[newbie 10-21-00]

Total vanity - But that blowed. No Ending!! Yuck

[Cementjungle]

Bummer. I was hoping he would choke to death on an onion ring.

[Roberts]

The series ended with Tony getting whacked. He never heard it coming, and with the scene shown from his point of view, the screen simply went black.

[Pajamajan]

Seems like the writers smoked a whole bunch of the wacky tabacky, got the munchies, then wrote the "non-ending" ending- onion rings, 80's pop music, blank screen? It didn’t make sense.

I suppose they will make money on the DVD's alternate endings.

Waste of time to watch this-IMO.

[PISANO]

Artist types and lefties had to love that ending, pronouncing it profound, brilliant and daring. Common sense types had to hate it and those that tuned in as Meadow ran into the restaurant thought HBO went off the air prematurely.

[OldEagle]

I have seen a few episodes over the years. My only unanswered question is did Tony ever score with his psychiatrist?

[NYC Republican]

I can't believe all of these Soprano apologists... Chase can throw us garbage and piis in our face week after week, for 3 years now, and there's always this strange contingent who always makes excuses for him...

He takes off a couple of years - YEARS- between seasons, only to give us 8 eposisodes of garbage...

That truly WAS the most pathetic season-ender I've ever seen. If I wanted to watch a soap opera, General Hospital is still on the air.

[Non-Sequitur]

Say what you want about the Sopranos ending. It wasn’t as weird or as bad as that show that followed it, John from Cincinnati. They gave up Deadwood for that????

[Vasilli22]

I thought the ending was perfect! Tony came out on top with Phil being knocked off and a truce being called with the NY family. His personal family is somewhat back to normal (as normal as that family can be). A.J. finally has some direction with Tony basically putting him on the payroll and he and Carmella have finally come to terms with Meadow’s career choice. Nice Norman Rockwell setting in the diner at the end with a cross-section of America all present and the family enjoying each others company for the first time in I don’t know how long. Talk about a TENSE few minutes!

I have read so many posts about how people are upset that there was no finality to the series, but there was! Tony came out on top, he is alive. As far as the ambiguity of the final scene, when you live in a world that Tony lives in, you are always going to have charges pending against you or have the threat of being knocked-off. Such is life in the mafia. I think those who are ticked about the ending have just become accustomed to Hollywood endings where everything is spelled out perfectly for you, where test audiences are used to find out what the ending should be.

Kudos to Chase for a perfect ending to a perfect series.

So when’s the movie?

[exile]

I heard that it ended with Bob Newhart waking up in bed after a crazy dream.