Bada...Bing?!?!?!
Hello, everybody. Over the decades, very popular and long-running TV shows have found some great ways to go out in style. "Cheers" had Sam Malone closing up shop for the final time with "Sorry, we're closed" as the final line; "Seinfeld" ended with the cast all behind bars (just like Paris Hilton is...again), "M*A*S*H's" finale was the most-watched program of all-time; "The Fugitive" ended with the One-Armed Man gunned down to death with Dr. Richard Kimble being cleared of any wrongdoing; "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" capped off with Sunnyvale being swallowed whole underground; "Everybody Loves Raymond", the family sitting down for a meal; and "Friends" with the cast evicting themselves from the apartment.
But one finale that will not join the ranks of the other shows after last night was "The Sopranos." Okay, I've never liked the show, but I had to watch just to see how it all wound down. And boy, were we gypped!
The final scene had Tony, Carmela, and A.J. munching on onion rings, while outside the diner, Meadow's been struggling to parallel park her car. Back inside, three suspicious people were scoping the scene, and in the last few seconds with Meadow entering the diner....cut to black. Viewers all over were thinking to themselves, "What? Is my cable or satellite cut off? Did HBO go off the air?!"
After over ten seconds, the end credits popped up, leaving us to draw our own conclusions as to what transpired last. It didn't take long for loyal and irate viewers to flood HBO's "Sopranos" boards to explain their disgust, while some of them thought show creator David Chase did the right thing to end it like this.
But here's how I think it ended, and many of you might agree with me on this one:
Tony finished his last meal. Perhaps either the batter on the onion rings were laced with poison just to kill him instantly, or as the moment Meadow walked in, he got the ultimate whack as one of the guys shot him in the head as the rest of the family witnessed it.
However, there were reports that three alternate endings were done to keep things under wraps. Whether or not they'll be on DVD with the rest of the final season, we don't know. What we do know is when talks of a reunion movie are in the first stages, we'll get to find out how it really ended.
With "The Sopranos" now over once and for all after eight years, new lives for the cast have begun. James Gandolfini and Robert Iler will probably be typecast for some time, but for years Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Meadow Soprano herself) has been living a life in between seasons. She has done very sexy shoots for men's magazines like "Maxim", and earlier this year paparazzi has snapped her showing off more of her body in a bikini while frolicking in Miami Beach. Pretty whackable, but in a different kind of way if you know what I mean.
Anyway, I think Jamie-Lynn will either return to Broadway where she got her start, or get her own show on probably The CW or better yet, troubled fourth-place NBC. Yeah, like if they needed anybody but Meadow Soprano to save their network from extinction! No wonder why ratings for the Stanley Cup Finals (and congrats to the Anaheim Ducks, by the way) were down the toilet!
So in the end, "The Sopranos" closed off with not a Bada-Bing, but a Bada-Whimper.
Now that it's all out of the way....we're less than 14 days now from the big West Valley Class of '97 reunion weekend, in which the second day will be a barbecue at Pioneer Park. And speaking of which...last week, it played host to the annual Governor's picnic, which usually happens in mid-July. But it looked like Sarah Palin was in a showdown with Mother Nature and, in her first picnic as Governor, scheduled it a bit early this year. With my trusty digital camera, I was hoping to take a much more proper photo of me and Palin second time around after that horrible last time at the inauguration. And moments before the weather got real serious and started raining hard, I did just that. Boy, even in those big sunglasses and apron, the governor does look great!
Despite the heavy downpour and lack on condiments, I hope things will be a million times better when I return to Pioneer Park for the reunion barbecue in a couple of weeks. And with that said...so long and stay strong!
Hello, everybody. Over the decades, very popular and long-running TV shows have found some great ways to go out in style. "Cheers" had Sam Malone closing up shop for the final time with "Sorry, we're closed" as the final line; "Seinfeld" ended with the cast all behind bars (just like Paris Hilton is...again), "M*A*S*H's" finale was the most-watched program of all-time; "The Fugitive" ended with the One-Armed Man gunned down to death with Dr. Richard Kimble being cleared of any wrongdoing; "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" capped off with Sunnyvale being swallowed whole underground; "Everybody Loves Raymond", the family sitting down for a meal; and "Friends" with the cast evicting themselves from the apartment.
But one finale that will not join the ranks of the other shows after last night was "The Sopranos." Okay, I've never liked the show, but I had to watch just to see how it all wound down. And boy, were we gypped!
The final scene had Tony, Carmela, and A.J. munching on onion rings, while outside the diner, Meadow's been struggling to parallel park her car. Back inside, three suspicious people were scoping the scene, and in the last few seconds with Meadow entering the diner....cut to black. Viewers all over were thinking to themselves, "What? Is my cable or satellite cut off? Did HBO go off the air?!"
After over ten seconds, the end credits popped up, leaving us to draw our own conclusions as to what transpired last. It didn't take long for loyal and irate viewers to flood HBO's "Sopranos" boards to explain their disgust, while some of them thought show creator David Chase did the right thing to end it like this.
But here's how I think it ended, and many of you might agree with me on this one:
Tony finished his last meal. Perhaps either the batter on the onion rings were laced with poison just to kill him instantly, or as the moment Meadow walked in, he got the ultimate whack as one of the guys shot him in the head as the rest of the family witnessed it.
However, there were reports that three alternate endings were done to keep things under wraps. Whether or not they'll be on DVD with the rest of the final season, we don't know. What we do know is when talks of a reunion movie are in the first stages, we'll get to find out how it really ended.
With "The Sopranos" now over once and for all after eight years, new lives for the cast have begun. James Gandolfini and Robert Iler will probably be typecast for some time, but for years Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Meadow Soprano herself) has been living a life in between seasons. She has done very sexy shoots for men's magazines like "Maxim", and earlier this year paparazzi has snapped her showing off more of her body in a bikini while frolicking in Miami Beach. Pretty whackable, but in a different kind of way if you know what I mean.
Anyway, I think Jamie-Lynn will either return to Broadway where she got her start, or get her own show on probably The CW or better yet, troubled fourth-place NBC. Yeah, like if they needed anybody but Meadow Soprano to save their network from extinction! No wonder why ratings for the Stanley Cup Finals (and congrats to the Anaheim Ducks, by the way) were down the toilet!
So in the end, "The Sopranos" closed off with not a Bada-Bing, but a Bada-Whimper.
Now that it's all out of the way....we're less than 14 days now from the big West Valley Class of '97 reunion weekend, in which the second day will be a barbecue at Pioneer Park. And speaking of which...last week, it played host to the annual Governor's picnic, which usually happens in mid-July. But it looked like Sarah Palin was in a showdown with Mother Nature and, in her first picnic as Governor, scheduled it a bit early this year. With my trusty digital camera, I was hoping to take a much more proper photo of me and Palin second time around after that horrible last time at the inauguration. And moments before the weather got real serious and started raining hard, I did just that. Boy, even in those big sunglasses and apron, the governor does look great!Despite the heavy downpour and lack on condiments, I hope things will be a million times better when I return to Pioneer Park for the reunion barbecue in a couple of weeks. And with that said...so long and stay strong!
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