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By April MacIntyre Jun 11, 2007, 5:07 GMT
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and you observed very well, there was a lot of visual chicanery in the diner shots, he appeared to be looking at himself sitting, and the girl was a ringer for Janice.
lousy ending to a eight year run what a disappointment.
I thought it was a great ending. The suspence in the diner is Godfather like; however, I would think Tony, like the gunfighters of old would have sat with his back to the wall or corner. Looks like a sure winner as a movie in a few years.
The cat's arrival. The tension in the last scene. The lighting throughout the first few episodes. Amazing bits to an otherwise underwhelmingly written season. Great production, excellent cast. But I'm glad it's over.
I don't think this is a set-up for a movie. I think the reason he left everything unresolved is because life is unresolved. The drama during the last scene was simply too create a memorable last scene that everyone would talk about
Let me first say that I love The Soprano's! But this last episode left more questions than answers. I thought a season finale was suppose to tie up loose ends? I am glad that Phil got his ass whacked, but what about Paulie, was he a rat? And why didn't they at least let Carmela get beat down or something? It would have been beautiful to see the ultimate hypocrite get her just due. I chose to watch The Sopranos over the San Antonio & Cleveland finals. Both could have been missed:-( I only hope that this was not a ploy by the writers and producers to bring the show back from the grave. It won't be the first time that the viewers are held hostage and forced to demand more! In closing, I am glad that the character that played Silvio was left in limbo. It would have been a danmn shame to kill off such a cool ass character...he should have been boss!!!
I liked the final episode since it maintains the possibility of future 'Sopranos' movies. A week ago people were speculating that Tony would be killed off by the NY mob in the final episode, but this ending preserves the main characters. 'Sporanos' is a franchise, and its value was undiminished by this ending.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT......................
go back and look closely. the guy at the bar was credited as Nicki Leotardo --we saw him briefly in season six. clearly he was nervous, out for blood revenge, despite the fact that phil was whacked with new york's approval. he knows what a renegade killing means for him, that's why he appears so furtive and nervous. he walks to the bathroom, to gain the advantage by getting out of tony's line of sight. he steps out just as meadow walks in....
go back and look closely. meadow's expression in the final half second as she walks into the restaurant says it all.
the abrupt cut to black silence was brilliant. remember the line from last week: 'you never see it coming, and i suppose everything goes black.'
yes fans, tony WAS shot. his ending was artfully rendered, but it leaves no doubt, really.
that's as much as we know for now. life goes on. the end -- until the sopranos movie next year.
Maybe this was Chase's way of whacking his show
That man was not Nicki Leotardo, he was credited as 'Man in Member's Only Jacket'.
The restaurant scene was a rip-off of Revelations where we aren't supposed to know the guy doing the narration is talking about himself, eating his own words when he comes to live the life he created, ie God must believe in God or he is alone etc. A similar thing happened in Harry Potter where he saw his 'Father' fighting off the evil wizard only to find it was actually him doing it from the other side of the pond later. I am constantly amazed at how many times the bible is ripped off in one subtle way after another recently and we aren't supposed to notice. At least Mel Gibson was blatant about it in 'The Passion'.
The series starts with Tony suffering an anxiety attack as a result of his high stress job, setting the mood for the entire series. The Sopranos deals with the emotional crises of Tony Soprano—this is the true subject of show, and not the mafia lifestyle. The entire first episode deals with Tony’s anxieties, which primarily revolve around his troubled home life—difficulties with his children and wife. He relates the story of the family of ducks, showing his desire to have a similarly idyllic relationship with his own family.
Tony Soprano’s family crisis is thus the theme of series. This is a common ploy for good literature: it’s called a topic statement. For instance, if you wish, Homer’s Iliad starts with the word “rage,” setting the theme for the whole work. Once the rage of Achilles debates the story ends: contrary to what many people think, the book does not describe the fall of Troy, neither the Trojan horse or the death of Achilles by arrow in the heel.
A similar conclusion can be found in The Sopranos. By the end of the series, all the loose ends have been tied up: Tony has patched things with Carmela, Meadow is set to go to law school, and AJ is on a straighter path; Tony no longer needs the therapy. We see that he is happy at this dinner, the music is jubilant. The
scene goes black at the moment his happy family comes together (when Meadow enters the restaurant) and his crisis ends. The dream of the ducks, referenced again in the episode, has come true.
The ending leaves a lot of tension, but that is the genius of the final episode. The series is over when the thesis is resolved; as far as the plot as concerned, it does not matter what happens afterwards. Thus, you can fill in what happens afterwards as you wish.
Ending was perfect sad to see it end
THE FINAL EPIOSDE BLEW AND THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE IS A KISS ASS.
'Fans of the show will either be simplistic, angry and childish, demanding an answer or a proper finish to say goodbye. Others will appreciate what Chase did, letting us think it through, and wonder what happened to each family member.'
Tom, I guess you fall in the former catergory...
I think it wuz a good ending only if there is a movie or sumtin. i cant imagine it left like that. soo there deff has 2 be some sort of continuation 2 it.
When I was a little girl I saw a movie with an unhappy ending. I was quite upset. My father consoled me by saying that it wasn't the end of the character's lives, and that they would go on to be happy again. We saw a slice of Tony Soprano's life. The period he spent with Dr. Melfi. I thought the ending was very good. The thing that bothers me is that we all came to care about a murdering thug. How would any of us feel about meeting him in a dark alley?
no, the assessment is correct. What did you want, to see them all face down on the table in the onion rings dead and bleeding? would that have appeased you? I believe the critics of Chase are overreacting.
The ending would have been much better if they'd been at a KFC enjoying a bucket of my finger lickin' good original recipe. Onion rings?!!
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