now" or "I gave my life to my children on a silver platter" etc.)

Also these scenes were in Season 3, not season 2... maybe I should revive that thread...

already started a new one!

and it was one season, in season 3--not a lot. and it's REALLY obvious. serious uncanny valley.

not season 2 but just rewatched the series finale and when aj pretentiously mispronounces yates its so sad - i keep thinking abt it

would love a listing of every single song used in the entire run, so many perfect moments

http://www.sopranomusicguide.com/ This site is real comprehensive, probably 97% of the songs used are listed.

his cold, dead eyes

"Don't gimme your fucking Manson lamps." Jesus, what an awesome line.

S3 pretty much sucked. I actually stopped watching the show about halfway through season 3 and didn't pick it back up again for over a year. Livia CGI, the sudden introduction of Ralphie (terrible character all the way through imo), and being subjected that pointless and brutal rape scene, didn't make up for how great an episode Pine Barrens was.

I'd been watching every episode with my friend/roommate at the time, and he quit watching after the rape episode and never really got back into the show again. I'm glad I gave it another shot, because seasons 4 & 5 were pretty fucking great.

"Don't gimme your fucking Manson lamps." Jesus, what an awesome line.

oh man, thanks for reminding me of this.