Letters to the Editor
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Melfi safe, cont'd
Melfi's good about not crossing lines. Otherwise, Jesús Rossi would be dead, dead, dead, remember? Even is something slips out in therapy, professional obligations or no, at heart she's not a rat.
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My prediction
Tony will follow his selfish, insatiable need to have everything Chistophah had and will seduce Kelli.
Carmella finds out somehow and kills Tony.
I bet adrianna's body gets found too.
I just think Carm is more in this than we expect.
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cleaver
I retract what I said about Paulie needing Tony. You're right, too many past betrayals. Also, Paulie is very aware that Tony was considering taking him out, he could sense it. That might give Paulie a reason to side with Phil - self preservation.
It will be interesting to see if we hear more about Bobby's hair at the scene of the hit, and Tony's dropped gun, that gun charge went away for a little while, but came back?
I don't think Ade is coming back. I was thinking that maybe in a future dream sequence Tony will see Chris and Ade together..
I do think Tony will move in on Kelli. It would just be the Tony thing to do, especially against Chris. Maybe Tony will end up getting killed by ....a cleaver somehow?
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cleaver
I retract what I said about Paulie needing Tony. You're right, too many past betrayals. Also, Paulie is very aware that Tony was considering taking him out, he could sense it. That might give Paulie a reason to side with Phil - self preservation.
It will be interesting to see if we hear more about Bobby's hair at the scene of the hit, and Tony's dropped gun, that gun charge went away for a little while, but came back?
I don't think Ade is coming back. I was thinking that maybe in a future dream sequence Tony will see Chris and Ade together..
I do think Tony will move in on Kelli. It would just be the Tony thing to do, especially against Chris. Maybe Tony will end up getting killed by ....a cleaver somehow?
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Gambling
When he first arrives in Vegas he does gamble and LOSES. WTF?
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Paulie: The Last Man Left Standing? Why Not?
Paulie tried to join the New York Family, for chrissake. And Tony knows it was Paulie who repeated the joke about Ginny Sack and the mole, which led to Johnny Sack screeching for revenge and Tony having clean up the mess. The same thing happened with Phil. Tony had to chose what the opposition wanted over family, resulting in the death by Tony's own hand of his cousin.
And still, Tony lets Paulie live. And he let Christofuh live for how long after Tony knew his nephew was a huge liability?
Therein lies his weakness. He's a tough, ruthless person who also lets some people live longer than he knows to be best for his business interests, and he's pissed when his his crew and his relatives fuck up and place him in that position.
No matter that he knows what the deal is and that he thinks 12 steps ahead of everyone else - the poor murdering thug is torn about killing friends and relatives, and goes ballistic when innocent horses and dancers are brutally murdered.
They all live the life; what were the chances they won't be murdered by someone they know during their lifetime?
Except of late, where someone upthread noted that Tony is angry at everything. Hence the relief of the peyote moment of "I get it." I haven't lived this character's issue with loss of life, but I have taken those buttons, and after the usual barf-o-rama moment, the insights come forth - for a few hours.
Tony's humanistic appeal lies in his moments of gray, moments that may not make sense to some people as most of us would not be in the position to settle scores as he settles them. He can't always come out guns blazing; he has a business to run (and then there's that pesky issue of dead bodies missing and littered all around the countryside; not your every day person's day at the beach).
Tony gets a break because he represents the ultimate rage not taken, and the ultimate rage that is taken, and he has been in each season momentarily redeemed because he loves innocent ducks and, apparently, innocent baby car seats.
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AJ
I have seen multiple prediction posts that AJ attempts suicide, or does something stupid, and gets himself a dead brain, although that might be in episode 85 - The Blue Comet.
Another rumor I saw was that Meadow and Paulie get kidnapped by Phil's crew. Meadow gets released, but not before Paulie gets murdered right in front of her. I don't know about that one though...
The final episode is Titled - Made in America. Could it be that AJ is getting made in this episode?
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ericg51's letter "Disappointed"
The mode of death was shocking but the murder itself made contextual sense and was heavily foreshadowed. At the end, Tony was seeing Chris's third or fourth major relapse into drugs. Chris himself told Tony that "your hero" Chris's father died a worthless junkie. Tony is in financial peril, more under FBI investigation than ever, and can't afford to hold a loose cannon. Chris had moved into the film industry, wasn't around the Bing as much, and could have been a flip risk. Tony saw signs of regret in Chris (real or not) for not following Adrianna into the program. In Tony's mind there were practical, strategic and emotional reasons for killing him.
Maybe worst of all, Tony believed via Carmella that Chris's movie mocked him. Displaced notions of "honor" are an overarching factor/handy excuse for these sociopaths.
I don't think you're necessarily meant to feel "any emotion except utter contempt for Tony" or for Christopher. Maybe you had an expected emotional response that was unmet, so that you are projecting illogic onto the plot. I sympathize, the incident provokes a complex reaction. But in just one aspect of the multifaceted foreshadowing, Tony had considered killing Paulie, who in the grand scheme of things poses far less risk than Chris. Tony had become deeply afraid and contemptuous of Christopher, and an opportunity landed in his lap.