The Sopranos 6x09 Reaction
Added 2025-04-29 00:04:39 +0000 UTC
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I love the ending. Both baby’s, (Paulie and the child) both want to go back to the things that hurt them.
Daniel_
2025-05-02 17:07:27 +0000 UTCI think it's also because that situation fed into the growing resentment between the two. On one hand, Chris didn't have the courage to kill Ade, so he passed that responsability to Tony, who obviously still resents him for that because he did like for her and Tony probably also blames Chris to some extent for creating the environment that made her rat in the first place. On the other hand, even if it's not rational, because he's human a part of Chrissy will always blame Tony for her death. It doesn't matter that he sold her out to Tony, he will now always associate Tony with Adriana, serving as a constant reminder of her death, and every time he feels wronged by Tony he will resent him even more for in his mind not appreciating how much of his soul he sacrificed for Tony and the rest of the family.
Gaboxxy
2025-04-30 02:44:40 +0000 UTCI like the priest in this episode dealing with the mob perfectly. It’s not often we see a savvy ‘civilian’ in this show, but it’s always quite satisfying when we do. Chris told Tony and Paulie in season 2 that he was in hell, and that Mikey Palmice had a message for both of them: “3 o’clock”. Paulie wakes up exactly at 3 o’clock in this episode.
Darrach
2025-04-29 23:35:17 +0000 UTC“Easy on the sugar hon, they tell me I’m sweet enough” Phil Leotardo: the most bitter and miserable character in history
Darrach
2025-04-29 21:55:00 +0000 UTCIt became more obvious to me after further rewatches, but it's impossible not to notice now. I think it is something of a unifying thematic point. KIND OF A SPOILER: In a later scene Tony looks up into the trees with a strange expression. I believe he is noticing the absence of wind in that moment.
Marcus Cato
2025-04-29 20:51:18 +0000 UTC@diego palma: wat
Julien
2025-04-29 16:54:08 +0000 UTCChris seems like he’s just speedrunning his relationship with his new girl while still not getting over Adriana. My interpretation of that basement scene with Tony and Chris is just them being unable to have a meaningful/worthwhile conversation without it relating to the business to the point they have to resort to”remember that?”
mundanelotus
2025-04-29 16:05:48 +0000 UTCSil has never worked to have Tony killed, like Janice was trying to do with Ritchie.
INFJ-T Tyrone
2025-04-29 10:49:37 +0000 UTCLove the Chris storyline in this episode. I also felt a little emotional watching it. There's such a clear dissonance between how he's acting and what he actually believes that he relapses just to deal with it. Really well done. Moving the basement scene to this moment contextualises it brilliantly too, highlighting the lingering baggage between him and Tony. That decision made both scenes better. I don't hate Janice either but I get why people do, she's annoying. Sil has done worse things but he's such a head down, get on with things kind of guy that I don't really hate him. I guess those parts of my brain are only loosely connected.
Mark M
2025-04-29 10:19:19 +0000 UTCI think it's both with Tony and Chris. They are connecting, but there's also too much baggage for it to really stick, so you can read it both ways. And socks are just seen as boring lol. Nice to get for sure, especially if they're nice socks, but they're unremarkable, predictable. Which lines up with Tony's boredom.
Mark M
2025-04-29 10:10:58 +0000 UTCAnd all of a sudden, Chris understands the importance of fresh produce.
Abacus
2025-04-29 08:46:04 +0000 UTCI don't understand what's the point of watching if "it doesn't matter what this character feels, it doesn't matter what that character feels". Sopranos is all about the characters, and yes, they are all awful by any standard and there're no heroes to cheer for, but there's also so much more than that (just my opinion idk)
penguikiss
2025-04-29 07:10:45 +0000 UTCHello everyone, hope all is well!!
Kody Pawelczyk
2025-04-29 05:57:04 +0000 UTCThe tree in the wind. Is it a reference to Pauly feeling pity for himself but a great wind blew him back home? idk it just stuck out this time.
Chad Gloria
2025-04-29 05:53:50 +0000 UTCI've often thought that Lola almost spoils things for herself, her way of watching is she's so intently trying to "work it out" (while Milena tends to just watch in a normal passive way). I think it was mentioned that she was a smart girl at school, and she fits the stereotype of a smartypants, always trying to show that she can solve the puzzle first by guessing what's going to happen. She's pretty good at it! Despite it being her first scene, Kelli being pregnant is telegraphed the moment she appears, and I'm not surprised someone like Lola calls it immediately. I've often wondered if she will call the big finale scene.
