In your opinion what happened at the end of the end of the sopranos?

When the lights went out Tony got shot in the back of the head.

The audience got whacked.

Idk why the director was dead set on fricking the audience.

Because it isnt clear whether tony dies or not

It's the greatest ending in TV history

How?

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Did he live or was he offed, whats the reasoning behind your opinion?

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I re-watched the whole series about a year ago. I came to a very different conclusion.

At the start of the show, Tony was a captain of "that pygmy" thing in Jersey. At the end of the show, Tony was the boss of a family that went toe-to-toe with a NY family and won.

In that diner sat a man who was at the absolute height of his power. He'd lost almost everything to get there, but he was there.

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Because it's ten years later and people are still talking about it

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but, for real. I actually did appreciate it when it happened. I believe David Chase gave an interview where he explained it. He refused to say whether or not Tony died, but he did go on to say it was a conscious decision to end it like that, because Tony's fate was not the point of the series. A clear death or a clear living for Tony would not have done the series justice. The objective was the moral struggle of the audience with how and why they root for the villain. If Tony was clearly killed, then that moral struggle would be over. If Tony was clearly still alive then that moral struggle would be over. The ambiguity of his fate perpetuates the moral struggle of the audience liking an evil character.

Correct, so he perpetuated that theme forever by leaving Tony's fate ambiguous.


Greatest ending in TV series history

why did it take meadow so long to park?