Posted on 04/08/2007 4:29:13 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
It's never over till it's over" goes the familiar refrain. This time, though, it's truly over for The Sopranos.
The quintessentially American family epic raises the curtain on the first of its nine final episodes tonight. The final aria will be sung June 10. The final scene was filmed in a wholesome family ice cream parlour, in Bloomfield, N.J. and includes James Gandolfini's gangster don and family man Tony Soprano, Edie Falco's pragmatic -- and legit -- mob moll Carmela Soprano and Tony Sirico's immaculately coiffed capo Peter Paul Gualtieri, a.k.a. Paulie Walnuts, a movie buff and debt collector given to saying things like, "I was born, grew up, spent a few years in the army, a few more in the can and here I am, a half o' wise guy."
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I don’t know but the last shot of Tony and Paulie in next weeks preview had them sitting in the car and was it snow falling or maybe fallout from a bomb?...
They had all of the characters in that preview sorta staring out at something....I’m just sayin...
I'm with you. The kid has always come off as strange. His preoccupation with the war on terror wasn't that far removed from his preoccupation with his girlfriend dumping him. I do like the irony of his "global" worries while there's plenty at home for him to really worry about. Typical lib who can't take care of himself but thinks he has a better idea how to run the world.
Ok, maybe not painful, but certainly horrible what with the Esplanade rolling over his head. But, the rest of the ending was dreadful. No "ending" at all. Just leaving it open for sequels. For heaven's sake, LET'S HAVE SOME CLOSURE!
You’re right. Much too ambiguous. I thought the guy going into the bathroom was going to pull a gun and whack
Tony. But, Tony was obviously looking at the front door as Meadow came in.
What kind of ending was that?
The adjectives "weak" and "pathetic" come to mind. Not nearly so "Soprano-like" as the rest of the series. I'm quite disappointed - not so much because there was no blood shed (I spent too many years working in emergency rooms to want to see that), but because it was a tremendous emotional let-down after everything else that has happened over the years.
I guess we'll just have to wait for the follow-up movie.
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