The Soprano's endings real meaning...

[Uncle Fester]

If you followed The Soprano's on HBO what do you think the director meant by his sudden seemingly unresolved ending?

(Presuming some of you followed and watched the series!)

My answer (the correct one of course:cool:) will follow after a few replies or if one of you "got it".:bbg:

[Jim Schafer]

I am leaning to the..."you never see it coming, you dont hear nothin, you dont feel nothin, you just fade to black" ..theory.

Tony was blasted by the guy who went to the mens room that was behind his booth.

Conspiracy theory...it was set up by Paulie and Butch, who are now running the New Jersey and New York families together.

Jim

[Sean]

I think he lived despite the odds in the final scene...........Just look who came in or was in the diner.......the guy at the bar is also credited as Nikki Leotardo. The same actor played him in the first part of season 6 during a brief sit down concerning the future of Vito. That wasn't that long ago.He is the nephew of Phil. Phil's brother Nikki Senior was killed in 1976 in a car accident.
The trucker was the brother of the guy who was robbed by Christopher in Season 2. Remember the DVD players? The trucker had to identify the body.And the guys at the end were the ones who tried to kill Tony and only clipped him in the ear. The boy scouts were in the train store when bobby was killed ......(just shows that life goes on) Thats what i think chase was trying to convey.........regardless of what you think should happen.......or want to happen....... against all odds, life goes on.

[Pete Hanlin]

I rarely watched the Sopranos, but I did catch the final episode the other day. I think the ending signifies that Tony just fades into irrelevence and lives out an uneventful life.

Oh, and I think in the only interview given by the director, he said the guy in the Member's Only jacket had never been on the show before.

[hcjilson]

I heard the ending was the set up for a big screen movie to follow!

[Diane]

I think that Tony had been working toward a normal family life. He was having so many conflicts with work and personal life, which is why the therapist. Anyway, I believe that he got what he wanted. Life goes on for him.

Diane

[Uncle Fester]

We the audience got whacked!

Think about it. What would happen if someone came up behind you and put a 9mm into the back of your head? Everything would just go blank--like your TV screen did.

I thought it was a brilliant ending and I'll miss the series now that I've been killed and Tony's family and life goes on.:(

[Steve Machol]

I have to admit at first I was puzzled, thinking that something happenes to my connection. Then when I realized what they were doing I got angry.

However by the next day I started believing that this was perhaps one of the best posibble endings I could imagine and almost on a par with the hilarious last episode of Newhart in which he woke up with Suzanne Pleshett and told he about this strange dream in which we was an Innkeeper in Vermont. He ended by saying he thought she should wear more sweaters. :)

I think it would have been anti-climatic to see Tony blown away. And a standard ending with nothing special would have bene a copout.

I do tend to agree about the 'going black' theory after getting rubbed out, but the brilliance of this is that it gives them leeway to 'resurrect' Tony if they want to for future projects.

I was glad to see that the Phil got whacked. I would really have been p*ssed if he had been allowed to live.

[Uncle Fester]

However by the next day I started believing that this was perhaps one of the best possible endings I could imagine and almost on a par with the hilarious last episode of Newhart in which he woke up with Suzanne Pleshett and told he about this strange dream in which we was an Innkeeper in Vermont. He ended by saying he thought she should wear more sweaters. :)Remember this concept was originally a way of bringing Bobby(?) back from the dead on Dallas which was huge at the time. How we date ourselves;)

[ShuString]

It makes alot of sense, We did get wacked!!

[Robert Martellaro]

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