Sopranos Did the ending invalidate the experience of the last 8 years?
Re: Sopranos If you sat through a suspense film in the theatre for two hours and then the movie ended before you found out “whodunit”, wouldn’t you feel gypped? Now pretend the movie lasted for eight years. I don’t think it’s about invalidation, but expecting some kind of payoff in the end is not an unfair expectation.
Sopranos Series finales are by their very nature a losing proposition. Few are truly brilliant. They either bend over backwards to tie up all the ends and answer all the questions, or they embark upon a journey the characters would not have taken (were the series not ending) in order to try to come to some dramatic and satifying conclusion. Unlike a movie ending that sucks, the very nature of having to say goodbye to these characters is anticlimactic. Instead of imagining a movie that lasted eight years, imagine a fantastic rollercoaster. The ride is over. Time to get off. Has anything in your life really changed, no. But wasn’t that big drop in the middle the best!! There’s no satisfaction in the way they raise the bar to let you out.
Re: Sopranos Yeah, whatever. It still sucked. Oz ended well. Six Feet Under ended well. Every season of The Wire ended better than the series finale of The Sopranos.
Sopranos
Did the ending invalidate the experience of the last 8 years?
Re: Sopranos
If you sat through a suspense film in the theatre for two hours and then the movie ended before you found out “whodunit”, wouldn’t you feel gypped? Now pretend the movie lasted for eight years.
I don’t think it’s about invalidation, but expecting some kind of payoff in the end is not an unfair expectation.
Sopranos
Series finales are by their very nature a losing proposition. Few are truly brilliant. They either bend over backwards to tie up all the ends and answer all the questions, or they embark upon a journey the characters would not have taken (were the series not ending) in order to try to come to some dramatic and satifying conclusion. Unlike a movie ending that sucks, the very nature of having to say goodbye to these characters is anticlimactic. Instead of imagining a movie that lasted eight years, imagine a fantastic rollercoaster. The ride is over. Time to get off. Has anything in your life really changed, no. But wasn’t that big drop in the middle the best!! There’s no satisfaction in the way they raise the bar to let you out.
Re: Sopranos
Yeah, whatever. It still sucked. Oz ended well. Six Feet Under ended well. Every season of The Wire ended better than the series finale of The Sopranos.