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...
Monday, June 11, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Nige, you are a magnet for wild life.
ReplyDeleteI 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...
ReplyDeleteIt was a stupid ending. It was, in fact, not an ending. I think the $$$$ got in their eyes.
ReplyDeletenice butterfly! never watched the programme, can't stand musicals.
ReplyDeleteYou won't be interested in the sequel then, Ian - The Agreeable Light Baritones.
ReplyDeleteI hear there's an exciting new series lined up centred on two Mafia hitmen called Gilbert & Sullivan.
ReplyDelete"[A]lmost existential" means imaginary, right? So this is obviously true, but an odd sort of criticism.
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