I mean if they wanted to kill him, it seems like they'd have just killed him and done the whole ending differently?
Tony is shot dead.
There is no ambiguity.
It's not.
He died.
Not in the text he didn't
A hack would do that, yeah.
The whole season foreshadows it. He gets shot in the head.
Assuming this isn't humorous, how you do figure that?
Imagine how much better it would have been if they had shown Tony get shot in the head and then had another scene where Paulie Walnuts says "Can you believe they wacked Tony? Mama Mia!" That way everyone would know what happened and there would be no ambiguity
people are idiotsStill terrible but wouldn't be as shitty, you're correct about that. Nothing could be worse than people just thinking their cable broke.
people are idiots
Because it was explained several times during the final season (and shown!) that "don't even hear it (a bullet shot into your head) when it happens". The last scene is Tony's POV. He is shot in the head, which is why everything turns black and the sound stops.
people are idiots
Because it was explained several times during the final season (and shown!) that "don't even hear it (a bullet shot into your head) when it happens". The last scene is Tony's POV. He is shot in the head, which is why everything turns black and the sound stops.
Maybe directors feel like they dont have any choice. Maybe they feel like the audience wont get it unless they smear it all over the screen.
Silvio even tells Tony that he was on the floor and had no idea what happened in the moment and he wasn't even the person who gets whacked in that scene.
Plus what happens to Phil Leotardo.
Yep. Of course the ending took a moment to understand, but it was as clear as the final moment was black.
All I know is that I'm still heartbroken that we no longer have James Gandolfini.
Nobody has come close to matching his presence on the small screen.
Why are you guys arguing about this when the real question is what happened to the fucking Russian?
I think he was referring to the writers of that episode.
Best ending to a show ever.
The end is actually built up over the last season: the poem at the start of the season describing everyone, the brother in law bringing up how 'you probably wouldn't even hear it coming', the bell ringing when Tony is on the jetty is the same as the bell ringing as the door opening up.
I was shocked when I first saw it, then about ten seconds after the blackness, I laughed and almost cried at the same time.
One of many examples of the series' deliberate pushing back against story and plot expectations.Why are you guys arguing about this when the real question is what happened to the fucking Russian?
Tony gets his brain blown out all over his family. I wonder if the conspirator honored the 'don't harm families' rule...