Interesting. I see AJ being just like Tony, but he was around for the Aprile business, I don't want to see the same thing go down again. Boring. I think he might start showing a little more leadership, shift the college mafia into using their thuggery and goonishness in the service of business but cutting out the random violence, or at least squelching it a little. Killing him off in some way would fit with what seems to be going on with Tony - losing the shine off of his old role models and just losing everyone else.

Tony's advice to AJ to get a blowjob? Weirdly touching.

When he was sleeping with the girl in Florida, that was the first time he's been unfaithful to Carmela since he was shot, right? And the floodgates are open there, now. I'm starting to think he doesn't care anymore, that his big revelation that surviving the gunshpot means he's "ahead" means that he's without any sort of moral checks.

Two references to Comfortably Numb in the last two eps. I don't know what it means, numb doesn't seem to describe Tony, but maybe it does.

Matt Zoller Seitz on the House Next Door theorized that the emphasis was on the comfortable part, not the numb part: [link]

Hm. I don't get what he means by that distinction.

Holy crap. The teeth. The teeth.

? Piano wire around Paulie's throat from behind in the car?

Is Lenny Montana still alive?

Holy crap. The teeth. The teeth.

Dude. Yeah.

Of all the brutal punishments that are visited on the human body onscreen or described in books or implied onscreen, that is the one that gives me the worst visceral shudders. And they did say "almost killed", right? Almost makes it worse, somehow.

I'm enjoying TWOP's write-ups of The Wire (although I have serious recap envy), but I still find their Sopranos recaps to be a baffling mismatch between writer and subject. For a show that so much about subtle interactions, dream logic, and oblique symbolism, having such a literal-minded recapper on the case is doing these final episodes a serious disservice.

Wrod. Second both emotions, bunk. Also, will be glad when that guy is finally gone from Justice so I can stop feeling cheated by hearing "McNulty" on the news cause it's Fredo's boy not my man Bushy Top.Jimmy would never get in trouble *backing up* his boss' bullshit. My poor hormones have the whiplash.

I know, that is so confusing! I hear "McNulty" and think "What did he really do that they pinned this on him for?" and then I remember that it's not him.

I might respect him just a bit if they asked him was he involved and he said "Yes. No. Maybe." I love shoutouts, but I'd hate to see Patrick Leahy's head explode. I get excited every time I hear his name and disappointed every time it's...to use a technical term "that fuckhead from Justice". Wonder if Fredo likes dots...he seems like the type.