Lost: Damn Straight!
The producers of "Lost" have now gone on record to say that the show will not end like The Sopranos.
DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW THE SOPRANOS ENDS.
Link.
I watched Seasons 1-3 of The Sopranos on DVD and thought it was brilliant. I simply haven't had time to watch the remaining seasons yet and I don't have HBO. Upon learning about the controversy surrounding the show's ending, I had to know what it was about, because realistically, it'll probably be a couple years before I make it through the remaining episodes I haven't seen.
I think David Chase is a genius. Was the final moment a shift back to the Tony-perspective, where everything went black and the music ended, symbolizing his being whacked? Was the audience whacked when we least expected it? What really matters is that it captured the paranoia surrounding Tony's lifestyle (and our paranoia for him), and the feeling that he must constantly be on the lookout for people trying to kill him. The most appropriate ending for The Sopranos was the figurative one, where we can draw our own conclusions.
"Lost" is a different story, though. The entire point of the show is figuring out what's going on, through the experiences of a diverse set of characters that react differently to their precarious situation. If the last episode of "Lost" were to end with something like *"Thank God you've made it back safely. No one has ever escaped that island, which is a "/BLACKSCREEN* I'd say it would be justified for the producers to fall at the hands of angry-mob-death.
However, I believe we can expect everything in "Lost" to wrap up in a nice, neat little package that will make us want to go back and watch every episode from Season 1 immediately. And hopefully it'll blow our minds.
DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW THE SOPRANOS ENDS.
Link.
I watched Seasons 1-3 of The Sopranos on DVD and thought it was brilliant. I simply haven't had time to watch the remaining seasons yet and I don't have HBO. Upon learning about the controversy surrounding the show's ending, I had to know what it was about, because realistically, it'll probably be a couple years before I make it through the remaining episodes I haven't seen.
I think David Chase is a genius. Was the final moment a shift back to the Tony-perspective, where everything went black and the music ended, symbolizing his being whacked? Was the audience whacked when we least expected it? What really matters is that it captured the paranoia surrounding Tony's lifestyle (and our paranoia for him), and the feeling that he must constantly be on the lookout for people trying to kill him. The most appropriate ending for The Sopranos was the figurative one, where we can draw our own conclusions.
"Lost" is a different story, though. The entire point of the show is figuring out what's going on, through the experiences of a diverse set of characters that react differently to their precarious situation. If the last episode of "Lost" were to end with something like *"Thank God you've made it back safely. No one has ever escaped that island, which is a "/BLACKSCREEN* I'd say it would be justified for the producers to fall at the hands of angry-mob-death.
However, I believe we can expect everything in "Lost" to wrap up in a nice, neat little package that will make us want to go back and watch every episode from Season 1 immediately. And hopefully it'll blow our minds.
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