Comments on: Back To The Sopranos http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/06/12/back-to-the-sopranos/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean P Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/06/12/back-to-the-sopranos/comment-page-1/#comment-17050 Sean P Aune Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:50:10 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/2007/06/12/back-to-the-sopranos/#comment-17050 But this is also a show that has spent 8 years doing the unexpected, that's what kept us coming back, in addition to excellent writing. Like I said, people confused this show's meaning in that they only looked at the surface and saw a mafia show. It was so much more than that. Does life always have a tidy, definitive ending? Nope. So, to me, it fit perfectly. But this is also a show that has spent 8 years doing the unexpected, that’s what kept us coming back, in addition to excellent writing. Like I said, people confused this show’s meaning in that they only looked at the surface and saw a mafia show. It was so much more than that.

Does life always have a tidy, definitive ending? Nope. So, to me, it fit perfectly.

]]> By: Shari http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/06/12/back-to-the-sopranos/comment-page-1/#comment-17046 Shari Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:31:27 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/2007/06/12/back-to-the-sopranos/#comment-17046 I don't watch the Sopranos and don't really care what the outcome was but one could argue that a work of balls would be to make a decision about the outcome and write the story and say to hell with the audience reaction rather than leave it as a toss up for the audience to imagine. Also, the writer is the one getting paid to use his imagination, not the audience. The whole leaving the audience hanging about the ending by offering up an ambiguous ending is actually becoming commonplace enough not to be such an original way to end things. I'm one of those people who thought the ending to the Dark Tower was brilliant and don't require a nice, tidy ending all the time but I think that the ending should suit the genre, story type and style. Sometimes that means a tidy, happy ending and sometimes that means something dark and ugly but I think writers these days are mismatching the endings to the types of stories in an attempt to appear creative or adventurous. It's not about knowing your audience's expectations but rather about knowing your own characters and stories and how to best wrap them up. I don’t watch the Sopranos and don’t really care what the outcome was but one could argue that a work of balls would be to make a decision about the outcome and write the story and say to hell with the audience reaction rather than leave it as a toss up for the audience to imagine. Also, the writer is the one getting paid to use his imagination, not the audience.

The whole leaving the audience hanging about the ending by offering up an ambiguous ending is actually becoming commonplace enough not to be such an original way to end things.

I’m one of those people who thought the ending to the Dark Tower was brilliant and don’t require a nice, tidy ending all the time but I think that the ending should suit the genre, story type and style. Sometimes that means a tidy, happy ending and sometimes that means something dark and ugly but I think writers these days are mismatching the endings to the types of stories in an attempt to appear creative or adventurous. It’s not about knowing your audience’s expectations but rather about knowing your own characters and stories and how to best wrap them up.

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