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What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

Art? Great finish? Really? The reason the Sopranos was a hit was because of six great seasons of good storylines and violence. Along the way, we bonded with the characters, saw their human side, and wondered if in the end they'd be able to beat the odds or meet the most uncertain fate of death or jail. It was not a hit because of a talking fish on the wall, or a cat staring at a picture of a dead guy. For Cripe's sake it's a show about the mafia! The final season was a waste. An entire episode was devoted to Johnny Sack dying. That was a phone call that could have been made to the Bada Bing. Five minutes and a funeral scene. Done. What was with Uncle Junior and the poker game at the mental hospital. Wasted time. FINAL SEASON..WHERE'S THE ACTION. And Christopher...killed in an car wreck (well not really but you know)....I CAN DIE IN A CAR WRECK ....this is a drug addict with serious personal issues with several people and we see Tony squeeze his nose....come on. And AJ. You're telling me that a kid raised in that family would have ever uttered the words "can't we all just get along"....PUHLEAZE!!!! Finally, next to the last episode, all of the action goes down and it's over in twenty minutes. They could have spent the entire season on that twenty minutes and ended each show with a cliffhanger. I have seen so many great predicted endings by fans everywhere and this is what we were dealt?! Now that I see this was not done with a future movie in mind....it makes me even madder.

Art? Great finish? Really? The reason the Sopranos was a hit was because of six great seasons of good storylines and violence. Along the way, we bonded with the characters, saw their human side, and wondered if in the end they'd be able to beat the odds or meet the most uncertain fate of death or jail. It was not a hit because of a talking fish on the wall, or a cat staring at a picture of a dead guy. For Cripe's sake it's a show about the mafia! The final season was a waste. An entire episode was devoted to Johnny Sack dying. That was a phone call that could have been made to the Bada Bing. Five minutes and a funeral scene. Done. What was with Uncle Junior and the poker game at the mental hospital. Wasted time. FINAL SEASON..WHERE'S THE ACTION. And Christopher...killed in an car wreck (well not really but you know)....I CAN DIE IN A CAR WRECK ....this is a drug addict with serious personal issues with several people and we see Tony squeeze his nose....come on. And AJ. You're telling me that a kid raised in that family would have ever uttered the words "can't we all just get along"....PUHLEAZE!!!! Finally, next to the last episode, all of the action goes down and it's over in twenty minutes. They could have spent the entire season on that twenty minutes and ended each show with a cliffhanger. I have seen so many great predicted endings by fans everywhere and this is what we were dealt?! Now that I see this was not done with a future movie in mind....it makes me even madder.

apologies to the writer and directors and actors in my last post the "money talks".. a movie would be great and i know you would do it for the sake of the art of film.. truly a great story and to cap everying of with a movie that will get people that have scene it and havent to watch it, people that havent scene the show befor liked the movie and buy the seasons on dvd and become new fans.. plus my dads generation had novelty movies like godfather and goodfellas. somthing i would be happy about would be a movie to cap it all off and leave everyhting with a bag.

if you watch the last episode again.. check the ending scene out closly. woman walks into the resturant and he just looks up, stange dude with the hat walks in and tony reaches for somthing on his left,and when aj walks in its behind some strange guy with no hat.. after med takes like 10 min to park her car you hear her walk in but tony reaches for the thing on his left again.. i know they cant start a movie with that scene but to me there are questions still left. sil in the hospital and pauly acting wierd at the end.. whats up with tonys gun case and people getting fliped by the cops.. dont think that was the end.. but either way.. movie or not.. actualy they will prolly make a movie knowing how many people hated that ending and money talks in this country.. so yeah my bets on movie

WAIT A SEC...... I HAVE IT I KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED THINK ABOUT IT FOR A MINUTE OUT OF ALL THE WACKING THAT WAS DONE ON THE SOPRANO'S I BELIVE IN THE END I WAS WACKED....YOU WERE WACKED.......... THE AUDIENCE AS A WHOLE WAS WACKED. WE DON'T GET TO SEE WHAT HAPPEND BECAUSE EVERYONE WAS WACKED. DAVID CHASE YOU GOT US GOOD, IN THE END YOU WACKED US ALL AND WE DID NOT EVEN SEE IT COMING.

"Stop being artsy...write an interesting script"?? What a joke Joe M. I know guys like you, I bet you thought Kill Bill was Tarantino's best production. The Sopranos, from beginning to end, was progressively a masterpiece. The final season was quite drawn out but every second was meaningful. Since season 1 the actors have gotten better and better and the series as a whole is pretty much perfect. It's the greatest story told in pictures that's in excess twenty-something hours. Whatever David Chase wanted his characters to do is fine with me because he's the artist, I'm the viewer, and I'm quite appreciative of what I've been given.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." You, Joe M., are the American public.

