DISAPPOINTMENT!!!
There are only nine “final episodes†to be shown, and they have dragged out this show entirely too long already. Not only that, but David Chase and crew have already blown one of the final nine shows.
I sat down with the hopes of some good gruesome whacks to take place, and while there was one good whack, there should have been at least one main character whacked out of the blue to blow everyones mind – a Paulie Wallnuts or someone along those lines. Nothing like that happened.
Instead we had to sit through way too much Janice blah blah blah that never goes anywhere, and go on and on and on with her always appearing to tell so much about Tony’s past that we don’t care or want to hear about, and junk that the show never delves back into to make sense of anything, along with way too much Tony just sitting around by the lake thinking without even an internal dialogue to pass the time.
Each time they cut to the lake I was hoping that teams of navy seals in scuba attire would jump up out of the water and begin shooting everything and everyone to shards. Killing everyone would have been a good WTF are they gonna do now with the show twist.
Instead of people getting killed off the show, or getting to watch the shows characters develop from a one dimensional blah, into a multi-dimensional WOW, this season premiere was just another lame dream sequence / Johnny cakes / nothing much further developed into any of the storylines other than Christopher is on the outs with Tony, and that was a three second clip.
For such a “great show†that the Sopranos are considered to be, if you go back and watch them all, you will realize that the show went off into way too many tangents without ever wrapping those tangents off, or explaining what the heck happened to 99% of them.
You’ll also find that most of the time you’re just sitting around waiting for something to develop, and instead finding that you’ve been ripped off again and again without a true storyline, or even a good whack, leaving you with having wasted your time.
David Chase, if I wanted a long drawn out soap opera type show that rarely develops a storyline to watch, I would be TiVo’ing Days Of Our Lives.
Chase, get your act together, please.
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I only watched The Sopranos for the first three seasons (when I had bootlegged cable) and from what I understand, that was as good as it ever got. Glad I didn’t stick around, because everyone here at the office today seems to have the same opinon that you do.
I felled asleep before it was over.
True proof of when a show is pure poo poo.
I would love to see them all sitting in a restaurant and have perhaps the terrorists that the Feds are looking into firebomb the place. No surivors, roll credits. It’s been pathetic for more than a couple of seasons now, and all this “character development” is waster when there are only 13 or so episodes every two years almost. Even Lost moves quicker than this overblown piece of crap.