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    ] ] ]6:37am From: j...@johndoherty.com   
      
   ]On May 16, 3:24 am, WG...@webtv.net wrote:   
   ]If Lost is so "terrific" why are you not posting in   
   ] the Lost News Group?   
      
   ]What makes you think I am not?   
      
   Well if you are, you are not using the same name  you are using here.   
      
   ]I hated the "Sopranos", and the glorification of   
   ] the Mafia.   
      
      
   ]Right there you betray your superficial   
   ] appreciation for htis show.   
   ]The Sopranos stripped away the glamour and   
   ] romance of the mob life.   
   ]It was the genius of the show that they dared   
   ] to show their protagonist as a nasty brutish,   
   ] selfish thug, and still managed ot make the   
   ] audience care about him. One of the very first   
   ] scenes had Tony shaking down a late paying   
   ] gambling debtor by ramming into him with a   
   ] car, then getting out and kicking in the guy in   
   ] his broken leg (after feigning sympathy).   
   ]That's glorification?   
      
   It sure did glorify the gangster life! If you were like Tony Soprano you   
   could live a life of luxury   
   with a big house, big money, and big power!   
      
   ]I guess if you watched it only on the superficial   
   ] level of who got whacked it might be. But   
   ] there was so much subtext, in jokes, movie   
   ] allusions and richness of character and   
   ] psychological dimension that even the worst   
   ] Sorpanos ep was better than 95% of movies   
   ] that came out during its run, and probably   
   ] 98% of TV during that time.   
      
   I could not even watch it on a superficial level it was so over the top.   
   Mob life never did appeal to me in any way.   
      
   ]The New York Times famously said "It's not   
   ] just the best show on TV. It's the best thing in   
   ] pop culture in the last 25 years". And to think if   
   ] I only had benefit of your opinion , I could   
   ] have missed all that.;-)   
      
   The "Mob" probably paid them to say that! ;-)   
      
   ]The X-Files was great, but certainly had far   
   ] more lousy episodes than the Sopranos ever   
   ] did. That's a consequence of network TV,   
   ] where you have to keep grinding out product   
   ] or they will give it to someone who will. The   
   ] X-Files went on far too long. The Sopranos   
   ] had some filler eps, too, but every one is a   
   ] gem compared to the crap some of the worst   
   ] X-Files doled out.   
      
   Even some of the bad episodes of the X-Files were better than 99% of the   
   best shows on TV at the time. I enjoyed all of them, the good, the bad,   
   and the ugly! I even enjoyed seasons 8&9 which a lot of people hated.   
   You can watch any episode of the X-FIles today, and enjoy it.   
      
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   Here is someone who agrees with me about the Sopranos! He thought from   
   season 3 on, was a real travesty.   
      
   Pitch-perfect 'Sopranos' now tone deaf | The Michigan Daily   
      
   Address:http://phonifier.wtv-zone.org/index.php?i=1&m=1&u=http%3   
   %2F%2Fwww.michigandaily.com%2Fcontent%2Fpitch-perfect-sopranos-n   
   w-tone-deaf&PHPSESSID=ec428120915b4682efe7a1c63152c629   
      
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