I feel so scared and alone the ending was really scary when you think about it people always fear what they don't understand. I think tony got wacked doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that.

After reading the post by jlove, I have changed my mind. If that is in fact what Chase was intending, then it was an incredible way to end the series. Though I stand by my point that the series hasn't been good since the second season

I'm just thankful the final episode didn't have Carmela visiting the streets of Paris for half the episode, or Tony going to Vegas and screaming into the Grand Canyon on shrooms. Never before has a series had so many directions to go in and yet just chose to sit still and rot. I beg you, go through even just the final 8 episodes and count the minutes wasted. Off the top of my head, in addition to the Tony Vegas episode, which was entirely useless, A.J watching the full 60-second commercial while in the mental ward comes to mind. IF I WANTED TO WATCH A COMMERCIAL I WOULD BE WATCHING NETWORK TV!! I wonder how much the show got paid by the company for choosing its commercial to be the one A.J. was watching. And what the hell was with that doctor who murdered his wife giving Johnny Sac hope? He has nothing to do with anything yet he takes up a good 10-15 minutes out of the final 8 episodes. I'd be willing to wager the doctor was on the screen for this last season for longer than Silvio was in all the last 8 episodes combined!! When something like that is going on, you know something is wrong. The Sopranos hasn't been a good show since the second season.
P.S. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE RUSSIAN GUY that Paulie and Christopher let get away?! Directors should stop being artsy and trying to make a statement and JUST WRITE AN INTERESTING SCRIPT!

Without a doubt, Tony got whacked. The flashback to the scene of Tony and Bobby on the boat talking about, "you don't see it coming" clearly shows it to me. That's what ends up happening to Bobby, and in the end, it also happens to Tony. That is why you see Tony in the first person in the beginning of the last scene. Tony got whacked by the hit man coming from the can, distracted by Meadow's late arrival. If she had only parked her car correctly. The bell of the restaurant door ringing is the last thing Tony hears before he is shot. Someone even mentioned that the guy that goes to the can happened to be Phil Leotardo's nephew. It all makes sense to me... and I think it's an amazing ending.

A fadeout to black while the family ate onion rings. The symbolism was powerful!

PLEASE MAKE A MOVIE!!

If anyone has any info about the possiblity of a movie, let me know

thatboyelite@tmail.com

They wont make a movie. As much as people want it to happen its not. Like Bobby said in one episode when you die your not gonna know when it happens he says something like that i dont know, but if tony did die would it be a movie really be worth seeing? the only reason i would see if it revolved around the death of Tony and it had to have all the same characters NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

They wont make a movie. As much as people want it to happen its not. Like Bobby said in one episode when you die your not gonna know when it happens he says something like that i dont know, but if tony did die would it be a movie really be worth seeing? the only reason i would see if it revolved around the death of Tony and it had to have all the same characters NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

They wont make a movie. As much as people want it to happen its not. Like Bobby said in one episode when you die your not gonna know when it happens he says something like that i dont know, but if tony did die would it be a movie really be worth seeing? the only reason i would see if it revolved around the death of Tony and it had to have all the same characters NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

When I saw it the first time... I was frustrated... then after thinking about it... it was perfect. Chase thumbed his nose at convention when he started the Sopranos... why would he stop now?

The true ending is left to each of our imagination.

All those familiar folks coming into the diner told me - dream sequence. Yea, I'd go watch a movie.

Every show ENDS.

Chase should have written more episodes. The writing throughout was outstanding.

Most Rewarding scene:

Phil gets one in the head, one in the heart then has his head run over by the tire(s).

Favorite scene:

Tony and Carm with AJ's shrink. Tony revolves the session around HIS issues with his mother, like HE is the one in therapy and Carm gives Tony "The Look"...as only a wife can do....just a classic!!!

President George W. Bush today announced that he has named nine individuals to serve as Fredo Banditos to assist in the shredding of White House visitor's records and traces of Bush's Jack Abramoff crony activity:

The President has named J. Michael Farren to be Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President. Mr. Farren recently served as Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Xerox Corporation. Prior to this, he served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Earlier in his career, he served as Deputy Campaign Manager for the Bush-Quayle Re-election Committee and Deputy Director of President George H.W. Bush's Transition Team. Mr. Farren received his bachelor's degree from Fairfield University, his master's degree from Trinity College, and his JD from the University of Connecticut.

The President has named William Burck to be Deputy Assistant to the President and Special Counsel to the President. Mr. Burck recently served as Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Staff Secretary at the White House. Earlier in his career, he served as Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Burck received his bachelor's degree from Yale University and his JD from Yale Law School.

