June 10, 2007 5:56 pm
Tony Tony Tony
Posted by Will under television, updated
I can’t remember anticipating a television show at the level that I’m eagerly awaiting the arrival of the series finale of The Sopranos that airs in a few minutes. Will the last episode go Shakespearean in the proportions of its tragedy and make everybody and I mean everybody dead? Will A.J.’s suicidal tendencies manifest itself with patricide? Will Tony see no way out but to seek government protection in order to save his family?
All I know is ain’t better be anybody riding off into the sunset happily ever after else I ain’t never watching that show again! Ever.
UPDATE (7:44 p.m.): Screw me for expecting a final episode with some balls. This makes the ridiculous Seinfeld series sayonara look like genius in comparison.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Well, whattaya expect? I too was thinking along the same lines as you and the ending, while a bit of a letdown, was pretty in character for the whole entire series. Life just goes on for some…
June 11th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Marilyn, I guess I’m guilty of looking at it from how thing were set-up and built up along the way this season and I’m guilty of believing the hype that something dramatic was gonna go down at the finish.
Think about it: a terrified Tony sits at the end of the previous episode with a machine gun cradled to his chest ready to do battle and the opening shot of the finale has the camera close up on his head looking like he was dead in an open casket. But no, instead he was just snoozing. And when the next shot showed the gun by the bedside table I had a feeling a let down was on its way.
They couldn’t even whack Tony’s rival Phil with any satisfaction! Call me a sick bastard but I would have had that sumbitch wounded but still alive after the hit only to be unable to move out of the path of the SUV that finishes him off.
Overall, instead the something exciting the show’s creators opted for the tired and lazy way out be it in executing Phil or in letting life just go on for Tony and his family munching onion rings in the midst of a bunch of phony tension building. And the abrupt gimmicky “did the cable go out again!?” cliffhanger ending was ridiculously contrived and just plain silly and added insult to injury (not to forget it leaves things open for HBO to throw a ton of cash at David Chase to excrete a Sopranos movie somewhere down the line).