Sopranos Way Off the Mark

Boy has the Sopranos been uneven this year. Great first episode, a horrible episode about the meaning of life that sounded like the shittiest drunk philosophy conversation some pothead foisted on you your first year of college, followed by a fantastic episode that set up...this schlock.

Please, Sopranos writers, didn't you see my cardinal sins of pretension? Don't make Tony play way out of character just so you can lecture us about gay people. Two GLARING plot holes: 1) Frankie was into something similar and Tony was ready to out him over that. 2) Might not he be forced to act worrying that Vito would go into the Witness Protection program over being outed?

I've always found Vito tedious, he can be shot. I like Adrianna and Christopher - why kill an interesting character off and leave a boring one - just to feel good about gay people?

If that weren't the worst of it, much of the rest of the episode was about BS al-Qaeda lame plotline and Meadow opening her huge trap again. Please shoot Meadow immediately. Please stop all contemporary social issues commentary.

Shooting Tony, that was original. There's so many interesting plot lines available with these characters. Why are you wasting our time with this? I can only suspect that James Gandolfini is gay and would only come back if the show dealt with these topics. He did play a gay guy too in The Mexican. Or maybe the writers hang out in New York way too often.