re: What Sopranos death bothered you the most?

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There's a pregnant woman who is beaten to death and all any of the characters care about is that the Bing was disrespected and ralph, a made man, was hit by Tony. A punch was more important than a woman and unborn child's life.

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On the whole, though, Tony did take it somewhat seriously - for his part, civilians didn't usually get hurt by his hand - that's moral equivocation to a degree - but, particularly not something as arbitrary as what Ralph did to Tracee. He would have been appalled at Paulie and Christopher killing the waiter after they stiffed him. "WTF are you mooks going to do next? Whack the meter reader?"

I always felt that Tracee was the reason he began looking for an excuse to whack Ralph and Pie O My was the final straw. He even spoke of Pie O My in metaphorical terms for Tracee, if you recall.

An underrated storyline that doesn't get mentioned is the Johnny Sack-Ralphie beef.

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would have been appalled at Paulie and Christopher killing the waiter after they stiffed him

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moreso for the stupidity of it. eliminate unnecessary risks...I think that the waiter had a cock and that he "disrespected" paulie and Christopher would've made the incident more about his guys being idiots than a civilian getting killed.

Christopher was a weight around his neck. It became obvious he'd lead the family into ruin, but more pressing is he was a real threat to be turned by Feds or state. subconsciously Christopher hated tony and tony knew it...he also had to worry about Christopher killing him.

He was actually really happy after Christopher's death. I don't necessarily blame him.

untrustworthy
insubordinate
dumb
ambitious
ungrateful
huge target for feds (drugs)

all of that, and Christopher had AAAAAAALL of the goods on tony. every murder, racket, everything.

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Bobby Bacala was the toughest for me

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Of the gangsters, for me as well. Syl could still come out of it. I liked Christopher, but he had to go.

We didn't really see Tony get it, but that one is also tough.

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That whole boat ride was uneasy

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Them going into his place and picking him up was as uncomfortable as the boat for me. That whole story line of BP having to rat them out and them having to kill him. It's what they all signed up for. The life they chose.

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Big Pussy's was definitely the most uncomfortable

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This. And Bobby....

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I have to say, watching Tony breathlessly shovel through all those plates of food is kind of sad in retrospect knowing how Gandolfini died.

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Meh. If we could ask him, I bet he's the kind of guy who would say, "No regrets."

A life well-lived, right?

A lot of good answers and discussion in this thread.

My answer, which one 'bothered' me the most, mirrors Tony's reaction.

Tony's Amour Fou with Gloria Trillo is one of my favorite arcs of the show. I love the scene where Tony is eating breakfast in the kitchen one morning, halfway disinterested in what Carm is talking about (her Mercedes wagon) until she mentions that Gloria drove her home from the dealership after Carm left her car for a service tuneup. Carm is oblivious to Gloria's manipulation into her thoughts, but Tony knows exactly what's happening and hides his disgust from Carm and storms off.

A few weeks after he ends contact with her (through Patsy's intimidation tactic in a GREAT episode closing scene), he and Carm are laying in bed one night when she tells him that she heard the oddest thing at Mercedes. Another worker there told Carm that Gloria had killed herself. At this point Tony is rolled over in bed away from Carm, face towards us, and his utter shock and disbelief and horror is evident and Carm brushes his silence off as "Mister Empathy over here." [Tony mouth agape, eyes open] "She hung herself. From a chandelier."

It's an off-screen death but it's brutal to hear about someone else's death, particularly a suicide, especially when you consider the crazy fling Tony and Gloria had and how awful they were for each other.