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 Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:29 am Post subject: Re: Will you be watching Sopranos and/or Entourage?
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I think the Sopranos ending was troubling, frustrating, unexpected, and I liked it and didnt like it for all of those reasons. Why the hell should a sociopath like Tony get a happy ending? Why the hell not? Sure he was a violent goon, brutal and murderous, malicious and cruel...but he was also a damaged soul raised by maniacs and forced into a world where he had to learn to kill or be killed...and at times he was damned sensitive to the suffering of others, showed genuine compassion and concern that reflected a conscience that was alert to right and wrong and felt responsible for the welfare of others, and would lovingly respond to that responsibility.
In a world of retributive justice, Tony was shot five or six times in front of his family that night. All of them finally paid the price for riding the mob family gravy train. In a world of distributive justice, they continue living with the constant fear of being shot, arrested, falling victim to mental illness, getting old, killing themselves, being attacked by terrorists, catching cancer, choking to death on pasta fagiole, or having their hands and head chopped off and being stuffed in a trunk of an old sedan and sunk to the bottom of the Hudson river.
I want to think the world of the Sopranos was beyond black and white or good and evil...it makes it easier to avoid making the hard choices where you don't get to simply shoot someone you disagree with...or beat him to death with a shovel, or break his face in a restaurant after he insults my family. Or maybe Tony and Family have the right idea? The world is about power: take it and hold it and protect it and be willing to crush any who threaten it...all systems of honor are valid in sofar as they assist in that process; if they impede it, fuck 'em.
On another note, I have recently finished the 3rd season of Deadwood via Netflix. Just as brilliant and provocative and well acted and scripted as Sopranos...actually, I liked it even moreso. Al Swearengen and Tony Soprano...two of the best goddamned roles ever...violent, sensitive, commanding, interiorally tortured, exteriorally at war...warriors I suppose, but secretly wishing to be everyday guys just trying to make ends meet.
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