Sopranos 6/10 -- THE END

Interesting theory on the nj.com blog.
The last nine episodes represent the nine circles of Dante's Hell.
Good stuff

 

Talked to our TV critic tonight.. she loved it..her son hated it

 

I went and read that, and whoever wrote it is a first class moron.

That episode was thrown together? Yeah, right. All it had to do was tie up 80-some episodes worth of intense psychological drama and enough symbolism to keep a grad-level semiotics class in business for a couple years. Look, obviously it was impossible to please everyone. I can see people not liking the ending, but it fits the show.

Chase or the show somehow owe you something more than that?

You're one of the people he's talking about. Phil's head getting squashed was for you, too.

These people are so weaned by television that wraps itself in a bow at the end of the hour in order to happily sell them products that when someone actually makes a decision to remain true to the essence of a story, when someone dares to make the audience uncomfortable to make a point, they throw shit at the walls like monkeys.

And then have the balls to accuse Chase of being greedy.

 

Two things. That's an awesome catch, and he has waaaaay too much time on his hands.

 

My wife says the audience got wacked.

I like that.

 

Some people will whine about anything. And frankly, HBO is expecting people to drop its service, because now that The Sopranos are done, people like me who called their local cable provider to add HBO days before the final season began again will call and ask to drop it tomorrow. The lady I talked to months ago, she said that happens all the time with The Sopranos, that they expect that.

p.s. I read about that Dante's Hell bit. A great catch by however came up with it.

 

Your wife is onto something, BYH, which belies her relationship with you, but I digress.

This season, the audience got to feel Tony's life. They got to feel the dread. And they didn't get their voyeurism for free, either. The amped up violence, the Finnerty and Vito interludes, the more-frequent malapropisms, the show actually began to critique itself and, in the process, the audience.

At times, that was uncomfortable. Still made for great television.

 

And an entire nation of viewers downloads Journey into their MP3 players.

And Jesus, is AJ a bumbling idiot. Finally on the track to getting himself a nice piece of tail post-Blanca and he sets the fuckin' car on fire. "Thank God my gas tank as almost empty...BOOM!" Only that slap would be unaware that an empty gas tank causes a bigger explosion than a full one.

And Paulie with that cat was absolutely hilarious.

And you gotta love that Tony and Carm wanted their son nowhere near the military, but a life in organized crime (which is essentially the track he's own should he work for Carmine and then open a club) is a-ok.

I was fist pumping when Phil got clipped.

I loved this ending and I'm sorry the show's over. It kept me company many a Sunday night through much bullshit and I get the feeling from some of the posts that I'm not the only one. And yes, the minute that the credits started rolling I said aloud "Oh Chase, you motherfucker," and started laughing.

 

Or a writer on the show. Wouldn't be the first time that has happened.
And Nikki Finke isn't a moron. I'm kinda wondering something as well.
The buzz before the show aired was that Chase had filmed three or four endings and cast members had said regardless what aired, it would leave no doubt on the possibility of a followup movie. I believe what was said, the only way a movie could be done was if it was a prequel.
So with this ending, do you really believe that it could have went down three or four different ways? And did it end in such a fashion that a movie wasn't a possibility?
Either that was all bullshit or the short answer to both is, no.
To me this is a telling line in Finke's post

That seems more than plausible.

 

loved the ketchup scene

 

Sorry, Jay, but from this:

Even if David Chase, who wrote and directed the final episode, was demonstrating the existential and endless loop of Tony's life or the moments before the hit that causes his death, it still robbed the audience of visual closure. And if it were done to segue into a motion picture sequel, then that kind of crass commercialism shouldn't be tolerated. (See my Does Chase Have 'Sopranos' Movie Idea?)


Plug your own site while complaining about someone else's commercialism much?

And this:

Chase clearly didn't give a damn about his fans. Instead, he crapped in their faces. This is why America hates Hollywood. Unlike some network series that end abruptly because broadcasters pull the plug without warning, The Sopranos has been slated for years to go off the air tonight. But instead of carefully crafted, this finale looked like it had been concocted in a day or two. (Some of the scenes were cut so abruptly, they caused whiplash.)

Which just simply isn't true, I get a strong whiff of moron.

 

That still doesn't answer the question on the pre-show buzz and how the show actually ended.
It doesn't mesh.