{"id":629,"date":"2007-06-11T08:41:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-11T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T09:48:51","slug":"cry-baby-cry-the-sopranos-fails-to-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cry-baby-cry-the-sopranos-fails-to-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Cry Baby Cry: The Sopranos Fails to Reach Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is this the price to pay for having made it too far through life without having had your mind blown?<\/strong><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qxhlOjpBgT4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s all over, fans of <em><strong>The Sopranos<\/strong><\/em>. What did you learn? That brutal dago mobsters have feelings too? That the root of so many of our problems is Mom? That <strong>Steven Van Zandt<\/strong> leads one of the most charmed lives on the planet? That even a wop mobster can enjoy getting head from another man? That killing people on a weekly basis can lead to much anxiety? That family, in its literal sense, is what keeps us going? I hope you enjoyed the ride. <\/p>\n<p>As you might be able to tell, I was not a fan of the 4 episodes of <em>The Sopranos<\/em> I caught over the years. Now that I&#8217;ve got my digs out of the way, what I&#8217;m interested in is the concept of the <strong>quick-snip ending<\/strong>. I heard that the series ended with the Soprano family sitting in a diner, surrounded by suspicious characters, friggin&#8217; <strong>Journey<\/strong> playing on the jukebox, and then a quick cut to black. In musical terms, I&#8217;m reminded of the effectiveness of this technique on one of those <strong>Sex Pistols<\/strong> songs. <em>Any quick-snip song endings you particularly dig?<\/em> Were you OK with their lack of closure? I look forward to your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the price to pay for having made it too far through life without having had your mind blown? So it&#8217;s all over, fans of The Sopranos. What did you learn? That brutal dago mobsters have feelings too? That the root of so many of our problems is Mom? That Steven Van Zandt leads <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cry-baby-cry-the-sopranos-fails-to-reach\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}