The NY Post article discusses the bizarre ending to the HBO megahit show, The Sopranos.
James Gandolfini, the actor who played crime boss Tony Soprano, admitted that he was as confused as everyone else by the finale as set forth in April’s Vanity Fair.
The ending of the show was set with Tony and his family having dinner, then there is a hint of something about to happen - - - but the screen suddenly goes black. No explanation. No noise. Nothing.
The ending of the show was set with Tony and his family having dinner, then there is a hint of something about to happen - - - but the screen suddenly goes black. No explanation. No noise. Nothing.
“When I first saw the ending, I said, ‘What the f--k?’” Gandolfini said. “I mean, after all I went through, all this death, and then it’s over like that?”
Many Sopranos fans thought that the black-out ending was a cop-out, a trick or a bad joke on them. When fans invest a lot of time in their favorite shows and characters, then want some resolution.
Many Sopranos fans thought that the black-out ending was a cop-out, a trick or a bad joke on them. When fans invest a lot of time in their favorite shows and characters, then want some resolution.
Gandolfini says he eventually, over time, came to like the ending.
"God knows we’ve talked about that ending for five years now — we’re still talking about it. People stop me in the street. ‘Did you get the ending? Did I miss something?’ I thought it was very, very shrewd,” he says.
Shrewd may not clear up the bitterness in some fans minds.
LOST had a different kind of ending, but just as confusing. The idea that the sideways world was a purgatory and the characters were all dead when the producers said for years the show was not about the afterlife stung many die hard fan theorists. They thought they were mislead. All the tangents about science, worm holes, time leaps . . . . were all somehow turned irrelevant filler since they did not play into any resolution in The End.
Now, some fans liked the ending because it brought their favorite characters back together. It was the happy ending many wanted since the pilot episode crash. But it seemed to be the easy way out of a corner painted by the unexplained mysteries and events of the Island.
You could have ended LOST a season before, with Juliet pounding a rock to get Jughead to explode. That would have been "The Sopranos" style ending - - - and fans could still be rationally debating what happened to the characters and the Island if the bomb did or did not explode. Because, the final season with the Jacob and MIB story arc really did not connect with the prior seasons plot lines, character motivations or continuity, there lies the disappointment for many fans.
"God knows we’ve talked about that ending for five years now — we’re still talking about it. People stop me in the street. ‘Did you get the ending? Did I miss something?’ I thought it was very, very shrewd,” he says.
Shrewd may not clear up the bitterness in some fans minds.
LOST had a different kind of ending, but just as confusing. The idea that the sideways world was a purgatory and the characters were all dead when the producers said for years the show was not about the afterlife stung many die hard fan theorists. They thought they were mislead. All the tangents about science, worm holes, time leaps . . . . were all somehow turned irrelevant filler since they did not play into any resolution in The End.
Now, some fans liked the ending because it brought their favorite characters back together. It was the happy ending many wanted since the pilot episode crash. But it seemed to be the easy way out of a corner painted by the unexplained mysteries and events of the Island.
You could have ended LOST a season before, with Juliet pounding a rock to get Jughead to explode. That would have been "The Sopranos" style ending - - - and fans could still be rationally debating what happened to the characters and the Island if the bomb did or did not explode. Because, the final season with the Jacob and MIB story arc really did not connect with the prior seasons plot lines, character motivations or continuity, there lies the disappointment for many fans.
