06-11-2007, 03:31 PM
First off, I loved the final episode. In an age where TV hits the common denominator and dumbs down to say things...I appreciated the deft hand Chase himself used for the finale.
When the show ended I had a flashback in high school when I read The Lady and The Tiger by Francis Stockton. The short story left the reader in a logical quandry to which door the main character would choose. As a teenager, I got annoyed by it. It wasn't till years later when I truly respected the story and idea...where dots aren't connected for us, when things are left to our own devices.
TV has always tended to forcefeed us opinions, ideas, entertainment, outrage, etc. But here, we are left to our own devices of what to choose. Is it the Lady or the Tiger? Some hate that type of leaving it in our court, shouting for the entertainment and writers to give us our ending...but we all know that life isn't like that...and to me, David Chase really laid a nice ending down...even if some are outraged. I think he did something special and unique and I think people will appreciate it more over time.
Paulie Walnuts having the cat stare at him after his scene with Tony. Clearly a foreshadowing of his own doom...by Tony's hand one day? (like Chris) or because he was talking to the feds, thinking about himself
Carmela, once again sated by vicariously living her life thru her daughter, hearing that a lawyer would be lucrative.
AJ once again sated by being given something instead of following his own path.
Janice, once again going for the money...never really changing.
Junior...no longer really Junior anymore.
Despite that some made an observation elsewhere that Tony's conversation with Bobby B earlier this season..statements were made that if your time was up, you wouldn't expect it..and everything would just go black. Kind of like last night sudden ending.
However, I took the ending as he would just plug along with his family...doing what he always does. Despite impending indictments. Despite everything. And that Chase played with expectation and nervousness to a character we've followed for years, alluding to a sense of danger that really hit a nerve while he sat there with his family. Tugging that sense of...oh god no...not now..not in front of his family. That moment, seemed to me, avoided, and that Tony and family would just meander along.
When the show ended I had a flashback in high school when I read The Lady and The Tiger by Francis Stockton. The short story left the reader in a logical quandry to which door the main character would choose. As a teenager, I got annoyed by it. It wasn't till years later when I truly respected the story and idea...where dots aren't connected for us, when things are left to our own devices.
TV has always tended to forcefeed us opinions, ideas, entertainment, outrage, etc. But here, we are left to our own devices of what to choose. Is it the Lady or the Tiger? Some hate that type of leaving it in our court, shouting for the entertainment and writers to give us our ending...but we all know that life isn't like that...and to me, David Chase really laid a nice ending down...even if some are outraged. I think he did something special and unique and I think people will appreciate it more over time.
Paulie Walnuts having the cat stare at him after his scene with Tony. Clearly a foreshadowing of his own doom...by Tony's hand one day? (like Chris) or because he was talking to the feds, thinking about himself
Carmela, once again sated by vicariously living her life thru her daughter, hearing that a lawyer would be lucrative.
AJ once again sated by being given something instead of following his own path.
Janice, once again going for the money...never really changing.
Junior...no longer really Junior anymore.
Despite that some made an observation elsewhere that Tony's conversation with Bobby B earlier this season..statements were made that if your time was up, you wouldn't expect it..and everything would just go black. Kind of like last night sudden ending.
However, I took the ending as he would just plug along with his family...doing what he always does. Despite impending indictments. Despite everything. And that Chase played with expectation and nervousness to a character we've followed for years, alluding to a sense of danger that really hit a nerve while he sat there with his family. Tugging that sense of...oh god no...not now..not in front of his family. That moment, seemed to me, avoided, and that Tony and family would just meander along.
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.
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