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Sunday, June 3, 2007
Can’t Fugeddabout It? What’s the Sopranos Endgame?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Somewhere in that Great Gangland Slaying Boneyard in the sky, frustrated screenwriter J.T. Dolan (Tim Daly) is dying all over again. The reason? He just KNOWS he could write a better ending for “The Sopranos” than that hack David Chase!
We know how he feels. After eight years and six seasons, the way-more-than-a-Mobster drama is coming to an end next Sunday. And who doesn’t have a killer idea for how it should go out?
With a bang? (but for who?)
With a nice, long prison stretch? (but for who? and why?)
With an Extreme Makeover for Tony’s face, courtesy of the government plastic surgeons, and a new job selling aluminum siding in Scottsdale?
The Serf still wants Meadow to take over the family (I can see it now, male strippers at the Bada Bing!). Or for Junior to have been playing possum all along and to wreak his special revenge at the end. But I’m pretty sure none of that’s going to happen. So I turn to you, the way-smarter-than-the-average-Serf “Sopranos” blog posters. What did you think of tonight’s penultimte episode? How do you think it will all end? How do you think it SHOULD end? How much have your views on that changed since this season began? Or since the series began?
Some people think “The Sopranos” never lived up to its initial brilliance, others say it actually improved with age and subtlety (well, as subtle as characters who hang out in pork store can be). Still others think the growing criticism of the show is yet another example of America’s short attention span and constant desire to build things and people up only to shoot them down again (watch out baby panda Mei Lan, you’re next). But no matter which side of the debate you come down on, you gotta admit, it’s going to be weird not to be able to gripe anymore about how long it’s taking for the next “Sopranos” season to start.
Share your thoughts on these and other “Sopranos” matters here. And if it’s real fame and fortune you’re after, drop me an e-mail at jvejnoska@ajc.com so I can include your thoughts in an end-of-Sopranos story to run in the paper and online at the end of this week. We’d love to include you … especially since if we don’t hear from enough folks, we’re going to have to start having Paulie Walnuts knock on everyone’s door, heh, heh. (And I was only kidding about the “fortune” part)
