>>I know you're a fellow fan but just in the interest of accuracy, the character who died was not wacked.
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>Actually, the character was 'sorta wacked'. --> If you haven't seen the show stop reading or this will spoil it for you!! <-- - there was the wreck then T held his hand over the victims mouth and nose - so they person *might* of lived - but T still finished him off - so I consider it a wack.

The character was in a serious rollover accident and had blood coming out of his mouth like vomit. Tony just made sure.

Tony's dream confession to Dr. Melfi was chilling. For once he said exactly what he felt. DC has said the reason he uses music overtly sometimes is that the characters almost never speak the truth. They are unreliable narrators. The closest they come to their true feelings is their dreams.
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>>I still don't get the Meadow cult.
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>Well..she's pretty!
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>>Here's what I liked: the complexity of Tony's thoughts and actions. Right back to the start in a sense -- deep thoughts about parents, children, spouses, things we hold in common and are hesitant to say. It's almost all subtext.
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>Well I like those parts too, but I like it when the plot has a lot of violence and sex too - I mean it IS about the mafia!
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But it isn't really. DC has said in interviews that it's essentially about his own family, especially his mother. Livia was based on her. (Did you catch that waving-away wrist thing Tony did in Dr. Melfi's office? That was pure Livia). The mob angle just makes it network material. Or at least HBO material. The series was offered to all the networks and they all passed. Even HBO was hesitant and agreed only to a pilot. They paid something like 50K for the pilot and promised nothing after that. When the pilot was well received they finally came through with a 13 show commitment for the first season. Still lowball. The rest is television history.

Salud to everyone like David Chase who pursues a vision even when there's no rational reason to do so.