The final episode of The Sopranos was on last night. I don't have HBO, so I wasn't about to watch it. By the way, because the show was my primary motivation to someday get HBO, I now probably never will (what with netflix being invented and all).
I made grand plans to start getting all the DVDs and being watching with season 5 where I wasn't able to continue watching. I sort of already had some spoilers..I knew Adiana and later Christopher would be killed...in between I knew that fat gay guy would be killed...I suppose it was even spoiled for me that he was gay.
Season 4 kind of sucked...so I didn't feel too bad not watching. But I heard it got good again. But apparently the the ending was a let-down, so much so that it was headlines on the morning news: "'Sopranos' ending blows it!" (I'm paraphrasing).
I suppose that I would want to keep some series finale surprise for myself if I ever enacted this plan to spend a couple weekends purely watching TV. I gave up late this morning though and read the reviews of last night's episode in the papers this morning. Eh, it sounds like the story didn't really end..the hour just sort of ran out and the credits came off.
If the ending isn't really an ending, I don't feel bad on not watching. All I ever really wanted was the Russian guy from the "Pine Barrens" episode to come back and tear stuff up. With the writers forgetting/ignoring all that, the show jumped the shark since 2001 as far as I'm concerned.
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