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Post by Ouch on Jun 10, 2007 22:25:22 GMT -5
...anyone else catch The Sopranos Finale?
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Post by matisse on Jun 10, 2007 23:13:11 GMT -5
I was a bit annoyed by the ambiguity. I don't really see a need for it. He could be dead, or not.
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Post by taylor on Jun 11, 2007 0:37:49 GMT -5
OMG! I am so freakin' irritated. I thought for a second my satellite went out. I've been a faithful viewer from the beginning, and to be left that way is just not right.  I defended the show all season, and last season for that matter, and now I just feel cheated, and kind of stupid for defending it so hard. It would seem that all the haters were right. |
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Post by matisse on Jun 11, 2007 0:44:19 GMT -5
Well at least this season wasn't the disaster of last season. When you do a dream sequence you know things are bad.
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Post by taylor on Jun 11, 2007 0:52:08 GMT -5
Well at least this season wasn't the disaster of last season. When you do a dream sequence you know things are bad. LOL. Tony's dreams were always cool though, and they usually meant some good sh*t was going down. But the whole Kevin Finnerty dream sequence was confusing, they went nowhere with it, and they left him there way too long. |
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Post by Ouch on Jun 11, 2007 8:59:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I was reading elsewhere, a good portion of people weren't so happy with the ending...
I, too, though my cable went out for some reason (I think a good portion of viewers thought so).
...I knew it was going to end in such a style though...did anyone honestly think there was going to be a clear-cut resolution to it all? That never happens...the critics will probably be hailing it as one of the best endings to a series ever...the artsy filmsy folk like stuff like that.
...some people had theories that the ending was resolution in its self, it required you to think back throughout the series to 'make your own ending', like the abrupt blackness, was signifying the whole family getting pasted...(or 'whacked' if you will).
I think a most important lesson was learned though...don't count on Meadow to save you from a burning building if she has to park a car.
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Post by BA on Jun 11, 2007 15:33:14 GMT -5
It was a bum ending, which left a million holes for interpretation (and future profit) wide open. My take is that the Soprano family finished their dinner in Bloomfield and will continue being as dysfunctional as always. The choice of music - Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" gave it all away.
and yes, I think we ALL thought that our cable/satellite blew up on us.
At 10:05pm last night I heard a guy yelling out loud on the next street "That was the stupidest f'ing ending I've ever seen". It was anti-climatical to say the least.
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Post by Pony on Jun 11, 2007 15:58:43 GMT -5
I'm so damn glad to read these posts!!! I was the biggest fan the first 3-4 seasons, but I started giving up on them last year, coming back sometimes to see if they'd regained the magic - always to be disappointed!! I ALMOST watched last night, but stopped myself, and damn glad I did after hearing how BLAHHHH the last show was.
Sopranos could've been soooo fucking good, but instead, they constantly took us for a ride down a DEAD END STREET!! I got so frustrated last year, I said I'd never watch again!
So glad to find some company here!!!
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Post by taylor on Jun 11, 2007 17:10:15 GMT -5
Okay. I have now had a little time to mull things over, and I can say I still can't believe that David Chase did this to us. But all in all the events that did happen were great. The final scene between Tony and Junior was good, Tony and Janis also good, and A.J.'s story was pretty flippin' funny, and true to form. Paulie still being dogged by Christopher was hilarious, and the way they offed Phil was great (if not a little gruesome). But all in all it is a bitter pill to swallow given the ending, and I too thought the Journey song in the end was a little obvious. I would love to say that if David Chase were to make a movie that I wouldn't give him my money, but the truth of the matter is, I'd be first in line.  |
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Post by Triassic on Jun 11, 2007 19:34:41 GMT -5
I think they got hit. Yup...
What they REALLY shoulda done was have Wizard Of Oz ending; where it turns out Tony was dreaming the whole thing...he's actually an tax attorney or smmething, and all the characters are people in his life. hahaha
But nope. Whacked.
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Post by Ouch on Jun 11, 2007 21:26:40 GMT -5
Damn, Tri, actually, that would be decent...but he'd have to be busting a mob guy...it would justify seeing a therapist (oh my guilty pleasures...) for seven years.
Actually, I think this was all a scheme by Journey...are they planning a reunion or something...I instinctively dusted off the vinyl and popped in on to the turntable and was playing such songs like 'Wheel in the Sky' (I can't get the line: 'Sent a letter on a long summer day (probably because I've covered the song) outta' my head now), and 'Don't Stop Believing'.
The ending definitely was open to The Sopranos - The Movie, type deal...though from what I'm hearing (I have a contact within HBO), that's not really something they're working/thinking of...not to say it won't happen.
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Post by Triassic on Jun 12, 2007 9:55:16 GMT -5
Hahaha...No, Melfi woulda been Tony's "real life" psychiatrist, see?" she puts him in a hypnotic trance and he dreams he's a mob boss. "Paulie" is a neighbor, "Phil Leotardo" is his business rival, "Silvio" is a fishing buddy...etc
"But it was all so real...you were there. And you. And you too! Oh, Dr. Melfi, there's no place like home!"
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Post by Ouch on Jun 12, 2007 15:25:32 GMT -5
Actually another dream-like possibility which would've been high on the awesome scale, is going back to when Tony first flashes back to his childhood where he saw his father and Junior 'in the business', when he had his first panic attack, if he dreamt the entire series up while unconscious...sweetness muchness (though slightly unrealistic, as some of the things he's done with women are a little beyond a kid his age's imagination).
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Post by BA on Jun 12, 2007 17:23:07 GMT -5
Been giving it some thought... and alot of talk at the water cooler.
Now, I think the last thing he (we) saw was Meadow's shocked face and she strode into the diner. The screen went blank because he bought a bullet to the back of the head. There was no music, because he was dead. If you recall another episode, the question was raised: "What happens when you get whacked?". The answer was "Everything just goes black." So, we got wacked through Tony's perspective.
Mr. Chase is a genius that's for sure. And the gas station where Phil met his end is 5 blocks from my house. They did the location shooting in March.
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Post by matisse on Jun 12, 2007 17:38:24 GMT -5
They don't show Meadow inside the diner at all, the last shot of her is just before she goes in.
I've read about Tony's "everything goes black" answer before, but so what. The only certainty is that the ending is subject to multiple interpretations. If Chase intended his ending to clearly point to death, someone would have said by now that it's what he meant.
This has never been a show where we have to wonder what happened. I don't see why he chose the ending to change that and be cutesy. That's what annoys me.
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