also,she might have just been shittin her pants a little after phils guys rolled up on her..
Mary McNamara, of the LA Times writes:
Chase is possibly the only man in America who could get away with such a thing, and maybe he shouldn?t. While it is one thing to flout the conventions of television, it?s another to flip dramatic tradition, not to mention your audience, the bird. No, he didn?t owe us any neat endings, nor some sort of final word on the nature of good and evil. But after eight years, he did owe us catharsis, some sort of emotional experience that would, if not sum up the entire eight years, leave us with something more meaningful than instant panic and lingering irritation. In the end, the art of writing is the art of making choices. Ending a series with the social weight of ?The Sopranos? is not an enviable task, but end it must, and not with the sophomoric gesture of a blank screen.
Yes, people will be talking about the show tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, but they probably won?t be talking about Tony Soprano or any of the work the very fine cast of actors and writers has done over the years. They?ll be talking about how frustrating the blank screen was. In fear of tainting the legacy of ?The Sopranos? ? if Tony really was just one more truly bad man, some viewers would feel betrayed; if he went from antihero to hero, others would feel the same ? if he went from antihero to hero, others would feel the same -- Chase has offered us instead an epic novel with a do-it-yourself ending.
And, of course, the distinct possibility of "The Sopranos: The Movie."
Mary McNamara complaints can be thrown out for not proofreading her work well enough:
" if Tony really was just one more truly bad man, some viewers would feel betrayed; if he went from antihero to hero, others would feel the same — if he went from antihero to hero, others would feel the same -- Chase has offered us instead an epic novel with a do-it-yourself ending."
phil leotardo=EPIC bad guy...
keep that muthafucka here!!
made in america = coventry.
made in america = coventry.
I\'m not even gonna bother throwing my two cents in after reading this. Well put, sir.
:thumbsup: I will miss this show.
possibly the worst show finale ive ever seen. on the contrary to what that lady said in the article ^^^^, they DID owe us a crazy ending because its the F\'in sopranos, a show with millions of viewers and a cult like following. they let the show end like that?!?! what a slap in the face. how can they follow up the previous 2 wild episodes with a shitty finale like that, its like it was the ending of a season, not the show.
booo to HBO :no:
hoooray beer! :beerban:
"From the HBO message boards:
The guy at the bar is also credited as Nikki Leotardo. The same actor played him in the first part of season 6 during a brief sit down concerning the future of Vito. Apparently, he is the nephew of Phil. The trucker was the brother of the guy who was robbed by Christopher in Season 2 (DVD players). The trucker had to identify his brother\'s body. The boy scouts were in the train store when Bobby was killed and the black guys at the end were the ones who tried to kill Tony and only clipped him in the ear."
i remember tony fighting with the two black guys but i thought he had killed them both during their altercation.
I said I liked it before, and I like it even better now knowing this. Is he about to be whacked or is just showing how he stained the lives of others to provide spoils for himself and family?
Is Tony dead? Best left unanswered. The black could be symbolic as we mainly see the show through his eyes. I\'ll have to see the episode again, but Meadow looks tense, but not horrified (like watching her pop get shot) to me.
Openly killing Tony would have been gratuitous.
I don\'t like my art literal. Ever have a song that meant something to you personally, then find out the writer had something completely different in mind? Kind of ruins the song for me when it happens. I prefer my interpretation, always.
Well that\'s the second-best thing about art- it\'s open to interpretation.
