I know that I typed a blog about Long Term Parking a month ago, but this post is full on about my emotions about Long Term Parking! Why do I consider Long Term Parking the most heartbreaking fictional event of all time ever? Because as Drea De Matteo says, Adriana La Cerva is the only character on The Sopranos that represents innocence! I never really saw Adriana La Cerva as this dumb young girl ever. Ever since Season 2, I always felt that Adriana La Cerva is a young pretty naive girl that needs guidance. I always felt that if Adriana La Cerva had some more guidance, she would have made much better decisions. It is easy for people who are older who haven't been in the situation that Adriana La Cerva was in to judge her and call her stupid. Yes, I wouldn't call Adriana La Cerva smart. The deceased Carmela Soprano was certainly much brighter, but it is also important to remember that the deceased Carmela was much older. It also gets forgotten that the late Carmela had both of her deceased parents up until the series finale. Meanwhile, Adriana La Cerva only had her deceased mother who was very loving. But to be fair, the only thing that the deceased Liz La Cerva was spot on about was the deceased Christopher Moltisanti. Because to be real, the deceased Liz La Cerva should have taken Adriana La Cerva away from both the deceased Christopher Moltisanti and the deceased Richie Aprile.
Because although the deceased Richie Aprile did love Adriana La Cerva, he was just as vile as the deceased Christopher Moltisanti was. Just because he didn't get what he wanted, the deceased Richie Aprile brutally beat up the deceased Beansie so badly with his car that the deceased Beansie needed a wheelchair for the rest of his life. If Adriana La Cerva was taken away from these deceased Sopranos characters, she would have been safe all along. But sadly, Adriana La Cerva was only around the deceased Sopranos characters who were all toxic for her.
Adriana La Cerva made a big reveal to the deceased Tony Soprano in Season 5 Episode 5 Irregular Around The Margins that often gets overlooked. It is so subtle, but towards the end of their first night together, Adriana La Cerva reveals that her deceased father abandons her. This may be Adriana La Cerva's biggest reveal about herself in the series. It tells us how she felt about the deceased Tony Soprano as well as partially why she stayed with the deceased Christopher Moltisanti for too long. Especially when the person is young, if they do not receive the proper paternal love, they will crave anything that feels like fatherly love to them. Even if it is toxic, because they feel like they need it. Very sadly, people who even only lack 1 paternal figure are easier victims for manipulation because they are more vulnerable. This is what happened to Adriana La Cerva: She is the one and only person that loves the deceased Christopher Moltisanti. All Adriana La Cerva ever wanted was for the deceased Christopher Moltisanti to genuinely love her back. That is all Adriana La Cerva wanted: She did everything she could to protect him.
When the deceased Christopher Moltisanti's drug addiction peaked in Season 4 to the point that Cozette died thanks to the deceased Christopher Motisanti sitting on her, to top Adriana La Cerva's grief for Cozette's death, the deceased Christopher Moltisanti brutally beat Adriana La Cerva up so badly to the point that she had to go to the deceased Carmela Soprano and the deceased Tony Soprano for safety. Knowing that the deceased Christopher Moltisanti is at risk of being murdered because of his drug addiction partially because earlier in the episode he got beaten up by the deceased drug dealers when he attempted to get heroin and partially because of how the deceased DiMeo crew feels about the deceased Christopher's drug addiction, with tears in her eyes, she looked at the deceased Tony Soprano and begged him to not hurt the deceased Christopher Moltisanti. This is one of Adriana La Cerva's most telling moments of her innocence: Each and every single time I watch the moment, my heart just sinks for her.
If anything, Adriana La Cerva's key flaw is that she wants to do more than what is possible. Adriana La Cerva always wanted the deceased Christopher Moltisanti to be safe, which she couldn't do because he was in the deceased DiMeo crew. Not through any fault of her own whatsoever. Even when it was clear in Irregular Around The Margins that Adriana La Cerva should have abandoned her club and left New Jersey to keep herself safe, she attempts to protect the deceased Tony Soprano by unsuccessfully attempting to prevent the deceased Sopranos FBI from putting cameras in her club. This puts more emphasis on how Adriana La Cerva's key flaw is wanting to do more than what is possible: Adriana La Cerva is doing the best she can. What happened to the deceased Tony Soprano has zero blame on her: She is just an innocent beauty. I always saw Adriana La Cerva as a young beautiful girl who was bulldogged. At home, Adriana La Cerva was bulldogged by the deceased Christopher Moltisanti. Outside of home, Adriana La Cerva was bulldogged by the deceased Sopranos FBI. From my perspective, I just saw a beautiful girl who was bulldogged and stuck in the middle. If anything, Adriana La Cerva amazes me because she was bulldogged by the deceased Sopranos FBI in 2002. Yet despite being targeted by the deceased Sopranos FBI, Adriana La Cerva stays under the radar and isn't even suspected for two years. Think about this: The deceased Salvatore Bonpensiero lasted for only 1 year and was dead by the Season 2 finale. Meanwhile, Adriana La Cerva stays under the radar until 2004. Adriana La Cerva isn't even suspected in Season 5 Episode 5
Yet it feels like Adriana La Cerva gets punished just because. Just because she offers the deceased Christopher Moltisanti the ticket for his safety, not only did the deceased Christopher Moltisanti refuse but he brutally beat Adriana La Cerva up just for attempting to protect him. Not only does Adriana La Cerva get brutally beaten up for this to the point of suffering a throat wound as if that isn't already punishment, but then the deceased Christopher Moltisanti goes on to betray her to the deceased Tony Soprano. For being bulldogged by the deceased Sopranos FBI, the deceased Tony Soprano decided to punish Adriana La Cerva by having the deceased Silvio Dante take her for a car ride. For being bulldogged by the deceased Sopranos FBI, the deceased Silvio Dante punished Adriana La Cerva by parking in the woods, violently grabbing her by calling her a dirty c word which is the last thing that she is and then dropped her violently to the ground. As if that isn't enough punishment, the deceased Silvio Dante even fires two gunshots at Adriana La Cerva. But as we last see Adriana La Cerva alive crawling in the woods and yes this is before the gunshots are heard, however the gunshots are heard offscreen. Regardless of what was intended when the deceased Silvio Dante shot Adriana La Cerva, the fact that it happens offscreen combined with the fact that Adriana La Cerva is alive during the last time we see her makes this scene the *cliffhanger* of The Sopranos
As Adriana La Cerva Is The Sole Surviving Sopranos Character After the end of The Sopranos when the screen goes to black
