It’s over. Fade to black. Let it go.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about then you somehow have managed to escape the Earth’s gravity for the past few days and avoid all pop culture references. For those select few: HBO’s hit series 'The Sopranos' aired its final episode this week. Series creator David Chase showed just how he’s gotten a reputation for creating compelling television and cheesed off fans by ending the series with an unfulfilling fade to black, leaving the fate of Tony Soprano and his families to the viewer’s imagination.
What Chase didn’t bank on is that some of the viewers don’t have imaginations. They want a definitive answer as to what lay in store for Tony and the surviving members of the final season’s bloodbath. Since Sunday, the online world has been alive with talk of a 'Sopranos' movie, following up the series and finishing the story.
Chase says: It ain’t happening.
Actually, to be fair, Chase told the Jersey Journal, “I never say never. An idea could pop into my head where I would go, ‘Wow, that would make a great movie,’ but I doubt it.. I think we’ve kind of said it and done it.”
One of the big obstacles to creating a movie is that bloodbath of a season I mentioned before. With so many characters dead, who is left to bring into the movie? And who really wants to watch new characters being setup strictly for a movie? Chase notes that he has toyed with the idea of going back to an earlier season for a movie concept, allowing characters to be alive. Unfortunately there’s no real way to turn back the clock for Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler who play Tony’s kids Meadow and A.J. “(The kids) would be older than they were then and you would know that Tony doesn’t get killed. It’s got problems.”
So… we’ve reported this in our TV section. Now we’ve reported it here. A 'Sopranos' movie isn’t looking too promising. You got that? Now, use your own imagination to figure out what happened in that final episode’s last moments and stop bothering us about it, capisce?
