[Triumph36]

that was a great shot - tony strangling chris.

again i still think this could've been done better, though we haven't seen relief in someone's death done quite this way - tony really wants to tell someone how free he now feels, but he's still trapped. Hence his trip to Vegas and why he finally shouts at the mountains. However, he has to be high on peyote to do that - that felt very forced to me, that he needed some sort of new experience to completely express himself, and even then, it doesn't make much sense to the girl he was with.

Tony knew Chris was becoming a liability - had in fact been a liability ever since his drug problem and Adrianna. Still, for him to get Christopher killed would've been very difficult, and could've laid the basis for the rest of the show.

The Phil-Tony showdown just seems to be going nowhere because Phil and Tony both know that Phil is tougher, that Phil doesn't care about anything except getting his way - money is just a means through which this occurs. Tony actually values money, so he's weaker.