The Sopranos is back!!!
 

Who else is excited that The Sopranos is back on tonight??? Since I'm from Jersey, the Sopranos hype has been crazy here.

Since this is the last season, what would you like to see? Who needs to be 'whacked'? ;)

My husband has been waiting for their return for, what is it like two years!!

I have been waiting too for way too long!!!!!!!!! I can't wait!!!!

its been 22m... and trust me its a sopranos mania out there you arent the only one! people are panicing that their hbo wont work in advance lol

Quite an interesting episode, with some unexpectedness at the end there. Anyone else catch it?

wow! I kinda knew that tony was eventually going to be taken out in order to end the series but the first night? but in all reality I think he is going to recover??? I love this series I have all 5 series DVD box sets, this is one of those shows where I can never get tired of watching!

In the beginning of the first series, I was wondering if anyone remembers on the sopranos web site where they asked which sibling you think would take tony's place? should he be taken out :confused:
SO Im wondering if the series will go on with out tony and either AJ or meadow will rein? any opinions on this?

I really don't think it'd be the same without the main Sopranos family members. AJ and Meadow are really too young and I don't think they know 'the biz' yet at all, and they'd definitely not be taken seriously by the elder mafioso. ;)

Never saw that on the Sopranos website. Interesting, interesting, indeed!

I loved last night. I KNEWWWWWWW that Tony was going to get shot by his uncle. I swear I knew it. I said it out loud to the people I was watching it with before it happened and they told me to shut up :)

I don't get HBO anymore, I'm so mad, I was fine while it wasn't on for those years.. now I'm SOL. :(

your right fasteddie! they would not be taken seriously! when I saw the question on the web site I thought how odd to cast a vote on which sibling would take over? So what do you think will tony survive? I can't wait! but I do think he will be saved! maybe??????

I definitely wouldn't watch the show anymore if Tony died!!! What would be the point of it?

If they do kill him off, they can't possibly kill him off the first or second episode into the new season, at least that's what I think. He was shot in the stomach, (not the heart or neck or head) and he looks like he has plenty of cushion for it. ;)

Though Tony dying in the last Sopranos episode ever (a series finale) might be a possibility and that would be a fitting end to the whole show. Again, just what I'd do if I was the creator/writer... But I'm really no Sopranos expert or anything!

This is the final season for the Sopranos...it was advertised as such by my cable provider.

My bet is that Tony's gut (or belly fat) saves him.

The scene with him on the scale... gorging himself on sushi... his gluttony saves him.

That's my guess. The Sopranos without Tony would not be interesting to me any more!

I had read somewhere that at the end of this season...there will be a cliff hanger, and then there is going to be a movie to finalize everything from all the seasons! I don't know if its true or not, but I thought I would share that little tid bit with you!!!!

HA!! I did the same thing!!
 

When uncle Jun hollored, "Who's there??" I said to my husband, "he's gonna come downstairs with a gun because he doesn't remember who is in the house!!" AND HE DID!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think Tony is going to die. But I do think he is going to be laid up for a while, and his power structure will change greatly while he is down. You could already see Christopher last night trying to exert more control. I think he will come into his own in the next few episodes.

Carmella may have to sell her pretty new car because her finances are going to begin to dwindle... :(

LOL, I have to agree with the belly fat thing, and now all my Weight Loss Club folks are going to start hollering... lololol :p

well I wouldn't think he would be killed off that soon either, and nO tony
NO sopranos.. so tony will recover, uncle Jr will most definity be put in a
care facility, I think Genes wife Deanne might be the one who will either kill or hire someone to kill tony?? she was really pissed that tony controlled her life
we ought to start a contest haha

I loved watching the soprano premiere but my dilemna is i missed desperate housewives!!

LOL, kinda like "Clue"
 

Mr. Mustard in the library with a candlestick!!!

