That Hobgoblin, Consistency

Tonight was HBO's season premiere of The Sopranos, and I'm compelled to remark that if creator David Chase was hoping to leave his viewers in suspense by ending the first episode with the main character bleeding on the kitchen floor from a gunshot wound, he oughtn't have spent the last three months promoting the upcoming season with clips showing that character in various arguments and conversations that were obviously filmed for that upcoming season.