{"id":189,"date":"2015-12-10T00:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T05:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/?p=189"},"modified":"2015-12-10T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T05:09:35","slug":"edwin-drood-esque-ending-the-sopranos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/2015\/12\/edwin-drood-esque-ending-the-sopranos\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Drood-esque Ending: The Sopranos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about the rest of you, but I&#8217;m pretty disappointed that Dickens died before he could finish <em>The Mystery of Edwin Drood.<\/em> This got me thinking about other times I have been disappointed by an ending to a book, film, or TV Series. One time was the ending to Inception with that stupid top spinning in the last scene. Was it going to fall or no? Was poor Oscar-less Leo still dreaming or was he awake? \u00a0But at least the movie was only 2 and a half hours long, so I wasn&#8217;t that invested. However, I just remembered the ending to the HBO series The Sopranos, and that had to be the worst of them all. It is very Drood-esque actually, with the scene just cutting to black and boom, it was over. I had watched all <em>six <\/em>seasons of the show, I binged on HBO Go until my eyes bled sometimes, and I was left with that? All I can say is that at least Dickens had an excuse for Drood, but come on David Chase, how was this the ending you decided on?&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rnT7nYbCSvM\">Sopranos Ending<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Brian Gibson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about the rest of you, but I&#8217;m pretty disappointed that Dickens died before he could finish The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This got me thinking about other times I have been disappointed by an ending to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/2015\/12\/edwin-drood-esque-ending-the-sopranos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}