The Sopranos 1x07 Reaction
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Niko .
2024-10-01 15:31:09 +0000 UTCAt 4.41 seconds of your video, the children here run past the statue of St Jude. St Jude is the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes. Not trying to spoil anything here. We can all make of it what you want.
Karan Verma
2024-09-22 10:19:42 +0000 UTC“don’t talk to her like that”😂😍
Zach D
2024-09-20 18:46:01 +0000 UTCI think season 1 Skyler belongs on the list cause she's under written. she's mainly there as an obstacle for walt. they started with walt and then gave him obstacles like: nagging normie wife DEA brother in law new baby on the way special needs child as skyler comes into her own and starts to become a real character, she's great. but when she was only there to nag at walt she was insufferable to me i agree about livia being funnier second time around. janice used to give me fits but on rewatches i can't wait for her to show up she's very fun on screen for me.
Chad Gloria
2024-09-10 08:09:53 +0000 UTCIts only right so they can fully understand all the references we will get through this great series. Im sure they would put up big numbers on Youtube!
UNC
2024-09-07 01:48:33 +0000 UTCGodfather I and II, Goodfellas, and Casino. I can dream, can't I?
Michael M
2024-09-07 01:47:04 +0000 UTCI am again begging for a Godfather reaction .🙏
UNC
2024-09-06 20:37:51 +0000 UTCYeah wonder how long this list, from Twitter, from a subreddit, from a year ago, will keep getting mentioned lol
Darrach
2024-09-05 14:33:54 +0000 UTCThe Sopranos is funnier than a lot of comedy shows. That list of hated female characters seems to have really messed you up. So I'll just say this, Livia was on that list and she earned a spot on that list. She is a fantastic character that is usually better on second watch when you see how funny she is. Skylar from Breaking Bad does not belong on a list like that, she is there for completely different reasons. People who have seen both shows understand the difference and that is why they told you not to worry.
Oli J
2024-09-05 14:24:09 +0000 UTC‘Down Neck’ refers to the working-class neighbourhood of Newark where Tony grew up. I love use of the song ‘White Rabbit’ by Jefferson Airplane, one of the best psychedelic rock songs, and dates the episode to 1967, when the song came out, and also when the race riots mentioned in this episode took place. Theres a theme of history repeating itself throughout the episode. The liminal themes are obvious in Johnny Boy and Tony, and Tony and AJ, and how things will turn out this time around between father and son. Melfi quotes the old adage that “those who forget history are doomed to repeat it”. We see Tony at the end watching the history channel whilst exercising, and then immediately squandering that work with an ice cream sundae: The body’s lesson in fitness being forgotten. But, at the same time, he is playing around with AJ and being a good father, and not treating him like an early version of him, who’s needing ‘fixed’. I don’t take that scene the way Lola seemed to, where making the snack is an excusing of his behaviour and it being everyone else’s fault. This scene is tied to the re-use of White Rabbit, as someone else pointed out, this could be AJs memory he will recall of his father, unlike Tony seeing his dad and uncle beating someone up. There is also an indication that Junior is associated with more positive memories for Tony, as he recalls how they used to play catch together and smiles at the recollection. Livia’s psychological issues become increasingly clear the more we see her, and so Tony’s character starts to fall into place in regards to his issues with his mother. Tony has two sisters as previously mentioned, however we have only named and met the elder this episode: Janice. I love that our first interaction with Janice and Tony is Janice flipping Tony off haha Normally a grandmother saying “oh that’ll be nice” to the idea of her grandson visiting her would be taken as genuine, but knowing how utterly miserable and malicious Livia is, this line made me laugh out loud at how absurd it is for her to say it lol
Darrach
2024-09-05 11:30:48 +0000 UTCI love how when the song was first played in this episode it showed Tony’s memory of his father and then when it played at the end it showed hopefully what aj’s memory will be of his father. Shows that even thought Tony’s not perfect at all he’s trying a a lot harder than his father did.
Cole
2024-09-05 10:37:25 +0000 UTCLivia is on the most hated characters list. Hopefully this saves anyone a google and potential spoilers! I think it's safe to say at this point. Tony often seems to try and justify his childhood, but you can tell by his actions that he really doesn't want to be like his parents. It's going to be really interesting when AJ gets to a point where he's old enough to potentially be in the Mafia, how they handle that. I'm watching for the first time and only a little ahead of L&M so idk what happens.
Mark M
2024-09-05 07:48:10 +0000 UTCThat song was in the Matrix 4 trailer
Karabo
2024-09-05 05:08:08 +0000 UTCHe also spent all that time exercising on the treadmill just to eat away all of that effort with big ice cream sundaes.
