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‘Lost’ Won’t end like ‘The Sopranos’
By Rob | June 14, 2007
‘Lost’ Producers: We Won’t End Like ‘Sopranos’
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) — Three days after the controversial finale of “The Sopranos,” the two creators of “Lost” on Wednesday promised that their hit ABC drama would not conclude in similarly murky fashion.
“We will not be ending with a blackout,” said Carlton Cuse, referring to the black screen that delivered an unresolved ending to HBO’s mob drama.
Good for ‘Lost’. End it however you want to. It’s your show, it’s your right to tell the story in the fashion you deem necessary. I’ve never watched ‘Lost’ so I’m not going to criticize it here.
Who I am going to criticize are the folks who are running around all kinds of pissed off by the ending to ‘The Sopranos.’
What do you consider unresolved? They actually resolved quite a bit in the finale. Tony went to see Junior. Meadow and AJ made plans for their future. Silvio’s brain dead. Phil Leotardo got his head run over by the tire of his minivan. Seems pretty wrapped up to me.
I think you’re all bent out of shape because the final scene gave us what will be forever known as the infamous blackout. The blackout occurred while Tony was having dinner with his family. What were you expecting to happen? Some crazy mob soldier running in with guns blazing? Tony’s enemies had already been taken care of.
Remember a few episodes back, where Bobby beat up Tony? Remember the conversation they had about death? Bobby explained to Tony that you don’t see it coming, that you don’t hear a sound. Everything just suddenly goes black and that’s the end.
And that’s what happened. Our lives as an audience went to black. The Soprano family went on, and we were eliminated. Kind of a cool ending, huh? I don’t know for sure if that’s what creator David Chase intended by it, but it’s one good way of looking at it. Maybe those strange, mysterious people in the restaurant who looked like they were casing the family were really casing us.
The people who are complaining are the ones who need EVERYTHING explained to them. I bet they were expecting a montage at the end, like in ‘Animal House’ that let them know exactly what happens to the characters in the future.
You all need to give David Chase some credit. He did that show how he wanted to do it. He didn’t cave in to the whole Hollywood Ending garbage that we see in just about every show and film.
This was a show that didn’t need a period to end it. This is a show that catered to the imagination, and left it doing just that.
That’s all I have to say about it.
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