Sopranos - Was: First Couple-Three...

[rich]

anyone remember the X-Files ending? the cancer man wearing some sort of
indian garb
execrable, though I loved many of the individual episodes
blame it on gillian--she kept my eyes glued to the set

rich


On 6/13/07, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I liked all the links - never watched ANY of those
> > shows... but is your point that The Sopranos is not
> > alone in this ending?
>
> I've never seen The Sopranos, but it seems to me that
> the ending was merely ambiguous (no matter how clear
> its producer says it is, and maybe he's right, y'all
> just haven't added up all the clues yet).   The
> Roseanne finale I think was rather pointed, Newhart I
> think was simply being cleverly nostalgic, I forgot
> Seinfeld, but I think it was an appropriate, not QUITE
> ouroborically tail-biting ending, but I still have no
> idea of why St. E ended the way it did ...
>
> (One might also mention ALF here, where what was
> intended to be a cliffhanger season finale ended up
> being a rather more ominous end to the series (it was
> canceled after what became the last episode was shot),
> at least until a later one-shot teevee movie resolved
> things on a lighter note, but ... meanwhile, both Twin
> Peaks and the criminally underrated and overlooked
> Space: Above and Beyond WERE left dangling ...)
>
> At any rate, again, without having seen it, The
> Sopranos ending sounds merely ambiguous at worst.
> There have been much stranger endings on teevee ...
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