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Julieahni		2008-03-02 11:16:52 PM

Great headli

MOPAULY		2008-03-02 11:22:59 PM

I thought so t

strangeguitar		2008-03-02 11:23:10 PM

IMHO, I think there will be a movie, but no series.

lordargent		2008-03-02 11:24:09 PM

I'd prefer a season that didn't start with a long draw out hospital visit.

nacker		2008-03-02 11:24:38 PM

It sounds like subby has stars confused with the people who would have been wearing red shirts on Star Trek.

Pocket Ninja		2008-03-02 11:25:31 PM

Actual headline: Stars of "The Sopranos" want more money. Request additional season to clarify ending for fans too stupid to appreciate real finale.

arkansas		2008-03-02 11:29:55 PM

Brilliant artistic ending. Obviously too subtle for most though.

T.M.S.		2008-03-02 11:29:59 PM

I imagine so.

It was a great ensemble but except for a handful they are all but unemployable.

Tommy Moo		2008-03-02 11:32:15 PM

I love how Michael Imperioli is the only one who doesn't think the show should bother coming back. How apropos.

/I'm trying to be subtle in case anyone hasn't seen the last season

T.M.S.		2008-03-02 11:33:48 PM

arkansas: Brilliant artistic ending. Obviously too subtle for most though.

The ending did nothing for me. I thought it was something a freshman film student would come up with.

But what do I know about drama.

Heroic Poser		2008-03-02 11:36:14 PM

arkansas: Brilliant artistic ending. Obviously too subtle for most though.

If it were so brilliant, why is treated as a joke to pretty much everyon

dudemanbro		2008-03-02 11:38:19 PM

I liked the ending I LOL'd.
/watched the entire series

whidbey		2008-03-02 11:42:45 PM

Candlejack?

Because People in power are Stupid		2008-03-02 11:50:42 PM

End with what? I don't get it.

It's as if your trying to

lajimi		2008-03-02 11:56:07 PM

ambassador_ahab		2008-03-02 11:56:16 PM

David Chase "whacked" the viewers. You got to be a voyeur for a while (8 seasons or something), and then your vantage point came to an end. Seemed like a cool idea to me.

Like they said, you probably don't hear/see it coming if somebody shoots you in the head.

arkansas		2008-03-03 12:09:25 AM

Heroic Poser: If it were so brilliant, why is treated as a joke to pretty much everyon

It might be because most viewers are used to having everything spelled out for them in what they watch.

The ending of the Sopranos is your ending. You watched the show, it was your personal experience, and the ending is your own personal ending. Most people are apparently unable to accept that responsibility.

For you, that fade to black can mean that he got suddenly, and unexpectedly, shot in the head. If thats the ending that seems appropriate to you personally. You could assume that the gathering of the family and the setting indicates that the family, and the story goes on....if that is the ending that seems appropriate to you.

The last episode artfully sets up a host of possible endings, creates an atmosphere where any of the possibilities can occur and then stops and hands the responsibility and ownership over to the viewer. I thought it was very respectful of the intelligence of the viewer....misplaced respect apparently.

The only way that ending can be ruined is if they bring the characters back and impose an ending.

arkansas		2008-03-03 12:13:49 AM

ambassador_ahab: David Chase "whacked" the viewers.

Yeah, it was brilliant. Of course viewers are pissed....but the ghost of anybody who gets "whacked" is probably going to be pissed. That sort of makes it funnier. Truth is they shouldn't be mad, they got to be a part of a mob movie and actually get whacked in it. The ultimate in viewer participation.

Hopefully he will let his ending stand and not cave in and resurrect the viewer.

karasoth		2008-03-03 12:14:53 AM

arkansas: Brilliant artistic ending. Obviously too subtle for most though.

If it were so Brilliant how come Chase didn't put it in his novelization.

thats right it isn't

Lionel Mandrake		2008-03-03 12:30:48 AM

I don't know about brilliant, but I thought it was just fine. What did y'all want, a machine gun bloodbath? That would have sucked.

T.M.S.		2008-03-03 12:50:55 AM

Epsilon		2008-03-03 01:01:29 AM

Most of the major characters got killed off. I'm not sure what they would do with that. Christopher, Bobby, Johnny Sack, Phil Leotardo, all dead, and Silvio is presumed to be dead, and Uncle Junior is senile and confined to a rest home. There's not much left to work with.

Epsilon		2008-03-03 01:07:24 AM

arkansas: The ending of the Sopranos is your ending. You watched the show, it was your personal experience, and the ending is your own personal ending. Most people are apparently unable to accept that responsibility.

For you, that fade to black can mean that he got suddenly, and unexpectedly, shot in the head. If thats the ending that seems appropriate to you personally. You could assume that the gathering of the family and the setting indicates that the family, and the story goes on....if that is the ending that seems appropriate to you.

