Sopranos

[K8teebug]

I loved how the final scene was probably just a normal diner scene with that guy waiting for someone, and everyone thinks he was probably there to shoot tony.  
 
 Loved the ending.  I'm glad that they resolved who was going to testify.  They were sort of making it look like it might be Paulie.  Glad it wasn't.

[lbcardoni]

You can give 2007 back to the Indians!

[kosmo vinyl]

i had that same sense that Paulie was possibly the snitch... was also wondering if the FBI weren't in the diner to arrest Tony... i dug the fact that the safe place to be was a mobster funeral due to FBI presence.   AJ complete transformation from whiny bitch to material boy was pretty funny.
 
 and did anyone else think the whole sit down seemed to go a bit to smoothly?   obviously it was only an hour show but still...
 
 So who else thought the cat was Christopher

[K8teebug]

I thought the cat was Adrianna.

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by The Parkers are dead:
  You can give 2007 back to the Indians!

ha. him sitting down at the "kids" table and unzipping his pants.
 
 i thought he was gonna get got during a couple of scenes (him walking into the empty bing especially). glad he wasn't.

[RustyOrgan]

The Sopranos - Perfect.
 http://blog.nj.com/alltv/2007/06/sopranos_rewind_made_in_americ.html
 "From the start, Chase has used "The Sopranos" as an indictment of modern American values and how, time after time, we all sacrifice principle in favor of self-interest. Maybe A.J. had achieved enlightenment or maybe not. But Tony and Carmela couldn't have their little boy risking his own life in the military (they wanted him to get the discipline without the risk), so they anesthetized him back into the materialistic lifestyle they understand so well. This is what America makes today, Chase seemed to be saying: permissive, selfish parents and kids who mimic them."

[kosmo vinyl]

hmmm posted on another forum
 
 "I believe Tony was killed (remember Sil saying that you never hear it coming?) Someone on another website pointed out that almost every extra in the diner had reason to kill Tony- the man in the Member's Only jacket was Phil Leotardo's nephew, the African-American kids were the ones who staged the first hit on Tony, the truck driver was the brother of the DVD truck driver that got killed (he had to identify the body)."

[K8teebug]

The only reference to those people I've found so far was a random HBO forum post.  Would be interesting if that were the case.
 
 I liked that we also got a glimpse of all the FBI surviellence on Tony (with the phone calls)

[Shadrach]

In an old episode it was either Tony or Sil that said something along the lines of "you never hear/see it coming. one second you're there and the next eveything goes black" just like the final scene.
 
 Leads me to believe he was killed.

[sonickteam2]

the whole thing leads me to believe that you can believe whatever you want.
 
  he wasnt killed, he wasnt arrested...not that we saw....and therefore we can all dream up whatever ending we want. but the simple fact is, nothing officially happened after the screen went black.
 
  more importantly, i think that after watching 86 episodes of this show and seeing the ending...and you saw it coming as soon as the last song came on,  that sometimes, in the telling of the story, the ending isn't the most important part.  Maybe its a hard thing to graps when in most every other series finale there is a definite sense of closure (i think , i've only seen one series finale and thats Friends, but certainly there was finality then).
 
   I like the fact that we dont know what happened. i think he got capped too.  its like, thats what happens, it all goes black...
 
   i thought it was a fucking masterpiece and cant wait to get the last season on DVD so i can watch all 86 episodes over again!  

[ChampionshipVinyl]

Since last night, the more I think about it, the more I like the way the series ended. I imagine that there was a good amount of "America" that was expecting certain things to happen and those things did not materialize in the ending that we saw.
 
 The first other show's series finale that I thought about afterwards was the ending of Cheers. If I remember correctly, the bar closed for the evening, not forever. Things and life keep going on, maybe not in the way we hope or predict.

[grotty]

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/06/13/2007-06-13_he_aint_singin_sopranos_film-2.html
 
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 BY DAVID HINCKLEY
 DAILY NEWS ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST
 
 Wednesday, June 13th 2007, 4:00 AM
 
 
 Out of the firestorm that exploded from Sunday night's controversial finale of "The Sopranos" yesterday came the voice of the man who lit the match.
 
 David Chase, creator of the HBO drama, told The Star-Ledger of Newark he had no intention of discussing the finale and little interest in continuing the story down the line with a movie.
 
 Frustrating as it may sound, both those instincts are correct.
 
 The final scene Sunday had Tony, Carmela and A.J. sitting at Holsten's in Bloomfield, N.J., munching on onion rings while the eye of a nervous camera darted around the joint. Ominous music played. An unidentified man got up from the counter. Meadow arrived, late and tense.
 
 Then the screen went black and the eight-year, 86-episode "Sopranos" saga was over.
 
 Asked about this scene, Chase said, "I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting or adding to what is there."
 
 Many of the 11.9 million viewers felt no such reluctance.
 
 Some said the ambiguous ending fit the show. A more vocal segment howled that Chase had punked out of giving this long, complex drama any resolution.
 
 "It's like getting to the end of a book and finding the last page has been ripped out," said WFAN morning host Mike Francesa.
 
 Francesa suggested Chase left James Gandolfini's Tony alive so he could be revived for a movie - a suggestion fueled by actor Steven Van Zandt's comment Sunday night that "who knows" what could happen down the line.
 
 Chase told The Star-Ledger a "Sopranos" movie is unlikely, but didn't whack the notion altogether.
 
 "I never say never," he said. "An idea could pop into my head where I would go, 'Wow, that would make a great movie.' But I doubt it. ... I think we've kind of said it and done it."
 
 He's right.
 
 Yes, the ending Sunday night drove you nuts. Yes, that cut-to-black felt like a cheap gimmick and yes, your instinctive response was to want more.
 
 Well, you can't always get what you want.
 
 Even beyond the fact this ending triggered more passionate discussion than anything on TV since the invasion of Baghdad, it was true to the show.
 
 Chase has always made us uneasy, has never bought into good guy-bad guy justice, and laughs out loud at the idea anything in life is ever wrapped up neatly.
 
 An e-mail came in yesterday from reader Noah Buschel suggesting Chase said in the whole last episode what he's been saying all along: that America is uncomfortably like the mob. Both deal in a currency of violence and as a result spend their lives looking over their shoulders, never sure what lies behind the simplest move or the quietest shadow.
 
 Fun as a movie could be, it wouldn't add much to that.

[RustyOrgan]

Awesome last episode. Perfect. A 10!

[beetsnotbeats]

Closure is overrated. Americans need to get over their culturally-induced need for it.

[K8teebug]

amen.