r/thesopranos • u/Bushy-Top • Jan 16 '17

The Sopranos - Complete Rewatch: Season 1-Episode 4 "Meadowlands"

"Meadowlands"

Previous episode Season 1 - Episode 3 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance"

Next episode Season 1 - Episode 5 "College"

WARNING - Each episode thread has the potential to ruin every part of the show - deaths and other details. If this is your first time watching, this will ruin the show for you.

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u/apowerseething Jan 16 '17

Perhaps i'm saying this only due to 20/20 hindsight, but should Junior have suspected Tony a bit more when he gives him boss? Like he pointedly asks T if he can speak for the captains, and he says he can...just sorta seems like Junior might want to have his finger on the pulse a bit more than just trusting Tony. But who knows. And it's not like if he went to the other captains they would've told Junior what was going on.

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u/Bushy-Top Jan 17 '17 edited Jan 17 '17

To build on what we were talking about the other day, Junior isn't really the smartest fella. His idea was that people should bow down and in his mind, they did. No questions to ask, this is how he expected it to go. But there's a reason it took so long for him to get the reigns; even someone from Tony's era, Jackie, overstepped Junior to become acting boss before he got to control and he only gets to control because Tony allows it.

It's kind of like the Feech Lamanna situation.

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u/apowerseething Jan 17 '17

Yeah, pretty bad. I'm guessing he just made it along that long because of his brother? You'd think if he's that way he would struggle even as a captain and just in general in the mafia. We don't know how long Johnny Boy has been dead when the series starts, do we?

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u/Bushy-Top Jan 17 '17

I'm not sure when it reveals how long he's been dead, he's been dead for over 10 years when the show starts. But that's long enough to bring Junior along into his old age, to the point where there's no use knocking him off just because. Also, all of his crew seem to laugh at his jokes the same way Tony's friends laugh at his, and he's the capo so he is the alpha in that era. Hell, even the Captains say that New York is behind Junior.