WTF is your problem? If you don't like the show or David Chase, don't watch it. How the hell do you know what he was or would have thought if that ending was shown? I say your post that said you don't watch the show. Congratulations. You are so much better than us for it.
Seriously? We had a viewing party for it. I fell asleep halfway through. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Bring on Rescue Me.
The guy at the bar/bathroom 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. Apparently, 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 , with the DVD players. The trucker had to identify the body. The boy scouts were in the train store and the black guys at the end were the ones who tried to kill Tony and only clipped him in the ear (in season 2 or 3?). There were three people in the restaurant who had reason to kill Tony .
who else besides me went out and down loaded "Don't stop believing" That song will have new meaning for me forever. it replaces the song in Family Guy that got everyone running into the Drunken Clam on family Guy.
tony walks into the restaurant in a blue shirt, but then he sees himself sitting down wearing a total different shirt
From going back on my DVR and figuring them out with help from my cousin . At first I was just trying to figure the bathroom guy out , and then my cousin recognized the truck driver and the black guys . Then we just ran through all of the faces and put our Sopranos IQ to the test .
Well, the credits had the guy at the bar listed as "Guy in Members Only Jacket" and one of the black guys that attempted to kill Tony was shot (and killed?) during the struggle when Tony was trying to drive off while wrestling with the shooter.
I love the "Members Only" jacket touch - a member of what exactly? Another pointed reference to the fact that the Mafia pretty much went out of style in the 80's, just like that fashion.
Never mind, just re-watched it...he was wearing a blue shirt to see Jr., but he was wearing a different shirt when he was walking up to the resturant...he didn't have the blue when on when he walked into the dinner.
Sam I think your over intellectualizing. You'll be of accused being an elitest by the rest of the Maoist clan. Just say the "Members Only" jacket was cool and save the deep thoughts for the secret meeting inside the bakery.
I'm reading online that outraged viewers crashed HBO's site with complaints for awhile tonight. I think it would have been cooler had a gunshot went off as Meadow finally made it into the door and left it with an expression on her face.
totally man, totally!! TOTA-F'IN-LY. and we'd be remissed if we didn't mention chase's brilliant inclusion of the soprano's family ordering onion rings at the diner and tony handing out 3 of them, obviously calling up the lord of the rings trilogy, which tolkien composed in the 50's, harkening back to the golden ages and beginning days of the new york mafia, showing us all that the mafia indeed perseveres, much like the LOTR Trilogy, and that we should keep it at the very forefront of our minds that this may very well be the beginning of a renaissance to those times, with a now potentially unified gang in power to rule the ny/nj area from here on out. pure genius, man. bravo, david chase. bravo.
I thought the ending was fine. There's only a couple ways it could have gone: 1. Tony dead. 2. Tony flipping. 3. Tony wins, life goes one. 4. Tony wins, but his empire is in shambles. So they went with #3. With the slight twist of a cut off ending to leave things open-ended. It's not easy doing a finale. No matter what happened some people would have been disappointed. The best Sopranos ending is still the one where Meadow graduates, and we see all the civilians propping up the mob lifestyle. That would have been an amazing way to end the series, but what you gonna do. Other thoughts: It was annoying however to have AJ back to his old self. He really is the most worthless person on the show. So all those weeks of AJ moping around was meaningless. What a waste. Agent Harris was awesome. When we said something like, "We might win this thing." I thought he was referring to the FBI being in better position to bring down "New York". But it was just that he's totally aligned himself with Tony. Hilarious. Just to bang home the "life goes on" theme, I guess Tony will start going back to therapy, since he was totally getting back to his old groove with AJ's therapist. Kind of devalues the dramatic effect of Melfi cutting things off with Tony last week, but I guess that was the point. He really is just a sociopath honing his conning skills. As far as finales go, it wasn't brilliant, but it wasn't terrible either. And as Seinfeld has shown us, even poor endings don't taint a great show's legacy. At least not that much.
