re: #201 Walter L. Newton

No I wouldn’t, since I saw too much of that sort of reality growing up in Brooklyn and then New Jersey. Had family members who worked for the mob, I didn’t like the people that hung around my relatives places, I didn’t like the shit that went on in the neighborhoods and I didn’t like the killing’s I saw on the street and in businesses.

If there were mysterious planes crashing on my street in Brooklyn and then the people on my plane getting into fights with the locals and then casuing my whole neighborhood to start skipping around in time, I would watch LOST either.

I have no desire to watch that sort of show.

The great thing about the Sopranos - or one of them - is that it mocks the gangsters for their stupidity, crassness etc in a way that other shows/movies don’t. The hypocrisy of sociopaths trying to pass themselves off as noble soldiers honouring venerable codes is of my favourite themes in it. Tony S. keeps telling himself that they don’t touch ‘civilians’; yet almost every civilian whose lives they touch is ruined one way or another.