which series finale did you like better deadwood or sopranos?

Question

i liked deadwoods a little better cause it had a better story than the sopranos and the final show was very good.

yeah but the ending was disappointing to me they should have shown tony being killed or something.

Answer 1

When they actually film and air the Dead Wood Finale I will know then. There are still two promised episodes of Deadwood that have yet to be produced.

As for the Sopranos they killed you and not Tony. If they kill Tony then you would be able to say the show must go on. By killing you there is no way for the show to go on. You're dead and now you have know idea what happens next. that is what happens whe you die. It goes black and that is it. The show is dead.

Answer 2

Sopranos for one reason. Never watched the other show. Cancelled my HBO the day after the Sopranos finale. There is nothing good on HBO these days for the $12 a month they charge me.

Answer 3

I disagree with the assessment of the Sopranos finale as being a murder of the viewer. It is Tony who got killed.

The most powerful clue is the replay of the conversation that Tony once had with Bobby Baccala in the penultimate episode: when you are killed, you never see it coming. The fact that these words are not only spoken in the first episode of the half-season but are repeated before the finale is a sledge-hammer hint to the viewer of what is to come. The last episode has a lot of funereal imagery and at least three references to Godfather death symbols: oranges, the orange color, and the "members only" suspicious guy going into the bathroom. The cut-to-black is Tony's sudden death from his point of view.

Although in the diner scene, the camera focuses on several "suspicious" people, only the "members only" guy repeatedly glances at Tony and seems more out of place there than anyone else. "Members only" itself is a reference to the Mafia.

As Meadow is struggling with parking her car, an SUV pulls up which is strikingly similar to the one Phil got out of before he was killed. This is the getaway car.

I think there are other clues, as well, that Tony is dead. Of course, that all depends on how far in advance Chase conceived of precisely this ending. Nevertheless, certain things beyond the final episode and even beyond this season build up to the blank screen at the end:

Remember when Bobby Baccala's first wife died? Bobby, extremely distraught, kept going back to the cemetery, at one point even taking a birthday cake to her grave. Finally, Janice, fed up, plays an underhanded little trick on Bobby's children and then says her smartest line in the entire series: Dead people are gone. They are no more. When we dedicate our thoughts or deeds to dead people, it is not for them, but for us -- our own fears and guilt. "It's only our own selfishness that tells us they even care."

Throughout the series, Tony has strange dreams and visions about dead people, including people he's killed. Carmela does too, on occasion. After his drug experiment in Vegas, Tony becomes convinced that "there is more", meaning, evidently, that there is life after death.

The finale proves him wrong. The blank screen is in stark contrast to all of Tony's premonitions. He does not get ushered into Hell by his cousin Tony. His "family" isn't waiting for him to join their reunion at a "Hotel California". He isn't Kevin Finnerty. The scary woman, who may or may not be Ralph, isn't descending the old wooden staircase at some creepy country house. (Oh, how I loved that scene with "Mother" -- Livia -- and Ralph rolled into one! What a creative and unusual homage to "Psycho!") And the reason for Carmela's strange dream about Paris is her own supressed conviction that Adriana is dead -- not that the dead Adriana is actually walking Cozette in some nostalgic Paris of our dreams, the City of the Dead.

In the end, all these otherworldly dreams were merely the demons of the living, their fears and guilt, manifested through cinematic cliches and pop-culture references. It was just like Janice said -- the dead do not really haunt us, we haunt ourselves. Now that Tony is dead, I imagine someone else -- AJ? Dr. Melfi? -- will be having such enigmatic and portentous dreams with Tony in them. But from Tony's point of view, there is nothing. Everything just stopped.

That's the great irony of the Sopranos. Livia is proven right at the end -- it's all a big nothing.

Answer 4

Sopranos...avid fan