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Meadow dating the black kid was not at all out of the realm of possibility - and made for a good story; it also tied in with Tony's panic attacks.

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I enjoyed most of these one-off episodes and story lines that everyone is hating on. The show just can't be mob wars and hanging out at the Bing. It would have been better if the guy meadow dated was that black albino comedian guy.

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Two words: Dream sequences.

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Two words: Dream sequences.

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get ready for the flamers

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um, wow.


paulie's mom/aunt = hilarious and awesome. esp with paulie's history of killing a grandma.

meadow + black jewish dude = awesome and very realistic.

rapper episode is a classic. all the speeches about who is a real gangster are perfect and that is a great ep for developing chris' character.

chris' hollywood thing was def annoying but i think alot of that had to do with chis not becoming the character/figure that most of us wanted him to be. the hollywood thing, in retrospect, is ok, because it essentially helped lead to his death.

dream sequences were written awesomely and i kinda want them to tie kevin finnerty into the finale.

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chris's hollywood thing was very good when it was done in season 2 (I think?), but the later Hollywood thing was kind of lame.

Some of the dream sequences were written very well, others were just too out there. I definitely respect this dimension of the show and writing a dream is incredibly difficult - the coma dreams were VERY good, but some of the earlier dreams were weaker.

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"the coma dreams were VERY good"

i think this was what he was specifically referring to.

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"the coma dreams were VERY good"

i think this was what he was specifically referring to.

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the coma dream where tony almost died was one of the few things that has evoked any real emotion from me in as long as I can remember. It wasnt sadness either, im not sure what it was.

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And the episode where Chris meets the rapper and has Hesch pay him royalties for his songs or whatever. That was just stupid.

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I thought this was interesting and Hesh never did pay as far as we know.

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1. That one with the older lady who was a friend of Junior's/his father's.

WTF was that? And she knew Kennedy too, or something? What in the world was that nonsense and why was it on the Sopranos?

2. The episode with Columbus Day/Native Americans

It had a Sopranos take which made it funny, but why did they ever think this was a good subject for a show? I understand Italian pride, but this was ridiculous - an excuse to discuss every trite view of racism.

3. Paulie's mom not being his mom

This was standard soap-opera style drama - creating a storyline out of nothing.



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I agree with all of these for the most part. Very good choices.

The Furio/Carmela thing was ok. I think it was within the realm of possibilty. The worst thing about it was losing the Furio character.

I'm having a tough time thinking of any other lacking storylines.