I agree that's the proper way to look at it. I choose to believe Tony got whacked by the guy in the Members Only jacket as retribution for Phil Leotardo's murder. The guy came out of the rest room, clear line of sight to Tony, and BANG! A bullet to the head and lights out, right in front of his family.

But that's just what I prefer to believe. Many people don't, and that's fine.

Bill_Wick's_Friend		2008-03-03 01:18:24 AM

Michael Imperioli - mobster Christopher Moltisante - isn't expecting any more Sopranos: "I think we're done. I think we had our day, unless David Chase comes up with something great."

Christopher is dead. I wonder if that factors into Michael Imperioli's lack of interest.

Corrupted_Monk		2008-03-03 01:28:35 AM

The show is ove

/man that's old.

CaptainFatass		2008-03-03 01:37:21 AM

I would like to see a Sopranos movie, but only if Jamie Lyn-Siegler gets bukkake'd in it.

Good god, that young woman is adorable. She would be even more adorable with a mug full of baby batter.

Gyrfalcon		2008-03-03 01:37:32 AM

Lionel Mandrake: I don't know about brilliant, but I thought it was just fine. What did y'all want, a machine gun bloodbath? That would have sucked.

Yeah, in the context of the show, but most TV viewers have the mental abilities of a desert tortoise. Unless they're specifically told that Denise marries Josephine and Alex killed Ferdinand and Uncle Toby inherited the ranch, they're pretty much out to sea.

We all know what happened after the fade to black on The Sopranos, but some people needed that machine gun bloodbath to make them feel better.

xdedd		2008-03-03 01:40:25 AM

Make a Sopranos movie instead, it'll make more money.

tehotherbilly		2008-03-03 01:45:18 AM

I imagined that the fade to black was some 'tard kid shaking a snow globe.

/lost in the pine barrens eating ketchup packets

Monkey's Knuckle		2008-03-03 02:13:26 AM

This would be the greatest.

Uptown Hipster Doofus		2008-03-03 02:17:24 AM

Don't.
Stop.
Be leaving.

jiaxiaobo		2008-03-03 02:49:52 AM

Uptown Hipster Doofus: hehe

How about they bring back the Sopranos for the next Sex in the City movie. They can whack the girls off... I can whack off to the girls... they could call it: SITC 2: Going to the Mattresses.

Arbitrator		2008-03-03 02:55:45 AM

arkansas: The last episode artfully sets up a host of possible endings, creates an atmosphere where any of the possibilities can occur and then stops and hands the responsibility and ownership over to the viewer. I thought it was very respectful of the intelligence of the viewer....misplaced respect apparently.

I think the way you do on the ending, but I also understand why it's not satisfying. The series had all BUT ended in the last season, with the characters basically gutted, so this polite deference to "you decide" felt like a copout.

The only way that ending can be ruined is if they bring the characters back and impose an ending.

Agreed. I thought it was stated multiple times that there would be a movie though. I hope that's not true. The show was limping for some time anyway.

natch		2008-03-03 03:19:07 AM

I tried to get out, but they pulled me back in!

three knuckle shuffle		2008-03-03 05:26:49 AM

a season that doesn't end with what?

END WITH WHAT?!

jesus christ almighty, did my cable just go out?!!!

oh, no. david chase just decided to throw a farking tantrum, ruin his show out of spite, and cement the legacy of what was once a masterful show as little more than fodder for a running joke on fark thr

brimstoner		2008-03-03 07:08:54 AM

arkansas: Heroic Poser: If it were so brilliant, why is treated as a joke to pretty much everyon

It might be because most viewers are used to having everything spelled out for them in what they watch.

The ending of the Sopranos is your ending. You watched the show, it was your personal experience, and the ending is your own personal ending. Most people are apparently unable to accept that responsibility.

For you, that fade to black can mean that he got suddenly, and unexpectedly, shot in the head. If thats the ending that seems appropriate to you personally. You could assume that the gathering of the family and the setting indicates that the family, and the story goes on....if that is the ending that seems appropriate to you.

The last episode artfully sets up a host of possible endings, creates an atmosphere where any of the possibilities can occur and then stops and hands the responsibility and ownership over to the viewer. I thought it was very respectful of the intelligence of the viewer....misplaced respect apparently.

The only way that ending can be ruined is if they bring the characters back and impose an ending.

See there is a fine line here that most of you are just being fooled into ignoring. Artistic endings are very very close to Lazy writing. You see if I just dont want to bother to interperet my viewers, or if I just want to leave it open to rake in mad cash, then I dont end it. It's lazy to leave something open ended. Or if you people buy the theory that its so "Brilliant" because its open ended, then here is a great premise for you. I will come up with some characters, tell you what town they are in, and tell you what they like to do. Now I dont need to show you anything, because it is your story. You see!! It is brilliant. I didnt do anything so I must be brilliant.

