Bakestar wrote:VoxOrion wrote:I don't know the episode title, but the episode where Dr. Melfi is raped always blows me away.
No single episode of anything puts a greater exclamation point on morality and challenges the audience to a greater degree than this one. In most other situations the audience is along for the "ride" (or vicarious shock/thrill) in experiencing the difference between what Tony & Crew can get away with versus what you and I can - but in this story, the writers challenge the audience to want Tony's freedom to break the law so desperately, despite the challenge of whether or not we should. This episode is just an absolute masterpiece of writing. The last five minutes are a mind-numbing emotional experience. I was literally breathless at the end.
I've always thought it was the moral center of gravity for the series, potential tipping point, whatever you want to call it. And all of it from that pregnant pause at the very end after Tony says, "Do you have something you want to tell me?" Knowing that Melfi could have had revenge/justice, but at the cost of falling fully into Tony's orbit, which means eventual destruction.
I absolutely cannot watch the rape scene ever again.
I remember after that saying "well, that guy is finished" figuring that she'd tell Tony even if she didnt really want to and that would set off a chain reaction. I kept expecting it for a few episodes, but it never happened. Which, in retrospect, was a great thing.
