Greatest Soprano's last night? Or just a tad bit too much?

[chelsea0011]

I think last night's Soprano's is right up there with the best. The pacing of the whole hour was superb. I almost fell out of my chair when he walked in on his high school coach during the dream sequence. Look's like the first war between the Families? Who's not going to survive?

[flowomo]

1. I didn't like it...

there are too many plot lines that need to be developed to spend so much time on a somewhat flaccid dream sequence (the song in the restaurant went on wayyyyyyyyyyyy too long; they could have used that time on Junior, on either Soprano kid, on Adriana.... on any of a number of interesting character arcs.

[Bill McBlueState]

2. i'll agree

It seems like there's way too much going on to spend entire episodes on these sidetracks. And, what, there's only two episodes left in the season?

The episode was well done in and of itself, but I'm getting impatient! The earlier episode where Tony meets his father's mistress gave me the same feeling.

[Adelante]

3. Not as good

As the Asbury Park dream scene episode about when Pussy got it. Not even close.

[Melodybe]

4. I loved every second, the show has been a bit stale a few time this year

but lately it has been kicking major ass.

Last night was awesome.

[Adelante]

12. I think this has been a very good season

I was turned off somewhat over the course of last season. I couldn't tell where it was all going. Everybody was so miserable and ugly, the underlying warmth was lost, the stuff that makes you care about these people despite bad behvior. Paulie, for example, was practically unrecognizable as a person. But this season they seemed to bring back the humanity and complexity to the characters and I've been enjoying it again. It's still one of the best television dramas ever, so I don't dismiss it even when I think it's not at its best. I still say the dream sequence thing was handled much more ably in the Asbury Park, Pussy as a fish episode than it was last night.

OT, but I'm really into Deadwood currently. It's just great. And whatever became of The Wire? HBO rocks.

[aquaman]

5. I was not impressed.......

I actually wanted the episode to be over, I don't think that has happened before.

[Pithlet]

6. Oh, good.

A thread about a tv show without the "turn off your tv" crowd.

I thought it was okay, but the dream sequence wasn't the best, and it dragged on too long. I did think it was neat how they ended it. They really fell into the couple thing talking to each other on the phone like that, with Tony asking her if it was dark where she was yet.

[pagerbear]

7. Silly me! I thought this would be an opera thread!

[Westegg]

8. Almost...But not quite...

Dream sequences are hard to pull off---ask any writer or director.
This one was longer than most dream sequences. Therein lay the problems. I remember my college writing mentor, a Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, writing on my short story in college: "Dreams should be no more than one page." Indeed. They pushed it to the limits with this episode, and the best parts were the strange parts---Tony's teeth falling out, the sex scene with Artie and his wife that cut to Tony on the horse, and then the bit at the end with his oldr coach where his gun and the bullets were dissolving.

The run of the mill Freudian crap---Carmela telling him to get off his "high horse", literally, and all the guys he'd killed and his dad? Faghettaboutit! Plus, Annabella Sciorra taking the place of the shrink. Lame, except for when they were laughing together.

It was a bold move, in theory, but how much of that is gonna get explained in the last two episodes? I'm a true fan, but I DO have my limits.

[Bake]

9. The dream sequence lost me -- too long

But the suspense is definitely building. I thought for a while Tony would have Carmela whacked, but now it looks like it'll be Tony B. who gets it.

Best line from last night: Tony, to Annette Bening: "Something bad is gonna happen."

Bake

[latebloomer]

10. I dreamt about the Sopranos all last night

which I actually do most Sunday nights. I was Tony's girlfriend, and I was expressing my condolences to the chick who went up in flames. . . and then to a woman who had lost her child (that was from an episode last season)-- and all through the night I felt anxious that Tony B.was gonna get it.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. I also thought the dream sequence was too long.

I couldn't wait for Tony to wake up. They could have cut that in half easily.