general johnson
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The writer for Boardwalk Empire used to write for The Sopranos which used a lot of symbols to tell/foreshadow the story.Originally Posted by BLADE BR0WN
Great first episode!!!...
Nucky's assistant is comedy!... lol
And the FBI agents in the hotel had methe whole time...
And the dude who got shot in his own restaurant was the guy from the private meeting at the hotel...
I'm a little confused from a business standpoint as to why he was killed and why they set up Rothstein.
I know that Jimmy wanted to find a way to get into some $$, esp from his take on being assigned to Patty's assistant and from his convo with his wife at the dinner table and from his meet with Nucky after the robbery...
Plus the booze factory getting raided at the same time as the truck robbery...
I gotta read up on some of this stuff...
Sidebar:
Does anyone know the significance of Nucky looking through the windows of the stores on the Boardwalk??
The psychic??
The babies in the incubator??
Do these visions serve as a forshadowing of things to come??
I think the premature babies represented a couple of things...
-Jimmy/Nucky not quite ready to make the jump into full fledged gangsterdom
-The baby lost to the woman (character name?) taking a beating by her husband and how that will play out with Nucky getting involved
As far as Jimmy dropping the dime on that moonshine factory, it was his way to stay on the streets and give up a small fish who had crossed him earlier (formaldehyde). He had told Nucky that they didn't need that guy and he, being the more aggressive of the two, decided to get rid of him and the Feds (temporarily), thus killing two
birds with one stone.