Re: SOPRANOS Season 6: New this week.. Episode 8: "Johnny Cakes"
Yikes. Once again I am shocked at the (sometimes extreme) negative reactions.
I loved the epsiode, and I usually cannot stand AJ.
You have no idea how powerful the drive to be like daddy can be for the son of an overachiever. For the first time ever, I actually empathized with the kid because I can directly relate to him.
The son desperately wants to live up to dad, even though it's clearly not in him, while the father desperately wants his son to be anything but him -- a very unusual situation for a successful father. I find that fascinating, but apparently I am the only one
. In the end, Tony's worse nightmare is slowly coming to life: a corrupt AND inept AJ. If this were some other show, I would expect this incident to serve as some kind of epiphany to AJ, but not on the Sopranos. Meadow has a solid (if hypocritical) head on her shoulders, I suspect AJ's path will be much darker.
Someone said this was another panic attack for AJ, implying there was a previous one? When was this?
I've chalked up all the talk of a New Tony to wishful thinking (people crave seeing tough guys soften up for some reason, check Al in the Deadwood threads...), but the evidence is pretty solid at this point.
Vito's walk is killing me.
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. also explained before, but i watch it cause i need to know what happens. i sat through BSG '80 because of that and wasted a lot of time =(. it's one of those obsessive compulsive disorder things. if i WERE normal, i'd've stopped watching sopranos by season3.
