I think it's a great show and one of the greatest of all time, but it's hard for me to ever go back and rewatch it. There's just a lot of focus on things that don't interest me a lot of times that I just can't stick with it.
The Great Muta 22 posted...
People had complained about the pacing and Chase being a bit too much of a stubborn asshole to subvert what people wanted for a long ass time. The first season or so absolutely comes out swinging in terms of pure violence and stuff that, at the time, was relatively new to television. College, for example, was the 5th episode of the series and came out in 1999! And somewhere along the way, and relatively early on, Chase got pissed off that people began rooting for Tony and to see him kill more and more people so he decided to just say 'fuck it' and seemingly slowed everything way down and tell the story he wanted to tell. During season 4 specifically people got infuriated that the big climax was the Tony/Carmela fight and fall out and not the, what seemed to be coming, the big conflict with the NY family and Carmine.
That makes a lot of sense. The first couple of seasons have a different feel to them than the rest of the seasons. It's partly why I like them the most. ---