/Line up over there to pay me
//

Komplex		2008-03-03 07:33:06 AM

No, the ending made sense. And it kept true to Tony's central theme of Family. As noted earlier, pretty much all his mobster buddies are dead - the only thing left he has is his family.

Maybe a pull out would have been better than a Fade to Black.

For the Movie, all you need to do is have a trail, and everything can be a flashback.

phlegmography		2008-03-03 08:05:12 AM

I enjoyed the entire series but that was the absolute worst finale in the history of free or paid television.

/stay gone
//I stopped believin'

Onkel Buck		2008-03-03 08:16:28 AM

At least Tony didn't go out living the rest of his life like schnook

/Henry Hill FTW!

Nestea Plunge		2008-03-03 09:00:50 AM

I thought the ending was fine.

peachpicker		2008-03-03 10:04:32 AM

Epsilon: I choose to believe Tony got whacked by the guy in the Members Only jacket as retribution for Phil Leotardo's murder. The guy came out of the rest room, clear line of sight to Tony, and BANG! A bullet to the head and lights out, right in front of his family.

That's definitely what happened -- Tony's gone. There are many subtle hints in the final several episodes that reinforce this. And when you accept that he's been killed in front of his family, it makes that sudden empty silence all the more awful for knowing what would be going on in the diner with Carmela and the kids and their sudden trauma.

It wasn't a cheap or childish ending. It was deliberately unsatisfying in the immediate moment, creating a calculated sense of anxiety, but all the pieces are there to put together to know what actually happened.

pubes		2008-03-03 11:43:12 AM

My belief is much better than anyone else's. In my ending (since I'm presumably the camera) Meadow comes in the restaurant and slips her arms around me and starts massaging my nads right in front of Tony who gives me that final look in the scene. Just when he gets up to slam my head through the jukebox, the members only guy comes out of the can and whacks Tony. I turn around and Meadow gives me a deep french kiss and we both turn around hand in hand and walk out the door skipping through a field of flowers. FIN.

T.M.S.		2008-03-03 11:51:25 AM

peachpicker: Epsilon: I choose to believe Tony got whacked by the guy in the Members Only jacket as retribution for Phil Leotardo's murder. The guy came out of the rest room, clear line of sight to Tony, and BANG! A bullet to the head and lights out, right in front of his family.

That's definitely what happened -- Tony's gone. There are many subtle hints in the final several episodes that reinforce this. And when you accept that he's been killed in front of his family, it makes that sudden empty silence all the more awful for knowing what would be going on in the diner with Carmela and the kids and their sudden trauma.

It wasn't a cheap or childish ending. It was deliberately unsatisfying in the immediate moment, creating a calculated sense of anxiety, but all the pieces are there to put together to know what actually happened.

Except that Chase has said that is not what his intent was.

gilgigamesh		2008-03-03 12:46:08 PM

The show can't come back. If you paid close attention, they made it amply clear that Tony is dead.

LowbrowDeluxe		2008-03-03 12:46:08 PM

People who think the open-ended 'choose your own adventure' ending was artistic and brilliant are the kind of pretentious meatheads who would describe themselves the exact same way. "Oh, it's my own viewpoint! It must be brilliant!"

/The headline cliche is still damn funny.

TheSuperFunk		2008-03-03 01:05:43 PM

Of all people and characters I'd like to see comeback... Lorraine Bracco's character is not one of them. She's been a drag on that show since Season 2... and rewatching the series is hard when you know that Tony's forever in a state of arrested development with her.

peachpicker		2008-03-03 01:35:03 PM

T.M.S.: Except that Chase has said that is not what his intent was.

Linkage?

pubes		2008-03-03 02:01:15 PM

peachpicker
T.M.S.: Except that Chase has said that is not what his intent was.

O.K. here's your li

BlondeDiva		2008-03-03 02:21:35 PM

Are you farking kidding me? These actors only want the show to come back because none of their careers have exactly blossomed after the finale. They don't care about the quality of the ending, just the size of their bank accounts.

And for the record, the Sopranos ending was not the worst in history, that prize still remains firmly in the hands of Seinfeld.

mg73		2008-03-03 02:30:54 PM

BlondeDiva: Are you farking kidding me? These actors only want the show to come back because none of their careers have exactly blossomed after the finale. They don't care about the quality of the ending, just the size of their bank accounts.

And for the record, the Sopranos ending was not the worst in history, that prize still remains firmly in the hands of Seinfeld.

I concur

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