Sopranos - The Final Season

[day_for_night]

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i will chime in with a WTF?!?! and leave it at that.

[srbbnd]

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What a lame ass ending episode. I piss on it.

[skahound]

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Bullshit - if you haven't seen the episode yet then don't read the thread! I'm not a fucking babysitter.

The ending sucked. I couldn't even get on HBO.com last night - their server was experiencing some heavy traffic.

Bullshit ending imo. Of course there are the people on the board over there that feel like they are the most intelligent people on the face of the earth. You know the ones I'm talking about - they're the ones that think that 'Memento' was the greatest film in the world because they "think" they get it. Pointing their finger at those of us that say that last night's episode was a cop out.

IMO the ending was worse than if Tony had awakened from a dream. My wife started yelling at me because she thought I'd fucked up the DVR or something. I'm just waking up and still pissed that I wasted an hour of my life to see absolutely no resolution. As a viewer I don't need everything spelled out for me but ffs throw me a bone.

[jarble187]

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^^^^Agreed.....lame ass ass way to end a lame ass season. Major dissapointment, the whole way through I kept expecting more.....at least something.....anything to happen......but no no avail, HBO leaves us with shit. They must have fired a screenwriter after season 4.

[superdave]

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David Chase said he always had in mind how he wanted to end the series. I'm surprised this was the ending he had in mind. He left a couple of things open obviously like the last scene. Were those cops, hitmen, or really nothing at all? And what about the imminent arrest of Tony Soprano on Federal charges? And who's the informer in the family? I heard them talk about a Sopranos movie and wonder if those questions will be answered in the movie if there is one. If not, then the ending was definitely disappointing.

[skahound]

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Ok, I've given this more thought. Check this out:

Remember at the beginning of the season when Tony and Bobby were in the boat and Tony told Bobby that when you die, things just go black, you never hear it. That's exactly what happened in the last scene. I've heard theories abound about how the guy was Muslim and probably blew the place up. There's no way that's possible given the fact that Chase knew how he would end it - we didn't have this quagmire with the middle east that we do now.

[Miguel]

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i dont care what explanation can be offered about last nite episode ,,, it sucked ,,, big time


heard about the movie too ... maybe they left things open here to get you to see the movie

pure advertising

[itrain333]

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I thought it was a great ending. The tension in the last scene was just amazing. I could barely stay seated. It gave you the feeling of what it must be like to be Tony; checking who walks in every time the door opens, never feeling comfortable. I like the idea that the screen going black means that Tony got popped, but I don't think thats what happened. But thats what made the ending so cool; you can interpret it in different ways.

I will say, it was time for the show to end. The last 2 seasons were overall disappointments. But I give them props for the ending. Chase decided to go against what everyone expected (I was expecting a Scarface-style shootout). Going against the norms is what made the Sopranos such a good show in the first place.

[chuckc]

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that was a week ass ending....the guy obviously cant write anymore.....he left so many loose ends untied. the last epsiode was just a joke.....glad leotardo is gone...would have been mad if he won out over tony....would have liked to see silvio recover to.

seriously though....why so much time dedicated to AJ (one of the weaker and more annoying chracters) in the last episode??

[toasty]

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I only watched the show from time to time and caught the finale more out of desire to be culturally aware than because I actually cared about how the show ended, but I have to say, if I had been watching it religiously, I would have been pissed at that ending. I understand why they did it as they did, but that was just woefully unsatisfying...

Spoiler in black below:

We've been having some issues with our DirecTV lately, and when the screen abruptly cut to black, my wife about hit the ceiling, thinking it was another satellite problem.

[jarble187]

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Were those cops, hitmen, or really nothing at all?

Big question, but who even knew he was going out to dinner with his family? How could these people / hitmen be waiting on him? Maybe his phone was tapped and its the Fed's, which was the only thing I could come up with. Otherwise, it seems it was all just hype. Who knew???

[lilsensa]

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Here is why I liked the ending. the article below (in black text) sums it up pretty well.

