Letters to the Editor
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Tony is dead and so is the series
After leaving so many loose ends and abandoning the original plot line, Chase subtly whacks Tony but doesn't have the juevos to do it himself, so he leaves it up to the viewer. But the scenario had been described more than once. You never see it/know it, hear it coming...like losing your cable signal...
Maybe Chase decided to loosen control on the series as he didn't want/have time to write every episode, so the hollywood types came in and had fun without worrying about actual plot lines, loose ends, consistency or reality of the overall scenario of a family of men who bond together through a blood oath and murder. These writers tended toward hype and Hollywood bs which has been the downfall of so many really good series.
So little time, so much detail, so many loose ends, everybody's getting tired so let's just end this thing somehow.
Kind of a pity, a great series slowly stripped of it's uniqueness and power through a series of scripts that remove the detail, destroy the original focus until all you have left is the somewhat blank star of a fuzzy kitty.
Of course ending a series is one of the hardest things to do...I have seen so few with a really good satisfying ending...
Still, with all it's faults, a great series and all I can say is it could have been greater, but I still enjoyed what was done. Like everyone else, I'd conveniently forget things and forgive things so that I could go on watching the series for the good stuff it had in it. Looking for more good stuff in the future from HBO.
tchii