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I have been perusing the message boards tonight to see the reaction to the series ending episode of The Sopranos and it seems the natives are restless. Many seem to feel it is a cop out and that all the creators of the show did was set it up for a possible feature film or a "to be continued" at some other time. They say they are disappointed with this "non-ending." I can't disagree more. In fact, I think it is a brilliant ending that befits the entire series. What made this series is that there was always a sense...

Earlier in the season, when Tony was out on the lake with Bobby, he asked what the end would be like. Bobby said something to the effect of probably everything would go black and you probably wouldn't even hear it coming. Tony had a flashback of that conversation before going to bed in the second to last episode of the series. In the end, he didn't hear the shot coming, but he died with his family just as Phil died with his. Then everything went black, just as Bobby predicted.