>”Honestly, I think they bumped into each other in restaurants and stuff like that,” [Bracco said of Tony and Dr. Melfi’s future after the finale] “I don’t know. I think part of me wants to believe that she took a moment away from him, and they got back together, back in therapy. I could believe that.”
>“I was also not very happy the way David ended it. I thought it was bad and wrong. I was annoyed. I told him, ‘How do you invest five years into someone’s life and just walk away?’ I said, ‘That is not cool.’ And you know, that was it.”
RichardOrmonde on
All due respect….
StannisLivesOn on
Many Saints of Newark, whatever happened there…
tequilasauer on
I never really understood the confusion. The conversation with Bacala at the lakehouse sets up what happens. I’m surprised we’re still seeing this discussed.
Here’s the deal folks: the reason there was a sopranos was because a gangster was so stressed out he has black outs and goes to therapy. We invest in him and his life family and “family” for years, we love him we hate him we care about the characters. A war breaks out and he is almost surely on a path to death. We get anxious – the last scene is literally cut to make you stressed and paranoid and then you, like the character, black out. It doesn’t matter it was an experience and it was as good as tv will ever get.
ROBtimusPrime1995 on
I disagree but not for the reason most people would debate over.
With the recent David Chase doc, I get what he was trying to do here.
The finale is structured so that the audience always feels like any scene could be Tony’s last and that fear of the unknown is what haunts the character throughout the series, but especially in the finale.
In the final moments in the diner, the scene isn’t meant to be building up to some climactic reveal like Tony’s death in some grand hurrah…
The scene is meant to encapsulate how there’s never a moment to rest when you are a Mafia don. Every moment feels like your last, and even when you feel at your safest, that’s when it could happen.
The final scene isn’t confirming Tony’s death, it’s just a jumpscare where the audience finally understands how scared Tony has been this entire show.
fireandiceofsong on
To be fair, while a lot of people appreciate the ending nowadays, it was at the time like the big original (or at least second behind Battlestar Galactica) controversial ending for a popular serialized series before Lost, Dexter, and Game of Thrones and its nature made it come off as a big fuck you to the audience who literally thought their TVs got cut off at the most inconvenient time possible.
I don’t think anyone would be able to get away with this kind of ending in a modern series, even with all the subtle setups that The Sopranos did. The internet discussion would be even more vitriolic and there’d be countless hour long youtube essays lambasting how the finale “subverted expectations”.
TheJerseyFlatline on
I didn’t watch the series when it first aired. But I imagine for the people that did, it was Must-Watch TV. I liken it to the last seasons of Thrones, where it was just bad but spread out over time. For that end scene to be the finality of what was a perfect show, I can understand the criticism.
Having binged it years later, I definitely wasn’t a fan of it, either. But with subsequent rewatches, it has grown on me and I honestly think it was the perfect ending. I can’t think of a better way to do so.
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Bracco:
>”Honestly, I think they bumped into each other in restaurants and stuff like that,” [Bracco said of Tony and Dr. Melfi’s future after the finale] “I don’t know. I think part of me wants to believe that she took a moment away from him, and they got back together, back in therapy. I could believe that.”
>“I was also not very happy the way David ended it. I thought it was bad and wrong. I was annoyed. I told him, ‘How do you invest five years into someone’s life and just walk away?’ I said, ‘That is not cool.’ And you know, that was it.”
All due respect….
Many Saints of Newark, whatever happened there…
I never really understood the confusion. The conversation with Bacala at the lakehouse sets up what happens. I’m surprised we’re still seeing this discussed.
This video breaks down a lot of it too: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCb6OL6RGyk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCb6OL6RGyk)
None of them made it out of that diner.
Here’s the deal folks: the reason there was a sopranos was because a gangster was so stressed out he has black outs and goes to therapy. We invest in him and his life family and “family” for years, we love him we hate him we care about the characters. A war breaks out and he is almost surely on a path to death. We get anxious – the last scene is literally cut to make you stressed and paranoid and then you, like the character, black out. It doesn’t matter it was an experience and it was as good as tv will ever get.
I disagree but not for the reason most people would debate over.
With the recent David Chase doc, I get what he was trying to do here.
The finale is structured so that the audience always feels like any scene could be Tony’s last and that fear of the unknown is what haunts the character throughout the series, but especially in the finale.
In the final moments in the diner, the scene isn’t meant to be building up to some climactic reveal like Tony’s death in some grand hurrah…
The scene is meant to encapsulate how there’s never a moment to rest when you are a Mafia don. Every moment feels like your last, and even when you feel at your safest, that’s when it could happen.
The final scene isn’t confirming Tony’s death, it’s just a jumpscare where the audience finally understands how scared Tony has been this entire show.
To be fair, while a lot of people appreciate the ending nowadays, it was at the time like the big original (or at least second behind Battlestar Galactica) controversial ending for a popular serialized series before Lost, Dexter, and Game of Thrones and its nature made it come off as a big fuck you to the audience who literally thought their TVs got cut off at the most inconvenient time possible.
I don’t think anyone would be able to get away with this kind of ending in a modern series, even with all the subtle setups that The Sopranos did. The internet discussion would be even more vitriolic and there’d be countless hour long youtube essays lambasting how the finale “subverted expectations”.
I didn’t watch the series when it first aired. But I imagine for the people that did, it was Must-Watch TV. I liken it to the last seasons of Thrones, where it was just bad but spread out over time. For that end scene to be the finality of what was a perfect show, I can understand the criticism.
Having binged it years later, I definitely wasn’t a fan of it, either. But with subsequent rewatches, it has grown on me and I honestly think it was the perfect ending. I can’t think of a better way to do so.
Discontinue the lithium.