YMMV / The Sopranos S 6 E 4 The Fleshy Part Of The Thigh

• Anvilicious:
  • The Ojibwe message on the hospital billboard that reads: "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky". Tony begins to earnestly ponder what Aesop to take away from it.
  • John Schwinn draws out one of the Aesops that much more explicitly with his Chekhov's Lecture on Quantum Physics theories of how there is no such thing as truly separate entities in the universe, and everything is interconnected together as part of the same grand energy pattern. Tony is particularly thoughtful when Schwinn describes two tornadoes as being connected together as different patterns of the same "wind".
  • And in a hospital room where Black people, Italian Americans, and a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant are enjoying a boxing match together, there's no mistaking what at least one the intended Aesops is. Everyone is equal and connected together as part of the human race.
  • Tony seeing a little girl being treated for third degree burns all over her body moves him to reach another Aesop.
  • Bob Brewster pays Tony another visit, and tells Tony recovering from his coma is God giving him another chance to change his ways and save his soul.
  • That John Schwinn is dying of Laryngeal Cancer becomes a scary reminder to Tony that, even with his second chance, his remaining time on earth is still limited.
  • Tony progressively internalizes the Aesops as well. Like when he tells Paulie that they're all part of a greater whole. He even tells Janice near the end of the episode, "From now on, every day is a gift". He's started to step through a Heel–Face Revolving Door.

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