Comments on: David Chase’s Media De-Fragmentation Miracle

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:04:06 +0000

Two days of thinking about this, and all I can come up with is a lame example of another television “event” that got people talking, but it’s not even close to the “who shot J.R.” magnitude: Luke & Laura’s wedding on General Hospital.

Terrible example, but I say this to illustrate that your point is *extremely* valid.

By: Jake McKee

Jake McKee — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:56:04 +0000

While I think we do have the ability, thanks to Chase, to ponder on things, I’m not convinced that was his intention. The last few seasons have been more about him playing out his own personal, film school undertones and symbolism than delivering a good show.

Personally, this show followed the same trend as the drunken uncle:

Stage 1: He’s a nice guy, lots of fun, everybody loves hanging out with him because of his alcohol induced humor.

Stage 2: On random occasions, he drinks a bit too much and the humor turns into puking in our plastic potted plants. Everybody laughs it off thinking, “hey even I’ve had a bad night too”

Stage 3: The drunkeness because habit, but we still love him. He’s our uncle, after all, we need to stick by him because we just *know* he’ll get better.

Stage 4: He refuses to listen to anyone suggesting that he might need help, despite the fact that he’s driven off his friends and family who only pay attention to him because “he’s family”.

Stage 5: We attend his funeral after he wraps his car around a tree. Gone is the humor, the funny lovable person we once knew. We all try to figure out what we could have done differently to have helped him out. We somehow blame ourselves and look for hidden meaning in events that have none.

Yep, that’s the Sopranos. The drunken uncle.

By: Joe O

Joe O — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:14:21 +0000

My wife about threw a fit after the episode. I chuckled.

I have not ever seen such a stir over a show that is OVER!! The line from Seth Godin’s book, “Small is the New Big” comes to mind: “if people are being critical of something they are talking about it”. I surf the web in very specific places and almost all of those corners had some Soprano Theories, even ESPN. I love the comment you made about the “MTV attention span” and that could be a good thing.