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You can't fire me, I quit!
This entry was posted on 2/1/2008 9:16 AM and is filed under The Cast of The Sopranos.
I only caught the last minute of “Celebrity Apprentice” last night and it was the moment when Vincent Pastore (Big Pussy) , dodged Donal Trump's infamous words, “You're Fired”, by resigning from the show. This episode (705, first episode to the right of episode link) was so dramatic; it was a 2 hour program. If you haven't watched it, the episode is on line. I received several emails about the show after it aired, some saying he shouldn't have quit.
- Soprano Sue
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3/6/2008 9:05 PM
James wrote:
I have been a fan of The Sopranos and The Wire from their very start, and only at the end of both series do they're epic scope become realized.
When I first saw The Sopranos series finale, I was as confused as everyone else as to the meaning of the ending. THEN, I watched the first season again, and it all became clear...
The Sopranos is about one thing above all others, TONY SOPRANO, and the sickness from which he suffers. Tony is a combination of his father's passion, loyalty, and zeal for life, while at the same time, he suffers from what his mother suffered from: a hole so deep down and black inside of him, that the only way he can fill it, is to destroy (kill) off those closest to him, and in essence, kill off parts of himself.
At this point, your probably asking, where is my evidence for any of this? Well, to see the big picture, we have to start from the beginning. The first time we meet Tony, he witnesses some ducks, floating in his pool. The ducks touch Tony inside himself somewhere deep down, only to fly away and never return. This moment leads us to what will eventually be Tony's complete, personal downfall, much like Michael Corleone's (after Godfather II), only much more in depth.
From the first season on, Tony deals with his business, enemies from within his organization, his family life, and most of all, himself. At the end of season 1, after Tony's mother tried to have him killed, Dr. Melfi describes Livia (his mother) as having a disorder from which she derives no joy from life, and manipulates those close to her against each other. Listen closely, because while she is describing Livia, she is describing really Tony.
Now I get to what I call, "The Blackness". Throughout the series, we have watched as Tony has murdered many of those closest to him. When Tony murdered Pussy, it is important to note how sick he got before the deed, because it reveals its true nature in the last season. In the first season, in the episode, Boca, Tony stumbles into the house one night, in glee, because he had let Meadow's high school soccer teacher live, after it had become known he slept with a girl on the team, but more importantly, he is happy because "He didn't hurt nobody". This is one of the few moments of the show when Tony is relieved from himself, because further down his life, he will hurt and destroy many more lives.
Back to "The Blackness", there is an episode in the last season, where Tony contemplates killing Paulie, not for anything Paulie has done, but simply because he has an urge to. This urge to kill Paulie, manifests itself in physical symptoms of distress again, while Tony is on a boat with Paulie, fighting against his instincts to murder his friend. At the end of the episode, Paulie experiences a dream, where Big Pussy is cooking in Paulie's kitchen, and warns Paulie that he could be next.
Now to the thick of it. Tony's "Fredo" moment, when he kills Christopher. Christopher in many ways is the person closest to Tony, perhaps even
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