Sopranos 6/10 -- THE END

It Ended. Tony, Paulie and a few nobodies beat the Gambino crime family. Tony's still the head of the Jersey mob and the new head of the Brooklyn/Gambino family owes Tony. Meadow's joining the family business by marriage, AJ's out of depression and banging a hot 16 year old, Carm's back in the house and still wearing polyester pants suits and Piaget watches.

They went out to eat at a diner, which, in New Jersey, is about as normal as you can get. And Chase has an abrupt cut at the end rather than have the audience watch as Tony orders the Steak sandwich, AJ gets the Club, Meadow has a chef's salad and Carm gets a Rueben.

 

With every person that walked into Holstens. Were they going to kill him? Or were they everyday schulbs? Were the feds going to walk in and arrest him on-the-spot?

 

Good job with that summation.

 

We get it Pube, you didn't like the ending.
Fine. A lot of people did and a lot of people didn't.

But to just continue ripping Chase and anyone who doesn't agree with you, proves again what an arrogant little douchebag you are.

 

But there is a lot of that sort of passive-aggression on this thread, I think.

I think you are militantly thinking that I wanted a shooting at the end.

No, not true.

Fade to black right there would have been fine and accomplished that.

But this guy's arrogance knows no bounds.

 

I never thought of the opening scene last night as a ploy to make us think it was Tony in a casket. He wouldn't have been buried in what he was wearing, for starters, and that's just one of several things that made it clear to me he was just asleep. Didn't we see him from the same angle before, possibly in a dream episode? Anyway, I didn't feel fooled or tricked. My initial impulse was "Uh oh, dream sequence?" But then I grinned because I figured that was Chase having fun. And that's fine too. He's been having fun since the first episode.

It's human nature to disagree about art or entertainment or even a hamburger joint. The board is full of threads that show people arguing about whether something was good. "The Sopranos," and especially last night's show, has for me been more full of payoffs and rewards for investing in its psychology than anything else I've watched for an extended period of time, and I'm OK if someone else was disappointed.

That's not going to ruin it for me.

 

You need to do a Phil Leotardo-styled microscopic inspection of your whitewalls.

Fucking asshole.

 

Well put. I agree.

 

Meadow's not really joining the family by marriage. Patrick was working at a law firm and she was planning on the same. He seems pretty far away from his father. The look on Patsy's face as his hefty mobbed up wife tried to tell the oldest joke in the world was priceless.

For a show like the Sopranos, no ending would've left everyone satisfied. The show was too good to end.
I was skittish too in the last scene, even as i was saying there was no way it would end with Meadow getting hit by a car or even Tony getting (visibly) capped, because the first one made no sense and the second would be too easy. By letting us know Tony could go to jail or could die was probably the only way to end it with any honesty to what the show's been about.

 

I'm glad it's over. I loved it, but frankly I couldn't take any more of it.

 

Music didn't strike you that way?

 

Let me see if I understand your line of thinking ...

Fade to black = fine ending
Sudden cut to black = Chase's arrogance knows no bounds

Does fade vs. sudden cut really make that much of a difference?