The Sopranos

[Monster of Rock]

Well there off to another great start this year. Any predictions about whats going to happen this season?

[Graceful17]

All i can say is Tony better not die and the old man better get locked up. That last episode really kicked the shit out of you emotionally. lol
Can't wait to see what happens later in the season.

[FanGirl]

Maybe I watch too much Lost but....

They seemed to have wrapped up Christopher's character pretty well. He had a heart to heart with Tony, he's married, a kid on the way, a gorgeous house - anyone else get the sense that he's about to be wacked - possibly by Aidrianna's mom?

I mean it might just be what they are doing as ther series draws nigh, but I really see Christopher dying an unhonorable death by a civilain or possible ODing. Just a thought.

Also, I am over Paully's parent issues. There better be some pay off soon because it feels like lame filler for the moment.

Otherwise, this is the best season since the first one.

[Crucifixion]

The last season completely lacked. It started off with some promise, but everything that happened was predictable and the season finale was lame.

[freakenmoron]

Does anybody else think Edie Falco is HOT!

http://www.cdshakedown.com/03_2000/sopranos_carmella.jpg

[FanGirl]

Nope

[Zens7s]

Good call on the Christopher premonition.

So...Don't Stop Believing...

Then Blackness.

[FanGirl]

Yeah...I feel cheated.

[Zens7s]

I rewatched the episode to see what I thought and if I was really pissed or not.

The entire episode seems to be Tony "getting his affairs in order":

* He gets a job for his son lined up and talks him out of the Army
* Tries to secure money for Bobby's kids
* Brokers a deal with the New York people to stop the war
* Has Leotardo killed in retaliation.
* Tries to make an uneasy peace with Uncle Junior
* Adopts a street cat with either a facination with pictures of Christopher, or could be him reincarnated depending on opnion.
* He offered Paulie Carlo's old job
* He went to visit the unconsicious Silvio, presumably to see his farewells.
* The final scene was getting his family, the real one, together possibly for the last time.

Tony knew throughout the episode that he had an endictment hanging over his head which would probably end in jail. He had killed Christopher, practically raised as his own son. He had lost many of his men and others he was suspecting were turning on him. He therapist, the one whose talk therapy had allowed him to justify his actions had deserted him. I think he decided in this last episode to accept his fate and stop fighting the inevitable.

The song I thought at first was a strange choice. However, the music of the Sopranos was not music chosen by Tony as a character, it was chosen for him. Probably the perfect example of the power ballads "Don't Stop Believing" is what a New Jersey born and bred strip-club running man in his late fourties would pick. The story fits his and that of his family. In some wierd way he might have been trying to send them the message that his son says out loud, "Think of the Good Times."

I think we are supposed to assume that he gets killed. If not by the suspicious characters in the club, then by someone soon after. He looks like a man who has come to terms with his fate, made his peace with the world in his own strange way, and is ready to face death.

After watching it again I am not as suprised or frustrated. I don't want to see Tony get wacked. I also don't want to see him go out with a whimper either. It certainly wasn't what I expected as an ending, but I'll take it.

[FanGirl]

One of the things that frustrated me throughout Sopranos is that they would start setting up things that would never pay off or never follow through. It seemed on a few occassions that they were setting up Meadow to go into the life and then never did anything with it.

I thought based on how this season started that the last scene would have been him walking up to the house from his coma dream and walking into the party where everyone who has died from the series welcomed him with open arms.

[Denyse]

I'm sorry, but IMO...

Worst

Finale

Ever!!!

If I was from Jersey, I'd be even more pissed, that show is like a religion there...

I understand that the creators decided that the characters should just go on as normal even if the TV show of them didn't, but come on...

[FanGirl]

Some fun reviews:

That's What We Were Waiting For? (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/thats-what-we-were-waiting-for-angry-fans-crash-hbo-website/)

Huge Pile of... (http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/06/11/the-sopranos-finale-was-a-huge-pile-of/)

[Jason_Brown]

Meadow cannot parallel park to save her life. That space was huge!

[FanGirl]

Clearly that was a metaphor for her acting. Anyone else watching could have done a better job.

[Antonio_Bay]

I've never watched the Sopranos, but after reading alot of negative feedback on the finale, I searched YouTube to see what the fuss was about. The only scene I found was Tony meeting his family in a diner.

Was that the final scene everyone's talking about, or is there more?

The guy going to the toilet was a hitman?

[Jason_Brown]

Was that the final scene everyone's talking about, or is there more? The guy going to the toilet was a hitman?
Meadow walks in, Tony looks up, cut to black. We don't know if the guy heading for the bathroom was an assassin or not.

[jjcourtright]

Never seen a single episode of The Sopranos, but thought you guys might like this: http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/1406/1/