Penultimate Sopranos spoily thing

[spatch]

Of all the things that happened in this week's Sopranos, what was the scene that shocked me the most?



Dr. Kupferberg revealing at the dinner party that Dr. Melfi was treating Tony Soprano.

Watching Bobby Bacala get his (and knowing his hit was coming as soon as we saw him in the train store without answering his cellphone) was sad but inevitable. Watching Sil and Patsy get hit was another inevitable surprise (the motorcyclist afterwards I think was added to help make the scene more visceral) and watching Tony stare at his door in the safe house, machine gun in hand, just sealed it all up. We knew the House of Soprano was going to fall eventually -- well, it started with Chris' death, didn't it? -- and this episode just hastened the fall.

But still. What got me the most worked up? Dr. K committing a serious breach of ethics and betraying two instances of doctor-patient confidentiality (Melfi/Soprano, Kupferberg/Melfi) ... though honestly, I'm not sure Melfi should've named her patient to Dr. K to begin with. Anyway.

Maybe they'll take the house falling metaphor to a literal extreme next week and Carm's spec house will fall over. (Maybe one side wall will topple over onto Buster Bluth.) Solid as a rock!

Comments

[resk.livejournal.com]

Man, I watched the first 3 seasons of The Sopranos and then lost interest. Yeah, it's a really good show, but they've dragged out their seasons so much that I really don't care anymore.

[spatch]

Well, the third season was a serious turning point for the show.

Nancy Marchand died after the second season. Considering the focal point of the series was Tony versus his mother, the show suddenly had to take a different direction.

I actually liked the third season just because I wanted to see how they'd handle things after Livia went on. Didn't care for the fifth, though.

This year's set of shows has been incredible, though, considering that we know the end has been rapidly approaching. The set of shows we got last year, though, were pretty good up until it turned into the Vito Is Gay And In New Hampshire Show. We knew what was going to happen eventually, and then Vito had to go and make sure it happened anyway (just ditching mr johnny cakes and then killin that random guy and runnin back home.)

I'm glad I was able to regain my interest for the last few shows, if only so I can feel a bit of closure.

[spatch]

also, just in case I didn't type it enough up there, here are some more instances of the word 'though':


though
though
though
though

[resk.livejournal.com]

I overuse it, too. That and "actually."

[spatch]

I've had to hook up electrodes to my temples and give myself electric shocks every time I type a double-hyphen emdash. When you enjoy writing conversationally and you tend to make numerous asides during regular conversation anyway, it comes through in the form of the good ol' --OWJESUS

Actually, though . . .

[resk.livejournal.com]

I dunno of another option for an emdash. Not on a standard keyboard. Microsoft Word always formats them for you. And a single hyphen just won't do, cuz it's a hyphen.

Re: Actually, though . . .

[spatch]

The double-hypen emdash is the preferred ASCII emdash and technically with no spaces between words and double hyphens. I've also seen a triple-hyphen emdash in the wild, but that could have just been a jittery typer.

I just have to stop writing so many asides or at least when I do, I have to just use a variety of ways to digress without resorting to the emdash or an absurd amount of parentheses.

Re: Actually, though . . .

[resk.livejournal.com]

d00d, ain't nuthin' wrong with an emdash. They RULE. It's just unfortunate that we can't do 'em up propah on LJ.

And I'm all about AP STYLE, meself, having been a copy editor for so long.

Re: Actually, though . . .

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I'm potentially the worlds worst emdasher.

Also, I loved where Kallen Esperian whacked Cynthia Lawrence in season 4.

Re: Actually, though . . .

[resk.livejournal.com]

Also, mad propz for using the word "Penultimate" in your subject line. I friggin' LOVE that word.

People are too niggardly with it.

Re: Actually, though . . .

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Hey! I used that word just yesterday! Where are my mad propz?

Re: Actually, though . . .

[resk.livejournal.com]

By golly, you sure did. Of course, I didn't know that until now, cuz you weren't on my friends list. I've just remedied that.

*hands fancycwabs mad propz*

*LOLs at fancycwabs's username*

Re: Actually, though . . .

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Pleased to officially make your acquaintance.

[minkrose]

ditto! I freaking love that word!

[beth47.livejournal.com]

also? "also." (me.)