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Sopranos: What did you decide?
Jun 11, 2007 | 11:10 PM
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The fade to black in mid action was drama at it's best. David Chase is brilliant.

I particularly liked that he chose to fade to black right as Meadow was about to enter the restaurant and Tony looked up. As I Tivo'd back...his expression didn't indicate whether he saw her...in fact he didn't give away anything. What happened next is obviously up for interpretation. Considering all the players that were in the diner....anyone or none of them could have whacked the family or taken them into custody. It was such an uncomfortable moment.

The moment reminded me of seeing a great painting, a sculpture, or hearing a new song. At first...maybe you're not quite sure what to make of it. You're angry(for wasting your time), amused, sad, disgusted....but later...you see something else. You then begin to appreciate it. You appreciate the artist for giving YOU the power to decide.

Sometimes I think the Sopranos all lived, continued their lives as a suburban, dysfunctional family. And then, sometimes...I think they were shot down. Executed much like Scorsese's Goodfellas or the Godfather.

What did you decide?



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sebar read my blog view my photos
Jun 12, 2007 | 12:18 PM

It was another dumb move, shortchanging the audience. This is what is killing production end products.

I could have written a far better ending than that [...]!

American Author and Poet
"Mark Paul" Sebar
TatianaH read my blog view my photos
Jun 12, 2007 | 6:06 PM

I thought the ending was brilliant! Not the typical Hollywood ending tied up neatly with a little bow that we have gotten so used to. The show started as we saw their life in progress and ended the same way, just like real life. I read on a message board that someone said it was the audience that got whacked, hence we faded to black and won't know what happens next.
craftyguy read my blog
Jun 12, 2007 | 7:20 PM

the sopranos ..forgetaboutem
blcoffman read my blog
Jun 13, 2007 | 8:23 AM

Sopranos , who are the sopranos ??
RuchelleQ read my blog view my photos
Jun 13, 2007 | 1:35 PM

i loved the ending like i wrote in my blog, the uncle talks about death and how you go from seeing light to seeing black. so when the ending goes to black well they are all sleeping with the fishes pardon the pun.
sebar read my blog view my photos
Jun 13, 2007 | 10:12 PM

Its a RIP-OFF ending to continue hooking people. Short changing your audience never works, in fact it infuriates most of them. See the customer should always be treated to the very best storytelling, not a financial studio agenda to repackage something with a [...] ending. Like I stated I could have written this a lot better especially if they wanted to continue. The production needs to cut the [...] and level with their customers. Unfortunately they took something good and left it hanging in hopes they will continue to profit from it.

Yeah I know its the last one, but we have all heard this before. They will continue as long as they can milk it for more than its worth and there will always be enough "Movie Schmoes"; who will always want more, negating the "RIP-OFF" they foisted on their viewers.

This time the hollywood style sequel ripoff won't do as well.

American Author and Poet
"Mark Paul" Sebar
Bajouke
Jun 15, 2007 | 3:16 AM

David Chase knows the American Public. He's no dummy by any means. No instant gratification for you! Use your overly fed, out of shape, IMAGINATION!
MoveOn
Jun 15, 2007 | 8:04 PM

Total [...], ripoff, copout. It's so obvious the idiot didn't know how to end it because HBO wants to leave the door open to future endeavors.
sebar read my blog view my photos
Jun 18, 2007 | 1:22 PM

Look a friend author was writing a semi factual gangster drama where the guy gets out of his old 1930's coupe after being chased by cops down the road for moonshine during the prohibition era. The author told me that the guy got out and the cops did a Bonnie and Clyde ending where they shot him at the car.

I came back and said he dude, where's your imagination in storytelling? So he asked what I was talking about. So I gave him something far better.

The guy fleeing in the car has moonshine in his trunk as he is fleeing. The cops are chasing him in a slower car and he is gaining away from them. But bullets do travel, and the many shots of the peace officers, a few punctured a drum and moonshine is leaking on the road. The cop driving tosses his cigarette onto the road and it catches on the drying highway'ed moonshine igniting it. The flame travels faster than the cop car passing it in the process leaving them unscathed. As the bad guy in his car is getting ahead of them and disappears over the road hill, "KABOOM" his own moonshine did him in.

Now without going into the semantics of it, that was a much grander ending to the story than guy a guy stepping out of his car and just getting shot. Time to think up that ending to my friends novel about 30 seconds. If I am small little me, you know me, a nobody artist, than what about this bigshot getting big bucks? I mean you would think he would have on his payroll people a zillion times more talented than little ol' "Mark Paul" who could instantly write and ending with spirit and imagination, amongst other qualities in sto
sebar read my blog view my photos
Jun 18, 2007 | 1:22 PM

amongst other qualities in storytelling...and that's my point.

By the way Bajouke, not overly fed and not out of shape, but that producer may well be.

American Author and Poet
"Mark Paul" Sebar
Avamp1 read my blog
Jun 26, 2007 | 8:21 AM

Hated the ending. I think after all these years he owed us more than that. REALLY SUCKED
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