Re: The Sopranos, Final Season

On Feb 10, 2:23 pm, "octoad" <davk...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Chase repeatedly said he did not want to do the standard arc of a
mobster's life, like Jimmy Cagney in "Public Enemy" "coming home to
Ma" in a box. Part of his point was that mob life is arbitrary, and
very evil people often get away with it for years, or forever. In
fact, it makes you a better mobster ("a good earner") to be a total
psycho like Ralph Cifaretta.

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Well, Ralphie's varied psychoses resulted in his head being stuffed into a
bowling bag after getting dismembered in a bathtub, so maybe he's not the
best example of a winner, but I agree with you otherwise.

But the joke was Ralphie survived a hundred reasons to kill him, until
Tony figured that he has torched a stable & killed Pie Oh My for the
insurance money. There was no real legitimate beef within mob
structure for Tony to kill Ralph. Everyone kept marveling "He's a good
earner".

Murdering his goomara, the mother of a young child, because she
insulted you meant that Ralph had to apologize to Tony for
"disrespecting the Bing" because he killed his "whooah" on the
hallowed grounds of the Boss' strip club.

After that, the playing field is even again, and Tony's killing
Ralphie is an indiscretion that must be hidden from most of his crew.
Tony invokes the dead stripper Tracee & Pie Oh My together while he is
hammering Ralph's head off the kitchen tile: "She was a helpless
beautiful creature!"

But it's a definite "bad for business" move by Tony's weak side, the
one with the sheds of humanity left.



That was one of my favorite episodes, seeing that freak get his after what
he did to that pathetic, braces clad stripper.  

what I liked is how they whipsawed us the week before with Ralphie's
kid in the ICU because of the bow & arrow accident. Here you had the
most venal character on the show miraculously sympathetic, just before
he loses his head.


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