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not sure how I feel abou this episode. It's kinda weird.... Still thinking about it.

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Posted by Luvlylady

Posted by JennJenn

I think he is dreaming of what his life would be if he was just "normal" Tony Soprano.

This is my Analogy also
Very Strange episode!

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i see alot of metaphoric things between the dream & Tony's coma state & real life

ie:

In dream he looks outside, its dark
real life - he in coma

in dream dr. said he could have died
in life he is close to death

i agree its a strange episode ,but next week the bodies witll start to fall as the family starts to jock for top position

Great acting by Carmella & AJ this week

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I love this season so far. I have to agree, it's very strange though...

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I called it last week! I knew they would have him in a coma for a few episodes to see what roles everyone assumes should he be gone

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Did anyone else cry............ I did.

I'm really enjoying this season

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I pretty much agree with all of you. He was having an "out of body" Scrooge-like experience, and seeing what his life would be like. If anyone noticed, not only were all his families voices different, but so was HIS as well (no Italian accent).

It WOULD be hot if Meadow became top boss... then again, I heard that AJ will plan on getting into the business this season - with him flunking out of school, and wanting to get Jr back, it makes sense.

And speaking of Junior.... does anyone think that he faked delusion to kill Tony purposely? I don't know why, but I'm not buying his insanity for some reason.

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DH and I believe that since he's in acoma he is dreaming of what his life would be like with out the mob, becuase he keeps seeing lights like the helicopter and at one pint you see a doctor shining lights in his face then he's looking up the helicopter. but this is just what we think.

dh thinks AJ is going to join the group now, and kill off junior and this is how he gets in since tony isn ot awake to stop him from joining since tony never wanted him to.

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No, Junior has Alzheimers, he has strange episodes all the time. Remember when he took off to the old neighborhood in his bathrobe and pj's.

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Was anyone else a little distracted by "American Girl" playing in the background when Carmela was talking to Tony? I found it hard to focus on her, the music was kind of annoying (maybe too loud?) even though I like the song.

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See I saw the episode as in Tony is in purgatory and so was the guy Kevin, and Tony was suppose to die but Kevin died because they switched identities by accident and got mixed up because Tony took Kevin's identity, and now he has to fight and find his way out of purgatory. Because at one point that women that Tony was kissing said to him that they are looking for someone that had escaped(Meaning Tony). I also think it has a little of the what my life would have been like without the Mob, and if you think about it he would never had been with Carmella if it was not for the mob he probably would have married someone else.

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I was thinking the same thing about the purgatory and "switching places" with Kevin----expecially when Carmella started talking to him about going to hell. I think part of this dreaming/purgatory state had him pondering his life as a "normal" person-not boss of a crime family. I didn't get the impression that the wife was Carmella-totally didn't sound like her.

On a side note, Finnerty is my maiden name --my Dad called to see if we were watching right in the middle of the scene with him and the other woman!

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I think that he is going to come through it but with the clips from next weeks episode I have a feeling the family is going to crumble to pieces and start whacking each other to fight for the top spot, it really shows how he held most of the family together.

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carmela grossed me out...tony you are still making me hot

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Posted by MrsTC

carmela grossed me out...tony you are still making me hot

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Posted by mskimmy98

Posted by MrsTC

carmela grossed me out...tony you are still making me hot

OMG.. I was so grossed out too. .when she said "you used to make me so out down there"... EWWWWWWWWWWWW

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I don't think that they will kill off Tony, at least not this early in the season since it was his fault as to why they too so long to start filming. He was holding out for more money, why would they pay him so much more then what they wanted to just to kill him off so soon.




Since I don't really know that much about medical situations I have to ask, why would the doctors operate on Tony and yet leave a gaping hole in his stomach? What could be the reason for this?

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i was really confused with this whole episode. I felt like I was thinking "HUH??" the whoel time. Hopefully next week's is a little better.

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I thought this was a pretty good recap from Star-Ledger


