TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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I finally finished the sopranos. What the hell was going on with that ending? I thought my piece of shit HDMI cable had cut out at first.
I finally finished the sopranos. What the hell was going on with that ending? I thought my piece of shit HDMI cable had cut out at first.
Didn't the show creator come out and say Tony lives?
It's ambiguous
it's the perfect ending. if you don't think so, enjoy entertainment better. *sticks out tongue*
How is that a perfect ending?
I said to Gandolfini, the bell rings and you look up. That last shot of Tony ends on 'don't stop,' it's mid-song. I'm not going to go into [if that's Tony's POV]. I thought the possibility would go through a lot of people's minds or maybe everybody's mind that he was killed. He might have gotten shot three years ago in that situation. But he didn't. Whether this is the end here, or not, it's going to come at some point for the rest of us. Hopefully we're not going to get shot by some rival gang mob or anything like that. I'm not saying that [happened]. But obviously he stood more of a chance of getting shot by a rival gang mob than you or I do because he put himself in that situation. All I know is the end is coming for all of us.
Tony's flipping through the jukebox; it's almost like the soundtrack of his life, because he sees various songs. No matter what song we picked, I wanted it to be a song that would have been from Tony's high school years, or his youth. That's what he would have played. When I wrote it, there were three songs in contention for this last song, and 'Don't Stop Believin'' was the one that seemed to work the best. I think it's a really good rock 'n' roll song. The music is very important to me in terms of the timing of the scene, the rhythm of the scene. The song dictates part of the pace. And having certain lyrics of the song, and certain instrumental flourishes happen in certain places, dictates what the cuts will be. I directed the scene to fit the song. The singing gets more and more strident and more invested as the song goes along. Musically it starts to build and build into something as it's just about to release. And when you look at the scene, you get that feeling.
Not really.
Yup. I don't see anything topping it. The final scene with Junior is also just something else.Best series finale ever.
Yup. I don't see anything topping it. The final scene with Junior is also just something else.
There are no esoteric clues in there. No Da Vinci Code. Everything that pertains to that episode was in that episode. And it was in the episode before that and the one before that and seasons before this one and so on. There had been indications of what the end is like. Remember when Gerry Torciano was killed? Silvio was not aware that the gun had been fired until after Gerry was on his way down to the floor. That's the way things happen: It's already going on by the time you even notice it. [...] I'm not saying anything. And I'm not trying to be coy. It's just that I think that to explain it would diminish it.
David Chase on the ending:
He's dead, guys.
🤔🤔I mean if they wanted to kill him, it seems like they'd have just killed him and done the whole ending differently?
Best series finale ever.
Eventually yes. I always read it as our window into his life ended. Whether he died or not isn't important.It's not.
He died.