The President has named Emmet Flood to be Deputy Assistant to the President and Special Counsel to the President. Mr. Flood recently was a Partner at Williams & Connolly, LLP. Prior to this, he served as a Law Clerk to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Earlier in his career, he served as Law Clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Flood received his bachelor's degree from the University of Dallas and his JD from Yale Law School. He received his master's degree and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

The President has named Scott Coffina to be Associate Counsel to the President. Mr. Coffina recently served as a Partner at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads in Philadelphia. Earlier in his career, he served as Assistant United States Attorney in United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and an Associate at Miller Alfano & Raspanti in Philadelphia. Mr. Coffina received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

The President has named Amy F. Dunathan to be Associate Counsel to the President. Ms. Dunathan recently served as an Associate at Wiley Rein & Fielding, LLP. Earlier in her career, she served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and as Senior Republican Counsel at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs. Ms. Dunathan received her bachelor's degree from Brown University and her JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

The President has named Francis Q. Hoang to be Associate Counsel to the President. Mr. Hoang recently served as an Associate at Williams & Connolly LLP. Earlier in his career, he served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Thomas B. Griffith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Deputy Chief of Police and SWAT Commander at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Mr. Hoang received his bachelor's degree from the United States Military Academy, his master's degree from Washburn University and his JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

The President has named Al Lambert to be Associate Counsel to the President. Mr. Lambert recently served as an Associate at Wiley Rein & Fielding, LLP. Earlier in his career, he served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Laurence H. Silberman, United States Court of Appeals, DC Circuit and Summer Associate at Patton Boggs, LLP. Mr. Lambert received his bachelor's degree from New York University and his JD from Harvard Law School.

The President has named Michael Purpura to be Associate Counsel to the President. Mr. Purpura recently served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice. Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Hawaii and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Purpura received his bachelor's degree from the United States Military Academy and his JD from the Columbia University School of Law.

The President has named Kate Todd to be Associate Counsel to the President. Ms. Todd recently served as a Partner at Wiley Rein & Fielding, LLP. Earlier in her career, she served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States and a Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Ms. Todd received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University and her JD from Harvard Law School.

I think to really understand why things ended in the Sopranos with a black screen, put it into context with the "Godfather" movies.
That trilogy was told as the lyrical story of Michael Corleone, from returning home as a World War II hero, to his reluctant acceptance as heir to the family throne, to all of the heartbreak from his own family, to the most tragic death of all when his daughter is struck down. He ends dying alone on a chair in the middle of an Italian field, probably the same field where his father played as a boy. Brilliantly episodic from start to end like Shakespearan play.
Flash forward to the Sopranos, a completely "un-Godfather-like" experience. Remember in the first or second episode, when Sil quoted Michael Corleone with "Just when I got out, they pulled me back in?". I think that was Chase telling us, "this isn't the Godfather revisited. In fact, it's the 'non-Godfather'".
While in the Godfather, Michael and Vito both walked around with an imperious gait, dressed like royalty, Tony was most often seen plodding around with a decrepit robe. Some of the Godfather quotes read like "Hamlet", while Tony was most often quoted like any Jersey punk.
And while every Godfather scene reeked with meaning and symbolism, the Sopranos often interspersed everyday dialogue and actions with shocking results.
The point is: Chase attempted to show us what might REALLY happen within a modern-day Mafia Family, in no particular sequential order. Conversely, the Godfather portrayed the Mafia family like an epic, first-family saga of America. The Godfather trilogy had to end as it did. So did the Sopranos.

I too would have liked a more concrete ending. The American television audience want things spelled out for us. If I wanted to use my imagination, I WOULDN'T BE WATCHING TV, I'd read a book. HOWEVER, after sleeping on it and much thought (damn you David Chase - you made me THINK after all) I came to the conclusion that the ending doesn't matter. I think that's what it's all about. Look we know that there are really only 2 ways out. Tony can die, or he can go to prison. We know that Tony would be going to jail ...soon. We also know that Tony could be killed at any moment - he's a mob boss. So, ultimately, what does it matter? The series is over either way.

set back itlaians 50 yaers, shut up! its a show morons. i nearly had a panic attack the last 60 sec. of the show.

David Chase created the Sopranos, and therefore gets to end them as he sees fit.

Kudos to the suits at HBO for not pulling a "wha' happened?" and forcing changes to the episode to make it more of a traditional ending.

Yes, I thought my cable went out, too. Yes, I was pissed that my blood pressure had risen steadily in the final scene, and then darkness -- followed by initial let-down. And by the way, I was especially pissed that that little runt underling of Phil's didn't get his...

But, c'mon, this is so much better than staring into a snow globe, or seeing a fast forward of someone's life, or waking up from a dream. We each get to determine for ourselves what happened in the end. Not much ever ends in life in a succinct, clear cut finale. Why the expectation that this show end that way?

Anyone who can only focus on "what happened" to Tony is a slave to plot! What about all of the incredible character analysis in every episode throughout the entire season--including this last episode. I leave completely satisfied.

