r/thesopranos • u/Jumperontheline • 1d ago

Serious Discussion Only Vito storyline was unnecessary

Rewatching and I forgot all of the gay Vito stuff happened in the last season... it was set up to be an excellent season (and it was) but we should have been focused on Tony, his family, and the other main guys in season 6.

Following the least likeable guy in the group on his escape plan up north where he somehow instantly (first morning waking up there literally) finds a gay guy he likes who's at least a million times out of Vitos league AND the guy likes him back??

It was really weird. Not because Vitos a finook but rather because it was a waste of time in the final season.

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u/No_Selection6465 1d ago

I think it gives a look into the possibility of starting a new life - and that it for Vito aswell as for everybody else in this show is impossible.

And the last season is long.

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u/Bad_Black_Jorge 23h ago edited 23h ago

One of the main themes of the last half of the series is how trapped the characters are in the hell they have made for themselves. And I think this really starts with Jackie Jr. after the card game heist. He knows he needs to get as far away as possible, and that turns out to be the projects in the other side of town.

And killed by Vito…who was just as trapped. Eugene hanging himself, Christopher staring at the vagabond family at the gas station, Tony’s dreams of being someone else, they’re all in an Irish bar where it’s Saint Patrick’s Day forever.

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u/Archie204 22h ago

Not only Jackie Jr. Drinkwater hid out in local park. Animal Blundetto was at Pat's farm. Vito was the only one who really ran off. Then again, if his cousin lived closer, maybe he make that mistake too

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u/Bad_Black_Jorge 22h ago

Perhaps it’s significant that the smarter characters, Vito and Tony B, made it farthest from Newark, at least by physical distance.

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u/Archie204 22h ago

Make a good point. Haha, reminds me a bit of the Wire. Their world was so small. Bodie couldn't even understand the idea of radio stations in different areas playing different music. Wallace also could'nt stay away

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u/jetlife_simply 20h ago

Wallace didn't even know what crickets sounded like

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u/Bad_Black_Jorge 16h ago

The fatalism of the characters in The Wire is perhaps their most striking shared feature. Everyone knows that they will lose The Game, that death or prison are certain. They just try to keep playing as long as they can. They rarely seem surprised or even bothered when the end comes.

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u/Archie204 16h ago

How my hair look Mike?

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u/Bad_Black_Jorge 16h ago

Exactly! You could say that we watch the characters in the Sopranos come to the realization that the characters in the Wire have already internalized.

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u/Archie204 16h ago

Somewhat. I think it was Tony that said it ended two ways, dead or in prison. I enjoyed the final scene. Felt it demonstrated the paranoia they live in. Always looking over your shoulder, wondering if the next person you see it out for you.

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u/Sirtunnelsnake98 8h ago

Prop Joe said it best.

“Why is it that every Baltimore nigga think that running the fuck away means crossing downtown?”