Posted on 06/10/2007 7:08:12 PM PDT by RDTF
What the heck?!
“Why do people who don’t even watch television always post on TV threads and brag about how they don’t watch television? Do you think anybody cares?”
I like how they nine-times-out-of-ten point out that they “don’t even own a television”. Right, sure they don’t.
*ewww* and *LOL* at the same time!
If that really is Tony being killed, which I think it probably is, the reason not to tag an epilogue shot is perspective. The show has really always been about Tony and we only see other characters without Tony around to give us knowledge of stuff that’s going to effect Tony’s life. Once Tony is dead there’s nothing left that’s going to effect it. Also there’s the problem of where to draw the line, if you show Carm and Meadow reacting why not Melfie and Paulie and other survivors. I like the clean cutoff, boom, shows over. It’s not like we haven’t seen plenty of other reactions to dead mobsters over the course of the show, we know how it works.
That's what I thought. It goes on. The family keeps bickering, vaguely menacing characters keep swirling around, one way or another it goes on.
Tony looked right at that guy as he walked into the bathroom. No way does he not see it coming, if that's what it was.
Chase said that? Well, I would answer that art is different from life because you have control over the art you create. Stories DO provide closure and resolution and it’s chintzy and cheesy (and more than a little condescending) to compare things we don’t have any control over to things we do.
Ohhh! Jimmy Two Times. HAHAHA. HANH-HANH-HANH-HANH-HANH!
"It was revenge for Billy Batts, and a lot of other things. ... It was real greaseball s--t."
Well it was the same actor, that got whacked in the middle of the episode that played Batts in Goodfellas.
If the black screen (and no music) meant Tony was dead, then all the stuff he went through in his Near Death Experience was just bunk, according to the producers, and there’s nothing. Pretty nihilistical.
That guy didn’t have any reason to go after Tony. That was all Christopheh’s temper and Paulies dumbf#$%edness that caused all that. They were NOT supposed to hit that guy. COurse maybe he didn’t know all that.
I also heard that the guy Tony and them busted out, the Terminator Robert Patrick, was in the diner. Guess I’m going to have to look again.
It’s true, why shouldn’t he get whacked? Why shouldn’t our anti-hero go down like the legions he’s dispatched. Why him? Why not him?
Still, Tony’s had a sixth sense about these things in the past, it would be surprising if someone could get the drop on him like that when he’s got his family to protect.
On his radio show this morning, Dennis Miller talked about your take on the ending. Congrats!
Agree.. I posted a similar thing on another thread here.
I hate elitist snobs, libs or conservatives...”I NEVER watch tv. I don’t OWN a tv!” Yeah? Whoop-di d00! I guess that makes you ssooooo intellectual.
In this day and age, anything that gives us a break I say let that person enjoy it. these Soprano threads were filled with these killjoys...So WHAT were they doing on the thread if they NEVER watch “this crap”? ha.
Oh give it a rest!
It was if anything a conservative show. Every time someone trashed Bush or yapped a lib line, that actor looked stupid, like AJ. You missed the whole thing.
How simplistic to think it was HBO giving YOU the finger. ha.
Artistically, I think you've hit it. Another thing... Chase said a long time ago that he's known how the series would end right from the beginning.
I wanna egg cream!
Mark
“What? I have no television, haven’t watched it in years. I don’t miss it as I find what goes on there is completely and totally irrelevant to the real world.”
Unlike this post?
David Chase turned off your TV right before the "good part".
I don't think AJ had actually thought that decision through, much less talked to a recruiter. It was one more fantasy: "And then I'll be Trump's private helicopter pilot and a CIA agent."
In it’s heyday, Seinfeld was very, very funny.
Then Seinfeld became very, very, mean and irritating.
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