So Much Wrong With This……Where Do I Even Begin?
Most of this didn’t make sense & a great deal of this is just flat out stupid. For starters, Dickie for his part seemed to be a stand up guy. We never see him beat the sh!t out of anybody especially hit any women & he didn’t come across as a psycho, even with a gun he hardly shot anybody unless provoked or he had to defend himself. You have to wonder where Christopher got it from, because HE was a psycho, beating the crap out of his women, killing people with no problem.
Yes I’m aware that Dickie eventually killed Giuseppina, but that was more accidental if anything. The killings he did do were of the accidental sort, purposeful but accidental. His father, Giuseppina, etc. He kinda reminds of Winona Ryder in “Heathers” who accumulated a body count & for the life of her couldn’t understand how & why it happened. Dick was the same way, Dickie didn’t even kill Harold who openly declared war on him, though he had the chance, he let him go, that tells you right there he’s not the same as most of them.
On to the rest, it didn’t make sense that Harold chose to just go out & kill a mob bagman. Yes I understood why he wanted to do his own thing & set up his own racket for him & his community but to get angry & just decide to mix it up with the Italian mob was an insane decision. He was too smart not to know what was going to happen as a result. That part of this didn’t make sense at all.
Johnny Soprano who we learn something about in the series & was inferred to be a real badass was just a blah type of character in this. He hardly did anything, & nothing to anybody. Junior was a punk, how he ever became made is beyond me, he didn’t have the balls to do anything to anybody personally, whether it was to their face or shoot them behind their backs, it’s mystifying how he ever made his “bones”. How? He’s the epitome of “weasel” So he ordered a hit on a made man because this man laughed when Junior tripped & fell on some steps? Then we’re led to believe in all these years no one ever finds out about this? You must be kidding me. Fredo from “The Godfather” was a better gangster & had more of a spine than Junior Soprano could ever be.
They did their best to check off the “checklist” of characters from The Soprano’s universe. Hey! even “Tony Blundetto” was mentioned in this. Only character that they forgot was Richie Aprile. The kid that they had for Anthony was too sensitive to ever believe he’d grow up to be the hulking killer that Tony was. Loved it how when he got into a fight he pushed Carmela to the ground. That must have pleased her family. I’m sure there are many other nitpicks over this but I haven’t thought of them yet, but this wasn’t good by any stretch of the imagination.