"What happens next" is pretty much irrelevant (at least for now). What matters is that they are part of a crumbling mafia world and everyone is unable to escape unscathed, whether physically or mentally. Although, as we know, there's some hope for the kids.

Bravo to Chase, et al.

I can't see a movie going forward with Tony into the future because it would destroy the ambiguity of the finale. I think a prequel is more likely, focused aorund Livia, Johnny Boy, a slightly post high school era (thin and long hair) Tony and Carmela, as well as some of the other great characters (Feech LaManna, Tony B, Jackie and Richie Aprile, Uncle Junior) and Arte and Charmain.

Some of you whiners need a good shrink. I hear Dr. Melfi might have some openings.

Great writting on David Chases part, he has deffinwetly left the doors open to endless possibilities!! Way to go HBO..
The anticipation of "What's Gonna Happen"
had me on the edge of my seat!!!!

this was a waste of time. i only subscribe to HBO to watch the sopranos. i have every season on dvd and now i can say - GOODBYE forever. this was an arrogant and tasteless way for Chase to reward your the adoring fans. i had the perception that writers of successful hit series write in order to get another season and provide entertainment to their fans. BOY, WAS I WRONG!! this load of crap was better ending in the 3rd or 4th seasons. i would never go to see the movie after this, to put in in tony's words "JAG OFF" of an ending. i am cancelling HBO today.

The grey Member's Only jacket guy was in another episode. Season 6 episode 1, when Juniot shot Tony, he was in the scene where Tony had a sitdown with Phil. He was sitting with Phil -- his name is Nicky Leotardo, Phil's nephew."

hmmmmmmm

The grey Member's Only jacket guy was in another episode. Season 6 episode 1, when Juniot shot Tony, he was in the scene where Tony had a sitdown with Phil. He was sitting with Phil -- his name is Nicky Leotardo, Phil's nephew."

hmmmmmmm

I LOVE THE SOPRANO'S!

I think that David Chase is a genus with his writing. I love the little things that are in the episodes. Take the cat from last night and the expressions on Paulie's face. Tony told him "He was probably starring at a dead rat" After Tony got up the cat came and laid down by Paulie. I loved that Tony got to say goodbye to Uncle June and his reaction to running New Jersey was "That's nice", I love that Phil got to say goodbye to his grandkids. I also like the guys in the restaurant: The guy with the hat (possible hit man), the Middle Eastern guy. (Possible terrorist) the two black guys (possible gang members to from last season who had a hit on Tony.) I also like how Mr. Chase left an opening. I know they don't want to make a movie, but there is still an option. I think Tony got killed as others have said, you don't see it coming and it just goes dark, no music. Make your own conclusions.

Here is mine.

Tony dies, Paulie was a rat, and because they did not kill Sil. That there will be a Soprano's Movie. Which makes me very happy? And to the guy who's selling his set of DVD's, let me know. Because I can't get enough Soprano's!

Chase is a genius period! The last scene feeds the appetite for those who wanted death for Tony and for those who did not. I fall into the latter category. Sorry but I'm not buying the fact that Tony gets whacked in the restaurant. Chase set us up.It certainly looked like Tony may have finally met his doom in the last scene, but that is exactly what Chase wanted to tease us with. Let's look at the FACTS. The war with New York is OVER.No matter how many metaphors Chase drew to suggest demise,the facts are still the FACTS.New York gave up Phil to make peace period. Tony lives on! Sil is still technically alive and....can I buy advanced tickets for the movie premiere?!

I think the writers "dissed" all of us loyal viewers who watched the show for all of these years. The very least we could have been offered was some sort of conclusion to the story line... You "disssed" us in a major way!

If you wanted a setup for a movie, then you shouldn't have robbed us fans of a descent ending. That piece of crap ending wasn't even worth my time (and now you want us to subscribe to another piece of crap surfer show called, "John from Cinncinati"?).

You could've let the Sopranos happily finished the meal in peace as a family, then continued the storyline in a movie.... what a bum ending you gave us.

... Long story, short? ...this supposedly 'gangster" show (and it's writers and producer) PUNKed out on a descent ending, not even bothering to give it's fans some sort of definitive resolution after being devoted to the show for all of these years. (Talk about Big P*ssy?)

Forgetaboutit? I think not...You "disssed" us in a major way and I certainly will NOT be inclined to tune into any more HBO inspired shows produced by this team in the future.

David Chase is a genius, he keeps everyone talking about the Sopranos and all he had to do was pull the plug....

he doesnt have to Tony S was the DON.

Big question: Can Gandolfini Act in any other role than Tony S.? Haven't seen anything to show he can.

What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

Big question: Can Gandolfini Act in any other role than Tony S.? Haven't seen anything to show he can.

