It's very clear IMO.All you guys looking for blood and guts need to watch a different show. This show has always been about Tony and how everything around him effects his family.
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It's very clear IMO.All you guys looking for blood and guts need to watch a different show. This show has always been about Tony and how everything around him effects his family.
Rebirtha
Footballguy
Six Feet UnderBest series ever with the best ending ever.
packersfan
Footballguy
What about those of us who have always understood that and still didn't care much for the ending?
Capella
Footballguy
I've told you this. You're watching the wrong show for that.
I guess I am more of a Cleaver kind of guy.
jamny
Footballguy
will all the apologists get it straight. Not everyone needed blood and guts. Even a "rat" storyline would have sufficed. Something!
All you guys looking for blood and guts need to watch a different show. This show has always been about Tony and how everything around him effects his family.
Righetti
Footballguy
my call on the last scene
the reason he cuts it out before the song ends is because we all know the way the song ends and Chase is not about finales, he's about capturing a time in the life of this family... It's not about the end of the song, not even about the beginning of it, it's about hearing a bit of it, knowing where you stand and then moving on.... I think we are left to realize that Tony's got his family with him, his 'family''s back in a place where he can make his money and he lives to fight another day..
Maybe he goes to jail, maybe he doesn't but this is the kind of life this guy leads, unlike the rest of the world he has to worry that somebody is out there ready to take him out not just worried about his kid getting playing time on his little league team. .
Perfect ending
the reason he cuts it out before the song ends is because we all know the way the song ends and Chase is not about finales, he's about capturing a time in the life of this family... It's not about the end of the song, not even about the beginning of it, it's about hearing a bit of it, knowing where you stand and then moving on.... I think we are left to realize that Tony's got his family with him, his 'family''s back in a place where he can make his money and he lives to fight another day..
Maybe he goes to jail, maybe he doesn't but this is the kind of life this guy leads, unlike the rest of the world he has to worry that somebody is out there ready to take him out not just worried about his kid getting playing time on his little league team. .
Perfect ending
if you didn't like the ending that's fine....but to all those who didn't think there was closure....there was.
GiantsRule
Footballguy
Bars slamming in his face. End scene. Would have been good enough.This was a cheap copout of the highest offer. Can't believe how many apologists are in this thread.will all the apologists get it straight. Not everyone needed blood and guts. Even a "rat" storyline would have sufficed. Something!
All you guys looking for blood and guts need to watch a different show. This show has always been about Tony and how everything around him effects his family.
Can anybody please tell me how this high society family with the fancy cars, big houses, disposable income, and the taste for the finer things in life is suddenly eating at some dive diner sharing onion rings?!?
avoiding injuries
Footballguy
It's over. I spent 50 of the 55 minutes waiting for SOMETHING to happen.
Oh goody, Phils dead. What a great ending. Fantastic even.
I gave it a chance up until the end, and it turned out to be a show that could never live up to the first two seasons. People saying how good it is/was has fallen into the trap and do not remember what a good tv show is. "You can't appreciate what Chase gave you..." No, I watched for entertainment and he was not able to deliver.
Typical FFA, just like eating at a chain rest., it's cool to go against the norm and love how this ending played out.
If 95% of the shows viewers hated the last episode, does that mean it was great? I can't imagine the people involved would be excited that almost everyone would hate the way it turned out.
If the Sopranos were a stock, it just bottomed out.
Oh goody, Phils dead. What a great ending. Fantastic even.
I gave it a chance up until the end, and it turned out to be a show that could never live up to the first two seasons. People saying how good it is/was has fallen into the trap and do not remember what a good tv show is. "You can't appreciate what Chase gave you..." No, I watched for entertainment and he was not able to deliver.
Typical FFA, just like eating at a chain rest., it's cool to go against the norm and love how this ending played out.
If 95% of the shows viewers hated the last episode, does that mean it was great? I can't imagine the people involved would be excited that almost everyone would hate the way it turned out.
If the Sopranos were a stock, it just bottomed out.
Capella
Footballguy
You got a resolution to the Phil thing. If they left THAT open, you'd be justifiably upset. I really don't get this beef.will all the apologists get it straight. Not everyone needed blood and guts. Even a "rat" storyline would have sufficed. Something!
All you guys looking for blood and guts need to watch a different show. This show has always been about Tony and how everything around him effects his family.
packersfan
Footballguy
I disagree. There was no closure whatsoever. The series didn't end; it just went on and on and on.Yea I get it. Like I said before, it's been done. The "it's not really an ending" ending. I just don't see the creativity or originality in that.
Did you actually watch the show?
GiantsRule
Footballguy
Eh. 24 did that in Season 3 (Stephen Saunders, the lead villian, gets killed by the wife of one of Saunders' victims.) Believe me, it's not all it's cracked up to be.Now the brusing guy that was Tony's original bodyguard? That would have been something.
avoiding injuries
Footballguy
So you only would have liked one of the following options:a) Tony deadb) Tony in jailc) Tony in witness protection?Maybe I'm not 100% right here, but the "apologists" have provided some damn good explanation on why it was "really an ending"
GRIDIRON ASSASSIN
Footballguy
jamny
Footballguy
I wanted an end to The SopranosThat didn't happen.You got a resolution to the Phil thing. If they left THAT open, you'd be justifiably upset. I really don't get this beef.will all the apologists get it straight. Not everyone needed blood and guts. Even a "rat" storyline would have sufficed. Something!It's very clear IMO.
