Sopranos 6/10 -- THE END

Not even gonna waste my breath.

 

No, because that's one of my favorite songs, and I immediately knew what it was.

 

I see Meadow becoming her mother. She knows the truth, she knows Dad is mafia, steal, kills and fucks around, but chooses to play the Italian American as victim card. When she was telling Tony why she wants to be a lawyer because of the injustice of seeing her father arrested, for a moment I thought Tony was going to tell her, "you know, I am guilty ".

She marries Patsy's kid who, at best, becomes a mob lawyer, and Meadow lives the rest of her life with blood money, just washed a little through the criminal justice system.

 

Given the context (last scene of the last show, lots of suspects in the diner), a sudden cut makes you think something happened. A fade to black is a fade to black.

Another off-the-wall theory: Bomb blew the diner up, everyone dies. Well, it'd make sense in that if you don't buy that the cut means Tony was shot because we were looking AT him, not THROUGH him. Someone else was looking at him, but it doesn't matter because everyone's dead now.

 

Also, this is going to spin off a cubic assload of shitty fanfic.

 

Dude, I'm asking a serious question here. Why would a fade been better than the sudden cut? Why is one a fine ending and the other a horrible, horrible ending?

 

As for what would be the appropriate ending ... if I had a dollar for every time I heard a writer or critic or regular Joe criticize conventional television for solving the world's problems in 25 minutes and wrapping it all up with a neat, tidy ending, I could buy David Chase's home.

Here we have a show that often defied convention, so I can't understand how anyone might have expected a conventional ending.

But, if that's what you wanted, you got it -- about halfway through the episode. Who says the end, the resolution (of a conflict or conflicts), can't come in the middle?

Oh, and about nobody eating Italian food? I saw plenty of pasta after the funeral.

 

Cut to black means ... show's over. Nothing drastic happened...

The conflicted Soprano family life goes on and on and on and on


And just for my New Jersey chauvinist nitpick of the day, Holsten's in NOT a diner:

http://www.holstens.com/

 

What if it went black and then we heard a bunch of gunshots?

 

I think that would have ruined the effect.

 

What if ....

That's not what we heard so why discuss it?

 

I just changed my mind. This episode sucked. Not only is Holsten's NOT a diner, but they don't even have onion rings on the menu! So unrealistic.