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Creator of The Sopranos, David Chase, talks on the show’s ending

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We’ve had to wait months to know what all the fuss was about, but now that we’ve seen the final scene from The Sopranos (aired last night on E4), finally we Brits can enter the debate on the seminal show’s ending. Or interesting lack there of. In an interview in new book The Sopranos: The Complete Book, creator David Chase, who recently won two Emmy awards for producing and writing the HBO drama, has spoken of the creative decisions behind that ending.

“There are no esoteric clues in there. No Da Vinci Code. Everything that pertains to that episode was in that episode,” claims Chase. “And it was in the episode before that and the one before that and seasons before this one and so on. There had been indications of what the end is like. If people want to sit there figuring this stuff out, I think that’s just great. Most of them, most of us, should have done this kind of thing in high school English class and didn’t.”


According to Chase, the inclusion of Journey’s tune “Don’t Stop Believin’” was a late call: “As I recall, it was just that Tony and his family would be in a diner having dinner and a guy would come in. Pretty much what you saw. I actually took several songs…and played them for the crew. I’d never done that before.” Many had initial doubts about Journey’s tune “But then they started to say, ”You know what? This is kind of good. This is a great f–king song!”

On those fans that complained that Tony didn’t suffer a brutal and graphic onscreen death, Chase is shocked: “They had cheered [Tony] on. And then, all of a sudden, they wanted to see him punished for all that. It’s one thing to be deeply involved with a television show. It’s another to be so involved that all you do is sit on a couch and watch it. It seemed that those people were just looking for an excuse to be pissed off. They wanted ‘justice’. They wanted to see his brains splattered on the wall. I thought that was disgusting, frankly. The pathetic thing—to me—was how much they wanted his blood, after cheering him on for eight years.”

Fans eager to air their views online actually crashed HBO’s website, and they’re not the only ones to bemoan the ending with many TV critics accusing the show of making a cheap shot. Chase defends against this criticism: “Why would we want to do that?” he questioned. “Why would we entertain people for eight years only to give them the finger? We don’t have contempt for the audience. In fact, I think The Sopranos is the only show that actually gave the audience credit for having some intelligence and attention span.”

Earlier in the interview he also comments “But, I must say that even people who liked it misinterpreted it, to a certain extent. This wasn’t really about ‘leaving the door open.’ There was nothing definite about what happened, but there was a clean trend on view—a definite sense of what Tony and Carmela’s future looks like. Whether it happened that night or some other night doesn’t really matter.”

Do you have a theory to explain the ending, have the hump with Chase for settling on such an ambiguous finale or want to say your fondest farewells to Tony, Carmela and co? As always, leave a comment and let us know what you thought of THE television moment of the year.

[via E! Online]


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