How often do you think about The Sopranos?

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Sun December 22, 2024 6:26 pm

wease wrote:
Jorge wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:I started watching this last night, is it any good?
My favorite show of all time. This will be great for our posting relationship
Unless ST doesn’t like it.

I liked the pilot. It’s so obvious why the show is almost universally beloved right from the start.

lennytheweedwhacker · Sun December 22, 2024 10:40 pm

It's okay I haven't finished it

Post by **Jorge** » Mon December 23, 2024 1:16 am

Simple Torture wrote:
wease wrote:
Jorge wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:I started watching this last night, is it any good?
My favorite show of all time. This will be great for our posting relationship
Unless ST doesn’t like it.
I liked the pilot. It’s so obvious why the show is almost universally beloved right from the start.

It is one of the worst episodes. You idiot!

But no, it really does get better from there. Pilot is kind of wonky and dated

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Mon December 23, 2024 1:18 am

Jorge wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
wease wrote:
Jorge wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:I started watching this last night, is it any good?
My favorite show of all time. This will be great for our posting relationship
Unless ST doesn’t like it.
I liked the pilot. It’s so obvious why the show is almost universally beloved right from the start.
It is one of the worst episodes. You idiot!

But no, it really does get better from there. Pilot is kind of wonky and dated

There was lots of good stuff, but it did feel very '90s. I am excited to hear that it gets better. We are going to watch one episode per night, so it'll be months before we're done.

Post by **Jorge** » Mon December 23, 2024 1:20 am

The whole first season is regarded by the fans as being the weakest. It's still good, but kind of goofy in ways. The show hadn't settled into its tones or themes yet. The pilot is the worst offender though. Immediately you'll feel a shift in episode 2, partly because it was filmed literally 2 years after the pilot and everyone looks slightly different.

Post by **Jorge** » Mon December 23, 2024 1:22 am

It fucks me up that Gandolfini and Falco were both younger than I am now when the pilot was shot

Post by **96583UP** » Mon December 23, 2024 1:30 am

Post by **96583UP** » Mon December 23, 2024 1:30 am

Jorge wrote:The whole first season is regarded by the fans as being the weakest. It's still good, but kind of goofy in ways. The show hadn't settled into its tones or themes yet. The pilot is the worst offender though. Immediately you'll feel a shift in episode 2, partly because it was filmed literally 2 years after the pilot and everyone looks slightly different.

100%

wease · Post by **wease** » Mon December 23, 2024 4:02 pm

Jorge wrote: Immediately you'll feel a shift in episode 2, partly because it was filmed literally 2 years after the pilot…

I don’t think I ever knew this. Amazing.

Post by **Jorge** » Mon December 23, 2024 6:02 pm

Yeah. Tony is visibly fatter and balder in episode 2. Meadow's nose is also very clearly different.

Other differences in the pilot: Tony is hinted at being the boss of the family, not just a Capo (Junior's line about Tony "running North Jersey"). Silvio introduced as a casual acquaintance rather than a member of the organization ("Gabriella sends me down here for the gabagool"). And Tony doing some wacky shit in broad daylight like chasing that guy and beating him up in public, which seems completely out of character for him. Also Father Phil and Irina were later recast.

wease · Post by **wease** » Mon December 23, 2024 6:19 pm

That Father Phil was a troublemaker.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Mon December 23, 2024 6:26 pm

I might do a rewatch soon.

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Mon December 23, 2024 9:15 pm

I once sold a baseball cap to James Gandolfini, and he took the tags off of it right at the counter and asked me “How do I look?” And I said something like “Better than ever” and we had a nice little laugh together, then my co-worker next to me hit him with “OH MY GOD Don’t I know you? Are you in the movies?” And he waved and walked out.

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Mon December 30, 2024 7:21 pm

Really excited that Rhode Island got a mention in the episode about the girls’ soccer coach, but was taken out of it when the newspaper article said he was going to coach “the University of Rhode Island in Providence” when everyone knows URI is in Kingston. Don’t know if I can continue the series with such an oversight.

bart · Post by **bart** » Mon December 30, 2024 7:25 pm

Having a local paper make a fact-checking error like that seems very realistic to me

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Mon December 30, 2024 7:35 pm

There is such a surprising number of Italians from Jersey at URI that it actually seems unrealistic to me. Like the fact checker at that paper definitely did an internship at the Projo.

Matters · Post by **Matters** » Fri January 03, 2025 6:48 am

Spoiler: show: Silvio is the weakest character. He has maybe one story arc in the entire series and iirc it gets resolved in a single episode.

Post by **Jorge** » Wed February 26, 2025 1:01 am

Bump for Simple Torture to update us on his Sopranos journey

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Wed February 26, 2025 1:09 am

Jorge wrote:Bump for Simple Torture to update us on his Sopranos journey

We kinda fell off the middle of season 2 but have been meaning to get back into it.

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