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The Sopranos - Series 6

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donnie_darko

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Can't say I'm looking forward to it.

I'll have this massive empty feeling when it's all over. I just know it. :lol:

Anyway, thanks to the Sopranos creators for giving us possibly the finest TV show ever. Salut!

I'm feeling similar. I felt like that after the end of Six Feet Under. But all good things come to an end.

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Watched it again and there's all sorts of things running through my head.

I really wanted to know what Tony was thinking at the end. Does he now regret taking out Christopher? I know who'd I prefer to have backing me up if I was Tony. How are they gonna finish things given that everyone's in hiding? When and where was the hit on Tony supposed to take place?

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Marzipan Travolta

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Got done watching this before work this morning. It's a very interesting character study. Absolutely to be watched multiple times. Very low key. Satisfying but I haven't spoilered this

because every single person that downloads it will be thinking the ending is missing. It's not.

Phil's death! OMGWTFBBQ. AJ's sudden flip of character was all a bit hard to stomach but I'm glad he didn't die with his girlfriend. Loved the bit with him walking down the stairs in his undone dressing gown.

Excellent music in this episode.

That ending, there's going to be a movie, isn't there. It's a shame to be leaving the journey part way through but there's sufficient evidence there for exactly where it's all going.

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diggler

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See, I disagree about a movie - unless something's been announced that I missed, I think that's it. Finished.

Amazing final 5 minutes, my heart was racing a million beats per second. So much tension, for such a seemingly mundane moment in their lives. I guess it's very much open to interpretation, but for me, Tony got popped in the head. Just like Bobby said earlier in the season...you never see it coming, probably don't even feel anything. The last thing he sees is Meadow, then out of nowhere, everything just stops. That painful 10 seconds of blackness before the credits really drives it home.

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Marzipan Travolta

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See, I disagree about a movie - unless something's been announced that I missed, I think that's it. Finished.

Amazing final 5 minutes, my heart was racing a million beats per second. So much tension, for such a seemingly mundane moment in their lives. I guess it's very much open to interpretation, but for me, Tony got popped in the head. Just like Bobby said earlier in the season...you never see it coming, probably don't even feel anything. The last thing he sees is Meadow, then out of nowhere, everything just stops. That painful 10 seconds of blackness before the credits really drives it home.

Absolutely not how I saw it.

I don't think he was popped. I see 100% where you are coming from but for me that just wasn't how you would deliver such a scene. It was left as open as possible. Meadow was running in because she was late. That shifty looking guy was sneaking into the bathroom for a dump. The busy diner was just a big fat show about Tony's life now. He thinks someone is going to kill him at any moment. It'll be like that for the rest of his life. He isn't going to end up like Junior. That much was made clear. His destiny is much like that of Phil. Phil never saw his death coming either.

It's actually genius, isn't it?

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Ork1927

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Just watched the last two episodes back to back.

Penultimate episode was excellent - After Phil's plan to hit all three of them I expected it would happen in the final episode but then as Bobby walked into the toy shop I just thought "oh no!".

I can see some people being disapointed with the finale but the tension throughout was amazing - never sure if Tony was going to get arrested or whacked or if something bad was going to happen to Carmella or one of the kids. Not sure of my interpretation of the ending yet

I don't think he was shot but I'm glad it was left open although I don't want another episode or movie. Finish it there as one of the best (if not the best) TV shows ever.

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the stuff with Paulie and the cat was brilliant. At the end I had half an inkling he might snap and take out Tony himself instead the finalimage of him sitting outside catching some rays with the cat staring at him - perfect.

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Rowan Morrison

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Whoever said it is right - there are going to be a lot of downloaders thinking they've got a corrupted torrent. Ha! That'll learn us.

Mature ending, then, requires some thought. Spoiled thought!

So it's clear Tony's a target at any time, no doubt about that. But what's with Meadow being late to the diner? Well, I guess she's the one who escaped the family - AJ got pulled back in (just when he thought he was out!), but Meadow stuck with her switch to law, even if Tony discovered his choices were at the heart of that turn of events, too. So Meadow's kind of the legal system now in some ways. Is Tony considering turning state's evidence? Here in the diner with his family around him, knowing that's probably the best of a bunch of bad scenarios if he can allow himself to do it? Would he? He seems finished with Uncle Junior, is that enough for him to make that much of a break? Will he even live to decide? Does he live through the blank seconds before the credits roll? Ha! We'll never know! We know enough already.

They'd be idiots to make anything else. I think as a whole it was a little weak, to be honest, compared with recent episodes (the cat was awesome, though). But at least they can say they treated the audience with some respect - whether they'll appreciate it or not.

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V3zna

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I thought that was an outstanding episode. I really did like the way it ended but I think there was also a slight safeguarding element behind it. It's fair to say Gandolfini's movie career has never taken off and I personally don't ever expect it to as he's now obviously heavily typecast. David Chase's CV has The Sopranos as it's top performer. He was involved in Northern Exposure but it's fair to say that was niche show. I don't think we've saw the last of The Sopranos but in what form and how soon we see it again is debateable. It was classic TV of its time and from seasons 2 to 4 it was nearly untouchable. In hindsight though it ran out of steam at the end of season 4 but at least it wasn't dragged out for too many more seasons.

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Everything that was great about the Sopranos was packed in there.

For some unknown reason I started thinking that Pauile had flipped and was going to pop Tony, like a reversal of the boat scene earlier. I think due to being tired my mind was all over the place. With the FBI being at the funeral I thought the cat was a wire.

The best moment for me was when Paulie confessed about seeing the holy mother in the Bing. With the absence of Christopher there couldn't have been a greater comedy moment. The fact the scene ended with him sunbathing with his mirror and the cat watching him just made it perfect.

The last scene was just so unbearably tense. Everytime someone moved or the bell on the door rang you thought a gun was going to be pulled. As for it cutting out on the word "Stop". I wasn't paying attention and instantly assumed some funny bastard had trimmed the end off the show just before the shot.

Watching it back I think Despin is right about the guy who I was lead to believe was going to be the shooter was Tony's dad. Anyone got a copy with credits to confirm it?

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Marzipan Travolta

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Watching it back I think Despin is right about the guy who I was lead to believe was going to be the shooter was Tony's dad. Anyone got a copy with credits to confirm it?

Due to not having a spoken role in the episode he doesn't have to be in the credits.

However, I used my amazing print screen and mspaint skillz to give you this:

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/1623/vlcsnap138298ma9.png

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I don't think it's his dad, but he did have a larger role which was apparently recorded as a fake ending (along with one other ending as well). It's not been revealed what these alternate endings were exactly though.

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therealjohnpeat

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Fantastic final episode IMO

The fact that - just as it ended - the skies opened here and the thunder rolled just made it better :P

I don't buy 'the hit' theory, because if they'd wanted to kill Tony off - they would have - no point in leaving a series with 'might have' is there?

Tony is a cat in a box - we don't know for sure he's there - but he's nowhere else so it makes sense to believe he's still there :P

To me - the final scene just says "normality returns for now - but as ever there's something just over Tony's shoulder" - whether it's the FBI or a stray hitman or his family problems/panic attacks or whatever. The whole "how can they tie up everything" was a Lost-style confusathon - the whole point is that the chaos continues - it's just we're not going along with it anymore - hence the black screen...

That entire scene (Meadow's parking problems/late arrival being the tension-builder rather than a plot point per-se) is a simile for the rest of Tony's life.

As for whether there will be more Sopranos - I think there may be, either more TV or (more likely) a film - one day - perhaps...

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