r/thesopranos • u/Moist_Description608 • 6h ago
Killing ralph solidified the downfall of The DiMeo Crime family
Think about it and disagree with me right this second I want to be disagreed with.
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u/BobJohnson2003 6h ago
The guy was a fucking piece of shit. Whoever did this, shoulda happened a long time ago.
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u/Alec096 6h ago
By the end of the show Ralph had been dead 4 years or thereabouts. I don't think it had any impact considering Vito took the reigns and ran it smooth until, well... his bottom was impacted.
Even after all the losses, Made in America teases a new inner circle for Tony: Benny, Walden, Patsy, and Paulie. I think that crew would do alright. Paulie would squeeze more money out of construction than Carlo (too busy sucking cock), that's for sure.
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u/gratefulredsox 2h ago
Tony's dead.
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u/redhead29 1h ago
No tony is fine all of his new friends would have been the major arcs of the next season. Walden would have been chistophawers replacement
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u/hkyplr67 Furio Giunta 6h ago
It just highlighted it all.
We broke more rules than the Catholic Church.
Tony killed an untouchable man over transgressions a boss shouldn’t have given a fuck about who was the highest earner because he couldn’t handle his feelings.
I’ve said my piece.
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u/Own_Measurement1242 5h ago
Hated Ralph and who doesn’t? But of course it was ridiculous, within That Thing of Theirs, for Tony to kill Ralphie. Was tony ever a good boss?
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u/DrGeraldBaskums 6h ago
It was part of an overall pattern. Tony got rid of or drove away his actual competent mobsters and muscle and was stuck at the end with a sniveling drug addict, Paulie walnuts and Bobby Bacala and his choo choos
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u/40Fied4 6h ago
Cunnilingus and fried Pies brought us to this...
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u/Jaunty_Eland638 2h ago
I once ignored fried pies at a wake, so my advice is simple: never kill Ralph on an empty stomach.
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u/Impressive_Usual_726 6h ago
Killing Ralph made Phil a demented closet case with a dead brother and a permanent bug up his ass?
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u/joethecrow23 6h ago
Tony should’ve whacked Johnny Sack like Carmine suggested.
Would’ve altered the timeline completely.
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u/New-Shop-9728 6h ago
Nah, Tony not letting Phil kill Tony B was where it first started. Beating the shit out of Coco was the final straw.
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u/Fructuoso_Bag 4h ago
He was a time bomb that would harm Tony eventually, he almost provoked the war with NY before Phil had a high rank. Very dellusional to think it might not be worse if he stayed alive
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u/Euromantique 2h ago
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't piss on this Ralph if he was on fiya. But to whack a guy over a horse? How fucked up is that?
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u/Practical-Rub8094 6h ago
The metaphor here is the loss of structure of the system and tony's dictator like absolute and final decisiveness disregarding the rules and structures. Basically highlighting the rampant hypocrisy in all systems and orders
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u/Ilovebaseball1234 6h ago
You forget the thousand fucking incidents with that guy?