Sopranos Ending

Maybe they just kill his family.

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Is there any other interpretation for the ending other than Tony getting whacked?

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Total Global Thermonuclear War

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Is there any other interpretation for the ending other than Tony getting whacked? I once heard a theory that Tony was in a dream loop.

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The ambiguity is the interpretation. Every time a door opens behind Tony, he lives the possibility of his death, just as the audience does. Maybe he lives it for 10 years, or 20. Maybe he lives it for 35 and dies in a nursing home. The length of time does not matter, beyond the fact that the end does not come in that final scene. That would deny Tony his Hell.

Also, in the end of The Natural, Roy Hobbs is in Heaven. Somehow even Ebert missed this.

he's dead. there are a million signs that point to it.

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he's dead.

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Like Jack Bartlett?

[[SPOILER ALERT]]
[[SPOILER ALERT]]

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he's dead. there are a million signs that point to it.

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But mostly, the creator of the show inadvertently spilling it in an interview.

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Alan Sepinwall, “The Sopranos Sessions” co-author, asked Chase, “When you said there was an end point, you don’t mean Tony at Holsten’s [diner], you just meant, ‘I think I have two more years’ worth of stories left in me.'”

Chase slipped up with his reply, which sounds like a confirmation of Tony’s death. “Yes, I think I had that death scene around two years before the end,” he said.

“Tony was going to get called to a meeting with Johnny Sack in Manhattan, and he was going to go back through the Lincoln Tunnel for this meeting, and it was going to go black there and you never saw him again as he was heading back, the theory being that something bad happens to him at the meeting,” he continued. “But we didn’t do that.”

Co-author Matt Zoller Seitz caught the slip and called Chase out on it. “You realize, of course, that you just referred to that as a death scene,” he told The Sopranos creator.

Realizing his mistake, Chase took a long pause. “frick you guys,” he replied.

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Yeah but in this case he was just confirming what we already knew.

The ending may have been "artistic" but it wasn't really that subtle.

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Well thanks. Some of us haven’t seen it

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Sorry. I'll go back to my post and put a spoiler alert.

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Is there any other interpretation for the ending other than Tony getting whacked? I

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I always took it to mean that whether he got whacked right then or 5 years from then, the same fate was coming for him.

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The ambiguity is the interpretation. Every time a door opens behind Tony, he lives the possibility of his death, just as the audience does. Maybe he lives it for 10 years, or 20. Maybe he lives it for 35 and dies in a nursing home. The length of time does not matter, beyond the fact that the end does not come in that final scene.

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I've always gone w/ something along these lines. If they had just shown Tony getting whacked like all those other goons, no one would still be talking about it more than 13 years later.