Boardwalk Empire

[OnlyOneBeerLeft]

 

They showed Van Alden moving to some new home near Chicago with his nanny and kid. I'm thinking maybe that leads to some more Al Capone action.

 

Hopefully, I honestly wouldnt mind if they went into Capone/Luciano/Doyle/Siegal/etc where they broke up all of these smaller time guys and showed how they grew to be who they became IRL, with 2-3 episode timelines where you learned about their lives and how they got to where they are now and where they will be. Like Siegal who was a small time card shark in the show but turns out to be one of the founding fathers of Las Vegas etc.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I've never been more shocked after wacthing a tv or movie scene in my life.

 

[Archbomber]

 

Why kill off Jimmy? I think he's one of the more intriguing characters... it wont be the same without him

 

The kid honestly had nothing else to live for except in incestual mother....I wanna see what she and Harrow do next season. Harrow is going to want deep deep revenge for this. First the only person who was truly lovely to him, Jimmy's wife, and then Jimmy. :smh:

 

[Palooza]

So many things in the episode tell you what's going to happen, but you don't realize till after the fact. (When they're talking about the will, how he tells Richard not to come, etc) HOWEVA, I didn't believe it until he sent that second shot through his skull.

The Wire spoiler -

 

Nucky, Eli and Manny did Jimmy like Omar, Brother Mouzone and Avon did Stringer

 

[mgoblue2290]

 

Yeah Richard is going to be really interesting next year. I can almost see him becoming the father figure for Jimmy's son. Hopefully he realizes how awful Gillian is.

I guess I'm the only one who wasn't shocked about what happened. I had it feeling it was going to be coming all season long. It sucks though because Jimmy was a really good character and I considered him to be kind of the second lead. I really don't know who is going to fill that role next year. I'm worried there going to depend even more on Margaret.

Whoever said they should focus a little more on Luciano and those guys, I agree. I think they could become pretty interesting.

 

[mgoblue2290]

But still, holy shit at the ending scene:

 

Jimmy did not give a fuck that he was about to die. I mean no apprehension at all. I don't think it was because he thought Nucky would back down, I really think he just did not care what happened to himself.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Why the fuck are we using spoilers?

Anyone who comes in here before watching an episode gets what they deserve, imo.

 

[Palooza]

Margaret needs to go next. Fuck marrying that bitch; I hope Richard kills her to fuck with Nucky, but it sends Owen over the edge and those two finally battle.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

OK, this is my first and last spoiler, it contains info from the finale and has info of where Terrence Winter is taking the series in terms of direction.

 

Apparently Terrence Winter is telling people that they took the risk of killing Jimmy to establish Nucky as a ruthless gangster, and take the series in more of a gangster direction. There will be more focus on the NY and Chicago crews, with some of those characters going from fringe status to main players. New characters are coming but have yet to be cast. He described his vision as a series "with balls", where anything can happen and you won't know what will happen next. He knows killing Jimmy was a risk, and it was not the original direction, but as they were writing the story arc for the season, they switched gears and pulled the trigger (pun kinda intended).

There is an interview floating around online that basically says the same shit.

 

[RainboUnicorn]

OK, this is my first and last spoiler, it contains info from the finale and has info of where Terrence Winter is taking the series in terms of direction.

 

Apparently Terrence Winter is telling people that they took the risk of killing Jimmy to establish Nucky as a ruthless gangster, and take the series in more of a gangster direction. There will be more focus on the NY and Chicago crews, with some of those characters going from fringe status to main players. New characters are coming but have yet to be cast. He described his vision as a series "with balls", where anything can happen and you won't know what will happen next. He knows killing Jimmy was a risk, and it was not the original direction, but as they were writing the story arc for the season, they switched gears and pulled the trigger (pun kinda intended).

There is an interview floating around online that basically says the same shit.

and here is that interview

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/12/11/boardwalk-empire-finale/

 

[RainboUnicorn]

 

I knew after the last episode that Jimmy was going to die. It just didn't quite hit me until it happened.

Historically you know the show will eventually shift into Al Capone probably. Van Alden isn't going away and will probably be involved with the show in one way or the other. I just hope for more Richard. It's going to be interesting how those two play out (Richard, Jimmy's mom)

I watched the show to mainly root for Jimmy. I just don't know what to think now. I know it was brilliant to kill him and it was fitting. I just don't know if I'm going to have the same enthusiasm to watch the show.

