Looking out the window, the rain is very light and I'm thinking about ending of the Soprano's series. Ben (my son) and I talked at length last night about it and whether it was a good or bad ending. His opinion was that it was the only way that David Chase could have ended the series and that it was consistent with the whole series. After all, Chase would not want to present a moral label of Tony Soprano in either light of a redemption or as a condemnation. Was David Chase trying to be morally ambivalent with this ending?
Perhaps Ben is right, but personally there is such disappointment after the culmination of so much hyped expectation that it's a little like being asked to someone's house to go to dinner and being told that the kitchen is open for cooking. Or rather... being invited out for a gourmet meal cooked by a world famous chef, you're told that you have to prepare your own and the kitchen is at your disposal and that the only guidance your given is from a past episode that "everything goes dark" and now cook the meal you think that relates to those instructions.
The Soprano's ending makes me gun shy for the next David Chase series and I wonder whether he will make us come up with our own ending again. It may not be worth the watching for the disappointment.
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