Sopranos Fans:David Chase Finally Explains The Sopranos Pine Barrens Episode

You Tube ^ | April 29, 2013 | David Chase

[lbryce]

In what is by most accounts the Sopranos' most talked about, controversial episode, David Chase,the Sopranos' creator, looks to respond to what is probably the fans' biggest gripe of the series regarding a tantalizing plot issue left unresolved. "Pine Barrens" has Chris and Paulie getting lost in the wintry wilderness of South Jersey in the aftermath of their intention to dispose of a Russian mobster "Goodfellas" style, but the mobster, best friend of Tony's business associate manages to escape the clutches of these seemingly inept henchmen.

Fans were quite upset that a very compelling story line whereby the mobster returns to wreak havoc on Tony and his crew is never explored nor is the mobster and his fate ever addressed.

Chase is asked by the interviewer about the incident and tries to mollify the fans many years too late.

[lbryce]

The clip, nearly two minutes in length has Chase coming across quite lame, apathetic about it all.

[angcat]

LOL my fav episode. Pauly is such a pissa.

[submarinerswife]

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[Patrick1]

Maybe he could explain the final episode while he is at it.

[JoeProBono]

[Wyatt's Torch]

LOL my fav episode.

Mine too. Hilarious. Favorite line is when Tony calls Pauly and asks him to do this and Pauly says, “Ton’ I gotta take my ma to social security today...”

[Liberty Valance]

"Whats to know? We were freezing our b**** off and no cell service!

[Roccus]

Maybe he could explain the final episode while he is at it.

That's easy. As Meadow cones into the restau

[NeoCaveman]

My favorite line “he’s an interior decorator”

[Maceman]

I’d love to have heard an answer to the interviewer’s last question.

If I’d have been the interviewer, my first question to David Chase would have been: “About the final episode — WTF?”

[Roccus]

“cones” S/B “comes”

[katana]

Just my opinion, but they faced the choice of filling time with a suspenseful "who's the Russian going to kill and how next?" device, or a pointless plot line about the travails of a 400 pound homosexual capo who is found out, moves to Vermont and buys an antique shop, has a brief affair with a local fireman whose entire crew are seemingly bent, and then gets tracked down and tragically impaled on a broom handle by an offended in law who happens to be with one of the NY families (played, by coincidence, by the "go get your shine box" guy from Good Fella's).

That they chose the latter tells you everything you may ever have wanted to know about Hollywood.

[erod]

Maybe he could explain the final episode while he is at it.

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For me it is the definitive explanation communicated in painstaking detail.

Spoiler

Tony dies.

[VRWCer]

Ahhh, my favorite episode! Favorite line: “The guy’s an interior decorator? His place looks like $#!* !!!” It was genius.

[Patrick1]

LOL, I figured that, but I would have preferred a James Caan type ending in the Godfather to the one Chase gave us.

Which was more like an old Dallas episode.

[lbryce]

If you watch the last few moments of the video, the interviewer, in mock sincerity, not at all expecting Chase to really reveal Tony's fate, asks Chase if Tony is still alive, referencing the ambiguous ending where the screen goes blank supposedly symbolizing Tony's death.

The blank screen at the finale had critics making reference to an earlier episode with Tony spending the weekend at his brother-in-law Bobby Bacala's country home has Bacala quoted as saying to the effect that death comes like a screen being turned off.

In the last few moments of the episode, there's this suspicious character going into the men's room, allegedly before killing Tony in homage to Michael Corleone doing the same, when retrieving the gun from the men's room in 'the Godfather' before killing Salaci and the police captain, after which in the Sopranos' finale has the screen goes blank.

[lbryce]

Kindly see post #16.

[NOVACPA]

Yep, and he killed 13 Czechoslavakians....

[NOVACPA]

Yep, and he killed 16 Czechoslovakians....