Comments on: The Sopranos finale: fuggeddaboudit?

By: dr_mabeuse

dr_mabeuse — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:43:37 +0000

Did he get hit at the end or did he not? Does it matter? If not now, then tomorrow. Or the day after that. Or the day after that…

Because what we do get in these last moments in the diner is a portrait of what Tony’s life has become now. A life lived under a dangling sword, where every stranger could be only a stranger or could be the Angel of Death; where even a family gathering has become a target of opportunity. Everything is fraught with meaning, because every moment could be his last.

We don’t know what happens because we never know. And in not knowing, we get to join his family at last.

By: eamwkc

eamwkc — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:58:47 +0000

I’m with Gustav on this one. I get that Chase is being all artistic and crap, but I think he chickend out. He knew that no matter what ending he came up with, people woudl hate it. So he opted to go with no ending at all.

Chase has no stugots.

By: A Lesson A Day

A Lesson A Day — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:12:59 +0000

I think the onion rings were symbols of coins placed in the mouths of the dead. If so, then Tony, as well as Carm and AJ, got it.

Note the title of the episode: Made in America. The baseball cap said USA. Was he a “made” guy?

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:47:47 +0000

Coming soon to a theater near you…

By: Karan

Karan — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:15:28 +0000

I do not believe Tony got whacked. That would be firmly flouting the mob rules. Once they shook hands on Phil Leotardo getting whacked, that right there settled everything.
Unless, there was another sit-down with Paulie and Little Carmine and the rest, and it was decided that Tony had to go. But that’s seriously a stretch.

By: Higgins

Higgins — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:52:14 +0000

Am I the only one who thought the whole episode (well, except the ending) was a setup for a spinoff series about the FBI guy and his counter-terrorist stuff? I mean, we saw him with his mistress, we saw him having family troubles…why did we see so much of that guy??

I liked the ending. Though I was pretty sure my TiVo had borked it for a minute there.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:30:29 +0000

I tought that the ending was brilliant! I’m tired of being spoon fed my entertainment. Wow!, Chase really left it up to us to think it out. I thought Tony and his family got whacked, and the black screen and silence was his death. The Feds were closing in on him. And after all, If Antony Jr. was that happy, something really bad HAD to be about to happen!

By: Hal from Jersey

Hal from Jersey — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:56:55 +0000

From a new interview in the Washington Post :
“Although the series ends ‘elegantly and probably exactly the way it should,’ Grey says, he doesn’t close the door on the idea that it could re-emerge as a feature film.”
[Brad Grey was executive producer of the Sopranos, and is the current CEO of Paramount Pictures]

IMHO, they might as well have ended with â€œTo Be Continued…â€ scrolling across the bottom of the screen.

By: Gustav

Gustav — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:45:26 +0000

I think I understand what Chase tried to do, but I think it is a shod sandwich attempt and completely narcissistic. I understand what others have written, that it is art, and should be left up to one’s interpretation, however this is was just like reading a book with the last ten pages ripped out. At least with a painting you have everything in front of you to interpret, I felt like Chase cut out a big whole in the canvas leaving it incomplete. And that is my simple minded opinion.

By: Devin

Devin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:40:33 +0000

I thought the cat belonged to SchrÃ¶dinger… There were a couple of quantum references dropped throughout the series. My impression was that Chase slammed the box shut leaving the whole Soprano clan in a state of superposition. We won’t know who’s alive or dead until we crack the box open later and check.