Gene died in the first episode, right? He hung himself... OMG that was horrific... I covered my eyes part way through, it was just too real for me...

hey there! yes gene hung himself that first night, and they didn't show his wife finding him, that kinda makes me think some where down the road, she will get revenge, but then again, John may just arrange it??? anyway we have to wait and see. haha I like the candlestick and library thing :D

Tony can't die! I was watching 'the making of' and those guys say they don't know from week to week the next episode themselves. It was really interesing. A couple were sorta scared they would be next to go. Not Tony. I'm glad it's back, even here in Texas, we love the Mafia. That was funny, too that the FBI guys said people actually stopped them on the streets to tell them to Lay Off Tony! (They are the bad guys in the show. :)

I heard on a news show that they are going to show twelve episodes now and then more in January. Has anyone else heard this?

I agree, Tony can't die yet. The show would not be good without him.
I wouldn't mind seeing Chris get wacked, he bugs me - no respect. lol

Here's an article I found about how many episodes this season...

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Defining a 'season'

Friday, August 12, 2005

BY ALAN SEPINWALL
Star-Ledger Staff

Like a certain Danish prince whose story he's no doubt read, David Chase is a man who can't make up his mind -- and because of that, people keep dying.

First he wanted "The Sopranos" to end after 13 episodes. Then he insisted he would do five seasons, no more. Then he briefly considered doing a movie version. Then he consented to doing a sixth season, again swearing this was it, the end, finis, no more.

The sixth season may still be the end, but only if you're being technical, since HBO has just announced that, in addition to the 12 episodes that will begin airing next March, the sixth season will contain eight "bonus episodes" set to premiere in January '07.

Cue Silvio Dante for his Michael Corleone impression. ("Every time I think I'm out ...")

Rumors had been flying about Chase committing to more episodes for months. Production on the sixth season began in late April, and from the start, the cast and crew all refused to accept the party line that this would be the end.

"I think I'll believe it when I'm told it, when we're on the set and they say, 'That's it. Don't come back,'" writer/producer Terence Winter said on the set in early May.

Winter added that the writing staff was five scripts into the season at that point, and "probably by the time we get up to episode eight or nine, there's going to be a fork in the road where David's going to need to make a decision."

HBO sent out a press release yesterday about the additional episodes, but no one in either their camp or Chase's was willing to talk beyond that. Considering that silence, there are two interesting things to read into that release.

First is that these two groups of episodes are being referred to as part of the same "season." This is a semantics game often practiced in cable. USA, for instance, will air eight episodes of "Monk," wait a couple of months, then air eight more as part of the same batch. And the final "season" of "Sex and the City" featured a dozen episodes in the summer and eight more the following January.

But in most cases, only two or three months will separate the halves, while these two groups of "Sopranos" episodes will air about six months apart. The insistence on calling the January '07 shows "bonus episodes" instead of a seventh season may be to allow Chase to insist he was telling the truth all along about not wanting to go past six seasons.

More importantly, the press release no longer refers to the sixth season as the final one. This could also be a word game, and an HBO source guessed these additional eight episodes would absolutely, definitely, almost assuredly be it for "The Sopranos."

But maybe HBO and Chase have given up on the use of the word "final" because they know that after all these reversals and extensions, the only way anyone will believe that Chase and company are finally done is when they see Tony Soprano dead or in jail -- and maybe not even then.

http://www.nj.com/sopranos/ledger/in...s_season6.html

And one more. :p
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The long goodbye

As the final season begins, 'Sopranos' cast members look back -- and ahead

Thursday, March 09, 2006

BY ALAN SEPINWALL
Star-Ledger Staff

GOODBYES are hard, even for hard men.

The cast and crew of "The Sopranos" have just finished shooting the 12 episodes that will begin airing Sunday night. After a brief hiatus so the writers can focus on the scripts for next January's final eight episodes, the show will go back into production through the end of this year when, creator David Chase says, "we wrap forever."

So you'll pardon the assorted legbreakers, hitmen and scam artists if they're getting a little misty right about now.

"I've worked for 25 years in this business, and this is the absolute tops," says Tony Sirico.

"It's been a vacation for me," says Steve Van Zandt. "It's a way of relaxing, getting my mind off of work. I fight a war every day in my real life."

"I've made some really good friends," says Steven Schirripa. "These people will be my friends for life."

For all the beating, shooting, stabbing and cursing that take place on screen, the cast and crew of "The Sopranos" are an upbeat, tight-knit bunch, and have been since day one.