All you guys looking for blood and guts need to watch a different show. This show has always been about Tony and how everything around him effects his family.
Now what...I wait and speculate on a movie, or a return years down the road?
Endless talk in the media about a possible movie...whoopie!
No they haven't.
Capella
Footballguy
You're stupid then. No. Maybe. -- Cappy
GRIDIRON ASSASSIN
Footballguy
With this vague-ness, I guess his uncle is the night janitor at the top floor of HBO headquarters.
Uncle is a higher up...
Uncle is a higher up...
packersfan
Footballguy
I never thought there was any way Chase was going to kill off Tony. That would've taken some huge stones and I never thought that would have happened. I didn't think he would flip either. Tony going to jail, left alone, deserted by his family (the only thing that really means anything in his life) would have been an ending that would have provided more closure. I don't think this was an ending. This was just another episode. And when you're talking about the final episode, I think you need to go further than that. But that's just my opinion.
avoiding injuries
Footballguy
How about the fact that it was blacked out for 30 seconds witthout actually ending. You can interpret the ending however you want. In this case, you must make one up b/c the writers didn't do so.
GiantsRule
Footballguy
Capella
Footballguy
Anyways, I thought the scene with him going to see Junior was fantastic. The middle was too choppy and it wasn't the best episode ever or anything, but this season is close to the top of the list for me.
It's too bad too many people are going to let a fantastic season be ruined in their minds by a 3-minute ending. But, whatever.
It's too bad too many people are going to let a fantastic season be ruined in their minds by a 3-minute ending. But, whatever.
packersfan
Footballguy
I'm sure that will be a popular theory but I don't buy it. We are only let with what the show presents to us. The last image of the show was Tony alive. The mystery man was still in the bathroom and at no point was there ever a clear threat on Tony's life. If we're going to project our own beliefs, then I'll just pretend the Al Pacino-esque guy came out and was really hired to kill A.J. on behalf of the millions of "Sopranos" fans who never liked his character and hated the fact he was featured so much in the series finale.
jamny
Footballguy
Who the hell has ever heard of an SUV catching on fire because it parked on leaves? Seriously, they spent 5 minutes of the season finale' on that?
I didn't get that warning with my Explorer.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Really? I liked the last half of Season 6 a lot, but no way would I put it even close to 1, 2, or 3. Even 6B on its own wouldn't touch them. But, hey, that's me.
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Capella
Footballguy
I don't consider 6A and 6B the same season. 6B is easily on par with 1 and 2, imo. 6A is my least favorite.
This is a great posting. Just because the show didn't end with one of the three most obvious scenarios coming to pass doesn't mean that the final episode wasn't great. This wasn't a show that spoonfed its audience, and that wasn't going to change now.
I'm ****officially**** backing off of my "closure" statement. After watching it again, it's clear that it is up to the viewer for interpretation on whether he got popped in the last scene.But I still think it was a great ending b/c of the interpretation it leaves.
Nipsey
Footballguy
I loved the season, but this entire episode was a massive letdown, not just the last 3 minutes.
avoiding injuries
Footballguy
The series was still running off the steam that seasons 1, 2 and 3 put out. Unfortunately, and I could not admit it, but it ended a few years before the finale.
I think the point of that scene was to focus that even though AJ thinks he has gone all "save the world" on everyone; he's still ole slapdick AJWho the hell has ever heard of an SUV catching on fire because it parked on leaves? Seriously, they spent 5 minutes of the season finale' on that?
packersfan
Footballguy
Again, I'll say that the issue there is it's a cop-out. It's as if Chase couldn't come up with an actual ending so he decided to play the "Let them decide" game.
Capella
Footballguy
There were parts of tonight I didn't like. Thought it dawdled too much in the middle.
Capella
Footballguy
This is what I keep asking. Nobody has given an answer.JUST FOR HIM TO DIE OMG
Capella
Footballguy
no, it didn't. if you couldn't get into 5 and 6b, I dunno what to say.
packersfan
Footballguy
Agreed. The second half was terrific and last week's episode was one of the best in the series' fun. But this episode was Blah and it wasn't just the unsatisfying resolution. Other than a few good moments, I kept looking at the clock and getting frustrated that it was closer and closer to the end and nothing of substance was happening.I honestly could care less about A.J. Couldn't Chase have picked another episode other than the final one to spend on that character? I'd rather watch Syl in a coma than see A.J. trying to figure out which foot to use first as he walks through life.
6B = definitely one of the top three seasons. I'm starting to think that the second to last episode was the greatest ever.I also think that 5 doesn't get enough love. 4 was legitimately criticized, though I enjoyed it.
jamny
Footballguy
What do you mean motive? For Chase?Phil gave the order. People were still loyal to him.
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