Tonys of all sorts

[cmk418]

Tonys on tonight - I love the Oscars, but the Tonys are always a cut above (and I really love their belief that "the writer is king"), A few Oz alums were in attendance - Brian F. O'Byrne (Connelly), Anthony Chisolm (Redding), - both nominated, and presenting were Patty LuPone (STELLA! - I can't let her go by without yelling that like I was Stanley Kowalski), Ben Vereen (okay, so his Oz appearance was a flyby) and I couldn't swear to it, but I think that Betty Buckley (Suzanne) may have just been on.

If you're planning on watching the Sopranos finale and haven't yet, read no further.

I pose the following question to all the OZ fans out there...



In the minutes following the Sopranos finale (on the East Coast), I went to Television without Pity to find out what happened (I don't have HBO). The responses were coming fast & furious with most of them being "WTF?" Because David Chase did something that I think was brilliant, he just ended it. Tony, Carm & AJ were having a nice family moment in a restaurant - the door opened and everything went black.

So my question is: would it have been better if OZ had ended this way? If it had been just a normal calling of "Lights Out" without the mad scramble at the end and Toby still had the threat of Nazi retaliation hanging over his head, would it be more satisfying than how it actually wound up?

For me, I would have loved just knowing that life in OZ would continue uninterrupted without us. I probably would have hated it anyway because the show would still be over, but I can't even think about those buses leaving the prison without getting a little ticked off.

I can understand the Sopranos fans getting a little upset about the whole thing, but would it really be better to end it with either Tony getting killed, the entire family getting put into witness protection somewhere in Colorado, or it just being one of the wackiest dream sequences anywhere? It's all subjective, I suppose, but I think I like it.

Comments

[colleendetroit.livejournal.com]

For me, I would have loved just knowing that life in OZ would continue uninterrupted without us. I probably would have hated it anyway because the show would still be over, but I can't even think about those buses leaving the prison without getting a little ticked off.

You know what? I agree. Knowing that they were still there...that would have been better. What I *HATED* was at the very end when Murphy asked McManus how long they were going to be gone from Oz, and McManus said something that insinuated that they would be back. Now THAT SUCKED.

[cmk418]

Oh, you're making me think about that moment. That was one of those true but unnecessary statements. Of course he could have added, "Unless Devlin razes it and puts a country club in its place." But it was part of Tim's eternal optimism, completely in character for him. And the fact that he said "we" meant the cleanup and testing would have to happen in less than 3 weeks. Still breaks my heart to think about it though.

[colleendetroit.livejournal.com]

Still breaks my heart to think about it though.

Thank gawd for fanfic!!!! Keeping OZ alive! ;oD