David Chase can bite my shiny metal ass
I was willing to give David Chase a pass on the end of The Sopranos - it wasn't terribly satisfying from an audience perspective, but it's his show, and if he felt it was important to do it that way, then that's his call to make.
However, in the aftermath of the show, I saw an interview with Chase where he actively belittled people who did want to know how the series ended, bitching that it was "childish" for people to want closure and that real life didn't work that way. Admittedly, Chase is a super-respected writer and producer and I'm just an avid TV watcher, but arguably the whole point of almost any fiction is that it's not real life - that stories are composed of sequences of dramatic events that give rise to the themes and meaning that real life often lacks.
But what really takes the cake is this answer he gave, from a recent awards Q&A
When one fan stood up and told Chase how much "Northern Exposure" had meant to him as a TV viewer and writer -- Chase was a scribe and exec producer on the seminal CBS show -- and asked to offer some insight about his experiences working on the series, Chase shot back, "I hated that show. I only did it for the money."
There is only one possible riposte to such an outrage, digging all the way back to my GIA days:
YOU DIS NORTHERN EXPOSURE!?!? FUK U WORSE THAN HITLET
However, in the aftermath of the show, I saw an interview with Chase where he actively belittled people who did want to know how the series ended, bitching that it was "childish" for people to want closure and that real life didn't work that way. Admittedly, Chase is a super-respected writer and producer and I'm just an avid TV watcher, but arguably the whole point of almost any fiction is that it's not real life - that stories are composed of sequences of dramatic events that give rise to the themes and meaning that real life often lacks.
But what really takes the cake is this answer he gave, from a recent awards Q&A
When one fan stood up and told Chase how much "Northern Exposure" had meant to him as a TV viewer and writer -- Chase was a scribe and exec producer on the seminal CBS show -- and asked to offer some insight about his experiences working on the series, Chase shot back, "I hated that show. I only did it for the money."
There is only one possible riposte to such an outrage, digging all the way back to my GIA days:
YOU DIS NORTHERN EXPOSURE!?!? FUK U WORSE THAN HITLET