Anyone else disappointed by Sopranos?

[fibersmith]

I sort of understand why it ended the way it did but I really wanted some closure and I feel left hanging. . .how about you?

[Annie]

I didn't watch it, but saw the ending on the news!

We just started watching the re-runs.... so I really have no clue what's going on in the newer episodes.

I think by watching the last scene, what they were doing is leaving it open to a TV movie (or theatre) as well as letting the viewer determine and "make up" the ending for themselves. So write your own ending -- maybe a Meadow was running in to warn them but it was too late and the whole family got whacked! Or maybe they went to Disneyland

It did seem weak though...

[Faith]

I was so annoyed. The previous episode was so much better than the last one.

And there are many, many loose threads from previous seasons that I was hoping for a resolution -- the guy who raped Melfi, the Russians who were lost in the woods, etc.

But in a way it feels good that life goes on...kwim. I was relieved to see Phil go and the Christopher episode was pretty good too. The very best episode ever was Adrianna's on the last season. Took me completely by surprise.

Oh well...the end of an era. We'll cancel HBO after this season of Entourage.

[Ann]

At first, but the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. Everyone got the ending they wanted. I was sure that the guy in the bathroom came out and offed Tony just as Meadow walked in the door. Jim is just as sure that the family had a nice, normal dinner together and that it represented a new beginning for them.

I just want to know what the cat symbolized.

[Faith]

From the hbo boards:

He [Tony] was killed....

in fact, the ending was genius if you've paid attention to the show or are just a fan of well developed well thought out plots that all tie together and have the memory of a champ to remember it all

the ending was simple, he got killed, but let me tell yall why and explain in detail... There was 3 people in the room total who had a reason to kill tony.....

the two black guys, they were paid before to kill tony but he was only shot in the ear, this was in one of the earlier seasons,

also in the earlier seasons, the trucker who was sitting at the bar stool, who the camera kept focusing in on, is Nikki leotardo, Phil Leotardos nephew, he was in one of the early season episodes where Phil and Tony have a sit down....

heres where the genius comes in....

When tonys walking in the diner,you see the camera focus on him, then it switches to his perspective, and you see him looking at the booth hes gonna sit at...

then the camera switches back to tonys face, then it once again switches to his perspective, and it shows him looking at the door and looking at the people come in..... Everytime the door opens the Chimes sound....... Carmela walks in, Chimes, AJ walks in Chimes, this when Meadows parallel parking, still trying to get inside the restaurant....

at this point the camera switches back to the trucker who goes in the bathroom......

Then it goes to a scene where meadow finally parks and starts running in the diner....

the doors about to open, Tony looks up....

and No Chimes......................

No Music............

Everything just goes black...............

In one of the early episodes of the sopranos, tonys talking with bobby about what it must feel like to die..

Bobby says "at the end, you probably dont hear anything, everything just goes black"


part of that was revisited in the second to last episode during the last seconds of it, when tonys about to go to sleep and he flashes back to the memory of him and bobby on the boat... "You probably dont hear anything everything just goes black"


so in the end, the Journey song was playing, the chimes on the door sounded but when meadow came in, the guy in the trucker hat came out and killed tony...

its the reason you didn't hear or see anything when he died.... it was from his perspective.... and everything went black, then the credits rolled.

[Annie]

I kinda like Jim's version

Thanks Nan -- that is very interesting!! Guess I'll have to keep watching the re-runs