miercuri, 3 ianuarie 2018

better idea, better execution

This is one of the most infamous finales of all time, simply for how abrupt it is. Tony and his family are sitting at a diner, listening to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing." During the scene, Tony notices a man looking around the diner, and then the screen quickly cuts to black. It was so abrupt that many viewers thought something went wrong with their cable feed. According to series creator David Chase, the ending implied two things. First, that Tony was always going to be paranoid, but not that he was in any particular danger at that moment. Second was that endings for guys like Tony Soprano usually come out of nowhere. All we're saying is that there might have been a way to get that point across without making people think their TVs were broken.  (via "TV show endings that people still don't understand")