I may be in the minority here but I don't really care to focus on Nucky anymore. The show has showed that it makes drastic moves I just hope that it focuses on other characters besides Nucky.

 

[NAHSTE]

Still trying to process my thoughts and emotions on the ending, but that was a tremendous episode.

The final scene between Jimmy and his son was touching.

Cowboy, or soldier?
Soldier.

That little kid has an interesting life ahead of him, possibly raised by the crazy pyscho incestuous bitch or under the wing of a deranged and emotionally detached war veteran. I personally hope Richard puts a bullet in Gillian's head first thing next season and raises the kid on his own. We know based on his scrapbooks that he is obsessed with the idea of family.

 

[BigHouseUSA]

You could tell from the way Jimmy was acting all episode he knew it was coming, and he didn't give a shit. Just his interactions with his son, and the scene with the pony where he looked back at his mom. So fucking ominous.

Jimmy wasn't my favorite character, but he was definitely the most intriguing, besides maybe Nucky. He really seemed to be coming back to where he was at the beginning of the first season, which was easily his most likable. His final thought though, him leaving the bunker, what a moment.

 

[NAHSTE]

Good interview with Terence Winter. Spoilers, obviously.


http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-a...-creator-terence-winter-post-mortems-season-2

And I just found this, a goofy rap by the guy who Van Alden drowned in season 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Iwio2YH1I&feature=youtu.be

 

[Coked Up Elmo]

 

I feel like killing jimmy was an interesting move, you could tell his story arc was coming disastrously to an end in the last couple episodes and if he wouldnt of gotten killed i dont think there would have been that many new places to go.

as far as things i hope for and dont hope for next season
- i dont wanna see richard raising a fucking small child, jesus christ those scenes would have absolutely no dialogue or action
- id rather see richard go back to chicago and team up with capone
- i wanna see nucky go apeshit and slap margret or drag his sack across her face and owen or whatever that weird little fuckers name is step in
-more of the redheads titties, the average this season was maybe 1 titty scene every 3 episodes if that.:turrible:
-i dont wanna see her kiss that little boys wiener :cantfap:
-many horvits and meyer leinske hook up and do some kind of big jew-little jew killing tandem thing:dunno:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I can't think of a more prominent character being killed at the peak of his story, ever.

SOPRANOS SPOLIERS

 

You have Christopher in The Sopranos, which surprised me, but not on this level. This shocked me. With Christopher, I wasn't surprised so much that he died, because on that show everybody pretty much dies, but that he lasted so fucking long somehow and then they knock him off with like 2 episodes left.

People like Big Pussy, Adriana, and Tony Blundetto, they were not main characters, and in all three cases you knew they had it coming at some point and it was unavoidable.

BOARDWALK EMPIRE

 

I don't know how I feel about Jimmy yet, because I really should have saw this coming because he bit off more than he could chew. I give them credit for doing this. It took some balls for sure. That whole scene is now legendary, as is the episode. And I guess that's the point of great television. To stir you up. They really made you care about Jimmy, then killed the fucker. Well done. What a great fucking show this is.

 

[Bigpapa42]

 

I'm actually not that surprised about Jimmy. I kinda got the feeling early this season that this is where it could be headed. Mainly because the show straddles the line between fiction and history pretty effectively, but Jimmy was the biggest piece of fiction in it. The biggest deviation. I guess they could have just said "screw the history" and gone forward with Jimmy but that never seemed to be the way of the show.

Interesting that van Alden ended up in Cicero, as that's Capone's stomping ground.

 

[shag773]

I can't think of a more prominent character being killed at the peak of his story, ever.

The Shield

 

Maybe not as prominent as Jimmy, but maybe just the act of Shane killing Lem was one of the most powerful scenes I've witnessed on TV.

Boardwalk Empire

 

I thought the Nucky-Jimmy storyline was what really made the show for me, although the other story lines are intriguing enough to get me back next season.

 

[mgoblue2290]

I remember Richard talking about how he grew up with his twin sister on a farm in Wisconsin. Maybe he'll try and take Jimmy's son there and work in Chicago or something.

In that interview it said they're going to jump forward about 16 months in time so that should be interesting.

 

[NAHSTE]

I can't think of a more prominent character being killed at the peak of his story, ever.

The obvious one would be The Wire but I take it you bowed out before that season. Still debating myself over which death was more shocking.