David Chase is a Belittling Ass
The story is now a couple months old, but David Chase is now talking about the Sopranos finale and all the talk that it caused after sending the show out with a black screen in the middle of a Journey song.
. . . And mostly Chase wonders why so many viewers got so worked up over the series’ non-finish.
“There WAS a war going on that week, and attempted terror attacks in London,” says Chase. “But these people were talking about onion rings.”
I can’t tell you how much I HATE when someone pulls the “well there are more important things going on in life other than this piece of art that I created” in response to criticism. David Chase ought to be ashamed of himself for denigrating his fans like that.
The thing of it is that dissecting the final episode of the Sopranos and coming up with wild theories and looking for hidden meanings is not something that causes all other worries in life to stop. It isn’t a scenario where the Sopranos finale and news about the war in Iraq are mutually exclusive. Being a Sopranos fanboy doesn’t mean that you aren’t paying attention to other stuff going on in the world.
It is just a cheap, defensive ploy by an artist that doesn’t like the criticism that his final episode received. So, sorry if you can’t handle a little picking apart by some of your more vociferous fans, David, but this is your lot in life when you have the most popular television show in the history of HBO. Nobody feels sorry for you, and you really shouldn’t belittle the people who made you just because they disagreed with your artistic vision.
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Is he being defensive or just surprised at the magnitude of the uproar? (Full disclosure: I liked the ending and didn’t read the book.)
I liked the ending too. I read Chase’s quote more like contempt for anyone who would THINK to QUESTION his ending to his masterpiece. Maybe I am reading too much into the tone, but I feel like he is trying to have it both ways. He wants to be popular and then when he doesn’t get the praise that he desires he will belittle his zealous fans.