mistercellaneous

“my feelings exactly”

yea, i will. that was easy. talk to you later.

ok, so here’s my beef. this past sunday, before the ”major disappointment” that was the sopranos finale, i was pretty excited to watch the final episode, even though i’ve only seen up to season 4. i borrowed the season 5 dvds and the first part of season 6 because i figured that the finale was going to be so intense that i’d ultimately need access to other episodes so i could bang them out, watching 3 or 4 a night until i’ve seen every episode. i know, you would think i’d be pretty lost by watching the series finale without ever seeing an episode in the previous 3 seasons. in some respects, i was, but i knew a good portion of the recent backstory with the shootout in the second to last episode, phil leotardo’s beef, and christopher and tony’s car crash.
as was the rest of america, i was pretty friggin’ excited nonetheless. i was ready for 9 p.m. to roll around the entire day. i can imagine the boners that longtime sopranos loyalists were sporting that day. what followed was, in my eyes, a major, major disappointment and creative fart. see me through here. after 8 years of being touted as “the best tv show” and “david chase is a friggin’ genius!” and all the hoopla and talk surrounding this show, it had to end like that? i’m not taking a crap on david chase, i just think it’s a shitty way to end as well as a completely thoughtless, ‘cop-out’ type of ending. and go ahead and say, “no, no, no, can’t you see how creative this was? it’s open ended, it makes you think, interpret it as you will.”
bullshit. utter bullshit. if i wanted that kind of entertainment, i’d go read a “choose your own adventure” book. i actually feel bad for loyal sopranos watchers here, if i loved that show and watched and waited for new seasons for so long, i’d be a hell of a lot more pissed off than i am right now just thinking about it. as innovative and masterful as the first 85 episodes were throughout 8 (?) years of writing and planning, david chase just took a shit on all of that in 5 seconds of black screen. i didn’t think anything could get worse or even close to the final episode of seinfeld, but at least seinfeld gave you something. after all, the sopranos was about something not nothing. kill tony, kill meadow when she walks in the door, let them all live, arrest tony, have zombie phil leotardo magically walk in and kill tony and his family, i don’t give a shit what it is, but give me something damnit! i could seriously go on for pages on this topic and why i think it’s wrong but, i won’t. stories have endings, conclusions, climaxes, whatever you want to call them. the sopranos had rising action and that’s it. if i’m david chase and i choose to end my illustrious, critically acclaimed show like that, wouldn’t i know that in essence, i’m pissing off about 98% of sopranos fans?

so finally i get to the point of my post. an hour or so after the final episode, it occurred to me that now i have all these sopranos dvds sitting in my room waiting for me to watch and i really don’t see the point in watching them, since i so vehemently disliked the finale. but alas, tonight is wednesday, the sopranos are on a&e! will i watch? you’re damn right i will, after all, i still watch reruns of seinfeld.