Red Mosquito

dimejinky99 wrote:Breaking Bad can ask my butthurt and is not to be discussed in this thread thanks.

Norris wrote:Watched the Melfi gets raped episode last night. Found it way over the top and unnecessary, like they were trying to be edgy or something.

I get wanting to set up the moral dilemma she has to make at the end of the episode, but that could have been done in any number of ways.

Jorge wrote:

Norris wrote:Watched the Melfi gets raped episode last night. Found it way over the top and unnecessary, like they were trying to be edgy or something.

I get wanting to set up the moral dilemma she has to make at the end of the episode, but that could have been done in any number of ways.

Like how?

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Norris wrote:

Jorge wrote:

Norris wrote:Watched the Melfi gets raped episode last night. Found it way over the top and unnecessary, like they were trying to be edgy or something.

I get wanting to set up the moral dilemma she has to make at the end of the episode, but that could have been done in any number of ways.

Like how?

just a slower build where she realizes that she has the option to ask tony for help fixing something, maybe her son gets in trouble or something, i dont know

it didn't need to be this

I think it had to be high stakes to really make her consider it. I don't think her son getting busted for truancy would really make her question her ethics.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Jorge wrote:I still don't understand what was over the top about it. That there was a rape? Like rapes don't happen in life, let alone in The Sopranos of all shows?

It needed to be a visceral ordeal that cut to the core of Melfi's humanity, as well as her relationship with Tony. I think the episode pulls it off really well. But maybe it's time for another rewatch