Veya
2024-09-05 02:55:22 +0000 UTCThis was an unusually focused episode of the show. Definitely one of the richest in the first season. Nearly every scene revolved around Tony and his parents, or Tony and his son. It's also the most the show has spent inside the therapy room so far. However, while the writing was superb and streamlined, the editing was probably the sloppiest (I think probably the sloppiest in the entire show). The first therapy scene seems like it was shot on two different days (and with a different filter) and there were multiple lighting changes within the same scenes and it was kind of jarring. However, that aside it's still a great episode. It's also a great highlight of why Tony is one of, if not the most fleshed out character on television. Besides the planet-sized internal conflict in his character that the show will continue to explore, his relationships with both past and future generations are fleshed out and we're seeing so many sides of his personality and psychology. Another great thing about this show which you are starting to see here is that it wrestles with the idea of how much can you blame on your environment vs yourself. It's not always as clear cut and binary despite first impressions and you guys are starting catch on to just how much he tries to lie and deflect which can muddle things even more. But he's also had moments of honesty, just like Carmella, with themselves. It's a great push and pull. Also, David Chase has said he modeled Tony's mom on his own mother. Think about that implication lol.
Veya
2024-09-05 02:50:23 +0000 UTCSome of the best dramatic TV shows often have great comedic moments.
James Long
2024-09-05 02:45:44 +0000 UTCA lot of shows really struggle to find interesting stories for the children of the main character. (I'm looking at you, Homeland.) The Sopranos is not one of those shows. When it's at its best, the show is using Meadow & AJ as foils to Tony (and vice versa), and it's plumbing Tony's psychology backwards and forwards, as he worries about his kids' futures and wrestles with his own parents. Here, the parallel between Tony's fears that ADD is hereditary and his conversations about joining the family business because of his father are wrapped up the question free will and predestination. He seems mostly resigned to it in Melfi's office, but he rejects the diagnosis from the school psychologist. Is it denial, or anger? Or is he trying to protect AJ -- from the diagnosis, from his future -- by pure force of will? Good shit. And yes, you're right: This is one of the funniest shows of all time.
Mike
2024-09-05 02:35:09 +0000 UTCYup, the center kid. Lil Wallace chasing Tony Soprano. What a world. There's at least one more big wire actor on the show that I remember that hasn't been seen yet.
Veya
2024-09-05 02:34:46 +0000 UTCYeah seeing these flashbacks just reveals how extra awful Livia is lol
mundanelotus
2024-09-05 02:12:53 +0000 UTCThis episode shows the magnitude of what The Sopranos is, opening topics about mental problems, abusive parents, children with ADHD and this being presented in the 90s where everything was still taboo
ashton
2024-09-05 02:11:30 +0000 UTCguys, janice is something lol
ashton
2024-09-05 01:50:39 +0000 UTCThe novel long posts will definitely be here later in the Season. The Sopranos has a ton of symbolism in it that goes unnoticed through much of the series but grows as the series goes on. Every little thing is intentional in this show, pretty sure David Chase was meticulous with the clothing characters worse, products that are in the shot and music the plays. It isn’t something unique to The Sopranos, but David Chase was even more intense about it than most series from what I’ve seen.
ThaDoubleB
2024-09-05 01:49:07 +0000 UTCI think the significance of the final scene is that we had seen that Tony's dad was quite distant from him. He seemed to favour Janice and it was Junior who played catch with him, Melfi in therapy said 'Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it'. Tony was exercising watching the History channel and then goes and spends quality happy time with AJ so that he is not repeating his own history.
Huffster999
2024-09-05 01:27:59 +0000 UTCTony has two sisters: Janice and Barbara. So far neither of them have shown up in the present, but they've been mentioned here-and-there. I think this is the first episode where they are specifically named instead of just talking about 'your/my sister'. Tony's father's name was Giovanni Soprano, but he is always called "Johnny Boy" or just "Johnny". Like with "Junior", they're nicknames that took over their identity. Tony says that one of the things his father did was "numbers", which is one of THE quintessential organized crime rackets in the USA. It's essentially an underground lottery, where each day you bet on which number will 'hit' and it is checked the next day. 'Running numbers' is one of the crimes which has been going on for over a century, and as other schemes have risen and fallen (Alcohol selling during prohibition, drug dealing, bootleg clothing and cigarettes and DVDs, etc.) running numbers has stuck around. My grandmother once 'hit the number' when she was a young girl, and she was actually cheated out of the full winnings (I don't know the actual value, but let's say she was supposed to get $10 and the guy running the numbers only gave her $2). When she complained about not getting the full amount, somebody else gave her a phone number to call and HER father (my great-grandfather) threatened to break her arm if she ever called that number. Because he knew that if she called that number and said she didn't get the full money, then the guy who refused to pay out might get killed. My father still tells the story because years later when a very famous gangster died and his obituary listed the "legitimate business" where he worked, the phone number was the same one she had been given.
JBK405
2024-09-05 00:44:18 +0000 UTCAnother tiny Wire connection for you: One of the young kids chasing Tony in the flashback was Michael B Jordan aka Wallace from The Wire.
Michael M
2024-09-05 00:18:05 +0000 UTChttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g1wCUpGGqX4
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