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cloudboy -> RE: The Sopranos (6/7/2006 8:45:59 AM)
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"The biggest surprise of the finale may have been AJ's sudden interest in becoming vaguely reliable and mature. That's what sex with a hot older woman will do for you, I guess." --Salon (She must read my posts.....)
"An interesting twist in the path for Christopher, but we've seen him here before, and we gave up on his redemption a long, long time ago. Will he eventually sing, as predicted? Probably -- his loyalty to Tony, even in the face of Adriana's situation, was always entirely self-serving. In fact, no one looks more likely to rat than Christopher, with his Hollywood aspirations and his hunger for a more glamorous life. But then, we've known this about him all along, and his relapsing into drug use is hardly big news." --Salon (Maybe Christopher is the weak link.)
"Once outed, Vito (Joseph Gannascoli) made a new life for himself in a little town in New Hampshire, but ultimately the daily indignities of work outside the mob led him to his grave. After he returned to Jersey, Vito tried to tell his boyfriend, Jim, over the phone, "I got kids. I couldn't live without them." "Bullshit," Jim replied. "It was the fucking life you couldn't live without." Vito's bad choices echoed those made by Christopher, who was about to join witness protection last season to save Adriana, then spotted a working-class family, packed into a car, at a gas station, and decided he couldn't handle life without the perks of the mob. " --Salon (This is a good parallel between Vito and Christopher. I totally forgot about the gas station scene.)
"Forget that after two years of waiting, it's been a relatively uneventful season from the start, not the kind of season you'd expect from what was once considered the best show on television, when the writers have had plenty of time to think things through, more than enough time to come up with something truly big and devastating and unexpected. Forget that this is a show known for its gripping finales, or that a bunch of loose ends needed to be tied up, or that when you use the word "finale" to describe an episode, you invite the assumption that viewers are going to be given the vaguest whiff of what's in store in the final hours of the show, particularly when they have to wait another six months to find out what happens next. Forget all of that. Chase and the writers left us with following closing lines, delivered by AJ's brand-new girlfriend Blanca and Carmela as they're celebrating Christmas Eve together with the family.
Blanca: You have a gorgeous home.
Carm: Thank you. (Pausing to look around.) We do.
A nice little exchange of small talk, and the credits roll. Yes, we get it: Carmela is having a moment, appreciating all that she has been given, ostensibly before it all falls apart." --- Salon (She does a nice summation here.)
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2006/06/05/sopranos_finale/index1.html
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