The Sopranos - latest instalment

[Professor Q]

said the man with an orang utang as a sig!!

[jj]

That's not 'my sig'.
That's me.

Now, take your hands off that fruit. It's mine.

[Professor Q]

oh what big ..... you have!!

[jj]

Tits?
Yes, but then I'm an endangered species.

[chatterji]

The whole point of 'The Sopranos' is that it constantly forces the audience to question why it feels any empathy for the characters, who are consistently shown as the utter scum they are - unlike in 'The Godfather' trilogy.

Tony is vain, paranoid, untrustworthy, sly, hypocritical, self-pitying and happy to take whatever he wants by force. He's a monster and so is everyone around him. The men commit horrific acts and then pontificate about honour and family. The women take the blood money, and live a surburban life defined by materialism. The kids all end up scarred and warped by their environment. The point is monsters don't exist in a vacuum. They read the papers; they eat a sandwich; they're kids do badly at school. This is what 'The Sopranos' does so well: the juxtaposition of the mundane with the murderous.

I don't watch it for the violence. In fact the violence is often so sickening that it's hard to watch in the way that real violence is. It's not a pathetic Guy Ritchie ultra-violence wank-fest. It's a disturbing, tightly-written, complex look at sociopathy.

Top theme-tune too.

[Professor Q]

stop that ...sid james hawtely laugh!!!