Big question: Can Gandolfini Act in any other role than Tony S.? Haven't seen anything to show he can.

What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

The ending was not shot from Tony's point of view. The ending was classic and somewhat like a "shaggy dog story". I laughed because I felt he was about to be rubbed out. When it didn't happen and the screen went blank, I really laughed. Hopefully they will make a movie.

What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

I have no reason to live now...

What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

Here's my thought. Like any good book or show with cliff hanger of an ending. It leaves to your imagination. Some poeple our disapointed some think it pure guines. I was probibly like alot of ppl. who said WTF at the end. & after reading some very good insights of poeples blogs. I did think it was wierd when Tony walked in & split second later he was the table watching him self.

What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This this of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

What else can you expect from a crime family. They screw you in the end. This this of their's, that feeling you got....it's all because you got "got"! Welcome to true interactive TV. You're part of the show now, you're just not family. This is the pinnacle of brilliance.....The June 10th Massacre!!!

I can't go on now...

Whine! Whine! Whine! All the dribble about whether ADE really died is boring and silly. She took some slugs to the head and was obviously killed. And the idea that she came back as the cat is more goofy projection. I would have been more impressed if somebody had noticed and thrown in their two cents about the cat showing up at the end of Paulie's last scene at the meat market. After Tony walks away, the cat walks up and sits staring at Paulie in the same way it had Chrissy's picture. This coule imply that Pauli had ratted Tony out and worked out a deal with the remaining NY crowd that Toni must be taken out too. Or it could just be the cat has some weird attachment to the guys, including Chrissy, Carlo and now Paulie-who assume the position Paulie just reluctantly accepted. Paulie's expression as Tony walked away makes one wonder if all is really settled between him and Tony. As for the whining about the Russian never showing back up, let me borrow one of Paulie's lines: Who gives a F!!! As for the ending, I think the whiners would be whining no matter what Chase decided to do. Some of these posts show how hostile many get when forced to think for themselves. Forcing two legged sheep to think for themselves is worse than shining a light on a vampire.

The last scene, without the lush, cheap
emotions evoked by "Don't Stop Believin',"
would be a mundane conversation. The joke's on us: the last scene is all about
the Journey. Not the ending.

Kudos to Chase and Company for giving us the ultimate anti-ending. What happened? I think folks are right when they say the audience got whacked. Consider, though, that for fictional characters, when the audience disappears, the characters evaporate. Everybody got whacked and nobody got whacked. It's all about The Journey.

OH MY I THAUGHT I LOST CABLE SIGNAL.
THEN SAW THE CREDITS.
I WANTED TO KICK IN MY TV SCREEN.
IS THIS AN OPENING FOR THE MOVIE OR SPECIALS EVERY COUPLE YEARS

What a great ending. It was like listening to the music from "Jaws" and wait for something to happen and then nothing. I understand that many of the people in the restaurant were on other episodes. It will be interesting to find out about that

SEVEN F*&KEN YEARS OF BEING FAITHFULL TO THE SOPRANOS!!!!!!,,SEVEN F*&KEN YEARS OF PAYING FOR HBO JUST FOR THE SOPRANOS!!!!
AND THE F*&ken WRITERS HAVE THE BALLS TO END IT LIKE SOME COWARDS!!! I WILL NOT EV EN GO TO SEE THE MOVIE, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY WILL NOT KNOW HOW TO FINISH IT.....

The grey Member's Only jacket guy was in another episode. Season 6 episode 1, when Juniot shot Tony, he was in the scene where Tony had a sitdown with Phil. He was sitting with Phil -- his name is Nicky Leotardo, Phil's nephew. So now we have Phil's nephew staring at Tony and going mysteriously to the bathroom looking at Tony. Then, from Tony's point-of-view, with the music loud and the tension high, he hears the bell and looks up and sees people coming in. But when he sees Meadow it's the last thing he sees, and as Bobby Bacala told him in the flashback, you never see it coming.

All told, the rest of the episode was poorly done, and had some unnecessary arcs re-opened, but the ending was cool. To have to have some nerd explain that the answer lies in the credits is a bit annoying and a little bit of David Chase saying "LOOK HOW SMART I AM" but, at least to me, the ending is resolved.

My colleague, Pete Bridge, and I , both reporters at the Newark News ions ago, wrote a book on a real New Jersey Mafia family called the "Mafia Talks" (Ballantine). The mob boss was Sam (The Plumber) DeCavalcante, who ran his operation out of a Kenilworth, N.J. plumbing business about 10 miles from Newark. Sam and his gang, including Anthony (Little Pussy) Russo would not have understood David Chase's Yeatsian ending. Sam believed that if you had a problem you fixed it. Lives of enemies ended with a bang, not a whimper. Chase had a problem. He didn't know how to end the series. He needs to fix it. Look for a renewal, in a year or two, of the series or for a movie. Maybe it will be Son of Sopranos, with A.J. taking over after Jennifer Melfi wipes out Tony in a rage. "You told me to look at the good times," A.J. told Tony last night. So bring back the good times, David.

