I don't know if he ditched her, but he did have one hell of a strange look on his face lol. His big wide eyes.

There have been 77 episodes right now. Eight more makes it 85. Not even close to 100, you'd need to add another long season on top of the new eight.

I trust David Chase, he has never failed us before (in my opinion).

Does anyone know how much time will pass in the storyline between last Sunday's episode and the episode in January? Just out of curiosity. I don't think that has been revealed yet though.