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I killed Tony Soprano

June 11th, 2007 by Bryan Allain | Filed under TV.

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Everyone is blogging about the Sopranos today so i thought I’d throw my hat in the ring with 10 not-so-salient points about the show:

  1. I have never watched a second of the show. Some would say this is tragic. I’m not too concerned about it.
  2. People are pretty bent out of shape now that the show is over. I can’t relate, but know that i will be feeling like that in May of 2010 when LOST ends
  3. Apparently Tony had a different shirt on when he entered the diner than he did sitting at the table in the final scene? i don’t know if that’s true or not, or if it has significance, but I like spreading rumors.
  4. The ending left things up for interpretation, in case you hadn’t heard. 25% of folks think it was genius. 70% are ticked off and disappointed. The other 5% think Paris Hilton should be freed so she can go cry to her mommy.
  5. Will Leitch, huge Sopranos fan and David Chase apologist, had a great take on why he was hoping that there would have been more closure over at Deadpsin.com:

    “Years of television have trained you to expect a conclusion, he [David Chase] seemed to be saying, but you’re not gonna get one. To which we respond: Years of “The Sopranos” have trained us to expect nothing. We just thought you might be nice and give us something anyway.“

  6. Most popular theory out there now is that when the screen went black it was Tony being shot by the guy who went into the bathroom. Earlier in the season Tony said something to the effect of “you never hear the sounds of the bullet that kills you”.
  7. I thought the show’s creator David Chase was, like, 31. Googled him today to find out he’s a few years into his sixties. doh.
  8. James Gandolfini apparently wants nothing more to do with the character of Tony Soprano. We’ve seen this before, when Bronson Pinchot swore off everything to do with Balki Bartokomos that he could.
  9. Some say “The Wire” on HBO is every bit as good as “The Sopranos”. There’s another show i’ll probably never watch.
  10. David Chase told me not to say anything, but, i just can’t hold my silence any longer. I shot Tony Soprano. It was me. And then i shot Meadow and A.J. and Carmela. I would have shot Phil, but apparently his head got crushed by a car. I shot Paulie Walnuts too, though i don’t know if he is still alive or if they killed him in Season 5. I tried to shoot David Chase, but i shot the wrong guy because i thought David Chase was 31. Turns out i wounded a key grip from the show’s production staff. He’s in stable condition and recovering quite well. I’m looking for a good lawyer. Leave a comment if you know of any.
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7 Responses to “I killed Tony Soprano”

  1. Geof F. Morris | 11/06/07

    I didn’t watch it, either, but … any Sopranos finale recap that can pay homage to Perfect Strangers gets a perfect 10 from me. :mrgreen:

  2. Mark "Foolish Sage" Traphagen | 12/06/07

    Correction on your quotation: In the penultimate episode, another character (I think it was Pauly?) said to Tony: “When it happens [they kill you], everything just goes to black.” Given the exact nature of the ending, you can see why many people think we are supposed to think Tony is dead.

    I knew David Chase must be older (if not as old as he actually is) because he was the creator/executive producer of one of my favorite shows, Northern Exposure, which began in the early 90s.

    I haven’t seen any Sopranos since two seasons ago. This was my “car wreck on the highway” show: I knew I shouldn’t look but couldn’t help myself. Even though I often found the show profoundly disturbing, I ended up concluding it was one of the most “Christian” shows on TV, in the same way that Shakespeare’s tragedies were “Christian”: they do an excellent job of portraying the natural consequences of sin when it is unchecked by grace. In fact, I believe there are huge parallels between Sopranos and Shakespeare’s tragedies. I know I’m not the first to point out that Julius Caesar was practically the pilot for Sopranos.

  3. Bob Richards | 3/07/07

    Who is Tony Soprano?

  4. Bryan Allain | 3/07/07

    not only that, who’s Bob Richards?

  5. Robert Dicks | 25/08/07

    I feel sorry for you, as you are seemingly so proud of your self when you proclaim, “Some say “The Wire” on HBO is every bit as good as “The Sopranos”. There’s another show i’ll probably never watch. ”

    The Sopranos is nowhere near in the same class as The Wire. It’s every bit as good, much more ambitions and incredibly more important.

    But I guess you’ll never know cause you’re just too cool.

  6. Drew | 16/11/07

    You don’t watch The Sopranos and you don’t watch The Wire….but you watch LOST.

    That’s really unfortunate.

  7. Bryan Allain | 16/11/07

    i’m sorry that my tv viewing has disappointed so many.

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