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The next episode is the season finale, and they really have not built a lot of anticipation into it. If I had to say what this season is about, here would be my theory:
NO ESCAPE: The mob life is an inescapble trap with few options.
a. Tony's near death experience doesn't change anything for the better. He recovers and its back to the same-old-shit. Everyday is indeed a gift, or pair of socks, as he quipped to Dr. Melphi.
Tony is not going to change, even his 2nd shooting does nothing to change him. What could he do? He has no education, no marketable skills...there is nothing he can do and still maintain his current standard of living.
b. "Eugene Pontecorvo has inherited $2 million from his aunt, and he and his wife Deanne see his inheritance as a way out." Not so fast...a Rich inheritance can't buy your way out --- in fact you'll be squeezed three ways: by your family to quit and move to Florida --- by the Guys who want you to commit murder --- and by the Feds who want you to rat out your friends. Turns out Eugene felt offing himself was the best option.
If Eugene picked any of his other "options" his wife and family would never have been able to enjoy the money. It doesn't matter what you do, what your luck is, when you are in the family your only way out is death.
c. Junior's end appears to be Alheimers, alienation, and the threat of jail time if he can be found competent. Now he's stuck in a nursing home.
Junior has been locked up in one way or another since the beginning of the series. He's been on house arrest since season two. For a while he was searching the obituaries for funerals so he could be out of the house.
d. "I'm 46 years old. I mean who am I? Where am I going? " Even in his dreams, Tony is stuck in a problem and situation he cannot solve.
Tony has refused to see what his problems truly are from the beginning. Dr. Melfi points them out and he bats them down again and again, until it suits his purpose in arguing with her on yet another point. She has come to only bring up issues that he specifically asks her for help with.
e. Paulie finds out he's an illegitmate bastard with Cancer.
Paulie has always been a bastard...couldn't resist. Italian men are famous for having a very strong love and admiration for their mothers. Paulie has exemplified this through out the series. The men that constitute the Cosanostra are also famous for the "Madonna/whore" complex. I think that Paulie's bio-mom being a nun and his subsequent reaction to the aunt is perfect illustration. As far as the cancer...well, yeah, I hope he's got pollops the size of a calzone...
f. The boy who inherits his father's garbage business cannot even sell out his stake in peace, and he's entangled in a mob mess he never created. Trying to do the right thing, Paulie cripples him anyway.
Yes, you expected less? or more?
g. Johnny Sach faces 15 years hard time and a 4.5 million dollar forfeiture of his assets by the feds. His last hurrah is a wedding furlough, cut short.
This is great. Johnny Sacrimone has been 8 pegs too high on his own list all along. I loved the way he was brought in by the Feds, falling face down in the snow running from them. I do however feel sorry for Ginny, sitting there in her house listening while Janice who's been given quite a gift is still enjoying rubbing people's nose in the little bit of crumbs that Tony happens to toss her, by strutting a decorator through the house putting down the current decor.
h. Vito, successful, happy, well liked, and full of promise as a mob captain is ruined when his homosexuality is outed. The smallest misstep costs him his whole life. His last breaths are ones of terror, torture, malice, humiliation, and murder.
Vito has been in this life forever, he knows the price of expressing his sexuality. His sudden weight loss and heightened self esteem makes him a little too eager to strut his stuff, and he gets caught. If this didn't get him, his greed for money and power would have.
i. When in Paris, Camella marvels at the sights but wallows in her own depression and feelings of insignificance, powerlessness, and family disolution.
Carmella LOVES to wallow in self pity. She feels incredible guilt for profiting from her husband's business, but as we saw in season 2, not enough to leave him and the money behind. Even when she did leave him, it was because of his cheating, and when she took him back she made lots of rationalizations and justifications about his line of work. And almost immediately resumes the roll of a martyr.
Her jealousy of Angie Bompensero is impossible for her to mask. Angie is a successful business woman, who has enough money to "put some out on the street" which puts her on a par with the men of the series. Carmella has tried and even with Tony's money and the assistance of her father, she can't make a go of it. Her failure on every level (business and family) is hitting her in the face and she can't help but reach out and slap her best friend in the face by bringing up the death of Jackie Jr. to Rosalie while they are on vacation and having such a wonderful time.
j. Christopher lapses back into drugs and fails to break into a more glorious position in movies.
Christopher...he's a junkie that was forced to quit. He's the perfect example of a person that has to want to help themselves. He has set himself up to relapse again and again with the two jokes that he has chosen as sponsors. He really has nothing to lose, what in his life does he love that he could lose? Money? He doesn't need Tony to make money. Power? He doesn't have any. Love? He doesn't even love his pregnant wife, she was terrified to tell him she was pregnant. Tony? Now that may be something he wouldn't want to lose...
k. Bobby gets shot by a bunch of punks. Happy-go-lucky as he is, life just takes advantage of him anyway.
Bobby, dammit I wish this one would grow a pair, I think with Janice behind him he could really be a powerhouse.
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Life in the sixth season is petty, cruel, and unforgiving.
This coming Sunday they are going to air the last 3 episodes in a row. The final episode of the season will be the following week. Lots of plot lines are left hanging. That's always been one thing I loved about the show. They never needed to play everything out and assumed that the viewers would draw the likely conclusion. As well as the fact that there are so many different plotlines that if they did play them all out the show would never end. Remember the Russian that Paulie and Christopher chased into the woods? Remember the housing scam that Tony had going? The list goes on.
Tony is finding out that his son has the same options that he had, follow dad's footsteps or do menial labor, because he was never taught enough self discipline to finish his education. Meadow will follow her mother's footsteps and give up her own identity for a man, and most likely declare herself a martyr on the same magnitude as her mother.
All of that said, I too am hoping for something exciting to happen. It's apparent that there's going to be a war between Tony and Phil, but who is willing to when " the guys go to the mattresses they ain't out earning."
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