Posted on 06/10/2007 7:08:12 PM PDT by RDTF
What the heck?!
You’re no help, what happened?
Very bizarre,no?
I agree - except for Phil getting run over that was a WEIRD episode.........
It sure left the door open for a sequel or movie, huh?
NOTHING excepting Phil getting run over
It stunk - worse series ending ever
Nothing! At the end they were all meeting at a diner, Meadow was having a ditzy tough time parallel parking, and she finally walks in and black screen. Nothing. The end. Sorry west coast.
My sentiments exactly.
I have no idea what that was supposed to mean. Were they making the inference that the guy who went into the bathroom was going to do a Godfather type hit on Tony, and Meadow was going to miss it because she couldn’t park her car correctly? I’m lost.
My take is Lynch says, "Write your own ending". That was what the blank screen was for.
Made me so mad I’ll never watch it again.
What? I have no television, haven’t watched it in years. I don’t miss it as I find what goes on there is completely and totally irrelevant to the real world.
It’s like riding a windsurfer or a Harley. If you need an explanation, you will never understand.
The more I thought about it, the more it was a brilliant way to go out for David Chase. He lets the viewers choose their own ending. Depending on how you viewed Tony and the rest of the dynamic crew will determine the ending in your mind. Maybe you think Tony gets shot. Maybe you think he gets indicted. Maybe Meadow defends him. Maybe the truck driver or the black guys in the restaurant come and shoot him. Brilliant.
I meant Chase.
I know. WTF?
One theought, the ending was from Tony’s point of view as he is whacked. Everything just ends instantly, right when you least expect it.
Another thought, I heard they filmed 5 different endings. Looked like they didn’t use any of them. So they put out a special collectors DVD with all 5 endings. Sales will be huge.
That's what hubby and I just said... is that IT?
What a letdown. Seems to me the writers just ran out of ideas. Oh well, at least it wasn't as bad as the 'Seinfeld' final episode...
Tony asked Bobby what he thought the end was like earlier. Bobby supposed everything just goes black. Tony was killed, then everything went black for him.
very anti-climatic. I guess we are all supposed to to talk about how we all are trying to figure it out over the water cooler and that was the idea.
Really?
Whosis shot J.R. ??
The guy that went into the bathroom was a hitman. Remember when Bobby and Tony were talking about that you never hear the one coming to get you? The series goes black as Tony dies. He never saw it coming. The whole series WAS Tony. With him dead.... all black.
I think you nailed it.
Yet, you post on this thread. I get it, your cool...move on.
Perhaps he was driving home the vacuousness of the characters lives (and all modern lives in general - the overarching theme in the series) - AJ hates the war on terror but then wants to joint the military then is involved in the movies and drives a BMW. Perhaps Meadow gets blown up in her car? Tony was going to get wacked or Carlo was going to snitch. Uncle Junior forgets it all and in the end so what? Either way the corruption, the violence, the pointless goes on and on - it’s all blank. Or maybe it was just too many loose ends or of course a big movie :)
I guess they decided to leave it to your imagination. If I was Tony I think I would have been a wee bit more on edge and observant than he seemed to be.
GREAT, Great ending!!!
You know the New York mob boss, Phil, got whacked, and LOL...somebody promise me, if they see my body about to get run over by a car, MOVE MY BODY, don’t try to get in the car and put on the brakes!!
So..........with Tony’s arch enemy Phil dead, and Tony agreeing to a peace pact with Phil’s guy, MY ending is that Tony prospers. Oh the little fact that the guy hired to whack Tony goes in the restroom just before Meadow comes into the restaurant doesn’t bother me. If there’s ever a Soprano movie, or they come up with a new HBO series, it would be easy enough for the writer to show the hitman came out of the can, saw Meadow, or the table of Cub Scouts, and decided not to kill Tony.
GREAT ending!!!
To be continued in the MOVIE.
Tony was killed, then everything went black for him. I think you nailed it.
