monkey nonsense

the sopranos ended last night. unfortunately i didn’t watch it, but will catch up later this week. but hahah, like always, i read reviews and general summaries of the episode. it’s hard to remain spoiler free!!! i had previously written a draft of a post about the finale of veronica mars and it seems veronica mars & sopranos ended somewhat similar to each other - very open ended, no real resolution of anything, life goes on kind of endings.

i heard mixed reviews of the “life goes on” finale (for both series)… but i think i actually kind of favor them. yeah, after spending X amount of years following characters, it is nice to get a little resolution on what’s going on in their lives. but then that’s just it… if there’s resolution to everything going on, what then? basically their life is over because everything you really cared about got neatly wrapped up. i like the “life goes on” kind of finales because it makes it seem like the characters are still living and doing stuff, even if you’re not around to experience it with them.

here’s what i had originally said about the veronica mars finale…

veronica mars aired its series finale last night. the cw kept advertising it as a season finale… dumb, most everyone already knew that it has/is going to can the series, since it’s not on the fall schedule for 2007.

i hadn’t watched the last few episodes… like grey’s anatomy, the show just seemed to not be the same anymore and it wasn’t must-see tv for me. so i was pretty out of date, though luckily i read spoilers/reviews instead of watching. a lot of people criticized the creator of the show for not wrapping up all the stories, especially since it seemed likely that they were to be canned. i guess the feeling was that it was really just a season finale and he never had a chance to write a series finale.

i’m not sure… but i kind of saw it as a series finale and i kind of liked it more that way. the last episode seemed the most like the old veronica mars that i remember… i think i liked it better when veronica was on her “me and my dad vs. everyone else except maybe wallace” tick. that’s when she’d have the witty, biting comments and interesting situations. i don’t think i really cared for veronica’s relationship to work out with logan (even tho i did think they were cute together)… only because i felt like it took away from logan’s character… he just seemed to be all lovey dovey, no longer getting into as much trouble, etc.

having keith “save” veronica was awesome too. i had begun to worry that keith and veronica would have a huge riff in their great father-daughter relationship. but seeing what keith did to save veronica just confirmed how awesome he was. and it was ok that he (i guess this is implied) lost the sheriff election… i didn’t really like him as sheriff. he was much cooler as a private investigator.

so the finale of veronica mars was actually kind of satisfying to me… too bad the show is gone though. even tho i didn’t watch as much towards the end, there really isn’t that much awesome television on anymore!