Sopranos - Was: First Couple-Three...

[Bryan Snyder]

Not clear at all either, in my opinion. 

Chase had the opportunity of an artist's lifetime... he had tens of millions of people creating the tension all for him and he had a chance to make them all, regardless of if they liked it or not, THINK... and MOST I think did not want to think.


Can't pass that up... not ever.  I feel bad for the people that thought the Melfi stuff was boring... those who just wanted to watch a mob-show... they got whacked.

B


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I also LOVED the ending.  No, it's certainly not clear that anyone got whacked.  The implication seems more that on this day, as in every other day of Tony Soprano's life past and future, there's always a possibility that he'll get whacked.  Not a difficult leap to reflections on our own lives.
 
It's a shame that one of the most intelligent and witty shows of all time has come to an end.

Laura

>From: Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>

>Watched the show since day one... hated seasons 3,4 and 5... loved season 6
>(both parts)... LOVED the ending.
>
>But everyone has to remember the show started, and all subsequent un-singled
>lines of plot followed, the mafia don going to a shrink because he was upset
>that a family of ducks left his pool.
>
>It was never about whacking people.  The ending couldn't have been better.
>Chase found the ONLY possible ending that not a single viewer out of the 30
>odd million (14 something sets tuned in... I know I watched with 4 people
>so...) could have guessed.  
>
>I actually thought about the Crying of Lot 49 when it was over.
>
>Not so much Pynchonian for me, but VERY VERY post-modern.


David Morris

 And unlike so many reviewers who wrote that the
>ending had nothing happen, I think it is pretty clear that the three
>family members in the restaurant got whacked.