Letters to the Editor
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Tony and his "sons"
Carmela's badly built McMansion is a metaphor for the whole Soprano family. Tony is going down and dragging AJ and Christopher with him. I don't give a shit how much he whines about wanting to save AJ or Christopher or anyone else.
First he tells Christopher to start drinking again to fit in. (He actually equates his dietary restrictions with alcoholism! I was waiting for him to drag in his stupid "What ever happened to Gary Cooper?" bullshit for the umpteenth time.)
Then he prescribes a good old-fashioned night of drinking at a strip club for AJ's depression. He'd just burst with pride if he knew about the bonus torture.
Tony can't stand anyone, even his own blood, getting better or becoming normal. Remember how he needled Janice into an explosive reaction, when she was showing signs of controlling her anger? And what did he do when Paulie made thhat obscene crack about Christopher's daughter ending up as a stripper? That wasn't Christopher imagination - he was enjoying the destruction of clean-and-sober Christopher.
"My husband is not a vindictive man," Carmela claimed to Janice in the opener of this mini-season. Self-delusion No. 842, Carmela.