Wacked
Yeah, I'm writing about Sopranos.
After 8 1/2 years of watching--well, it wasn't really that long for us because we only just started watching the show in the third season and only had HBO for the last three, I think--I have to.
The first few seasons we watched on DVD, snapping up all the discs we could for weekend-long marathons of death, and grief, and sorrow, and murder. It was great fun, leaving us both a little bug-eyed at the end of each Sopranos marathon weekend.
This last episode was great. The show closed in typical Chase fashion--no nice, neat packages tied up in pretty bows. If you want that, watch Gilmore Girls.
Here are my thoughts on the ending:
In addition to Carlo flipping, Patsy Parisi did, too. There were a few scenes in the last two episodes of sideways glances and pregnant pauses, where I couldn't help but wonder what Patsy was up to. While I was having my doubts about Paulie, I really had my doubts about Patsy.
Paulie may very well be dead. The cat, with its obsession with Christopher's picture, was possibly foreshadowing Paulie's death. Though, as Nigel surmised, maybe the cat was Christopher. Christopher hated Paulie and Paulie hated the cat that wouldn't go away.
Tony is dead. Gone. 86ed. You don't off the boss of your rival family and live. In fact, you probably aren't hanging out at the local steakhouse eating onion rings with your family so soon after doing that. The man at the counter who walked into the bathroom (A Russian? He looked Eastern European to me) was a tip of the cap to the Godfather, as was an earlier scene. Throughout the Godfather, death is foreshadowed with oranges--there's a bowl of oranges on the table during the meeting of the families, Don Corleone eats an orange soon before his death.
Tony Soprano peeled and ate what appeared to be a tangerine while stopping in at the beach house to see his family. Gone.
David Chases's ending did provide some frustrations--who doesn't want things wrapped up nice and neat? Who doesn't want to know how it ends for Tony? Who didn't want Adrianna to return, alive? But alas, Chases gave us what he wanted and not what we wanted and that's okay. It was a great ride.
(Though I do believe my brother's proposed ending was the best of all:
Tony wakes up. Rolls over in bed and says, "Honey, I just had the strangest dream."
No surprise--Emily Hartley is in bed next to him. She wakes up.
In bursts Bob Hartley, sporting a sawed-off shotgun. He blows them both to pieces.
Roll final credits.)
After 8 1/2 years of watching--well, it wasn't really that long for us because we only just started watching the show in the third season and only had HBO for the last three, I think--I have to.
The first few seasons we watched on DVD, snapping up all the discs we could for weekend-long marathons of death, and grief, and sorrow, and murder. It was great fun, leaving us both a little bug-eyed at the end of each Sopranos marathon weekend.
This last episode was great. The show closed in typical Chase fashion--no nice, neat packages tied up in pretty bows. If you want that, watch Gilmore Girls.
Here are my thoughts on the ending:
In addition to Carlo flipping, Patsy Parisi did, too. There were a few scenes in the last two episodes of sideways glances and pregnant pauses, where I couldn't help but wonder what Patsy was up to. While I was having my doubts about Paulie, I really had my doubts about Patsy.
Paulie may very well be dead. The cat, with its obsession with Christopher's picture, was possibly foreshadowing Paulie's death. Though, as Nigel surmised, maybe the cat was Christopher. Christopher hated Paulie and Paulie hated the cat that wouldn't go away.
Tony is dead. Gone. 86ed. You don't off the boss of your rival family and live. In fact, you probably aren't hanging out at the local steakhouse eating onion rings with your family so soon after doing that. The man at the counter who walked into the bathroom (A Russian? He looked Eastern European to me) was a tip of the cap to the Godfather, as was an earlier scene. Throughout the Godfather, death is foreshadowed with oranges--there's a bowl of oranges on the table during the meeting of the families, Don Corleone eats an orange soon before his death.
Tony Soprano peeled and ate what appeared to be a tangerine while stopping in at the beach house to see his family. Gone.
David Chases's ending did provide some frustrations--who doesn't want things wrapped up nice and neat? Who doesn't want to know how it ends for Tony? Who didn't want Adrianna to return, alive? But alas, Chases gave us what he wanted and not what we wanted and that's okay. It was a great ride.
(Though I do believe my brother's proposed ending was the best of all:
Tony wakes up. Rolls over in bed and says, "Honey, I just had the strangest dream."
No surprise--Emily Hartley is in bed next to him. She wakes up.
In bursts Bob Hartley, sporting a sawed-off shotgun. He blows them both to pieces.
Roll final credits.)
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3 Comments:
YAYAYAY!! You're back!
Awesome commentary!
Yay, you guys are back!
Thanks, Charlotte. I have more to say on the topic, but the moment seems to have passed. :D
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