No... No! Nothing Happens! That's the ending!
Posted on 06/10/2007 7:05:31 PM PDT by newbie 10-21-00
I loved it...
I thought it was a great way to end the show. The Sopranos was the best TV series ever in my opinion, and even after 86 hours, there are still loose ends. Think about that— the series is the length of 40 feature length movies, and the depth of character development and the amount of story and plot that can be accomplished is staggering.
Shows like the Sopranos (Prison Break is another) have made regular movies seem shallow to me. It was good to see Tony with his last interaction with each character and you have to think it was quite a wild time filming the last season as each person one by one filmed their last scene with Gandolfini.
Closure is overrated— life goes on.
Doubt it...only 10 million viewers watch this on HBO. Not enough to get any major interest... I HATED THIS ENDING. I STOOD THINKING THIS IS PURE BULL*&^%. Just like Tony woulda done. Pure cop out!
(That's why they call it the boob-tube!)
[chortle - snort!]
It’s pretty obvious. You have Carmela pimping for Hillary in 2000. The anti-Catholic Church spectra from season one. The whole “poor Vito is gay” story-line.
Signed up today to post that. LOL
Sorry, I replied to the wrong poster.
Chase left us with Tony facing indictment almost certainly, which will mean long jail time for him, if he survives. His life from here out will consist of continually watching his back everywhere he goes. He has lost his three most senior people, including his consigliere SIlvio, along with Bobby and Christopher. Paulie has made it obvious that he has no great aspirations to take on greater responsibility. Tony basically has no one close to him that he trusts in the mob anymore.
His family- Carmela, Meadow and A.J. are all he has that he loves in the world, and they are going to be taken away from him by jail or a bullet. Crime doesn’t pay.
I wasn’t commenting on the supposed politics of the show. But on your issues you’re wrong across the board. Carmela didn’t pimp for Hillary in 2000, there was no anti-Catholic Church spectra in season one, and “poor Vito” was still a criminal ripping off the nice people in that small town who welcomed him with open arms.
No... No! Nothing Happens! That's the ending!
I don’t watch TV to leave something to my imagination. I watch it to follow a story and at least see that story end with at least a little bit of closure. After 8 years you would expect to see some sense of finality in a final episode.
This was nothing more than David Chase saying **** you to the millions of fans who have invested their time and interest into making him and his creation a household name. It’s not ‘genius’ to leave things to the imagination, it’s a cop out.
Yep some people do think that. Does that mean those people can’t be portrayed on TV?
That’s what the left thinks of the people “stupid enough” to join the military.
You are not getting it- the point was showing A.J.'s shallowness- last week he was against the war, this week he wanted to join the army, until he was bought off. It has nothing to do with one's opinion of the war, but of A.J's character. Remember that we were not supposed to see any of the Sopranos as heros or good guys whose lives were worth emulating.
I hope there is no movie. What can they do in 2 more hours that they couldn’t do in the first 86? I don’t think we’ll see a movie.
Another season (or a spinoff) in three years or so would be a better angle IMHO. Maybe a crime/law show based on Meadow’s character, she could defend Tony in his trial, or a Witness Protection type angle...
Actually, years ago I remember reading somewhere that Chase based the Tony character loosely on himself. Chase had "mother issues" like Tony and had been in therapy for years trying to deal with them...
The mobster show is the perfect place to rant on about how pathetic people who join the military are.
He was just too chicken-sh!t to actually write up an ending.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner
I can't believe I followed this show since the beginning for that.
Of course there’s also people who don’t get HBO and still watch the show on DVD (like me, I find the movie channels too redundant for the price). Then of course A&E is running the show so it could be growing audience there. And even if the 10 million figure is the top times an average movie ticket price of $6.58 that’s 65 million bucks, not a blockbuster but if you make the movie on a standard Weinstein budget ($6 million) that’s a nice chunk of change. But really I don’t think Chase wants to do any movies afterwards, that’s why he killed so many characters, any continuation would involve a serious rebuilding of the cast.
A.J. is the depressed jobless loser who saw his only way out in joining the military and had it not been for his parents rich connections he would have signed up only to die or be cripple.
That’s what the left thinks of the people “stupid enough” to join the military.
You are not getting it- the point was showing A.J.'s shallowness- last week he was against the war, this week he wanted to join the army, until he was bought off. It has nothing to do with one's opinion of the war, but of A.J's character. Remember that we were not supposed to see any of the Sopranos as heros or good guys whose lives were worth emulating.
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