I’m kind of glad.
Eh, some people are still going to insist Tony got whacked. Not me. Why should characters’ lives end when a series does? We didn’t pick it up at Tony’s birth. Why should Tony’s life have ended when the series did? Maybe he’ll end up like his mother and Uncle Junior, old and forgotten in some nursing home. Like Tony said, he survived getting shot. What are the odds?
Conveniently timed to coincide also with the release of the remaining season 6 DVDs, no less.
mmmm…interesting…
Contrary to that article, I read the excerpted interview in Entertainment Weekly, and it seemed to me that Chase was strongly implying that Tony WAS whacked:
Are they wasting their time? Is there a puzzle to be solved?
There are no esoteric clues in there. No Da Vinci Code. Everything that pertains to that episode was in that episode. And it was in the episode before that and the one before that and seasons before this one and so on. There had been indications of what the end is like. Remember when Jerry Toricano was killed? Silvio was not aware that the gun had been fired until after Jerry was on his way down to the floor. That’s the way things happen: It’s already going on by the time you even notice it.
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I never though he was executed. I just saw it as life going on and the door being closed on the viewers.
End of story.
Ditto, I also got a good laugh at the apparent cable outage. In the SDMB threads however, I appeared to be in a minority.
Jim
Really? All the tension, all the furtive glances, the weird Members Only guy, and the blackout ending, and he’s surprised people are reading so much into it?
Next up, James Joyce wonders why so many people look for subtext in Finnegan’s Wake. It’s just a straightforward story about a guy who comes back to life after someone spills whiskey on his corpse.
When he says “esoteric clues,” I think he was talking about things like that hundred-item blog entry by the guy who interpreted the onion rings as communion wafers and… well, the list went on and on and on.
http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/1406/1/
The ending was ambiguous and you could read things into it, but not like that.
I don’t have time to search right now, but ISTR that during the week following the final episode, Chase’s comments were to the effect of “Well, of course Tony got whacked! What else could it be?” Is he now saying “Well, of course Tony lived! What makes you think he died?”?
What I am sure of, though, is that the majority of viewer comments were united in thinking they knew Tony’s status and being disappointed by it. Either they said, “I can’t believe Tony died, which he so clearly did, and I wanted him to live,” or “I can’t believe life just went on, which it so clearly did, because I wanted Tony to pay for his sins.”
And it kills me to see people trying to read so much into the onion rings, Tony’s shirt, the Silvio stand-up in the previous episode, the photo of Carmella and Rosalie in the episode before that, when all along, Sopranos has been a very straightforward show! There’s never been a “Ha ha, you thought that character was dead!” or “You thought X was gonna happen, but Y happened instead!” It’s not Lost, for crying out loud. There are no clues for the viewer to decipher. But some people are compelled to say 'Well, I think…" about absolutely everything.
I don’t remember him ever saying anything like that either way. I remember his comments being fairly consistent and unrevealing.
Agree 100% - the CNN article totally misconstrued the interview. In the EW piece, he was clearly hinting that Tony was dead dead dead.