Sopranos WTF????

Burzhui · 06-10-2007, 08:11 PM

what happened ? i am in shock

ufcrusher · 06-10-2007, 09:52 PM

Lets put it this way...I do not even know if I watched the end of the show!

thresher · 06-10-2007, 10:21 PM

wait. What?! It didn't end tonight? (Tivo.)

oblongmelon · 06-10-2007, 10:29 PM

Yep..it ended..worst ending ever..maybe they did it that way so that JUST IN CASE they decide to continue the show-they can..anyway-it sucked.

Kevster · 06-10-2007, 11:39 PM

Well they cleaned up a few things (namely Phil -

NOT a nice way to go). They just ended it on a rather melancholy, 'Huh.... yeah' note.

On a side note, one of my co-workers named their new baby daughter 'Journey'. It is my and several other co-workers' opinion that the song they played at the end of the Sopranos was the one that they were listening to when little 'Journey' was conceived. If you listen to those lyrics, you should be chuckling to yourself right about now.

faither · 06-11-2007, 07:16 AM

The last episode was absolutely perfect; there was no ending and no resolution. To have even attempted to tie loose ends would have been impossible. What Chase showed us is that life goes on. Will Tony be indicted, killed by the spooky guy that entered the diner behind AJ, will there be peace with the Brooklyn family now that Phil is gone, will Sylvio live???

I have to say that my heart was racing more than I can ever remember when the guy enters the diner before AJ. Very amusing were the song selections Tony flipped through on his way to the Journey classic, and the FBI Agent Harris's statement to no one that 'we may win this' referring to the NJ family over Brooklyn.

Very, very entertaining and sadistically pleasing.

fillup0215 · 06-11-2007, 07:49 AM

i was like woah! is this the same show i been watching!! was not satisfying at all!!!!

oblongmelon · 06-11-2007, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevster

Well they cleaned up a few things (namely Phil -

NOT a nice way to go). They just ended it on a rather melancholy, 'Huh.... yeah' note.

On a side note, one of my co-workers named their new baby daughter 'Journey'. It is my and several other co-workers' opinion that the song they played at the end of the Sopranos was the one that they were listening to when little 'Journey' was conceived. If you listen to those lyrics, you should be chuckling to yourself right about now.

I laughed and actually sang along when they played the Journey song..

Markel · 06-11-2007, 09:20 AM

I don't watch the show, but I heard on the radio this morning that the writer may be in line to create a movie based on the series, and that the end of the TV show is just the setup to lead into the possible movie.

Prngr44 · 06-11-2007, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Markel

I don't watch the show, but I heard on the radio this morning that the writer may be in line to create a movie based on the series, and that the end of the TV show is just the setup to lead into the possible movie.

Heard that too....

MJ?

kame · 06-11-2007, 10:59 AM

Ofcourse there is going to be money.... I mean movie...

It is just a spring board into the millions.....

Jcranmer · 06-11-2007, 11:29 AM

I watched it on Tivo, and the way it ended, I thought the show had run long and the Tivo didn't get the end of it...until the credits started rolling. Talk about getting my blood pressure up....

eSDee · 06-12-2007, 12:36 AM

Just saw it on my DVR. Very lame ending. Even if the point was to leave the viewer in suspense, wondering what would happen to everyone, I thought it was a poor directing choice to deliver that message. But I am not surprised, because the quality of the show has diminished greatly over the last couple of seasons, which took like what, 3 1/2 years to show?

All that said, the series was still excellent. It opened a lot of doors for other HBO shows. Hopefully they do make a movie out of it.

Here are some Sopranos links in case anyone wants to find out what read what other folks are discussing what the ending might mean:

http://testpattern.msnbc.msn.com/arc...11/222698.aspx

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19176918/

VTGreg · 06-12-2007, 08:14 AM

Heard a couple interpretations of the ending this morning. I guess we'll see if the writer reveals what he was trying to accomplish or if they make a movie out of it.

Apparently, the fade to black at the end was interpreted as Tony, and possibly his family, getting whacked.

redcolours · 06-13-2007, 12:25 AM

it wasnt even a fade to black. just an abrupt ending midsong and midscene.
i thought my cable went out again. (ha ha!). then the credits rolled.

i thought it was very pythonesque.

eSDee · 06-15-2007, 01:37 AM

After a work week full of speculation, many are coming to the conclusion that Tony got whacked at the end of series:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19236576/

Quote:

Tony Soprano is dead theory gains credence
In one episode, Bobby described being killed as ‘everything just goes black’

LOS ANGELES - Fans of “The Sopranos” are seizing on clues suggesting the controversial blackout which abruptly ended the TV mob drama meant that Tony Soprano was rubbed out, and HBO said on Thursday they may be on to something.

