Why didn't Melfi use Tony's mob connections to kill

cuz moral high ground and audience blue balls

>>80200669
God I hate blue balls

>>80200689
'ey at least yers ain't broken!

>>80200624
She didn't want to start a mob war between Star Bucks and the Soprano family.

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you know Quasimodo predicted all this

Having the power to have that guy killed was enough for her to deal with it.

>>80200624
Murder is wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right.

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Because she didn't want to get closer to him.
A murder would definitely tie them both closer together, she would also turn into a witness.

don't get involved with the mob is always the smartest decision.

>>80202314
This. The whole issue of being raped for her as a strong, professional woman is that the rape robbed her of her sense of control. Being able to have the guy killed is enough to reaffirm she's in control

>>80200624
Because she isn't retarded
She has deniability in her dealings with Tony since they never spoke explicitly about his business and just the fact that she knew she could have him killed was enough for her.
I still think she should have found some way to get the guy killed though, if only for the fact that he might try to do the same to someone else someday.

>>80200624
>implying Tony didn't send out the rapist himself

>>80202441
this. we the audience don't necessarily want to admit it but having Tony murder her rapist would put Melfi in his debt, and that would only lead to bad things down the line

plotwise, >>80202441
thematically, >>80200669

a big point of the show was to make the petty, violent, amoral scumminess of mobsters more meaningful by making the audience sympathetic to it, instead of portraying them as some distant abstract villains

melfi's role here is to do The Right Thing, in likely defiance of what the audience - who usually think of themselves as "good people" - find themselves hoping for

Childhood is wanting melfi have the rapist killed.

Adulthood is realising she did the right thing.

>>80203325
I just started Season 5 and lost any sympathy towards the mob characters or their family.
They all lack a basic respect for human life or are happy with reaping the benefits the mafia provides.

>>80203508
cringe

>>80204523
idiot

>>80204578
double cringe

>>80204675
why even bother cringing in the first place
it simply wasn't cringe-worthy
that meme hardly ever is
save your cringes, faggot