On the way home from watching the Sopranos I told my wife what I thought the final ending meant. Basically, that life will go on as usual. The show is over but the Sopranos continue on...
It was interesting to read this from the article:
The finale displayed their lives continuing, for better and worse, unaffected by the fact that the series is done. The implication was, they will go on as usual. We just won't be able to watch.
I think that is the point. Unless you want to believe an entire mob family would be taken out, then you have to believe that this story will never end.
It was a pioneer for television. Without it you would have never seen "24", "House" or ANY of the shows in HBO or Showtime. They don't get it right very often on the TV or in movies, this time they did and it was fun watching...
Sunday, June 10, 2007
No Easy Ending for 'The Sopranos'
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Finally, a show gets a real ending!
I didn't like the original "Fugitive" series ending with the killing of the One Armed man.
Now, M*A*S*H did have an appropriate ending. The war did end and the series did run longer than the Korean War did.
I guess the people having problems with the ending have real problems in their own life.
I used to like watching the Sopranos until my cable provider went digital and changed the lineup in the package for which I was paying. Since they wanted more than I was willing to pay to get it back, I let it slide figuring I could catch up on DVD. Thus, I did not see the ending. From what I hear, I think the overall effect must be one of a let down, even if you enjoyed it.
But no matter what, it is my studied and pro couch potato opinion, that there has never been, and hasn't been since, a better finale to a television show of any kind, since the concluding episode of the last Bob Newhart show. This is the one where he was an innkeeper in Vermont and at the very end of the last show, woke up as if from a dream, in bed with Suzanne Plushette, as the couple from the earlier and equally popular Newhart show in which he played a Chicago psychologist. Talk about a surprise ending! I've never experienced anything so unexpected and it was a scream! A perfect example of television creativity the likes of which we seldom get to see. Genius.
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