Abacus
2025-04-29 04:25:11 +0000 UTCHow can you say that about my girl?
Diego Palma
2025-04-29 03:30:45 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPpUqoeuQk&ab_channel=SlopSkull Me when I see a nice GYATT
Gaboxxy
2025-04-29 02:11:31 +0000 UTCThose who watched LM watch Breaking Bad will remember that the girls, especially Ms. L, were sometimes supernaturally good at guessing plot points in advance. They were proficient enough at this that many viewers accused them of having watched the show in advance so that they could appear smarter than average Youtube commenters (not difficult to do). But The Sopranos has more often than not caught them by surprise, subverted their expectations. I imagine that if David Chase was watching these reactions he'd be proud: "I got them again! Didn't see that coming, did you? (beat that, Gilligan!)". But something funny started to happen at the start of season 6: the girls' old superpowers have slowly returned and by this episode veteran Sopranos fans will see that they are getting uncannily good at sensing certain things (but not everything) in advance: "The tall one is cheating! How could she guess what's her face was pregnant!" If I were Chase, I might feel disappointed by this but also excited: could these two Serbs be the first reactors in human history to understand his ending?
Derek Halvorson
2025-04-29 01:37:47 +0000 UTCLola: Paulie apparently has cancer Milena: round of applause How much more betrayal can Paulie take?
Edward. M
2025-04-29 01:33:17 +0000 UTCThe scene with Chris and Tony in the basement where Chris told Tony about Adriana was originally filmed in season five for the episode where it originally happened. They decided to take it out of that episode so that we wouldn't KNOW that Chris had told Tony, and it would make her final car ride with Silvio more suspenseful as we figured out in real-time that she was being driven to her death. I agree that Carmela knows that Adriana is dead, but she's refusing to let herself believe it. She always believes what she needs to believe at any one moment to let herself continue to live in this life. Just like she still says Tony is a "good man" and "good husband", even despite all the other times where she says how horrible he is to her and their kids. She definitely knows that other people in "witness protection" are actually dead. In an argument with Tony she once referred to Angie Bonpensiero as a widow, so in a moment of passion the truth broke through her layers of self-lies. I think the biggest trigger for Paulie wasn't the fear of cancer itself -- although that's definitely a big part of it -- but the question the doctor asked him on the first phone call: Does he have a FAMILY HISTORY of prostate cancer? You can see his panic as he says "I don't know" because he has no idea who his biological father is or what kind of medical history he has. I think that made him face his feelings about his past in a way he has resisted ever since he first learned about it. I have seen WILDLY different interpretations of the scene between Tony & Chris after the robbery where they're sitting outside drinking the wine. I always thought that that was the closest to an honest emotional connection that they've had in a while. The closest they can be to real empathy. But I've seen other people say that they read it as a complete LACK of emotional connection. That the two of them are just kinda parroting standard expressions of sympathy and understanding back and forth. Like when you meet an old relative you haven't seen in 20 years that you don't really care about and need to fill the air with banal small talk. You bring out the same generic questions you always use, and neither of you go away with any new understanding that you didn't have before. And personally, I LOVE getting socks for a gift. I literally have a box of new socks that I'm giving to a friend for his birthday tomorrow. He ASKED for socks! Why do socks always get hate as a gift?
JBK405
2025-04-29 01:20:10 +0000 UTCLola needs to speak more during the discussions/debates, I wish she would assert her positions stronger, Milena when she believes something she’s full throttle, Lola kinda I don’t know acquiesces to Milena’s beliefs even when you can tell she doesn’t believe it. I’m re-living my delusions about Christopher through her so she’s gotta lock in.
Edward. M
2025-04-29 01:08:30 +0000 UTCIf Carmela knew that Adriana's testimony would cause her lifestyle to plummet she would've been right on board with the hit just like everybody else. Let's not kid ourselves. You know what I mean?
BND
2025-04-29 00:26:55 +0000 UTCWe're with The Vipers!
BND
2025-04-29 00:23:45 +0000 UTChow 'bout that prick's face when he saw the gyatt
kingsley scanlon
2025-04-29 00:16:39 +0000 UTC
