Adam Albright

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:43:59 -0700, "Milhouse Van Houten"
<btvs@myrealbox.com> wrote:

>It was down for a while, allegedly because of fans swamping the site to
>complain about the finale. Uh, and BTW, it wasn't your cable company that
>blacked out the closing seconds (why on earth would they?); it was the show
>itself. Maybe you should re-watch that scene a little more carefully.

LOL! Yea, no kidding. David Chase (creator of the Soprano's) is a
piece of work. I can imagine all the dopes watching and then cursing
their cable companies or madly leaping out of their chairs to try to
"fix" their tvs because oops... it blacked out right at the climax and
to further add to the illusion the audio went dead too even during the
final credits.

Well guess what folks, that WAS the ending. You didn't miss anything.
Case said in a interview before the final show aired that he had wrote
the ending EXACTLY like you saw it years before and felt it was the
appropriate way to end it, meaning the ending was if you still need an
explanation is simply; life goes on.

Not surprising many didn't "get it". If you didn't get it, then you
never really understood the main plot of the show. There wasn't any
plot like the very successful Sienfeld. It was always just a slice of
live. Tony and his dysfunctional family was the typical American upper
middle class family, just that Tony happened to also be a minor mob
boss, otherwise it had many of the same problems the rest of us do.

Being a "fan" I like many felt a little cheated, but at the same time
know David Chase is a excellent writer/director/producer and was sort
of expecting a less than explosive ending.

If you demand a better ending, make up your own. For those that look
for clues there was one. Bobby who got whacked himself in a quite
moment with Tony earlier said "you never see or hear it coming". Well
duh, Tony didn't either in the last 30 seconds you didn't see. No
longer hiding, out in public with his family, having made a deal to
end the dispute and Phil dead, bang, bang, bang, Tony never saw it
coming. Actually typical tv viewers didn't see it coming. The
Soprano's was a excellent show and didn't stoop to a typical Hollywood
style ending with all the sub plots neatly tied up and Tony getting
hauled off to the slammer, killed in another rollover accident or
whacked. Nope, just a slice of life.
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>"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
>news:%2398Bcw9qHHA.4100@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> "Kevin John Panzke" wrote
>>> HBO.COM Will Not Load Up, Just FYI!
>>>
>>> Kevin John Panzke (MSDN Operating Systems Level Subscriber and Microsoft
>>> Tech Net Direct Subscriber)
>>>
>>> P.S. Our Cable Company Blacked Out The Final 5 Second's Of The Soprano's,
>>> So I Now Have No Way Of Knowing Whether They Get Whacked Or Not At The
>>> End Of The Show, Just FYI.
>>>
>>
>>
>> It opens here just fine.
>>
>> --
>> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]