Sopranos

just sayin

if you have any evidence that the sopranos credits sequences have ever sustained the narrative, i'm all ears

His mother was named "livia" which is awfully close to "live" and I think derives from "olive." Tony soprano live / tony sopranolive / tony sopran olive

Best answer I got

The thing everybody always leaves out is that the final episode is crappy and anti-climactic no matter whether he lives or dies, and that the final sequence is quite boringly directed.

That's the most bonkers theory yet!

that is ridiculous

I won't stop believin'

the final scene is masterful 500%

otm

life is boringly directed, esp if you're eating onion rings in a diner in Bloomfield.

Mr Veg reminded me that I thought the tv was broken when we saw that ending

https://twitter.com/tnyfrontrow/status/507226969411690497

O rings = contraception = no new life?

LOL whoops wrong thread

looool

you want me to zap that post stevie?

i missed this episode

xp yeah uh maybe we should go ahead and whack that one

morbs how far are you now?

s2, four in

stopping for awhile due to baseball probly

Holy shit the Tony dream episode in S5 is awful.

no.

Furio has uncovered a lost Guercino masterpiece worth millions, I didn't know he was such a renaissance man IRL.

http://pagesix.com/2014/09/29/sopranos-star-discovers-artwork-worth-millions/?

Series now on Bluray. For "The Happy Wanderer":

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/17/7234477/sopranos-streaming-one-episode

http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard/dont-stop-believing-david-chase-analyzes-the-final-scene-of-the-sopranos

Or, wait, this link's better:
http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1502-Spring-2015/Shot-to-Remember-The-Sopranos.aspx

i have a theory
that david chase didn't intend the ending to be ambiguous but the public outcry/confusion made him butthurt and reticent about it

Chase basically confirms that huge blog post about it saying Tony got shot.

Nah, he's saying that it's one reading of it, and def one reading he intended. I don't think that many people have said that there was nothing menacing about Members Only Guy, or that it wasn't intended to remind of us what Bobby said in Soprano Home Movies about not hearing the final bullet.

Either way, it's a crappy ending. Having two readings of something doesn't really matter when neither reading is interesting.

It's one of the best-edited TV sequences ever.

I love the ending

set the standard for how to conclude a long-running series imo

Ending has really grown on me. I was pretty ambivalent when I first saw it.

I like that his goal w/ the final scene was to evoke a feeling rather than to provide some narrative explanation

There's only 3 minutes left in the episode! Why is nothing ~happening~?? Why is Meadow taking SO LONG to park her car??? Who is that dude in the jacket???? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?!?!?

he's either going to be shot Then or SOMEDAY or expecting it FOREVER. What's ambiguous?

we will all be shot one day. shot right in the heart by death's death gun. but the symbolism of the onion rings.

the circle of badabing

did you end up watching the whole series, Dr.?

r u crazy? no, left off a few months ago like, 4 eps in s2. I DO NOT bingewatch.

you people... "watch all Sopranos, watch all Mad Men, watch all The Wire, watch all The Americans," just no more art films that fly in and out of theaters for the rest of your life.

that david chase didn't intend the ending to be ambiguous but the public outcry/confusion made him butthurt and reticent about it

― slam dunk, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:01 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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you people... "watch all Sopranos, watch all Mad Men, watch all The Wire, watch all The Americans," just no more art films that fly in and out of theaters for the rest of your life.

it's as if the mediums of television and film are... approached and delivered differently.

time, dude. not enough.

Most of these shows aren't running concurrently so it's basically an hour a week. If you are playing catch up it's definitely more daunting.

no one should peer pressure someone else into binge watching its totally unhealthy lol

that david chase didn't intend the ending to be ambiguous but the public outcry/confusion made him butthurt and reticent about it

― slam dunk, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:01 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like it

― lag∞n, Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:43 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

that said i don't think it takes away from the ending which is the most memorable & best of the major series i can think of ... i mean a montage showing what happens to all the characters set to a country-rock song or w/e a la The Wire is cool & all but

as much as i do love the ending i kind of wanted to see tony face down in a plate of linguini tbh

They should've started the season off with that, Meadow going OMGWHAT HAPPENED? And Carmella saying, well, it all started right around the time Vito came out of the closet-- then FLASHBACK

would have been cool if tony woke up and the entire series was a dream