Commence drooling... now

In the mail today: The first two episodes of the final "Sopranos." No, I haven't watched yet. I may not for a couple of days, just to drive all the fans at the office who want to borrow the DVD cuh-razy. I can be mean like that.

UPDATE: I guess David Chase and company wanted to eeeeease us back into things. The first episode is sloooooooooooooooow. So very sloooooooooow. Charitably, you could describe it as setting up future action. Things get rolling in the second one, although there's still as many mobsters dying of old age as there are of bullets.

Speaking of HBO, last night's "Rome" finale was tremendous. That episode covered like eight years or something of real history (it's been awhile since Prof. Ferrell's Roman History 303), but it delivered, I think, one of the best final episodes in TV history. If you don't have HBO or didn't pick up on this series, definitely catch it on DVD.

Finally, the "Battlestar Galactica" season finale was pretty amazing. I won't even try to explain -- if you're at all open to the idea of "Battlestar Galactica," you're watching by now. Better than a hundred "Grey's Anatomys" though, I can tell you that. And no more until 2008. That's "Sopranos-esque."