Sopranos Finale

[steph]

10 minutes spent on how Meadow can't parallel park?
I don't beleive there'll be a movie, I beleive HBO WANTS the fans to think there will be. Kind of like with Sex & The City.

I hated the Six Feet Under finale only because I cried for so hard and so long that I had an asthma attack.

On a lighter note, I DID like "John in" (def potential!) and "Big Love" looks off to a great start...
XOXO

 

[maniactickler]

10 minutes spent on how Meadow can't parallel park?
I don't beleive there'll be a movie, I beleive HBO WANTS the fans to think there will be. Kind of like with Sex & The City.

I hated the Six Feet Under finale only because I cried for so hard and so long that I had an asthma attack.

On a lighter note, I DID like "John in" (def potential!) and "Big Love" looks off to a great start...
XOXO

I was trying to figure out what meadow trying to park represented. still wondering.

 

[SlaverTickler]

The Point was...

As it was explained to me (cause I can't get it right now), the point of the ending is that Tony will have to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. Everytime somebody he doesn't know walks into a place her goes to regulerly he has to wonder if thats the guy who's gonna wack him. Lets face it, when was the last time you saw a serries final that was really any good ? M.A.S.H. maybe.

 

[Riven]

Upon further review...


Back during the first episode of the final season, when Tony and Bobby Baccala are out on the boat, they discuss getting whacked, and Tony concludes that “you probably don’t even know it’s happened. Everything just goes black.”


IMO, Tony DID die. The Black Screen represents death: to Tony, to the show, and indeed to the audience. We didn’t get to “see the end”, because Tony didn’t. We don’t know who did it, or how, because Tony didn’t. He was dead instantly. David Chase, in one moment, shot his main character, his show, and the audience, execution style. Whacked.

 

[maniactickler]

Upon further review...


Back during the first episode of the final season, when Tony and Bobby Baccala are out on the boat, they discuss getting whacked, and Tony concludes that “you probably don’t even know it’s happened. Everything just goes black.”


IMO, Tony DID die. The Black Screen represents death: to Tony, to the show, and indeed to the audience. We didn’t get to “see the end”, because Tony didn’t. We don’t know who did it, or how, because Tony didn’t. He was dead instantly. David Chase, in one moment, shot his main character, his show, and the audience, execution style. Whacked.

Cant happen. that would rule out a movie.

 

[The Sean Man]

Okay....so now that everybody has pretty much agreed that they didn't like the ending, I ask you this question:

How would you have ended the show?

Get creative, gang....this could be fun

 

[Deleted member 2452]

the worst ending i can remember

wow, what a lousy ending to the show. just another example of the writers not knowing where to go with this thing for the past 2 or 3 years.
for my money, the 2 best cable series were rome, and deadwood.
steve

 

[maniactickler]

Okay....so now that everybody has pretty much agreed that they didn't like the ending, I ask you this question:

How would you have ended the show?

Get creative, gang....this could be fun

AJ goes nuts and shoots the whole family, then turns the gun on himself. 😱

 

[MrTicklefeet]

I thought the ending was brilliant. I'm only annoyed at the folks complaining who only caught the last episode or wasn't paying attention the rest of the season. As David Chase said this morning, 'It's all there."
And no, he's not doing a movie. It's over.

 

[Carmello06]

Ditto here ......

I thought it was absolutely brilliant!

The Journey song, "Don't Stop Believing", was a great touch. Pretty much says it all and is very apropo to the finale! Could not have ended any other way!

The way Phil got "wacked", perfect! Paulie getting appointed as "captain". How ironic is that! Janice getting what she deserves by not being able to get Uncle Junior's "stash of cash", it's going to Bobby's kids. Tony took care of that! The Soprano household is back to normal, AJ's over his "political crisis",
suprising what a new BMW/ Benz can do! Meadow is engaged to be married and is going to be a lawyer, Tony did have some influence on her life.

The whole diner finish, the way all the seasons ended, at the dinner table!
Made a complete circle, the very first season, if you recall, was all about the immediate family and their dynamics with each other. The way it ended was again about the immediate family. So what he's the head "mob boss" in NJ.

I have to agree with a previous post though, it leaves Tony constantly looking over his shoulder! Wondering if it will ever be him.

BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!

 

[Carmello06]

Missed that .........

I thought the ending was brilliant. I'm only annoyed at the folks complaining who only caught the last episode or wasn't paying attention the rest of the season. As David Chase said this morning, 'It's all there."
And no, he's not doing a movie. It's over.

I know there is no movie in the works. What did David Chase actually say?

I heard something about correlations of the final 9 episodes ........ to the "9 circles of hell", from "Dante's Inferno".

 

[Carmello06]

Asolutely........

I always enjoyed the Sopranos' sense of gritty realism. The last thing I'd have wanted would be to have the series end in the same sort of fairy-tale, everything's-solved fashion that every other series ends with. Naturally, I've a personal feeling of wanting to know what happened to everyone... but there are a lot of things I want that I can't have. In the end, I think it was the perfect ending... because it's not really "ended." The show gives the feeling of a real-life story that could still be happening, somewhere, to these people, and we're just not hearing about it anymore.

If you lose touch with a good friend of several years, do you want them to simply drop dead on the spot so you don't have to wonder how they're doing every day?

Could not have said it any better!

 

[Carmello06]

Or do you remember ........

LOL! Believe me, that was my initial reaction too! The more I think about it though, the more I'm okay with it. I think it likely that the sudden silence/fade to black symbolized a hit on Tony, as Lovesheels mentioned.

It would have been great to have a tidy, tie all loose ends kind of closure the way Six Feet Under ended, but that's simply not David Chase' style. Damn you David Chase!! 😎

LOL, I did love the cat staring at the picture of Christopher in the Bing and Paulie's reaction to it... I was kinda hoping that "3 O'Clock" would have something to do in the end as well!

The blackbird flying around when Christopher was "made". Italian superstitions! Gotta love them!

 

[Carmello06]

Tension ..........

10 minutes spent on how Meadow can't parallel park?
I don't beleive there'll be a movie, I beleive HBO WANTS the fans to think there will be. Kind of like with Sex & The City.

I hated the Six Feet Under finale only because I cried for so hard and so long that I had an asthma attack.

On a lighter note, I DID like "John in" (def potential!) and "Big Love" looks off to a great start...
XOXO

That's all that was! A brilliant writing tool! And believe me it "WORKED".

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I always understood the method behind Chase's madness...

I was disappointed at times in that I wished the character development had been better (some characters with great potential became caricatures instead- e.g. Janice, Ralph, etc.). Nevetheless, the devices were classic.

That so many of the blood and gore and action and rockets red glare/bombs bursting in air, death worshipping viewers were disappointed in the end will probably subside in memory. As television drama, The Sopranos will be remembered as a very large milestone. It will be remembered as a symbol of this decade, as one would associate flattop haircuts, hula-hoops, and bomb shelters with the 1950s...

 

[Carmello06]

Exactly ......

I think all the "mayhem" is what people were expecting!

Therefore, they did get disappointed and hated the finale! Forgetting what they were watching and the talent behind it!

 

[steph]

Mph. Respectfully, it didn't for me.
And as to "what David Chase said," who knows? He was hiding out in France. I think he expected a reaction like this. He may be a lot of things. Stupid isn't one of them.
XOXO

That's all that was! A brilliant writing tool! And believe me it "WORKED".

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Here's a real ending

Didn't mean to give this thread a bump, but...

...my brother-in-law was over last night, only for fifteen minutes, so he could pick up a shrub to be transplanted into his yard. From the time he arrived, he wouldn't shett epp about the Sopranos ending. On and on and on and on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. But then, he still hasn't gotten over the Mets losing in the LCS last year, either.

You know what? Here's an ending. I came up with it the other day, while adding coolant.

Fade to black...then the scene shifts to Naples. We stumble upon Furio, visiting a pizzeria before opening, to collect a debt from the owner. After slapping the poor man silly, he eyes a newspaper on the counter, and is visibly intrigued by a headline. He picks up the newspaper to read further, and you see his eyes cloud over.

Maybe I should go to work for David Chase. He could use a helping hand.

 

[leafstk]

Interesting take on the ending here... makes sense to me - pretty much seals it. Tony got whacked, fuggedabadit!!

http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/1406/1/