Did anyone else notice the correlation between A.J's discomfort when people brought up his dad in the club to Tony's aggravation when Phil brought up his dad?

Whats up with Comcast & the "On Demand" service? The following morning the newest episode is avail . on "On Demand" along with every episode from this season. But it has been almost a week & still the last episode avail. "On demand"is #72 "Luxury Lounge". Where the hell is #73 "Johnny Cakes" on the "on Demand " service in south east FL via Comcast(aka.Communicast :P ). Whats the dilly is it the Local Cable company not/forgetting to add it to the "On Demand" lineup, or is it an HBO related issue, or maybe because there was more explicit homo/gay/renaldo/queer/pillowbiter content than any of the other episodes, like a political thang . Just seems weird this is the first time this & last season on The Sopranos ,the latest episode was not avail. the next day like every one prior, goofy... lol

First of all, let me say, I do believe Adriana will be back. We never really saw her die. She will return and have amnesia. 2nd. AJ is a pain in the arse. 3rd,this gay stuff, kissing, and holding hands is making me sick. I originally lived in Bensonhurst,Brooklyn, I am quite familiar, living in the heart Mafia land, and if one was a three dollar bill, he would be whacked,I'm sure of it. I hope the episodes get better, or I will cancel my HBO.

Sopranos has gotten too "Brokeback" for me.

Enough of the "Brokeback" episodes. Let's get on with the show.

Young AJ Soprano is becoming a bit of a cult hero amongst his friends and peers. Here's the son of a notorious crime boss and gangster living off the legend that is 'Tony Soprano' yet unlike his father - AJ is a little boy lost. By any other definition he is a mama's boy. He's failed out of school. He's working a dead-end job and all the supposed glamour of the mob lifestyle has completely escaped him. He wants to be like his dad so bad but there is no way in hell his dad would ever have a $1890 drink bill or be tipping midget waiters at a nightclub. Whilst Tony Soprano would have underlings paying money up to him and free meals and drinks wherever he goes, AJ is the total opposite - paying for all his friends and tipping waiters and the like. After each and every AJ failing, and there have been many, he feels his natural course is to try and impress his father and do the deed on Uncle Junior. Even in this he fails miserably and ends up arrested. What exactly he was thinking by his attempt to kill Junior is another example of his ineptitude. Even if he succeeded in killing Junior, did he even have an escape plan? He quotes the Godfather scene to his father, when Michael Corleone pulls off an execution - but Corleone had it all meticulously planned. AJ is anything but meticulous.

In other developments, Vito establishes contact with his wife but in the meanwhile, Leotardo has a hard-on for Vito (pardon the pun!) and wants him more than dead. Will Vito's call be traced back to his hiding place where now Vito has outed himself with one of the locals?

Tony is definitely a changed man. Whilst the seductress real estate agent Julianna finally tempts Tony to sell a property he owns, the two finds themselves in the throes of lust. As Juliana begins to unbutton Tony's shirt, he remembers his loving wife Carmella buttoning up his shirt before he was to leave the house. With deep love and care, Carmella was dressing him up yet now Tony finds himself about to cheat on the one woman who truly loves him. It was like the angel and the devil sitting on each of his shoulders, but this time, Tony rejected the devil and went home to his angel. Albeit in a fit of rage that there was no smoked turkey in the fridge(!)

The moment a single episode of the Sopranos becomes explainable in one sentence is the moment when it loses the very essence of what makes the show so great. I love that Chase is making us think and guess at the clues he's leaving us. All of these little subplots and characters fit so well into the overall picture. It just takes time to let it percolate.

Watching the tease for next week, it appears that those looking for immediate gratification will get their taste soon anyhow.

As you recall, Tony is putting on the French Blue Shirt and Carmella comes up and buttons the shirt over the wounded abdomen. When Tony is with the real estate agent he doesnt reject her until he looks down and watches her undo the shirt his wife buttoned up for him. He rejects the real estate agent not out of love or devotion to his wife, rather, because of his realization of what a swine he is. His guilt about his desires leads him to forego them for now. But just as Vito felt guilt, raged and ultimately surrendered to his true nature, ultimately Tony will do the same thing and he will surely bed down with the real estate agent because he is who he is.

Not having sex with the Real estate Girl was not about guilt. Tony panicked as she started to open his shirt which would have exposed the scars.

there are clues all over the place this season. i don't object to any episode just because it's not making sense at that particular time.

i think that they are working towards a "times they are a changin'" theme. things are different and tony tries to weave his way through them without (ultimately) success.

in this sense they brought the show back to the old neighborhood and made that point. they have already shown that wise guys aren't the same, kids aren't the same, the mob business isn't the same, etc.

i think somehow vito is part of this- as tony is not all excited about whacking him.