Yeah it aired as two separate seasons actually but only a couple months apart, so they call it 6a/6b Edit: ok actually a year apart for the premieres but they still call it one season for some reason.
The casts contracts were up after season 6 so if they titled the second batch as the 7th season it would have required them to renegotiate. The network didnt want to do new deals so they called both sets of episodes the 6th season to work around it. I think other shows have done this since then, but this might have been one of the firsts.
I think I just watched what was the most jam-packed episode of the series. Tony and Christopher have a moment together reminiscing and steal some wine. Christopher finds out he’s having a kid and gets married. He also bought a house and relapsed. Ade’s mom and Carm seem to be suspicious of how she died. Paulie might have cancer. And perhaps the most random thing was a ride malfunction at the church festival and Bobby going all badass and attacking Paulie. I think my favorite part of the episode was Christopher passionately petting a local dog while high out of his mind.
Bobby’s son getting too old to play trains with him has me sad. I’m 40 and would kill to hang out with that man in his garage.
doing a full re-watch myself, just got through the first three episodes. will never tire of watching this show even though I can practically quote it by now.
grew up watching ER, had a massive crush on Julianna Margulies. jaw dropped when she was on the show.
When Tony asks Bobby if he ever uses one to hunt and Bobby responding with “it’s unsportsmanlike” is wisdom I have carried with me since and I know next to nothing about hunting.
Was Johnny Sack’s cancer discussed earlier in the show and I forgot about it or was that first introduced midway through the final season?
Johnny Sack’s death was harder than I expected it to be :( Of course Phil is still alive and well and having 90-year old great grandpas killed in the streets.
I like when the Asian guy is typing a letter to Dick Cheney for junior trying to get out because he’s claiming it was an accidental gunshot Dick Cheney accidentally shot someone in a hunting accident when he was VP.
Christopher That admittedly wasn’t how I expected him to go out. Was the child seat supposed to mean that Tony was like trying to protect Chris’s daughter from having to grow up with all of his crazy shit?
IMO it’s how Tony rationalizes it to himself but he really did it because he realized he couldn’t trust Chris with running things through him like he thought.
Isn’t protectiveness toward children and animals a hallmark of psychopathy? I mean he went ballistic when he found out Chris killed Adriana’s dog and when Cifaretto killed Pie O My. This was the same stimulus.
I’m barely a Sopranos novice but I thought he killed Chris because he knows he’s a fuck-up and that was once again evident immediately after the crash when he tried to get Tony to take the blame due to him relapsing (for the 20th time). I just assumed he saw the kid’s car seat and decided to justify it that way. So basically what Arrec Bardwin said.
I always thought Tony viewed the relapse as a betrayal and violation of Christopher's oath that had to be dealt with.
yes. Melfi and her shrink discuss this at one point as her shrink is trying to guide her towards discharging him as a patient. he uses that specifically to try and reason her along that Tony cannot be helped and she's basically just making him a more effective psycho.
He probably did, but he knew Chris was a fuckup. He had made promises before and didn’t keep them. He wouldn’t have killed him over that. But he linked Chris’ weakness to the infant car-seat and his insanity was triggered.