Joe Volz, Frederick, Md.

The end is what you want it to be. Each of us gets to make our own ending. It is a cop out, for sure. Personally, I do not think a hit would take place in front of the family, and for sure not in front of the grandchildren. The mob still has some respect for family, even if TV writers don't.

When you see Tony looking around constatnly and after the whole Phil thing -and AJ saying about having to keep an eye on the good things in life - couldn't Tony be thinking couldn't all this other stuff just end. Wouldn't it be nice for all the fear of getting whacked, always looking over your shoulder - that thing of his wouldn't it be nice if it would just end (so he wouldn't have to figure out how to leave it - because he knows he can't) you either end up dead like Phil, in prison like Johnny Sak or old and decrepted like Junior.

Well, well, well...I don't know what to think about this on my "day of morning". My initial reactions to the Soprano's finally:
"What the F___K! CABLE BOX BROKEN?!!! That was stupid and not a real ending! Is the gray Members Only guy going to kill Tony or maybe the whole family?? Maybe the Cub Scouts are going to kill Tony? Why the focus on all the different types of folks in the diner?? Man, the old no ending ending?!!! What a cop out. Where's the agression, the anxiety riddled slow motion of Tony's brains getting blown out of the left temple, while sitting with his whole family? The whoel family getting shot by EVERYONE in the diner? ANYTHING PLEASE?!".

I don't know. Maybe we are supposed to be left witht the infinitum of options. Maybe we are left to have the ending WE want. Maybe this television program ends on OUR terms. I am not sure that I like that though.
I was yearning for true closure. Either a dead Tony, a witness protected Tony or an anything Tony!! Instead I am left with reading blogs and self wonderment.

I am still not sold on this. But as I read others opinions; I realized that not all great series need an ending. So, my ending is this:

Tony's life was nothing but the fantasy of a middle aged father of four from Tucson, AZ. A pleasant 4 bedroom home, a wife that is attractive but cold, a minivan and a Chrysler Cirrus in the driveway, a vanilla 9 to 5 in a middle management position, no true worries and no true passion. Humdrum. He had a NorthEast childhood and always saw the mobster types around town. He longed for an identity that commanded power and respect. Mr. Smith lived in a Soprano's fantasy, but NONE of the series was based in any reality at all. The end of Tony's life equals Mr.Smith waking to an annoying alarm clock on another sad monday morning in boringville. LOL :O)

This is sarcasm, but it helps me cope with the ambiguity of the sudden blackout ending.
I JUST DON'T KNOW!

Tony did not die. There would be no real reason for it; the war with New York was over. It was a great ending in that it kept the viewers wondering...most good books do have ambiguous endings. I think that the song "Dont Stop Believing" was intented to show us(the viewers) just how much we loved the show. James Gandolfini said a long time ago that David Chase would never turn Tony into a rat or kill him, and I think that was true. The real death was that of the outfit....really with the death of Christopher it showed that the future of the mafia and the Sopranos is dead, not tony. Although he will obviously be in prison soon.

hell,I called the cable co. I though my box was broken. The end sucks.

At first when the screen went blank, I was like WTF...what happened? Cable feed go out? Did I blink? What? Should I wait? Perhaps an epilogue was coming. Silent credits and then nothing. I felt so unfulfilled..."Cheated" of a tidy ending (no matter what the ending) ...now it didnt matter...I wanted to know what happened in the end.

Confused and seemingly unsatisfied, I walked away...then I started reading all the posts today from others and while it may not be what anyone expected and few wanted, it was like an open ended story left to the viewers imagination and personal feelings about what happened. It seems the author got what he wanted...for the story to live on...never to be resolved, finalized, or agreed upon...a mystery never to be solved.

There will be no movie. There will be no future episode where everything gets neatly wrapped up. I think it ended the way the author intended...keep em guessing and the Sopranos will live on forever.

It may not be what we wanted but it definitely got everyones attention, didint it?

I blame Steve Perry and Journey.......Nothing good ever comes when Journey is playing.

Total cop-out. Surely there is tons of pressure when attempting to close the greatest TV drama of all time, but at least TRY! I despise the whole, "Choose your own adventure" ending. He got whacked, we got whacked, nothing happened just as in real life, communion and Judas, nuclear bomb! All viable endings with what was left! He got whacked? WHY!? There was no reason anymore! There was nothing in this season to indicate that Tony got murdered in that scene. Unless it was something we didn't see, which is completely retarded. It was a TV show! Not reality! If I wanted to make up stories in my head, that is exactly what I would do. There will be no movie. Shame on the creators/writers who feared the consequences of acting decisively.

