I could go for one more season.

Gotta give a nod to reporter Sean Robinson, or "Nostra-Sean-mus," as we'll be calling him starting Monday. Here's what he said a while back:

"As for who whacks Tony, my prediction is nobody. Nor will he go to jail. I think he knocks off Phil, however. I suspect the season ends in a sort of stasis, with everything in uneasy balance. This entire season has focused on aging, on rites of passage, on coping with the loss of vitality, on recognizing the presence of legacy in one form or another. Latest episode showed Tony seeing his own craziness passed on to his son. First episode of the year included the lovely moment between Janice and Carmela on the shoreline, where Janice chatters and you slowly realize she’s a complete psycho.

Throughout the series, we’ve always watched Tony struggle between his selfish impulses and the knowledge of what has to be done (through his warped perspective). Invariably, he does what has to be done – sometimes he’s clumsy about it, but he always does it. It’s his ability to rise above impulse that keeps him alive and makes him formidable. I predict that quality will save him in the end."

And, for a minute there at the end of the episode, I really thought Meadow was gonna buy it, just like Gandalf said. Well, either her or the three members of the family already inside the restaurant.

I could have done with out the reappearance of Hunter Skank-a-rella, or whatever David Chase's daughter's character's name is. I always hated her character, and her reappearance was unnecessary and corny.

I think Chase was just playing with us during the entire episode, ratcheting up the tension with every other scene: AJ's SUV smoking, wise guys meeting in a freezing warehouse, suspicious cars pulling up to Tony, lots of conjecture about who really flipped, gun charges that won't go away, people bursting into safehouses – even at the very end you had several characters looking as though they might be hanging around the restaurant just clip Tony.

So what did you all think? Are you satisfied? Hungry for more? Sick of Philly's squashed melon? Sick of Journey? I gotta digest it some more, but how do you digest "stasis" and "uneasy balance"?