Shook the Spot

March 29, 2006

MommaVoz asks a key question that we've been avoiding . . .

Here's a question for you: what's the significance of the Buddhist monks? Other than that his Asian ICU doctor kind of looks like one, and he saw him as he came in and out of consciousness, I don't get the monks. But interesting, isn't it, that his seemingly straight businessman alter-ego is accused of cheating these symbols of purity?

Shook has some thoughts on the matter, but they'll have to wait until at least tonight. To start superficially, here's what an online dream dictionary has to say . . .

To see a monk in your dream, signifies devotion, faith, and spiritual enlightenment.

That helps like not at all. But okay. So why did that one monk, in episode two, bitchslap Finnerty in front of the elevator? And just before that scene, what was the meaning of that message on the television in the bar . . . "Are sin, disease, and death real?" . . . perhaps echoed at the end of episode three, when Tony asks, "I'm dead, right?" (EW notes there was also some footage of a brush fire on the bar TV. Hell?) And to paraphrase another monk, "One day, we will die, and then there will be no more I or me. We will be just as that tree." Look, it's an existential crisis, clearly. ''My whole life is in that case,'' Finnerty pleads outside the mansion. ''I'm 46 years old. Who am I? Where am I going?'' Buddhist monks fit that milieu, in general, but is there a deeper meaning?

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Comments:

Possible series ending (a joint proposal by Twist and Phoenix):

Tony dead. Family in disarray. Chris, still furious over Adriana's slaughter, rejects the clan and turns 'em over to the Feds in exchange for witness protection. He heads out to Hollywood, pitches his mob movie idea, gets the green-light, but is told by a producer: "Chrissie baby, we love the script, but your name -- it's just too ethnic. No one can pronounce it."
"Well what do you suggest?"
A pause.
"How about --- David Chase?"

BLACK-OUT. End of Series.

OH FUCK.

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