u/LegitimateEmploy49

Im probably reading into this too much, but it’s still really interesting nonetheless, in some scenes when Tony smokes a cigar it has to do with him internally recognizing or dealing with his own or others lying, emotional subtext, fakeness, or a concealed truth.

I’ll give you three examples.

Season 4 Episode 10:
After killing Ralph, Tony is lying his ass off the best he can, he knows that Ralph is dead because he killed him, but he acts concerned about his absence in front of the crew. Then when Christopher enters the scene he puffs his cigar because Chris is the only other person in the room who knows what actually happened. He is outwardly calm in the scene but also alert, definitely thinking of the possibility of Chrissy telling the truth.

Season 5 Episode 4:
The cigar smoke appears again during Tony’s realization that Carmela was right about his friendships being mostly artificial since its mostly about them being sychophants then them being genuine friends. The smoke exhale starts off with Paulie praising Tony about how he “always has his eye on the big picture” just because he removed something from his car, which now feels completely hollow to Tony because he now sees the crew’s behavior through Carmela’s perspective. Now for the iconic part, tony then makes an intentionally meh joke afterwards to test the sincerity of the room. When everyone gives out the most cartoonish laughter, Tony has a face of complete disappointment, which is honestly one of his most sympathetic moments imo lol.

Season 6 Episode 12:
This scene is when Tony suspects that Christopher has a relationship with Julianna the real estate agent, Christopher lies that she’s just a friend for his goomah “Kaisha” and that they were talking about what to give her for her birthday, Tony probably exhales the biggest smokes in the whole show, he ain’t buying anything Chrissy is saying.

Anyway, 4 dollars a pound.

I would turn into a shopping cart, a fuckin retard, if I ever said a single line of dialogue that these kids said to their parents. Season 5 A.J. scenes in particular are the hardest to watch.

One moment she will reveal her true motivations, the next she acts like a good loving person.

When she gets prepared to marry Richie, she says “I’m only doing this for the presents” then realized how horrible that makes her sound and says “Noooo I’m doing it for Richie”

When Tony and Carmela are discussing Meadow’s bad behavior, she explains that she is simply exercising her independence, then she sees how destroyed Livia’s house is and gets mad at Tony and Carm for not giving her a harsher punishment. Again, only an empathetic person when it suits her.

Other example that I can think of is when she is in anger management and explains how she was a fighter for civil rights, then says something racist in like the very next sentence.

If you could list other examples, please do so!