Yeah I think that's right too (maybe a little of what I posted about too :)), that flashback was there for a reason.
The Movies/Game Reality TV Show with...Bob Barker!
We still don't know where the "stash" is and Tony believes that it's buried in th trunk of a Vulva!
Go to Dr Poo Poo.com and you can find the directions to the Stash! It may be Lost but it ain't in Trump's Atlantic City Casinos.
Yeah - right!
You'll be right there with the rest of us when they do a movie or a "Sopranos - the next generation"
Find another thread.
A final ‘eff yew’ to the Sopranos Nation.
Took the words right outta my mout. I'm just sayin. Fuggetaboutit.
Nothing can top the crappiness of the final Seinfeld, but this ending was pretty sloppy.
Not the best ending for a television series... Both 'Newhart' and 'St. Elsewhere' had the best endings I've seen, but an interesting way to end things.
Hi — Nutmeg!
So——— Was that supposed to be a brilliant ending? I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s TV page write-ups about it. I guess any ending you want can be read into whatever it was that happened.
Frankly, I’m happy it is over. We never missed an episode, but I was really was disappointed with the first few shows in this last bit. These really are awful people!
Suckers. I gave up on the show around season 4. Those unending hiatus periods with crap seasons that followed were just too much. Yuck.
Whack Tony G? fougetaboutit!
Killing off a hundred million dollar money making machine so some fancy smancy hollywood speedo wearing artiste’ can make people guess at the endin’
Get the xxxx outta here!
Seriously though the Sopranos franchise is a huge money maker, there is no way that Tony Soprano can be killed, he is like immigration reform, too much at stake for too many people to quietly like that there...
Tony Soprano would be a better Senator from NJ than either Frank the “lout” Lautenberg or Bob “payday” Menendez..
I am only half kidding about that...
So I guess you don’t watch movies, or plays, or look at art, or.....
I watch a lot of TV, and -- EVERY WEEK -- I know MORE about the REAL world -- plus ancient and modern history, cooking, science, how to fix my house... or actually build something. And on and on, you name it.
Sheesh, Anti TV snobs bore me. It’s not TV, it’s what you pay attention to...especially if you have cable -- IOW, just like the Internet.
“Whack Tony S? fougetaboutit!
Killing off a hundred million dollar money making machine so some fancy smancy hollywood speedo wearing artiste’ can make people guess at the endin’
Get the xxxx outta here!
Seriously though the Sopranos franchise is a huge money maker, there is no way that Tony Soprano can be killed, he is like immigration reform, too much at stake for too many people to quietly like that there...
Tony Soprano would be a better Senator from NJ than either Frank the “lout” Lautenberg or Bob “payday” Menendez..
I am only half kidding about that..”
I mean for goodness sakes, even franchises like “wings” are still going on, how much would a Sopranos movie be worth, maybe 300 million or 400 million?
they kept making you think-is it the guy in the work clothes with the hat?or the two young black guys?or the hoodlum -looking type who went to the can?is the shooter waiting for the daughter to come in so he can whack tony in front of his family?and they leave you hanging-maybe cormac mccarthy wrote the episode-he often has very strange endings to his novels-he’s the best living writer,but what do i know? :)
they kept making you think-is it the guy in the work clothes with the hat?or the two young black guys?or the hoodlum -looking type who went to the can?is the shooter waiting for the daughter to come in so he can whack tony in front of his family?and they leave you hanging-maybe cormac mccarthy wrote the episode-he often has very strange endings to his novels-he’s the best living writer,but what do i know? :)
As Tony would say "Whateverthef__k."
I understand that it sucked big time. What a cop-out.
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Why do people who don’t even watch television always post on TV threads and brag about how they don’t watch television? Do you think anybody cares?
BaDaBing! I think you are the winner. The last 5 mins. I was watching every fringe character for a move on Tony, AJ car to explode, Meadow to get hit by a truck crossing the street. Just because none of that happened doesn’t change the tension of the ending.
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