#THEY LOOK VERY JACKY AND RALPHY

[carmelasopranono1defenseattorney]

I kind of thought this season would end up being a slog but i ended up really loving it. I think i prefer season 2 overall but i think this season for me maybe had the best use of "criminal as family member," and i liked the ralphie jackie jr. fakeout. We had jun as a stand in for tony's father, richie as a stand in for tony's brother, and now jackie as a stand in for tony's son, and i think that lens of looking through his relationships with meadow and aj was really fascinating. I absolutely adore season 4 and i'm excited for people to see what the focused relationship of that season is (also very curious if anyone has any theories on what that relationship might be)

#sopranos sunday #army of one

[woozapooza]

Some quick (EDIT: This post is not quick at all. I don't know why I never learn that when I say a reaction post is going to be "quick," it is literally never quick) reactions to The Sopranos 3x08 "He Is Risen":

I don't find Ralphie particularly interesting, unfortunately. But at least he creates new situations for Tony, who is interesting. In this regard he's kinda like Father Intintoli (am I spelling that right? I don't care), who is super boring but has the one redeeming quality of occasionally creating new situations for Carmela. Though unlike the priest, at least Ralphie's actor has stage presence (screen presence?), so that's something else he has going for him.

I was really worried that the events of "Employee of the Month" would not come up again, especially after I read that Dr. Melfi's role is smaller from here on out. It would have been ridiculous to put a main character through that and then never let it be apparently relevant to the rest of her arc. So I was deeply relieved when Tony offered to walk her to her car and she thought about it for a moment and then turned him down (fantastically subtle performance by Lorraine Bracco in that moment, btw—you can see her trauma come rushing back to her, you can see her temptation to accept Tony's offer, and when she gives her answer, she's just composed enough that Tony wouldn't notice that anything was wrong, but the audience can see and hear the anguish just beneath the surface). I would honestly have been satisfied if that was all I got, but then on top of that, there's the scene where she rants to Elliot about how exhausting it is to constantly have to be there for other people when she's dealing with her own trauma. God, that scene was great. Probably one of my favorite scenes in the whole show so far. I can't believe how long it took me to realize that Melfi is the best character. Also, I feel like it says a lot about her as a person that she apologizes to Elliot for going on that tirade. God I love her.

At Thanksgiving, when Tony tells Meadow that he loves her and that he'd be devastated if anything bad happened to her, her face sort of softens. It's nice that they seem to be on the path to reconciliation (well, nice in a twisted sort of way, since she had a very good reason to be angry with him), but it's also sort of hard to buy, because Meadow has no clue of the context of that statement (that when Tony looked at her, he saw Tracee), and I feel like if I were her in that moment, I would have been like "what do you mean, if something happened to me? Do you know something I don't know? 😟"

When Tony is explaining to someone (Johnny, I think?) why he had to attack Ralphie, he first says "He disrespected the Bing," and when that's not enough, he adds, "He bashed that poor girl's brains in." When Ralphie apologizes, he does it in the same order (after first apologizing for turning Tony down for a drink): first the insult to the Bing, then Tracee. Pretty telling! Though I do wonder if, in Tony's case, he brought up the Bing first because he thought it was more likely to resonate with Johnny or whoever he was talking to, since we know that Tracee's death truly shook him. Undoubtedly he's mad about the insult as well, but I was thinking about the end of "University": someone (Paulie, I think?) says Ralphie "was way out of line," Tony sadly says "that girl..." and Paulie or whoever it was says, "That, too." There, too, the insult comes first and Tracee is an afterthought, but she's not an afterthought to Tony. King of not being the #1 most despicable person in the New Jersey mob 👏👏👏

I am still very much figuring out how I feel about Jackie Jr. 🤨

Ducks!!! I don't know what to make of them, but they sure are ducks!!!

Long before I started watching the show, I saw (and reblogged, because I thought it was hilarious) a photoset of the line where Tony says he read the Cliff Notes for The Prince and thought it was "okay." But the photoset put a comma between "Prince" and "Machiavelli," so that it looked like Tony was saying "[The] Prince, [by] Machiavelli." But in the HBO captions, and in James Gandolfini's delivery, there is definitely no comma. He just thinks the guy's name is "Prince Machiavelli." Amazing.

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