Wow, there's a lot of people writing here who seem unable to cope with ambiguity.

How do they manage to live?

At first i was very dissapointed after watching the finale last night. I felt as thought the writers were stretching for story lines. Chase claims he had it planned out for years... planned what.

Then as i watched it the second time, i realized that it was a good ending. Maybe Tony was killed, who knows. Even though Chase says a movie or another season is unlikley, it is still a possibility. I know i will spend some time thinking about not only the finale, but sopranos as a whole. Even though i believe the first few seasons were far better than this last one. I want to thank everyone from sopranos for creating THE BEST TV SHOW EVER! no question.

At first i was very dissapointed after watching the finale last night. I felt as thought the writers were stretching for story lines. Chase claims he had it planned out for years... planned what.

Then as i watched it the second time, i realized that it was a good ending. Maybe Tony was killed, who knows. Even though Chase says a movie or another season is unlikley, it is still a possibility. I know i will spend some time thinking about not only the finale, but sopranos as a whole. Even though i believe the first few seasons were far better than this last one. I want to thank everyone from sopranos for creating THE BEST TV SHOW EVER! no question.

i LOOKED AT MY WIFE WHEN THE SCREEN WENT BLANK AND I RAN TO SEE IF THE CAT UNPLUGGED THE TV! STILL A COOL ENDING.

Re: the "Tony got whacked" theory...

I can't recall a single scene in the series that was shot from Tony's point of view.

Why should it start now?

I admit I was a bit puzzled and disappointed but I would like to think that the scree cutting to black symbolized Tony's death (you don't see it or hear it coming at times). If that is the case then I think it was a perfect ending and as far as the loose ends being Tied up... how often do loose ends ever gets tied up in the Mafia? or more importantly... in life? So we get on with our lives.

In one of the shows Tony said "when you get shot everything fades to black" and that's exactly what happened

Tony got whacked. Period. At the end of the previous episode they flashed back to Tony and Bobby on the boat in the 1st episode of this season where they joked about how you probably "never even hear it" when you get whacked. When Tony got whacked that is why the screen went black and there intentionally was no sound during the credits. The whole series was about giving us a view into the mafia world through Tony's eyes. When Tony got whacked our view into this world stopped suddenly. I thought it was the perfect ending.

In June of 1978 the Rolling Stones played the Warner Theater. It was a special night for those of us that were lucky enough to be there. There was all the excitement and tension you would expect at a Stones show except this was like the Stones in your living room. After about an hour and mid song the lights went out, the music stopped the theater went black and they were gone.......much like what happened last night on the Sopranos.
When the screen went to black I looked at my son as if he had some answer and the I got the joke, which was on us. Great ending.

The last few episodes set the stage for this abrupt ending, i.e., Bobby and Tony lazing the boat, commenting that you never feel the shot that whacks you. To me that's the meaning of the final fade: Tony got whacked by the hit man coming from the can, distracted by Meadow's late arrival. If she had only parked her car correctly the first time, she might have been betwen Tony and that bullet.

The last scene has to be one of the most tense, dramatic scenes in the history of tv. Excellent ending....

A movie is now needed. That would be cool to pick up the movie where the last episode left off. There are too many loose ends to be tied up. But there was one thing that tony said to bobby that makes ya think. "you don't even hear it" refuring to when you die. Thinkin that's what might have happend but no one is really sure. I don't even think the writer is sure haha.

the final scenes were classic symbolism. Paulie's last face shot (Judas), the eating of the onion rings (communion) -- it was, literally, the last supper. Why was Paulie so afraid of the cat? Cats catch rats. What did the FBI agent mean when he said, "maybe we'll win this thing yet." He meant that he was playing both sides against the middle. Both thugs would die. On and OnFuneral scene full of food....

Listen, there is only one possible reason for the lack of ending. Chase ran out of film right at the end of shooting the final episode. That's why there was no audio track playing while the credits were rolling. I can't beleive that nobody else picked up on this.

It was a trick ending, lacking the courage to finish the story. Leaving too much open-ended, perhaps like life itself?

We series watchers do like closure in some form, and what Chase has done is abandoned his loyal followers in a Fonzie "jump the shark" ending that may have been left that way just to create "buzz" for a future movie, series renewal, etc. Its always about the money, hunney.

I simply voted my displeasure with the ending by canceling my HBO subscription fifteen minutes afterwards. Heh. That's how you send a message.

I liked the final episode. Paulie Walnuts stayed true to his character. Sil, even from a hospital bed, remained a steady presence. Phil got his, taking his eye off the prize (i.e. profits) for a personal agenda.

