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Sopranos Fans:David Chase Finally Explains The Sopranos Pine Barrens Episode
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| April 29, 2013
| David Chase
Posted on 05/21/2013 7:34:09 AM PDT by lbryce
In what is by most accounts the Sopranos' most talked about, controversial episode, David Chase,the Sopranos' creator, looks to respond to what is probably the fans' biggest gripe of the series regarding a tantalizing plot issue left unresolved. "Pine Barrens" has Chris and Paulie getting lost in the wintry wilderness of South Jersey in the aftermath of their intention to dispose of a Russian mobster "Goodfellas" style, but the mobster, best friend of Tony's business associate manages to escape the clutches of these seemingly inept henchmen.
Fans were quite upset that a very compelling story line whereby the mobster returns to wreak havoc on Tony and his crew is never explored nor is the mobster and his fate ever addressed.
Chase is asked by the interviewer about the incident and tries to mollify the fans many years too late.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: davidchase; pinebarens; thesopranos
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The clip, nearly two minutes in length has Chase coming across quite lame, apathetic about it all.
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:34:09 AM PDT
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
LOL my fav episode. Pauly is such a pissa.
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:35:01 AM PDT
by
angcat
To: lbryce
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:35:42 AM PDT
by
submarinerswife
(Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
To: lbryce
Maybe he could explain the final episode while he is at it.
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:38:32 AM PDT
by
Patrick1
(“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”)
To: lbryce
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:40:22 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: angcat
LOL my fav episode.
Mine too. Hilarious. Favorite line is when Tony calls Pauly and asks him to do this and Pauly says, “Ton’ I gotta take my ma to social security today...”
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:41:08 AM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: lbryce
"Whats to know? We were freezing our b**** off and no cell service!
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:42:34 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Patrick1
Maybe he could explain the final episode while he is at it. That's easy. As Meadow cones into the restau
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:42:57 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: angcat
My favorite line “he’s an interior decorator”
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:43:21 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
To: lbryce
I’d love to have heard an answer to the interviewer’s last question.
If I’d have been the interviewer, my first question to David Chase would have been: “About the final episode — WTF?”
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:44:09 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
To: Roccus
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:44:22 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: lbryce
Just my opinion, but they faced the choice of filling time with a suspenseful "who's the Russian going to kill and how next?" device, or a pointless plot line about the travails of a 400 pound homosexual capo who is found out, moves to Vermont and buys an antique shop, has a brief affair with a local fireman whose entire crew are seemingly bent, and then gets tracked down and tragically impaled on a broom handle by an offended in law who happens to be with one of the NY families (played, by coincidence, by the "go get your shine box" guy from
Good Fella's).
That they chose the latter tells you everything you may ever have wanted to know about Hollywood.
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:48:06 AM PDT
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: Patrick1
Maybe he could explain the final episode while he is at it. Copy this link
http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/
For me it is the definitive explanation communicated in painstaking detail.
Spoiler
Tony dies.
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:56:48 AM PDT
by
erod
(I'm a Chicagoan till Chicago ends...)
To: lbryce
Ahhh, my favorite episode! Favorite line: “The guy’s an interior decorator? His place looks like $#!* !!!” It was genius.
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posted on
05/21/2013 7:59:42 AM PDT
by
VRWCer
( They will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - ML King)
To: erod
LOL, I figured that, but I would have preferred a James Caan type ending in the Godfather to the one Chase gave us.
Which was more like an old Dallas episode.
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05/21/2013 8:00:28 AM PDT
by
Patrick1
(“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”)
To: Patrick1
If you watch the last few moments of the video, the interviewer, in mock sincerity, not at all expecting Chase to really reveal Tony's fate, asks Chase if Tony is still alive, referencing the ambiguous ending where the screen goes blank supposedly symbolizing Tony's death.
The blank screen at the finale had critics making reference to an earlier episode with Tony spending the weekend at his brother-in-law Bobby Bacala's country home has Bacala quoted as saying to the effect that death comes like a screen being turned off.
In the last few moments of the episode, there's this suspicious character going into the men's room, allegedly before killing Tony in homage to Michael Corleone doing the same, when retrieving the gun from the men's room in 'the Godfather' before killing Salaci and the police captain, after which in the Sopranos' finale has the screen goes blank.
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posted on
05/21/2013 8:07:16 AM PDT
by
lbryce
(BHO:"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way Oppenheiner at Trinity NM)
To: Maceman
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posted on
05/21/2013 8:10:07 AM PDT
by
lbryce
(BHO:"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way Oppenheiner at Trinity NM)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: NeoCaveman
Yep, and he killed 13 Czechoslavakians....
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posted on
05/21/2013 8:33:51 AM PDT
by
NOVACPA
To: NeoCaveman
Yep, and he killed 16 Czechoslovakians....
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posted on
05/21/2013 8:35:27 AM PDT
by
NOVACPA
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