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Offline indy007

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« Reply #15 on: May 01, 2006, 09:10:47 AM »
I don't care if there's a Brokeback sub-plot or not. However, it did take up a least a third of the episode. What archs were covered last night? AJ going nuts, Tony not cheating on his wife for once, & Vito's issue trying to find hot fireman love. There's alot of archs they never even touched on. What happened with Artie Bucco? What about the guys that might be terrorists? No fallout from Johnny Sack's breakdown (all it got was 1 sarcastic comment the entire show). Instead, we got to see Vito making out with a fireman. I think they could've done better.

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« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2006, 09:24:44 AM »
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homosexuality is in vogue and to some, being associated with homosexuals is chic.  It will change when the pendulum swings again but sadly that will probably be after the US crumbles in upon itself.  we have become weak, rampant homosexuality as well as other libertine and hedonistic traits we as a society exhibit are but symptoms of a collective disorder which is rapidly leading to our societal demise.



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« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2006, 09:38:03 AM »
i have never watched the Sopranos, i don't really care for fiction, it's all made up, real life is better.

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« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2006, 11:29:35 AM »
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Yea.  Its only a matter of time before any TV show breaks down into some personal crusade.  I watch baseball and football and the stock market channel.  That seems to be safe from this type of garbage.


Not true, I have it on VERY good authority that there are, in fact, gay atheletes!  Even in football and baseball.  I bet there are gay stock brokers too! :O

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« Reply #19 on: May 01, 2006, 04:47:14 PM »
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Not true, I have it on VERY good authority that there are, in fact, gay atheletes!  Even in football and baseball.  I bet there are gay stock brokers too! :O

Teh g4y is coming!!!!  RUN!!!!


Yes but athelets usually concentrate on the sport itself.  A stock broker isn't gonna start making out with another dude in the middle of a news broadcast.....at least not yet.

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« Reply #20 on: May 01, 2006, 05:22:40 PM »
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Yes but athelets usually concentrate on the sport itself.  A stock broker isn't gonna start making out with another dude in the middle of a news broadcast.....at least not yet.


Not any more likely than a hetero doing the same thing.
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« Reply #21 on: May 01, 2006, 06:27:32 PM »
Well, I watched it this morning, and it didn't really stand out for me, except when they kissed.  Just can't help but cringe at that, but even so, I don't see how it was something to get worked up over.
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« Reply #22 on: May 01, 2006, 06:46:04 PM »
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Well, I watched it this morning, and it didn't really stand out for me, except when they kissed.  Just can't help but cringe at that, but even so, I don't see how it was something to get worked up over.


Stay far away from "Six Feet Under". ;)
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« Reply #23 on: May 01, 2006, 06:56:30 PM »
LOL, yeah.  I watched the first couple of seasons of that...I looked away alot.  :)
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« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2006, 07:12:07 PM »
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LOL, yeah.  I watched the first couple of seasons of that...I looked away alot.  :)


Should check out the later stuff... Lauren Ambrose just keeps getting better with age. :)
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« Reply #25 on: May 01, 2006, 07:59:01 PM »
I'll do that - I've been meaning to, but my netflix queue has been filled up with other stuff.
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« Reply #26 on: May 01, 2006, 09:53:49 PM »
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I'll do that - I've been meaning to, but my netflix queue has been filled up with other stuff.


You really should stop watching that japanime porn stuff.  ;)

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« Reply #27 on: May 01, 2006, 11:28:37 PM »
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I swear hollywood will not stop.  Nothing is sacred anymore.  One of the last bastions of machismo has finally been invaded by homos.  I am speaking of The Sopranos.  What, did they see all the rave reviews that Brokback got and figure why not work it into the plot line?  For real though why did it have to be Sopranos?  I don't watch the show to get my hollywood fix of homo subplot I watch it to see the violence, the boobs, and the underworld in general.  It's the last place you'd expect it BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO they have to devote an entire seasonal subplot to it and worse almost half an eppisode.  

Seriously we are talking bout the mafia here and trying selling it:

Time spent on the last guy getting "whacked" about a minute.  
Time spent on this stupid subplot ending up with brokeback italiano almost 30 minutes.  

Wich do you think I want to tune in to watch?

I'd rather watch arty bucho act like the moron that he is for an entire epp than watch this crap.  Is it getting to the point where all shows now have to have some type of token gay subplot?


No matter what anyone else has said here, I agree with ya on this one. It's one thing for him to be gay but do we need the roadside love scene complete with blankets and lunch? Although my son wasn't watching the show with me it had to be that scene he walks in and asked what I was watching, go figure. Told him boys don't hug each other, we shake hands.

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« Reply #28 on: May 02, 2006, 09:28:32 AM »
The whole idea of a maffiosi having existential problems and regularly visiting a shrink is already beyond ghey.

It was funny in 'analyse this'...it is painful to watch in the Sopranos. This show is not better than the avg drama soap for wimin.....
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« Reply #29 on: May 02, 2006, 03:27:59 PM »
Gun,

I understand your concern, but getting upset about one manifestation of immoral behavior on a series devoted to people doing immoral things doesn't seem all that coherent to me. If I can use a crass analogy, its rather like being in a cesspool and claiming that one poo in particular is making the whole place stink.

Besides, its unfortunately part of the law of diminishing returns. The Sopranos audience has been fed a steady diet of violence, rape, killing, sadism, mutilation, lies, betrayal, adultery, nudity, perversion, fornication, foul language, and the like. If one continues to merely give them more of the same, eventually the shock value begins to wear off, they get numb, and then they get bored, and so to "shock" them some more you have to introduce something new, break yet another traditional taboo, push the envelope a little further (although there is precious little envelope left.) They only have a few cards left in the deck (cannibal gangster anyone?) but you can expect most of them to get played before the series is through.

Anyway, once the initial barriers go down and a society becomes innured to decadence, there really is no way to say "this far and no farther," suddenly introducing standards when you've blown up the entire concept becomes ludicrous (or Ludacris if we are talking musik).

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