The Soprano's (what else)

Like several million people out there - today's talk is about the ending of The Sopranos.

I never do anything during the show but give it my 100% attention as I never want to miss anything. Do you know how hard it is to sit and watch and not knit? Oh yeah, I forgot - of course you do.

The show usually wraps up around 10 minutes to the hour, so at 8:40 I started clock watching because things weren't tying together like they usually do. But story lines weren't wrapping up. I'd watch the TV, then look at the clock. I could feel my body get tense waiting for something to happen. As we neared the top of the hour the suspense was immense - then nothing. A black screen.

At first I thought 'oh, it can't be the cable!" because we've often lost feed during movies, especially PPV, and missed large scenes. So I waited. Wondering if it was just my TV/cable malfunction. And then the credits came on.

Thanks HBO. Thanks newspaper reviews. Thanks TV hype shows. If y'all hadn't made such a big deal, I wouldn't have expected anything spectacular - which is a crazy goal for TV when a couple million viewers all have really different definitions of spectacular. That was it. Anticlimactic. And so, life goes on.

Doesn't this always happen in TV land? Do you recall when everyone is surprised about 'sleeper hits' - those are events that didn't get hyped so there was little or no audience expectations. They are not inflated in the first place. How many times have you been so hyped about a party, or a present or other event and then you were disappointed because it wasn't what you expected? And how many times have you been 'pleasantly surprised'? Maybe TV should let us be more pleasantly surprised. There are always re-runs for those who missed it....