Possible storyline for this season's The Sopranos?

I just heard something interesting on the Tony Kornheiser show. It concerns the Sopranos, perhaps the greatest show of all time. It premiered this past Sunday and after 21 months of cussing and impatiently waiting for its return, it actually lived up to the hype. There was a hit and run accident, a suicide and the most shocking of all…STOP NOW IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED THIS WEEK’S EPISODE YET…Tony was shot by crazy old Uncle Junior in the last few minutes of the show. We were left with Tony lying on the floor essentially bleeding to death. A great show to kick off the last 20 episodes of the show before it goes away, perhaps to the big screen.

On the Tony Kornheiser show, Mr. Tony received an email from a listener hypothesizing on how this season will go. He thinks that Tony Soprano will lie in a coma for the first run of the final episodes and we will see in flashback what has happened over the past two years since we last saw the show. As I said it has been 21 months since we saw a new Sopranos episode and the new episode took place in real time so to speak as it occurred 21 months after we last saw Tony running through the snowy woods. So this does kind of make sense.

The emailer also brought up some things that were discussed, or not discussed, in the first episode that we do not know the specifics of. For one thing, it was discussed that the FBI had Tony on tape taking about a murder that we, the viewers, had not known of. We also did not see much of Paulie Walnuts in the episode. What does that mean? Vito, besides losing all that weight has become the top earner for the family. How did this happen?

I think it would be interesting if the next 11 episodes was a flashback in Tony’s mind as he laid in a coma and when they break for the last 6 episodes early next year, we come back to real time. Whatever is going to happen I bet it will be a very interesting and very unhappy ending for all involved.