The show was about a sociopathic gangster who paradoxically was a caring family man, prone to violence in both roles. Tony survives by being the most cunning, focused player in the Mob.

The ending played well with the ambiguity of his two roles family man and Family Man.

So I Tivo'd Sapranos and watched the Cavs in real time. Talk about disappointment...The Cavs didn't show up in San Antonio and I watched all the stupid ads for the millionth time. Then I went to watch the "end of organized crime" and my screen went blank just before the guy came out of the men's room and killed Tony, Carmella and the kids!!

I feel cheated as a fan. It's not my job to write the end of the story, it's the writer's job. It's a pseudo-intellectual cop out at best. At worst, it's laziness and boredom and an assumption that the audience will eat up anything dished out to us and try to revere it as brilliant because we're supposed to.

It it's obvious to me. Chase "whacked" us, the story continues, but we cut to darkness and silence.

Awful, even before the last scene.

The writing was disjointed and self-conscious. Narrative flow was always one of the strengths of this series. But this season lost its flow about three episodes ago, with Chris's death. Last night was just Chase playing Whack-a-Mole with characters and story lines as time ran out.

The closing scene, like the rest of the episode, was just a raised middle finger to fans, a screw-you for having taken it so seriously, long after Chase had grown weary of it.

In retrospect, this whole last season seems to have been done under duress. And last night, Chase showed exactly what he thought of us, and the final season.

i loved the soprano ending. I'm glad it was phill instead of tony getting killed. i think the writers of the sopranos did a good job. i do think that they left the sopranos open for maybe more to come it seemed like, but thats just me. i don't know how they are planning to make a movie but if they do ill be one of the million people to see it first.
thank you
Joe A.

I can't beleieve that anyone would settle for a ripped-off ending from John Sayle's LIMBO. What a total cop-out--and Tom Shales bit for it! What's happening that writers can't come up with somthing better than this? Bad ending all the way around--even LIMBO was a cop-out, too, when it came out. Just my opinion.

Ad did die, Someone clearly wasn't paying attention when she crawled on her hands and knees and got a few hot hollow tips to the back of her head...

I think this excerpt from Time best sums it up:

"This is life and The Sopranos' view of it: no dramatic final poppings, no big finishes and curtain calls, no operatic closing arias, no mind-bending twists (like the ever-popular "Meadow takes over the family business"), no karmic justice, just ignominy, never-ending dread and onion rings. Life slouches on, a rough beast never getting to Bethlehem. If we had gotten any kind of more conventionally satisfying closure--an epilogue, Tony getting locked up, the Russian coming back and whacking everyone--we would have loved it initially and regretted it later."

I have to agree with that.

I am your typical Sopranos fan. I don't give a rat's behind about "artistic flair "in a television show and this is coming from a lifelong artist. I've been writing and drawing forever, but I didn't want to be randomly educated by theoretical pretentious mumbo-jumbo ...I wanted an ending. I wanted "Our Thing." Our Thing has been around for a long time. It isn't pretty, and it never has a happy ending, but it always has an ending. I didn't want a stupid cat staring at Christopher's picture for an hour, I didn't want to listen to AJ whine about terrorism for an hour, and I didn't want to watch Meadow Soprano park her car for five minutes. I thought last year was bad, with the far-fetched and dumb Vito storyline, but this ending, this was an insult! Mr. Chase, did you watch The Godfather? Did you watch Goodfellas? Did you understand why they were considered classics? If they ended the way you ended your show, they would be considered bland at best, and definitely irritate the audience. We fans feel cheated, especially fans like me who have been with you since the beginning. I wont be buying the DVD's anymore, and I plan on selling Seasons 1 - 5 to some poor soul dumb enough to buy into this "I'm artistic " BS ending. We know the difference between art and a huge lie and pretentious crap. we've read Frank Miller and watch him do it for years. You might be able to confuse some Simple Simon's out there who search high and low for some pretentious nonsense, but an artist knows art. And that wasn't art. It was garbage. Thanks for nothing, I mean absolutely, positively nothing.

Is it possible that when the screen went dark...that it was we (the audience)that was killed? If so...then David Chase is a genius in turning things around on us (as observers) of the Soprano family. We were all waiting for Tony to die and instead, it was our time to go.

I believe Chase and Gandolfini have both stated that they have no interest in a movie.

Regarding all those unresolved issues-Chase has said numerous times, loose ends don't always get tied up.

Perfect ending to the series, IMHO.

So when IS the Soprano's movie scheduled for release? I want some answers. There are many potential endings. Death, jail, or a deal, and not only concerning the family.

We never really did see Adriana's death in the woods, and I would not be surprised to see her show up later as a somewhat maimed federal witness...

who cares, wont see it, b/c nothing will happen in the movie.

Maybe a nuclear bomb went off by the terrorists. Instant vaporization of everyone...