[dfwgator]

When you look in detail at the ending of The Sopranos, you see the genius of it, and like David Chase said, “It’s all there.”

[Intolerant in NJ]

I think I read somewhere that Chase said he knew what the final scene was going to be pretty much before he even began the series - you can see hints of it seasons before like the philosophical discussion with Bobby while out fishing about what it must be like to die - "ask your friend on the wall".
After I got beyond my initial reaction ("who wants to watch a show about a bunch of lady singers?") I didn't miss one program of the original showing on HBO, and watched the rescreenings on I guess A&E so many times that I could start spouting the dialogue almost word for word when the first scene of each episode popped on the screen....