Srsly. It's like they don't remember that Senior is a con man, and that he's conned them all into thinking he's a great fellow trying to regain his son's love (after, what, thirty years of this? No, a ring doesn't fix it.). They buy his charm and smile without having any of the background and very little of the context Tony has.
I've never really cared for Senior or his falseness.
That look on Senior's face when he came out of the bedroom, the way he smiled when he saw how devastated Tony was ... I don't know if it was intentional or not, but it just oozed slime. He looked Tony right in the eye, and smiled, and may as well have said, "Hey, you were dumb enough to trust me. You got what you had coming
( ... )
But it's Christmas! And surely if Tony says it's all his fault, then that must be so. Senior, who has a proven track record of abuse as you say, could not possibly have done anything to merit Tony kicking him out. Tony was just being a Scrooge - Tony, who created a damned tradition with the family that was always there for him...
No, it was no big deal that the man invaded his home without invite, messed with a space Tony clearly needs control in (seriously, Tony's need to keep things just so is a huge insight into his head, like every other facet of his life is out of his hands, but that space is his and it's taken on too big a meaning for him), and slept with a woman in Tony's tiny bed - a woman Tony didn't want anything to do with and who had her own home STEPS away.
I don't doubt somewhere in there Senior's love is present and it's genuine. But the magic of Christmas cannot fix the years of bullshit and abandonment Tony dealt with.
I did love the insight we got into Tony with this episode. I would love to know what his childhood home looked like while his mother was still alive, because that bed reminded me of someone trying to recapture a happier childhood.
I've never liked Sr. and this episode did nothing to convince me otherwise. I thought Tony was way too nice with him, but Tony wants his love and approval so much that he's ready to deal with all the crap. I might have cheered when Tony threw him out (I thought he did it in a very nice way, too). What Sr did was not alright.
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I've never really cared for Senior or his falseness.
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No, it was no big deal that the man invaded his home without invite, messed with a space Tony clearly needs control in (seriously, Tony's need to keep things just so is a huge insight into his head, like every other facet of his life is out of his hands, but that space is his and it's taken on too big a meaning for him), and slept with a woman in Tony's tiny bed - a woman Tony didn't want anything to do with and who had her own home STEPS away.
I don't doubt somewhere in there Senior's love is present and it's genuine. But the magic of Christmas cannot fix the years of bullshit and abandonment Tony dealt with.
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I've never liked Sr. and this episode did nothing to convince me otherwise. I thought Tony was way too nice with him, but Tony wants his love and approval so much that he's ready to deal with all the crap. I might have cheered when Tony threw him out (I thought he did it in a very nice way, too). What Sr did was not alright.
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