LAist: The Sopranos - We Kept Telling You This Guy's Good

ted

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:53:12 -0800

Chase and Gandolfini are sick of the Sopranos, but this episode tells me that it will be back, in some form. Historically, when a creator truly wants to be done with something, he kills off that creation, so no one can bring it back. The classic example is Conan Doyle with Sherlock Holmes, although in that case he had to bring back Holmes anyway because of popular outcry. I don't think there was "one ending" to the story, just like the juke box said "any way you want it". In two years, perhaps Chase and Gandolfini will feel like doing a Sopranos mini-series of 6 episodes. The door is not closed to that and I think that was intentional.

tony

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:42:16 -0800

dude what did she say then?

two.oh

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:39:18 -0800

Dude, the NYTimes critic did not say she didn't like it.

tony

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:39:58 -0800

excellent insight Ross!

Ross Hoffman

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:11:19 -0800

So when Bobby and Tony were fishing about four eps back this season (the fight at the lake), Bobby says something along the lines of "they say right before you get hit, you're at peace, and then suddenly, everything goes black. I think Tony got it in the end. All in all, great ep., and you have to love how two weeks ago, his son was suicidal, his daughter was in med school, and he was in the desert doing paote in vegas w/ a quasi-hooker. god bless that show!

Will Campbell

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:03:21 -0800

"Life goes on" limbo is for sentimentards.

Elise

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:00:44 -0800

They got me. I totally yelled, "Fucking TiVO!" before the credits rolled. The ending was very much like the ending of "Taxi Driver".

Beth Kopley

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:10:03 -0800

I was so glad that David Chase didn't deliver a Godfather-type whackfest (like some fans wanted) or a tidy roundup-by-indictment...he left us in existential limbo, which is where we started out with Tony and the damn ducks. Brilliant. He led us on to think that half the diner (Holsten's in Bloomfield -- yay!) could be after him...or maybe not. We'll never know -- so much truer to the spirit of the series than stacked bodies and wailing survivors.