The off-camera personnel are just as tight. According to director Timothy Van Patten, "This show has the lowest rate of turnover in the crew of any show I've worked on. It's pretty much 90 percent of the same people who are here. That's rare. People who work on the show love it, are protective about it."

Part of that bond comes from the little-mob-show-that-could story, that nobody expected it to be a hit -- " 'The Sopranos' is like the Mir space station," says Chase. "It was only supposed to be up there a year." -- and that the actors have all gone from obscurity to celebrity together.

Aside from Lorraine Bracco, remembers James Gandolfini, "a lot of us were reasonably unknown. And you learn so much from all the stuff that happened through this. You learn so much about success and money and celebrity and all kinds of stuff. It's been an incredible life lesson that none of us, I don't think, would have ever had if we didn't have this opportunity."

"It made me famous, it's made me a lot of money, and it's made me really good friends," says Michael Imperioli. "It's given me a certain respect and profile in the business.

For some, celebrity hasn't been all it's cracked up to be.

"I never wanted to be a famous person," says Edie Falco. "Jim and I, both of us are like, 'What the hell is going on...? I'm a character actor!'

"Dealing with notoriety has been a big challenge," she adds. "There have been some lovely things about it and there are some crappy things about it. I'm trying to enjoy the good things and take the other things in stride and accept the fact that I'm lucky. I get to work in an industry where there's 98 percent unemployment, and the stuff (we do) is so good."

Gandolfini also takes a measured view of what the show has done for him.

"There's pluses and minuses," he says. "It's a dark, dark world, and you're in it a lot. However, if you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. The writing is still wonderful, and I love the people I work with, and I'm in New York City. There's a lot of pluses. It's just, you know, it's a heavy tone sometimes, but there are many, many pluses to it that ... I still think I'm very lucky to be in it."

With the finish line much closer than anyone would like, everyone's having trouble bracing themselves for the ride to end.

"It does feel like the end this time," says Gandolfini. "It really does. And it's made me think about how I want to approach work and, you know, just making sure that you work just as hard now as you did in the beginning and -- yeah, I guess what you're looking ahead to. But it's just about being with these people one more year. This is the year we have, and let's enjoy it and really look at it and remember it."

"I'm already starting to feel separation anxiety," says writer/producer Terence Winter. "We were in a read-through recently, and I just got this wave of sadness, that this isn't going to go on forever."

Chase has been eager to quit the TV business for good and write movies, but he admits, "I'll miss the camaraderie in this (writers) room, for sure. The writing staff has narrowed, narrowed, narrowed, and it's a really talented group of people. For me to get up in the morning and write completely by myself, that's going to be hard."

So, are there any props people want to take home as a memento?

"I've got my eye on that Escalade," says Winter.

"Hesh doesn't have many props, but I'd steal somebody's gun," says Jerry Adler, who plays Hesh Rabkin.

"Uncle Junior's green phone," says Schirripa. "I've made a few calls on it."

Sirico, who takes home items from Paulie Walnuts' wardrobe every year, puts it best: "Nothing could top the memories I've got."

http://www.nj.com/sopranos/ledger/in...x_goodbye.html

Thanks Fasteddie.
I don't want it to end but I still hate waiting that long. In the news story they said some of the stars want more money for the episodes in January so we might be seeing some of the top guys getting whacked. ;)

We just got into it so, we are looking foward to a good season.

It's on it's on!! The second episode is on!
 

OMG, it's so strange!! What a freaky beginning!!

Oh you already seen tonights show? dang Im in Calif And I it doesn't come on untill 9:pm so I will meet you all back here to see what everyone thought!! :D

Just started!!
 

I won't tell you anything about it! :p

Ok where do you think this is going?
 

Ok where is all the Sopranos die hard fans??

I have a thought about tony! Im "thinking" that since tony has been given a second chance to life that he might be heading for accepting jesus into his heart? I know this sounds weird but maybe just maybe it may be the way to the end the Sopranos with tony finding jesus, and being that you can not just give your notice you want out. this opens the door to retire tony? I think John and Phil Leotardo will spread the rumor that tony will not be able to control things due to his new life style into living his second chance and possibly getting involved with pastor bob? ok your take on where this is going?? how do you see this? fasteddie you are pretty in touch with the saprono's what do you think??