The Sopranos: Where
Is The Disappointment?
For seven years I have listened to people rave about the show 'The Sopranos.' I do watch a bit of television, and I am a fan of the 'Godfather' movies, as well as almost everything Martin Scorcese has ever done; however, I have never watched a single episode of 'The Sopranos.' While most would call me a traitor to modern pop culture, I did not subscribe to HBO until well into the fifth season of the show, and just never bothered to get into it. HBO also like to sell their DVDs for $100 a pop, so I never thought to actually buy a complete season.

Frankly, I could care less that this legendary show ended in disappointment to most fans. All day long I have had to listen to people say, "Why? Why didn't they kill off Tony?? Why didn't he enter the witness protection program??" The show ended in a quick fade to black much like the end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," leaving viewers baffled and checking their cable boxes.

Even though I have never watched the show, the answer is simple. The American people, as much as they say they do, DON'T want to watch their hero die, and don't like everything wrapped up into a neat little package. We all like a resolution to life's stories, but there never is a resolution in any of our lives. People leave this earth as quickly and quietly as they entered, and why should this "realistic" mob show be any different. Tony Soprano will always look over his shoulder and wonder if death is right behind him.

I can only name a handful of shows that ever ended with "the perfect ending." Even Seinfeld was deemed a failure by the majority of the masses and the media (though I thought it was the only way to contribute all the characters into one episode).

People will always feel a sense of disappointment when it comes to the end of an era. I know that when the last episode of 'Lost' airs in 2009, I too will feel a sense of disappointment in its ending. That's what television is... Filled with disappointment.

Though 'The Sopranos' will never air again as a television series, there is still money to be made in the a blockbuster motion picture, which has been talked about for sometime.

I felt that this comment on CNN's blog summed it up nicely: "In my mind what happened next is that Tony Soprano woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette and found that the whole thing was the dream of their autistic son, Ted Baxter who turned out to be the only one who didn't get fired or whacked while the rest of the gang was sentensed under the Good Samaritan Law to a year in jail."