Comments on: I’m Sick of Your Shit: David Chase

By: John Saunders

John Saunders — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:11:45 +0000

Chase is a great writer. IMHO though, his work in the Rockford Files was his best stuff to date.

By: maggie's dad

maggie's dad — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:57:40 +0000

I agree. I was flabbergasted to see that he suggested that Tony wasn’t killed after all. His prior comments seemed to suggest that Tony was, in fact, suddenly executed. That is the only explanation for the elaborate set up.

He is just messing with us now. Frankly, I thought this show was over blown, over praised and over self-concious. At least now, it is over. Good riddance.

By: sara

sara — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:48:50 +0000

I never got into The Sopranos—have never seen an episode, have no interest, and frankly, am pretty tired of hearing about it. But it seems to me that what Chase is doing right now is very similar to what J.K. Rowling is doing—doling out bits of information (that, granted, every writer/auteur has in his or her head about the characters but that don’t necessarily make it onto the page or screen) in an effort to keep himself in the news. It’s attention-whorey and unnecessary and really undignified.

Do we need to know what happened to Tony? Do we need to know that Dumbledore was gay or that Neville married Hannah Abbott? The story is over. There shouldn’t have been a “sequel” to Gone With the Wind. Do something new, David, and then we’ll pay attention to you again (or for the first time, maybe).

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:51:21 +0000

As an avid Sopranos fan I too am totally pissed about David Chase’s recent statements. It seems like a complete equivocation from his post show silence on the matter, and, as you indicate, a desperate attempt to sell books. I agree, if you wanted a boring ending, make a boring ending, but this one had way too many clues, way too many references, to be “just an ending”.

The show is great for its references, and I loved the references to the godfather in Tony’s dreams at the end of season five, and further with the member’s only jacket guy going to the bathroom to a la Michael Corleone.

I thought it was a poetic ending, with Carmella and AJ sitting by complacently with blood on their hands (literally) eating their onion rings as Tony is killed. They always enabled Tony, Carmella especially. Meadow, always the vocal dissenter, was not part of the blood stained tableau, but rather a witness to the excesses and ultimate consequences therof of her American family, Chase’s typical American family, and ultimately her story is and can be one of redemption.

But he has ruined it all now. Nothing happened. No redemption, no justice, no moral judgment, no references, no meanging, nothing. Just complacency. Well maybe that is what America has been-sitting on our couches watching your dumb show for ten years, but is that what you want to say about your own television show Chase? Good art doesn’t simply thumb it’s nose at the audience…