Monday, June 11, 2007

Best Ever TV Drama Ends - And...

The Sopranos is over. America had the finale last night and it seems to have left many viewers scratching their heads - no surprise there - David Chase (the genius behind the show) can be relied on not to do the obvious thing. The finale, we are told by the Salt Lake Tribune in a massive spoiler (hence no link), built to 'an almost existential, yet anxiety-drenched last scene'. Sounds good. The Sopranos sometimes lost its way and sometimes trod water, but as its best it was breathtakingly good - as good as TV drama has ever got. And now it's over.
However, on to matters of more moment. Today I saw my favourite butterfly - my first of the year, and a very early sighting (the first in the UK was 3 days ago). It flew up, towards me and over my head and was gone in a flash, flying strongly - a fleeting sighting then, and I'd half persuaded myself it was a Purple Emperor, but it probably wasn't...

7 comments:

  1. Nige, you are a magnet for wild life.

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  2. I think these early sightings are nature's way of persuading me the planet's warming up. Not that I doubt it - certainly a warm phase. Puts me in mind of the Great Medieval Warming...

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  3. It was a stupid ending. It was, in fact, not an ending. I think the $$$$ got in their eyes.

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  4. nice butterfly! never watched the programme, can't stand musicals.

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  5. You won't be interested in the sequel then, Ian - The Agreeable Light Baritones.

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  6. I hear there's an exciting new series lined up centred on two Mafia hitmen called Gilbert & Sullivan.

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  7. "[A]lmost existential" means imaginary, right? So this is obviously true, but an odd sort of criticism.

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