What happened
Sopranos creator David Chase has stirred up controversy again about the HBO show by officially suggesting that lead character Tony Soprano did not die at the end of the series finale. In an interview published in the recently released “The Sopranos”: The Complete Book, Chase said, “There are no esoteric clues in there. No Da Vinci Code.” Regarding fans who were disappointed about the way the series ended, Chase said, “The pathetic thing—to me—was how much they wanted HIS blood, after cheering him on for eight years.”
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Chase is still messing with the audience, said the blog Actress Archives. “Are we supposed to ignore the conversation between Tony and Bobby in a prior episode” during which they said “‘everything just goes black’ when you die?” Chase’s comments about the finale are totally confusing—“and it seems like the seven-time Emmy winner likes it that way.”
It makes sense that Sopranos fans don’t want to stop discussing the series finale, said the blog Defamer. “With HBO subscribers understandably less engrossed with” the Sunday night options the network now offers, viewers don't have anything better to do than speculate about “what actually happened.” And Chase’s book just adds fuel to the fire: He “may have intended his answers to defuse any lingering accusations” that he toyed with the audience, but all he did was “provide Finale Deconstructionists with a new text to study.”
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