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."
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Cool, thanks for the heads up.
Tony gets a very pleasant birthday present.
Sure that’s what we need, more nanny state government! We don’t have nearly enough intrusion. I need a gov’t watchdog to tell me how to change channels, turn off the TV or just not purchase HBO. Thanks for the idea, COMRADE!
And so is mine, so I know what I’m talking about! (It’s a joke, OK?)
OH Man! I watched the clip and am now just weeping. THat was the best, saddest ending of a show I have ever seen.
The dimwitted sportscaster, Sid Rosenberg, revealed on the Imus show that Christopher gets “shot.” Now, Christopher seems to get shot every season so I don’t know how final the situation is.
Having seen many books, short stories, and plays mutilated for the screen by Hays Code requirements, I can only say no thank you.
If Christo-fuh gets offed, I won’t be sad after Adriana got offed b/o his blabbing.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.— The Importance of Being Earnest.
OK.
I thought the death of Adriana was the very best episode in the entire series. What performances!
I watch Las Vegas, but it is so over the top it’s more comedy than drama.
Numb3rs is the only crime drama I can stand on network TV. Even though the math is unrealistic, it’s at least interesting.
All the rest are so faithful to the EWG (evil white guy) doctrine that they are pathetic. No matter the type of crime, or location, or victim, you can be sure a white guy in a suit did it. Drive-by shooting at a crack house, bum gets stabbed down by the docks, lesbian killed in a gay bar, mugging outside the opera goes bad, etc. You can be sure the plot twist will be the initial suspect is innocent, and they find some evil white guy in a suit actually did it. It’s especially comical when they have one of their “ripped from the headlines” stories, but “certain attributes” of the bad guy are changed, lol.
Never a big fan, I switched off completely when the idiots who write and produce this thing felt it vital to shove the homosexual agenda down our throats (pun intended).
It's pretty obvious they have cleaned up the language.
We tape it since my wife goes to bed around 9, just when the show is starting.
We watch the 2 taped shows the next night, FF through the commercials.
Have any idea what season is running on A&E?
Thanks, we must be watching the current season.
bump
Six feet under became too in your face gay, I stopped watching.
I believe they are in season Two, check here
http://www.aetv.com/thesopranos/sopranos_ep_guide.jsp?episode=218353
“I really, really don’t want to post this. Taken out of context, the scenes lose their emotional impact. If you must proceed, however, then here it is: The last six minutes of the series.”
Thanks for posting that. I rarely let things get to me, but that one does - I’d been dealing with the death of my father and uncle when that show ended, and it hit hard. Death is a touchy subject, one that I’d prefer not to be skilled at dealing with. That show got me - well written, well acted, and did’nt preach - it show flawed humans at their best and worst, during life and death. SFU was a powerful series, and it’s ending one of the best of the best, they bowed out gracefully with no loose end, after all, we all go sometime, and all debts are wiped clean.
(as for pushing the gay agenda...whatever. I dealt with that a long time ago accepting gay family members. Like them or not, they are part of our world, and not going away, and they live and die and feel joy and pain and sorrow like the rest of us. I don’t support the political activists of their community, nor engage in or dwell in their culture, but they’re human beings.)
As for the Sopranos...I have hopes, but not too high. The series has been very good...and very mediocre. I never “cared” about the characters, like SFU, but...I don’t know. I’m going to just watch and see if Chase can pull it off. There’s rumor of a Sopranos movie, so he may not wrap up all loose ends. It’s a good show, had a great run, I hope he puts it to bed with a BANG (pun fully intended).
The Sopranos entertains me, much like movies like “The Godfather”, or Goodfellas”. But they don’t hit me where I live like SFU did. Maybe it was what I was going through at the time, but SFU will always rank as the ONLY show where I actually cared about the characters...and would’nt change a single thing.
Sunday nights were good there for a while, with the Sopranos and SFU. I hope HBO has some good stuff up it’s sleave in the future!
You must be Canadian. Americans in NJ who post something about the Sopranos get thrown into the smokey backroom or general/chat.
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