1) A bad wind is a blowin' between Christopher and Tony and there is going to be one final and violent confrontation between the two of them. Between Tony's slipping to Bobby that he was grooming somebody to be a "buffer" for him and that person was going in a divergent path from him (Christopher) therefore leading Tony to the conclusion that he needs somebody new (possibly Bobby, see below), we know Christopher is not in the future plans of the family. Christopher is an immensely proud man, and as he confided to Adriana and then to others in the wake of her whacking, he's a soldier and he's given everything that he's loved to work for Tony and to make Uncle Tony proud. When he finds out that he's not going to be rewarded for this by becoming the heir to the throne as Tony had led him to believe, bad things are going to happen.
2) Somebody in Tony's immediate family is going to have something catastrophic happen to them. ET Weekly hypothesises that it might be Carmela, which could make sense, and would certainly bring Tony's world crashing down. Just as easily, I think it could be AJ, who seems to be on a self-destructive path with Blanca, Hector, throwing parties, still working for a pizzeria, and just totally yet to find his way through things. He could cross the wrong person somewhere along the way, or Blanca could put him in a very bad spot (pregnant, or "embarazada" in her native tongue)
Bobby is particularly sensitive to old Drifters' songs about boardwalks.
3) Bobby is going to be running a lot more than model trains this year. The elimination of potential heirs is numerous. Paulie busted up that kid last year despite Tony's express instructions not to (story never elaborated on yet). Silvio just doesn't have it. Christopher, see above. Bobby is family now. He's not a Soprano, but he married in. His father's past was alluded to last night. He's got a history of being extremely loyal to Uncle Junior , therefore has a history of working for the family, and is one of the few people who Tony kept on after the power struggle between the two that Tony came out on top of. And Tony forced him to "pop his cherry" last night, which was particularly cruel of Tony to do, but I think especially calculating.
4) The show will end with the feds never getting their man. I think this is the biggest red herring of them all. It seems like the only way that they get Tony is if he does something incredibly stupid which he is not prone to do (that throwing of the gun was immediate self-preservation and not stupidity), or if somebody in the family flips on him, which I don't see happening. I think Tony knows he's on thin ice, wants to enjoy old age, Meadow bringing him grandchildren, and really is serious about creating a buffer for himself.
Your thoughts?
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Good predictions. I think the obvious one you missed is Bobby catching heat for whacking the drummer. They mentioned DNA evidence earlier in the episode, and then Bobby's shirt ripped during the shooting. With all that chest hair, there's definitely some DNA at the crime scene.
I also think something is going to happen with Janice. She was close to flipping out through the whole episode. I think she'll kill someone else before the series ends.
Yeah, the shirt ripping at the end was definitely important. I haven't had HBO for all the seasons, so I can't remember if Bobby has ever been picked up before for anything.
I can't think of anything that would make Janice flip out more than either Bobby going to Canadian jail for life or one of the kids drowning.
Completely missed the significance of that, especially with Bobby saying in the boat his concern about killing anybody due to DNA evidence. Bobby hasn't been in any trouble before though that I can recall, so I'm not sure how they'd have his DNA on file. But good, good call. Janice would go batshit, a la Richie Aprile.
I think we're missing the real lasting question concerning Tony's request that Bobby do the hit. Remember Carmela and Janice had the awkward conversation where Janice described their father as having a short temper, while their mother would patiently wait for revenge.
So did Tony ask Bobby to do the hit because he was grooming him, or because he wanted to get Bobby back for kicking his ass? It was pretty obvious that Bobby had no interest in killing that guy.
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