Without giving anything away; what the? The final shot of Paulie reminded me of something from an international film class I took in college.The last scene was brilliantly done, in a way, despite both of us being left scratching our heads.
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Remind me never to watch another HBO series again.
10 years of my life I commit to the Sopranos and this is the best they could give me? They spend a half hour on AJ who I really wish would have killed himself a long time ago. Who the hell would believe that Tony would sit in that Diner without a body guard after all the non-sense going on. "What The?" is a great title for this article.....because that is exactly how I felt after last night.....very disappointing.
Andy, great comment.
I had a thought about what that was but still can't figure why.
The last scene created what he is feeling anytime he goes somewhere. You ask the right question but I think they gave us his experience.
We now think we're out, maybe they'll pull us back in? Wait, wrong saga.
I believe that I must be the only person that saw the potential for two endings. First--there is the obvious that life goes on with TS alway's looking over his shoulder. Second (and what I thought first and still currently hold as an odds-on probability), is the one where the surprising camera void represents a more sinister conclusion--it is TS's point of view that suddenly...not to give anything away--there was a straight shot from the bathroom you know! It made sense to me given the closing of the relationships through real tenderness with Junior, Janice and his family. And that is the beauty of ambiguity.
Overall, I thought it was well done. I especially liked the much-maligned cat laying out on the sidewalk while Paulie caught some rays.
What is Sopranos?
I'm also thinking that maybe they are leaving us hanging for a movie in 5 years. You know...after everybody runs out of money and gets typecast, they realize that closure may be a good thing on the big screen. I heard "Junior" mention something about another galaxy last night, so maybe David Duchovny will come back as the FBI agent and they'll figure out that TS is really a big fat alien. How else can you explain all the hot women he was able to hook up with?
Ending aside, did anyone else notice that little "car thing" going on in the background? The episode title was "Made in America". So we see AJ tearing around in his hot, new, high-performance BMW (which still manages to "get 23 highway"). Meadow's parking problem gives us the opportunity to check out her beautiful, white Lexus (which, I'm told, can now actually park itself).
Meanwhile, AJ's American-made Hummer manages to blow itself up while Phil's Ford SUV slips out of gear, runs over his you-know-what and endangers the two little babies in the back seat.
i believe AJ's SUV was a Nissan xTerra.
AJ's SUV was an xterra
"Made in America" was the name of the show when they were originally shopping it around. The name was changed to The Sopranos.
I was born and raised in Cicero, IL. There, the mob series ran almost seventy-five years with a similar ending.
It's nice to know we're not all market heads... remember tony said the "cat is a nice guy, he killed a rat in the basement", doesn't that relate to his staring at Chrissi's photo.
i think they want us to view the cat as christopher reincarnated--or specifically for Paulie to think that.
the two of them out in front of Satriale's like the old days???
I think we could pick this apart like Citizen Kane?
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