Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

Josh-da-man clearly and concisely covered half of my argument. So there's that. The other half is that the finale of Lost was a really nice, emotional ending. But it could've been the ending for ANY ensemble drama show. "You were close in life, you move on together in death." What the ending didn't do was fulfill on the promise of this grand mystery show. Or, as rocket1312 put it so succinctly, it was fulfilling emotionally but not intellectually.

I didn't love The Sopranos as much as most, but I thought the finale was fine. 6 out of 10.

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

The Lost Finale wasn't great but I accepted it.

The Sopranos' end scene definitely caught everyone by surprise. One of the biggest wtf moments I ever experienced as a viewer. After a second viewing I was more at peace with it. I chose to believe Tony lived, at least for that particular evening :)

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

As did I. But that's what so great about that last scene, it's open-ended enough to allow viewers to believe that Tony lived, but filled with enough visual hints to imply that he didn't. It's really brilliant and not at all a cop-out. Meanwhile, LOST tries to tie everything up and it FEELS like a cop-out. :)

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

I voted Lost, because that entire last season was a mess. Such a shame, but I can still enjoy the show for the first 5 seasons.

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

Both shows had disintegrated in the final seasons. Both ending were bad, but The Sopranos' ending should go down as the most disgraceful ending in TV history. Plus Journey--yuck.

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

Come now, we're only debating Lost VS Sopranos. If we're going to open this up to all TV shows, then my vote will always be Battlestar Galactica for worst finale ever.

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

The biggest problem with the Sopranos ending was that everyone thought their cable went out while they were watching it. Kind of spoiled the finale when the screen just goes black for ten seconds and everyone is cursing the cable/satellite provider.

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

Very funny but completely accurate. My wife and I were watching and were pissed as hell that our DVR cut off the last bit of the show.

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

I'm speechless, I'm without speech.

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

That was my initial reaction. Pretty frustrating at the time. "What happened to my feed?"

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

I still stand by my original interpretation that the screen going black was the audience getting "whacked." So when looked at in that light, the "What happened to my feed?" reaction is exactly what the creators wanted, and succeeded brilliantly at. We see that Tony is forever looking over his shoulder now, but our time as observers is over.

Of course that is totally IMHO, and I won't argue if someone has a different interpretation. But for me it makes the finale completely satisfying.

Re: Finales: Lost VS Sopranos
 

What pissed me off about the finale of The Sopranos is that even half a dozen years later there is still question about the way it ended. The debate on whether he's dead or alive still rages on, with each side trying to be as condescending to the other as possible. This IS the internet after all. The way I see it is that there is no answer. If Chase and Gandolfini tomorrow decided to do a Sopranos movie for HBO or theaters, then you can be sure Tony would turn up alive. Sorry for being simple minded, but I wanted to see an end, I wanted closure. Does Chase owe that to us? Damn straight he does. We paid to watch the show and sat through long hiatuses, one was almost two effing years.

For the first several seasons of Lost, it was an amazing show. Then it became obvious that they had no idea what to do and the plots just went nuts. The last season was a total mess, as was the finale. Manipulative claptrap.