Re: OT: The Sopranos finale -wtf?

[G. Morgan <none@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FatKat wrote:

>I disagree - Chase DID give us the ending, he just didn't draw the
>picture for us.  We have enough to know exactly what's going to happen
>with reasonable certainty.  The last scene before the restaurant had
>Tony visiting the now (genuinely) dementia-ridden Uncle Junior.  "You
>used to run all of North Jersey", Tony says.  Obviously he was neither
>whacked nor flipped - we can easily expect that Tony will avoid those
>same pitfalls and suffer that same fate, all the while enduring an
>existence where being murdered or jailed remains an ever-present
>possibility.  In a real sense, T is no better off than he was at the
>end of the prior episode, sleeping with his feet to the door and his
>hands around an assault-rifle.  I heard a lot of viewers complaining
>about the lack of closure - which is apparently a conceit of American
>TV.  If you want closure, stick with Grey or keep your set glued to
>Lifetime.  Thank you, Mr Chase - thank you for giving your viewers
>some truly great entertainment.


Good point.