Letters to the Editor
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Crissy, I get it!
Tony couldn't tell anyone that he killed Chris, because according to Mafia rules he killed Chris out of turn. So he continues to mention the possible dead baby to tell people, uh, Chris was high and could have killed his own kid, stop feeling so bad!
Tony has many conflicting emotions regarding Chris, basically he wanted Chris's life and Chris's love. He wanted Chris's dad, he's almost always sleeping with the same women Chris does and he was very resentful that he always has to be in control while Chris goes around getting high, making movies and fucking shit up for him, basically all of the freedom and perks without the responsibility. Plus he was really angry about that Cleaver movie, in Tony's mind, all this shit I do for you, I do what you can't, I give you work and protect your ass and you pretend gratitude while all the time you hate me deep down and wish I would die. Well ha ha motherfucker, I'm no longer cleaning up after you.
So he's relieved while everyone else is whining and crying so he takes off for egomania land Vegas and what does he do, look up some girl Chris used to sleep with. So now that Chris is gone, he feels like, I'm going to take a part of his life because I deserve it. I deserve a little "me" time. He sleeps with the girl, he takes buttons and then revels with glee at the good fortune bestowed on him. I think the statement of "I get it" was that all of his therapy was distracting him from what he really needs to do to get things done. He needs to stop being "weak" and become the selfish asshole he's been trying to escape for so long. Phil Leotardo thinks Tony's ripe for the picking, Tony's gonna show him different and he believes he now has the universe on his side.
I don't believe there was ever supposed to be redemption for Tony, I think the therapy, the dreams of a different life, trying to tell himself he is who he is because of his mother, his father, his uncle, have all been his attempt at denial to forget who he is, a narcissistic sociopath and that he chose this life. He's been playing "what if" for too long. We the audience have been Carmella for way too long and Chase is screaming, wake the hell up, stop pretending Tony's a good guy just because once in a while he does something nice or because he likes animals and kids. Of course he likes animals and little kids, they are easy to love, they don't rat on you or demand much from you and they give you unconditional love and acceptance no matter how big a prick you are.
Regarding AJ, his story is interesting, he's too moral to become a thug but he's too self loathing and depressed to make anything out of his life so he's stuck in limbo. Perhaps he will kill himself or what I hope is that someone will tell Carmella what really happended to Adrianna(as Tony seemed tempted to do) and she'll flee with AJ to the south of France or something.
I'm curious as to what's going on with Meadow, is she the rat that Tony doesn't suspect? Will she take over the family? When the shit goes down will she just take off knowing she can take care of herself? What is going on with her? I really hope that she just hasn't been ignored because there's nothing really to do with her.