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Brian Damage · 10-18-2007, 09:11 AM

'SOPRANOS" creator David Chase has a pretty good idea what happens to Tony and family after the famous black-out finale.

"People have said that the Soprano family's whole life goes in the toilet in the last episode. That the parents' whole twisted lifestyle is visited on the children," Chase says in a new, defintive book about the mob opera.

"And that's true - to a certain extent," he says in The Sopranos: The Complete Book," which is excerpted in the upcoming edition of Entertainment Weekly magazine.

"But look at it: A.J.'s not going to become a citizen-soldier or join the Peace Corps or try to help the world; he'll probably be a low-level movie producer," Chase says.

"But he's not going to be a killer like his father, is he?

"Meadow may not become a pediatrician or even a lawyer, but she's not going to be a housewife-whore like her mother," he says, colorfully.

For months, Chase has said he had nothing in mind - and certainly not Tony's death, as many fans speculated - when he decided to fade the series to black without resolution after eight years and 84 episodes.

In the book, he lets on that he has indeed thought deeply about how his famous characters ended up, after all.

Chase says he wasn't surprised by the angry reaction of "Sopranos" fans who complained the show's finale didn't give them "closure."

"There was so much more to say than could have been conveyed by an image of Tony facedown in a bowl of onion rings with a bullet in his head. Or, on the other side, taking over the New York Mob," he says.

"The way I see it is that Tony Soprano had been people's alter ego. They had gleefully watched him rob, kill, pillage, lie and cheat. They had cheered him on.

"And then, all of a sudden, they want to see him punished for all that.

"They wanted to see his brains splattered on the wall. I thought that was disgusting, frankly.

"The pathetic thing - to me - was how much they wanted his blood, after cheering him on for eight years."

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Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	AFTER ONION RINGS: Tony Lives! 'SOPRANOS" creator David Chase has a pretty good idea what happens to Tony and family after the famous black-out finale. "People have said that the Soprano family's whole life goes in the toilet in the last episode. That the parents' whole twisted lifestyle is visited on the children," Chase says in a new, defintive book about the mob opera. "And that's true - to a certain extent," he says in The Sopranos: The Complete Book," which is excerpted in the upcoming edition of Entertainment Weekly magazine. "But look at it: A.J.'s not going to become a citizen-soldier or join the Peace Corps or try to help the world; he'll probably be a low-level movie producer," Chase says. "But he's not going to be a killer like his father, is he? "Meadow may not become a pediatrician or even a lawyer, but she's not going to be a housewife-whore like her mother," he says, colorfully. For months, Chase has said he had nothing in mind - and certainly not Tony's death, as many fans speculated - when he decided to fade the series to black without resolution after eight years and 84 episodes. In the book, he lets on that he has indeed thought deeply about how his famous characters ended up, after all. Chase says he wasn't surprised by the angry reaction of "Sopranos" fans who complained the show's finale didn't give them "closure." "There was so much more to say than could have been conveyed by an image of Tony facedown in a bowl of onion rings with a bullet in his head. Or, on the other side, taking over the New York Mob," he says. "The way I see it is that Tony Soprano had been people's alter ego. They had gleefully watched him rob, kill, pillage, lie and cheat. They had cheered him on. "And then, all of a sudden, they want to see him punished for all that. "They wanted to see his brains splattered on the wall. I thought that was disgusting, frankly. "The pathetic thing - to me - was how much they wanted his blood, after cheering him on for eight years." http://www.nypost.com/seven/10182007...nion_rings.htm
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