One clue in particular, a flashback in the penultimate episode to a conversation between Tony and his brother-in-law about death, gained credence as an HBO spokesman called it a “legitimate” hint and confirmed that series creator David Chase had a definite ending in mind.

“While he won’t say to me 100 percent what it all means, he says some people who’ve guessed have come closer than others,” HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer told Reuters after speaking to Chase.

“There are definitely things there that he intended for people to pick up on,” Schaffer said.

Chase himself suggested as much in an interview on Tuesday with The Star-Ledger newspaper of New Jersey when he said of his end to the HBO series, “Anyone who wants to watch it, it’s all there.”

In the final moments of Sunday’s concluding episode, Tony, the conflicted mob boss who has just survived a round of gangland warfare, sits in a diner with his family munching on onion rings as the 1980s song by rock band Journey, “Don’t Stop Believing,” blares from a juke box.

Tension builds as a suspicious man wearing a “Members Only” jacket eyes Tony from a nearby counter before slipping into a restroom. Then, as Tony looks toward the restaurant’s entrance, the screen abruptly goes blank in mid-scene — with no picture or sound for 10 seconds — until the credits roll silently.

Stunned viewers, many initially believing something had gone wrong with their cable TV reception, were left wondering whether Tony ended up “whacked” or whether his sordid life went on as usual.

The jarring, fill-in-the-blank finale, concluding a show widely hailed as America’s greatest television drama, sparked a furious debate about whether Chase had conceived of an actual ending and whether he left the audience any clues.

The biggest hint, according to a consensus taking shape on the Web, is a scene from an earlier episode in which Tony and his brother-in-law, Bobby Bacala, muse about what it feels like to die.

“At the end, you probably don’t hear anything, everything just goes black,” Bobby says while they sit fishing in a small boat on a lake.

That scene is recalled briefly in a flashback played at the end of the penultimate “Sopranos” episode, as Tony is lying in the darkened room of a safehouse clutching a machine gun to his chest in the midst of a mob war.

more at the article. After watching it, my lady friend said that she thought the ending was very artistic. A lot of times to me that is code for "it was lame". But I guess she was right. The director Chase seems to have gone for the artistic ending for his series, rather than go the cinematic big ending here's an ending spelled out for you route. In my earlier post I stated I didn't like it. I'm not sure that I do now, although at least the guy had something in mind when he ended it. The last couple of seasons there have been some twists in the plot that really didn't make a whole lot of sense. I hope they get answered. In the meantime, this bonus info is good to read.

If this ending is the legitimate ending, I suppose it means also means that Ajay sees his dad get killed right in front of him. That should be enough trauma to make him turn to the life of crime as well. The next Soprano boss maybe?

faither · 06-15-2007, 06:37 AM

The conversation between Bobby and Tony where the comment of everything going black upon death was surely foreshadowing but not about Tony being whacked but us, the audience. Things went black from our perspective, not Tony's or the family.

I've watched it twice since the original viewing on Sunday evening and continue to feel it was brilliant.

There will be as much discussion about this as there was the symbolism of what was in Marcellus's briefcase in Pulp Fiction -- and probably as many opinions.

06-10-2007, 08:11 PM	#1
Burzhui hot in velour pants Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: New York City Posts: 9,198	Sopranos WTF???? what happened ? i am in shock __________________ ____________________ IF A FAT GIRL FALLS IN THE WOODS DO THE TREES LAUGH?

06-10-2007, 09:52 PM	#2
ufcrusher Admiral Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Boca Raton, FL: By way of: Poway, CA; Gainesville, Fl; Penn Valley, Pa. Posts: 5,680	Lets put it this way...I do not even know if I watched the end of the show! __________________ Welcome my son, welcome to the machine...Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been....

06-10-2007, 10:21 PM	#3
thresher Commander Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: St.Augustine FL. Plymouth Rock is a newbie! Posts: 1,223	wait. What?! It didn't end tonight? (Tivo.) __________________ Wait a second... you're telling me Sixpac Shakur is a CHICK?