No Easy Ending for HBO's `The Sopranos'

By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer

4 hours agoUPDATED 3 HOURS 32 MINUTES AGO
NEW YORK - Tony Soprano carries on.
The much-awaited conclusion of HBO's "The Sopranos" arrived Sunday night in a frenzy of audience speculation. Would New Jersey mob boss Soprano live or be killed? Would his family die before his eyes? Would he go to jail? Be forced to enter witness protection? Would Brooklyn boss Phil Leotardo, who had ordered a hit on Tony, prevail?
In the end, the only ending that mattered was the one masterminded by "Sopranos" creator David Chase. And playing against viewer expectations, as always, Chase refused to stage a mass extermination, put the characters through any changes, or provide his viewers with comfortable closure. Or catharsis. After all, he declined to pass moral judgment on Tony _ he reminded viewers all season what a thug Tony is, then gave him a pass.
But Chase was true to himself, and that's what made "The Sopranos" brilliant on Sunday night, and the 85 episodes that went before. The product of an artist with a bleak but illuminating vision, "The Sopranos" has always existed on its own terms. And it was seldom tidy.
The only neat development in the finale was that Leotardo was crushed. Otherwise it was perversely non-earthshaking _ just one last visit with the characters we have followed so devoutly since 1999.
Here was the funeral for Bobby Bacala, Tony's soldier and brother-in-law, who was shot dead on Leotardo's orders last week. Here was Tony (series star James Gandolfini) paying a hospital visit to his gravely injured consigliere, Silvio Dante, also targeted by Leotardo.
Tony's ne'er-do-well son A.J. (Robert Iler) continued to wail about the misery in the world, and voiced a fleeting urge to join the Army and go fight in Afghanistan (Tony persuaded him to get involved in filmmaking, instead). Daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) harped on her plans to be a lawyer.
Tony visits his senile Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) at the nursing home. "You and my dad, you two ran North Jersey," Tony prompts him.
"We did?" said Uncle Junior with no sign of recognition. "That's nice."
Despite suspicions to the contrary, neither Paulie Walnuts nor Patsy Parisi sold out Tony. And neither was whacked. Dr. Melfi, who kicked Tony out of therapy last week, made no last-minute appearance.
Sure, headaches lie ahead for Tony. The Feds are still after him. And Meadow's fiance, Patsy Jr., is a lawyer who may well be pursuing cases that intrude on Tony's business interests.
So what else is new?
The finale displayed the characters continuing, for better and worse, unaffected by the fact that the series is done. The implication was, they will go on as usual. We just won't be able to watch.
Of course, Leotardo (Frank Vincent) hit a dead end after Tony located him with the help of his favorite federal agent. The execution was a quick but classic "Sopranos" scene: Pulling up at a gas station with his wife, Leotardo made a grand show of telling his two young grandchildren in the back seat to "wave bye-bye" as he emerged from his SUV. The next moment he was on the pavement, shot in the head.
Then you heard the car roll over his head. Carunnnchh! Quick, clinical, even comical, this was the only violence during the hour.
Not that Chase (who wrote and directed this episode) didn't tease viewers with the threat of death in almost every scene.
This was never more true than in the final sequence. On the surface, it was nothing more momentous than Tony, his wife, Carmela (Edie Falco), Meadow and A.J. meeting for dinner at a cozy family restaurant.
When he arrived, Tony dropped a coin in the jukebox and played the classic Journey power ballad "Don't Stop Believing." Meanwhile, every moment seemed to foreshadow disaster: Suspicious-looking people coming in the door or seated at a table nearby. Meadow on the street having trouble parallel parking her car, the tires squealing against the curb. With every passing second, the audience was primed for tragedy. It was a scene both warm and fuzzy yet full of dread, setting every viewer's heart racing for no clear reason.
But nothing would happen. It was just a family gathering for dinner at a restaurant.
Then, with a jingle of the bell on the front door, Tony looked up, apparently seeing Meadow make her delayed entrance. Or could he have seen something awful _ something he certainly deserved _ about to come down?
Probably not. Almost certainly a false alarm. But we'll never know. With that, "The Sopranos" cut to black, leaving us enriched after eight years. And flustered. And fated to always wonder what happened next.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[day_for_night]

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i liked it as well, though definitely could have done with less AJ. god what an annoying character...

still, that last scene...holy tension batman. i was on the edge of my seat just waiting for shit to go down...

[Miguel]

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i agree on the last scene ... tension packed , but the rest of the episode was shit

too many untied ends

[jarble187]

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i was on the edge of my seat just waiting for shit to go down...

Im still trying to figure out why you all thought shit was going to go down. Sure there was some suspense, especially with Journey track playing, but who knew Tony was there with his family?