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  • Closure Junkies

    I disagree completely - indeed, I think The Sopranos' ending was a masterpiece. We crave clear-cut endings. All of us are closure-junkies when it comes to our fiction. We can tolerate it in a classic short story, such as The Lady, or the Tiger. Not in our television series - to which, after all, we may have devoted years of viewing. But the ...
    Posted to TV Club by PaulLev on June 15, 2007

  • Tony is dead...

    A viewer more astute than myself has posted this elsewhere...''The guy at the bar is also credited as Nikki Leotardo. The sameactor played him in the first part of season 6 during a brief sitdown concerning the future of Vito. That wasn’t that long ago.Apparently, he is the nephew of Phil. Phil’s brother Nikki Seniorwas killed in 1976 in a car ...
    Posted to TV Club by wahn on June 11, 2007

  • Re: That last scene

    I understand all the arguments in defense of the final scene. And it might work on an intellectual level, on paper, but clearly -- it's a mean joke at the expense of the audience. I was never a massive SOPRANOS fan. I've always had problems with it. The argument that it reflects real life because real life is filled with loose ends -- I think ...
    Posted to TV Club by dystopika on June 11, 2007

  • Feet first only: is no retirement from this thing

    Anyone who thinks Tony will be forced into ''retirement'' has mortadell for brains. There is no retirement from this thing of ours. The only legit way to leave is feet first. Tony himself made that clear when he refused Eugene's request to move to Arizona and live off his wife's inheritance. Eugene, who was also being squeezed to act as an ...
    Posted to TV Club by DLA on June 7, 2007

  • Soprano is a castle in Corleone, Sicily

    Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corleone - under 'History' you will see that Castello Soprano helped protect the town of Corleone, in Palermo, Sicily. Although Terry Winter says: ''I'm not sure where David got the name Soprano,'' I don't think David Chase came up with it by accident! See further mentions at ...
    Posted to TV Club by ead8312 on June 5, 2007