Letters to the Editor

• The cat

  [Read the article: "The Sopranos" goes dark]
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  is just a cat. Doing cat-type weird shit, while we try to assign human motives to it. Just like Paulie was.

  I think Tony seeing himself in the diner (I actually thought I might have imagined that, I thought I saw the girl captain who got chased through the house naked in the buffet line earlier but I was wrong) was him having one last mini dream sequence, picturing himself as a normal guy who does not have to be aware of every single person in the restaurant at all times, having dinner with his family. Not a nightmare this time (like the traveling salesman dream), but wishful thinking. And that makes me rethink my take on that entire scene a little bit.

  We were the paranoid ones. We saw assasins every time the door opened, just like we saw imminent danger in Meadow being unable to park her car (the most brilliant piece of TV I have ever seen not on The Wire - we were scared to death that a girl couldn't park her car). Tony didn't see it. For once, he wasn't looking for it. Tony was playing at being the normal guy part of him really wished he was. Every time he looked at the door, we thought he was afraid when he was just looking for his family. Tony relaxed, in a foreign environment, and that's how Members Only was able to come up behind him and kill him.

  Love it or hate it, that final scene will go down in television history.

  Permalink Monday, June 11, 2007 02:14 PM