“Tony asked Bobby what he thought the end was like earlier. Bobby supposed everything just goes black. Tony was killed, then everything went black for him.”
Exactly, it’s a recurring theme in the series. Remember what Sil said when Torciano got whacked at dinner.
Level 2: You don’t hear the shot that kills you, you don’t see it coming. Everyone had an idea of how the series would end, but in the end we literally didn’t hear the ending, nobody saw that coming.
Level 3: Tony knew he could never please his mother no matter what he did. Chase knew he could never please the viewers no matter what he did.
Brilliant.
I also thought the ending was great but I thought the fade to black was intentionally ambiguous - they became so real that we know it will continue but we can’t watch any more.
Did he get shot?
Will he get indicted?
Will her daughter marry the man who winds up opposing Tony?
Is A.J. growing up or always the same?
We’ll never know, but he left the impression that the Soprano’s world goes on without us.