Didja catch the Series Finale of the Sopranos? Oogats!

What did you all think about the ending? I couldn't tell what David Chase was going for. I know that he has bristled in the past about being questioned about how he has left subplots left just hanging out there in the Sopranos universe without ever addressing them again.

Like, isn't SOMEONE going to castrate the guy who raped Dr. Melfi? While were at it, why did Dr, Melfi become so unhot? Remember how she used to be kind of sexy? Why? Why did that have to end to and be unexplained. Well, you get the picture. In past interviews Chase has said that in real life, stories aren't always finished nice and easy in an easily explained way. This is true. In that sense, I can respect him. And as my friend Drew said, you have to give Chase his props for having the courage of his convictions and writing the ending the way he did.

I, personally, like the ending. He didn't do what people here in the States are so used to by this country's TV and cinema: happy, complete endings. I liked the fact that we, the viewers, are allowed to choose the ending that we like or think should happen. I, for one, think that Tony didn't get shot by the guy in the bathroom. Tony is a survivor. For all his "growth" in therapy, the guy is like a roach. He's gonna survive no matter what. If it's you and him in a room and only one of you can come out alive, my money is on Tony. If the Sopranos ever got to the point where the Feds finally got Tony, I might have been disappointed if Tony DIDN'T turn State's evidence. I only hope that Chase was staying, in his mind, true to the show and not going for a way to have people arguing over how the show should have ended. Then I just feel used.

As for what I didn't like about the way the show ended, I didn't like how Chase was making it seem that Paulie was helping out the New York family. He made it seem pretty obvious that someone was playing both sides of the fence. That and how Silvio got shot with his piece in his briefcase. WTF!!?!??!? But, as my friend Joe said, this is the same guy that had an asthma attack the first day he was left in charge in Tony's absentia.

The show ended with it's best season since season 5. It's sad in the sense that we don't have a great show to look forward to anymore on Sunday nights, especially for me and my friends who are really into Mob movies (which reminds me, we need to do movie club soon). At least we were treated to perhaps, the best writing on TV for the last 7 years and now we won't have to another year, year and a half for the next season. Now THAT was tortuous.