> Tony checks into the Hotel California
>
> Monday, March 20, 2006
>
> WARNING: This column contains major plot spoilers for
> last night's "Sopranos" episode. If you're waiting
> until later in the week to watch, read on at extreme
> peril.
>
> IT'S NOT a dream. It's Purgatory.
>
> When I had my annual summit with "Sopranos" creator
> David Chase a few weeks ago, I complimented him on
> having the onions to put a major dream sequence like
> this so early in the season, considering how many
> fans complain about the dreams.
>
> "I, frankly, would not call those (episode two
> scenes) dreams," he said, which sent me scurrying
> back to watch my DVD over and over again, until (with
> some help from my wife) I got it.
>
> Here Tony's stuck in Orange County, quite possibly
> the most personality-free corner of the world, with
> no way to leave (a k a Purgatory). On one end of town
> is a shining beacon (Heaven), on the other, a raging
> forest fire (Hell). Over and over, he stops to assess
> the worth of his own life, asking, "Who am I? Where
> am I going?"
>
> Then he steals the identity (sin) of Kevin Finnerty
> -- a heating salesman who lives in one of the hottest
> states of the union (Arizona) -- checks into another
> hotel, and falls down a red staircase, at which point
> he learns he has Alzheimer's (eternal damnation). And
> while Carmela's busy in the real world telling him
> he's not going to Hell, Tony's in Purgatory debating
> whether to tell his wife this is exactly the fate he
> has in store.
>
> It may be hair-splitting to call this something other
> than a dream, but Tony's misadventures in Costa Mesa
> were much more linear and coherent than his regular
> dreams have ever been. There were important details
> scribbled in the margins (the bartender joking,
> "Around here, it's dead," or the "Are sin, disease
> and death real?" commercial on the TV), but there was
> an actual story here instead of Tony bouncing from
> one surreal tableau to another.
>
> Still, Chase followed last week's watercooler
> cliffhanger with an 11-minute opening sequence set in
> a world that's not our own, with a Tony who wasn't
> quite right (it's startling to hear James
> Gandolfini's natural speaking voice), and only one
> split-second nod to the shooting (the brief flash of
> the doctor shining a light in Tony's eye mixed in
> with the chopper spotlight).
>
> For years, most of "Sopranos" fandom has been divided
> into two intersecting sets: those who watch for the
> whacking and crude humor, and those who watch for the
> psychiatry and art-house storytelling. By putting the
> shooting right next to Tony's afterlife business
> trip, Chase is pushing his chips to the center of the
> table and telling the audience they had better go all
> in -- murder and therapy, flatulence jokes and
> metaphysics -- if they intend to stay at the table
> for this final season.
>
> So will Tony ever get to check out of this hotel,
> and, if so, where will he end up? Again, I can't say,
> but if this season is going to be about a moral
> accounting for all of Tony's sins, then there's no
> better place to start.
>
> Back in the physical world, give Edie Falco the Emmy
> right now. Just give it to her. Seriously. Do not
> pass Go, do not collect other nominations, just ship
> the statuette to her apartment today. There is no way
> any other actress on television is going to have two
> better scenes this year than Carmela's hallway
> breakdown and her monologue to Tony, scored perfectly
> to Tom Petty's "American Girl."
>
> And is there an Emmy category for Best Silent Hug?
> Because Michael Imperioli was pretty great when he
> put his arm around Carmela in the hallway. I know
> scenes where characters sob or give long speeches are
> stock award-show bait, but these performances went so
> far past showing off that I actually had to look away
> a few times out of a feeling I was spying on a
> private moment between real people.
>
> Some other random notes:
>
> The song played at the end was Moby's "When It's Cold
> I'd Like To Die," with vocals by Mimi Goese.
>
> The voice of Purgatory Tony's wife wasn't played by
> Annabella Sciorra, or any other actress who's been on
> the show before; she's just a generic non-Carmela
> female voice.
>
> Boy, Janice's gift for making every moment of every
> day be all about her survives even her brother's
> shooting, huh? She shows up at the hospital,
> pretending she's there to help comfort Carmela, then
> immediately spazzes out so she's the center of
> attention. If I didn't know Janice so well from the
> last four seasons, I might have found her freak-out
> genuine, but this is Livia Soprano's daughter,
> people. And speaking of which...
>
> Did you catch AJ throwing Livia's "Poor you!" at
> Meadow during their hybrid car argument? That's at
> least three other characters who've now used the old
> bat's pet insult (Tony and Gloria were the others),
> and it shows just how rotten and contagious the
> Soprano genes are.
>
> Meanwhile, you have AJ trying to have his Michael
> Corleone moment with his plan to murder Junior, but
> the kid's still too dumb and weak to even pass for
> Fredo. Loved that he chose to waste all the good will
> from Carmela by telling her he flunked out of school.
> (If those other two scenes don't get Falco a drama
> actress Emmy, maybe she can win the comedy award for
> her delivery of "With your father in a coma!"
>
> The overall mood was grim, but Vito had the line of
> the night, if not the season, when he speculated
> about Eugene's suicide, "Maybe he was a homo, felt
> there was no one he could talk to about it. That
> happens, too." Oh, Vito, project much?
>
> In the days after the premiere, many people floated
> the theory that it was really the finale and the rest
> of the series would be flashbacks leading up to
> Tony's shooting. Obviously, that's not the way things
> are going, and it wouldn't have worked, since not
> enough of interest had happened to the characters
> since we saw them last. Yes, Janice and Bacala have
> spawned, and AJ's hair is longer, but it's not like
> we came back from hiatus with Silvio missing and
> Chris wearing an eyepatch. The premiere established
> that Tony's life had been profitable but uneventful
> since his jog through the woods.
>
> Now, is Agent Harris really that in love with
> Satriale's veal parm, or he is baiting a hook to turn
> Christopher into a cooperator? Nothing on this show
> is a coincidence, and a few scenes after Harris
> mentioned Matush, the terrorist-supporting drug
> dealer, we saw a couple of Middle Eastern men
> chatting up Chrissie at the Bing. Hmm...
>
> Alan Sepinwall may be reached at
> [email protected], or by writing him at 1
> Star-Ledger Plaza, Newark, N.J. 07102-1200.

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thanks Elbee, that was an interesting read!

eta: wouldnt it be great if they did turn AJ into a mobster...remember when they show flashbacks of Tony he had long hair...and now AJ is out of school...maybe he is changing....

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