Re Sopranos, how many of you think..?

Question

...like I do, that we have all been whacked by Tony?

I'm talking the final scene here. When you're whacked, it all goes black, right?

Maybe Tony got whacked. Maybe not. We'll never know because WE GOT WHACKED! That's it. The end.

Not for nothing, I guess yous guys just don't know any wiseguys. Fagetaboudit.

Thanks for all of your opinions, but I still hold that we don't really know if Tony got whacked or not because we, the viewer, got whacked FIRST. Mr. Chase is much more clever than anyone thinks. WE got the black screen, WE heard nothing, and the last thing WE saw was Tony's face, alive and well. Chew on that awhile.

Answer 1

Absolutely, Tony's been whacked.

Answer 2

My initial thought, like most of America's, was that my DVR quit or cable went out. I was let down when I realized that the broadcast was exactly as planned. Then I started to really think about that ending. And I have decided that it was a truly brilliant ending. Not a sell-out, not a punishment, not leaving it open for movies or for spin-offs. Just giving American's credit of having the intelligence to chew on it for a while and come to their conclusions. What I have come to is, to me, the obvious intent of the writer and creator, David Chase. Tony is whacked at the end. Here are the reasons: in a very early episode, maybe season 3, Tony and Bobby discuss that when the end comes, you don't see it coming and you don't hear anything, it all just goes black. Then that scene is brought back again in the episode prior to the finale. Why? Because it would be so important to the finale. The ending didn't "fade" to black, it went abruptly black. It was also the only Sopranos ending with no music to accompany the final credits, so nothing is heard. It is from Tony's perspective. You have to think that just a little while earlier, Phil was whacked in full view of his own family. It only follows that the same will happen to Tony. Nothing happens until Meadow shows up, which completes the family gathering around Tony. The episode shows Tony going through mundane errands and scenes throughout...why show them except that they are important in light of the fact that they will be among Tony's last actions on earth. I also feel that they highlighted the fact that the Cosa Nostra way of life in America is coming to an end...Little Italy which was at one time 40 square blocks is now so small that you can walk right out of it within minutes and end up in Chinatown..because everything changes. The whole show was about everything changing, but life going on anyway with or without big players. Like Paulie said at Bobbie's funeral. Among death, there is still life. It goes on and on and on and on. The cycle of life...as Tony observed watching the ducks migrate yet again as they do year after year. Same pattern, different ducks. Didn't the actors actually look old and worn out? I think this was done deliberately to show that the old wind down and don't last forever. Isn't Paulie shown sitting all alone outside Satriale's? He is the sole relic of a way of life. And he knows he's not long for the world either because of the "Jinx". He even says "I'm not no spring chicken anymore". The gas stations don't have pay phones anymore; only a couple are left. Everything has changed. Tony visits with Junior and realizes that Junior has no recollection of even being involved in "this thing of ours", and it brings a tear to Tony's eye because he knows that soon nobody will remember that way of life. Even his own kids will have a different way of life. Everyone is set to move on: Carm will have her real estate transactions, Meadow will be a lawyer (ironic), AJ won't be a mafioso, he'll be in some cushy position instead. He made a major change too, left his extremist thoughts behind and compromised on the BMW stating that it gets 23 mph city and that's not so bad. Quite a difference in his thinking prior to the SUV blowing up, which he said was "cleansing". In reality, life does end abruptly. Nobody, especially me, wanted to see Tony whacked. But we all knew it was likely, just like Mink said "we always envisioned this day".

Answer 3

Maybe we are a figment of Tony's imagination and when he got whacked on the show, we all got whacked too...

Answer 4

ok listen guys...u gotta wach the end of the episode again and wach closely...here is wat ull c... when tony walks into the diner he looks at himself sitting down at the table...u can be sure of this b/c he is wearing different clothes when he sits down...i dont no wtf that means...

in previous seasons it had been told to us that tony's dad
died just as his daughter (janus) walked in... if u watch closely u will see janus walk in shortly after tony sits down...this is used to
signify the possibility of that happening again...then u will c the sports store owner who tony destroyed walk in wearing a brown kinda hunting jacket... he is the guy that a couple seasons ago got into gambling trouble with tony and tony took over his store...

HE IS THE 1 WHO WACKS TONY...he comes in and sits down hunched over...hiding his eyes as not wanting to be noticed...and alas..."u probly dont even here it when it happens rite?" (this is bobby talking to tony in the 1st episode of the season...tony had this flashback as he was laying down in the last episode... there would be no reason to have had that in unless it had some huge significance)... and finally... tonys daughter walking in to c her dad get shot just as janus did so many years ago... u hear the bell of her walking in and then
blackness... nuthing...

it signifies the neverending cycle of the soprano family...aj will become tony...meadow will become janus...carmela will become livia (tonys mom)...and cycle of violence goes on and on and on....absolutlely amazing...i HATED the ending at first...but when i wached it again...and understood it...it is really the most amazing ending possible for the show...we really would not have been satisfied with the boring u c tony git shot ending... this was priceless...remember..this was not an action show...it was a drama about a FAMILY

and this my friend is what the ending was all about

Answer 5

The director, New Jersey native David Chase is incorrigible, just like the characters on his show, the audience is not a factor in how the ending gets written.

Answer 6

I did cancel my HOB>
Not paying any more for silling programing
Disappointment in the show.
So my $12 is kept in my pocket

Answer 7

we got whacked by HBO, they bent us over and whacked the ____ out of us...