06-10-2007, 11:39 PM	#5
Kevster Admiral Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: NorCal Posts: 6,124	Well they cleaned up a few things (namely Phil - NOT a nice way to go). They just ended it on a rather melancholy, 'Huh.... yeah' note. On a side note, one of my co-workers named their new baby daughter 'Journey'. It is my and several other co-workers' opinion that the song they played at the end of the Sopranos was the one that they were listening to when little 'Journey' was conceived. If you listen to those lyrics, you should be chuckling to yourself right about now. __________________ I think over again My small adventures, my fears. The small ones that seemed so big, For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, the only thing: To live to see the great day that dawns, And the light that fills the world. -old Inuit song

06-11-2007, 07:49 AM	#7
fillup0215 Lieutenant Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Yorba Linda Posts: 347	i was like woah! is this the same show i been watching!! was not satisfying at all!!!! __________________ - "Everything is going to be alright"

06-10-2007, 10:29 PM	#4
oblongmelon Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: In a nutshell Posts: 9,678	Yep..it ended..worst ending ever..maybe they did it that way so that JUST IN CASE they decide to continue the show-they can..anyway-it sucked.

06-11-2007, 07:16 AM	#6
faither Rear Admiral Upper Half Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: FL Posts: 3,240	The last episode was absolutely perfect; there was no ending and no resolution. To have even attempted to tie loose ends would have been impossible. What Chase showed us is that life goes on. Will Tony be indicted, killed by the spooky guy that entered the diner behind AJ, will there be peace with the Brooklyn family now that Phil is gone, will Sylvio live??? I have to say that my heart was racing more than I can ever remember when the guy enters the diner before AJ. Very amusing were the song selections Tony flipped through on his way to the Journey classic, and the FBI Agent Harris's statement to no one that 'we may win this' referring to the NJ family over Brooklyn. Very, very entertaining and sadistically pleasing.

06-11-2007, 09:20 AM	#9
Markel Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 11,733	I don't watch the show, but I heard on the radio this morning that the writer may be in line to create a movie based on the series, and that the end of the TV show is just the setup to lead into the possible movie. __________________ stay low... keep moving...

06-11-2007, 10:59 AM	#11
kame Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 532	Ofcourse there is going to be money.... I mean movie... It is just a spring board into the millions.....

06-11-2007, 11:29 AM	#12
Jcranmer Commander Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pekin, IN Posts: 1,377	I watched it on Tivo, and the way it ended, I thought the show had run long and the Tivo didn't get the end of it...until the credits started rolling. Talk about getting my blood pressure up....

06-12-2007, 12:36 AM	#13
eSDee Old Skooler Numba 1 Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Diego Posts: 10,063	Just saw it on my DVR. Very lame ending. Even if the point was to leave the viewer in suspense, wondering what would happen to everyone, I thought it was a poor directing choice to deliver that message. But I am not surprised, because the quality of the show has diminished greatly over the last couple of seasons, which took like what, 3 1/2 years to show? All that said, the series was still excellent. It opened a lot of doors for other HBO shows. Hopefully they do make a movie out of it. Here are some Sopranos links in case anyone wants to find out what read what other folks are discussing what the ending might mean: http://testpattern.msnbc.msn.com/arc...11/222698.aspx http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19176918/ __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 days ~ Willie Nelson 3 days I dread to see arrive 3 days I hate to be alive 3 days filled with tears and sorrow yesterday today and tomorrow Last edited by eSDee : 06-12-2007 at 12:50 AM.

06-12-2007, 08:14 AM	#14
VTGreg Rear Admiral Lower Half Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 2,533	Heard a couple interpretations of the ending this morning. I guess we'll see if the writer reveals what he was trying to accomplish or if they make a movie out of it. Apparently, the fade to black at the end was interpreted as Tony, and possibly his family, getting whacked. __________________ It only ends once... Anything that happens before that is just progress. Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

06-13-2007, 12:25 AM	#15
redcolours in living colour Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: above a raging c Posts: 1,739	it wasnt even a fade to black. just an abrupt ending midsong and midscene. i thought my cable went out again. (ha ha!). then the credits rolled. i thought it was very pythonesque. __________________ there are pictures, but no,nothing happens on my site.

06-15-2007, 06:37 AM	#17
faither Rear Admiral Upper Half Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: FL Posts: 3,240	The conversation between Bobby and Tony where the comment of everything going black upon death was surely foreshadowing but not about Tony being whacked but us, the audience. Things went black from our perspective, not Tony's or the family. I've watched it twice since the original viewing on Sunday evening and continue to feel it was brilliant. There will be as much discussion about this as there was the symbolism of what was in Marcellus's briefcase in Pulp Fiction -- and probably as many opinions.

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