end of tony soprano

[wargod]

if you watch this i bet your wondering what happened to tony on the last episode well i found the most reasonable answers



First episode of this season Bobby says you don’t hear it when you’re shot.

ii) Second to last episode of this season, Tony flashes to Bobby saying you don’t hear it when you’re shot.

iii) The entire story arc was about Tony - when Tony’s gone, the arc is done.

iv) In the diner, every time someone walked through the door, the perspective changed to Tony’s as he looked up

v) After the last bell jingle, just as the perspective changed to Tony’s everything went black and silent - as though the person whose perspective we were to shift to was no longer alive

vi) The cat was a reminder that Tony killed Chris, and had Adriana killed. The cat was a reminder that Tony’s a bad guy - who has it coming.

vii) There was so much symmetry between Phil’s execution in front of his family and Tony’s last moments

viii) We all know how much Godfather III ruined the Godfather movies. I think the focus on Meadow was a reference to the Godfather. David Chase didn’t end it the way Godfather III ended. This time the boss gets killed.

ix) Every other episode ended in music during the credits. This one had no music because Tony’s dead.

x) Episode titles have always meant something. This episode’s title referred to Bobby’s gift of the gun to Tony. When he gave it to him he made the comment about how everything would just go silent when you were shot.

xi) The ending was so incredibly brilliant. We all felt what it was like to be Tony in those final five minutes. We all felt nervous, anxious, just as he must have felt. After being absorbed into Tony’s experience, we were left with silence and blackness like death because…

Tony Soprano… is dead.


or maybe...

Meadow gets shot.

First, there is the conversation between Meadow and Tony being about this being their last dinner for a while.

Also, their last conversation was angry, Tony yelled at her and she called him “Fat Mouth”

At the diner, Meadows lack of parking skills made her late. (She is also “late” on her period, because she is pregnant. This is the characters explanation for being too nervous to park; when she calls the doctor to switch birth control, as Carmella explained, the doctor tells her, theres no reason, since she is pregnant. All the more reason for Tony to go supernova.)

Because she is late, she is rushing, running. As Meadow crosses the street a white Ford Expedition drives behind her. This is same SUV Phil was in before he was shot. It is the getaway car, for the shooter who was sitting at the counter wearing a *Members Only* jacket. (Note the irony of *Members Only*, as in Mafia members only, and yet this shooter does the exact opposite by killing a non-member.)

Tony is seated at the most vulnerable spot in the entire restaurant. AJ, Carmella, and Tony each eat one onion ring whole, not unlike a communion wafer at church. Meadow, late, does not partake.

Tony looks to the door for her, and the scene goes black before we see Meadow. Note that Tony has seen Carmella walk in, and then AJ walk in, but right before Meadow walks in, everything goes black.

As the scene will play out, she sees him, and she starts to rush to the table.

As this happens, the *Members Only* shooter from the counter, who went into the bathroom, comes out, gun drawn.

As he aims and pulls the trigger, Meadow comes into the scene and heads directly to the empty seat, which is not coincidentally directly between Tony and the killer.

He shoots and hits Meadow.

Tony, his crew, and AJ begin an all-out war of vengeance. (AJ was becoming the new Christopher by the end. Driving the new BMW fast up to the school, running and Tony starting singing Rocky, AJ was getting groomed to the Sopranos lifestyle, getting in shape to be part of it all).

In Mafia movies, the third act is always the gang-war.

The third act of The Sopranos is the movie.

We all know what Tony did when the guy insulted Meadow, (curb job) what do you think he’s going to do when they shoot her?

Sopranos, The Movie, coming in 2009.

Note this scene involves at least one homage to The Godfather movies.

In the first, everything is reversed: the killer going into the bathroom, then coming out to kill. In The Godfather, this was Michaels initiation into the family. In The Sopranos, this killing is AJ’s initiation into the family.

The second homage is also reverse: Meadow getting in the way of gunfire is the birth of the Sopranos movie and the war, while in Godfather 3, the accidental death of Michaels daughter is the climax, the end of violence.

In his statement about the final scene, David Chase responded “Anybody who wants to watch it, it’s all there,” as in there is ONE answer that can be gleaned by careful study of clues. The supporting facts of this scene, the character location, timing, motivation leads to that one answer, the conclusion David Chase wants you to figure out but did not want to show you; the shooting of the guilty fathers innocent daughter.

For those who think the end cut to black means Tony died, David Chase himself again corrects you: “people who watched the first episode will understand why this episode ended the way it did.” The cut to black did not imply Tony’s death, it was the simply the same abruptness with which we were introduced to Tony in the first place. Season 1 Episode 1, after the intro sequence, we start with a black screen then “Blink” we see Tony in Melfi’s office. The end scene was simply “blinking” out of Tony’s world in the same quick manner we “blinked” in.

Also, Tony was not killed since Chase has left open the chance for a movie, stating “I never say never. An idea could pop into my head where I would go, ‘Wow, that would make a great movie,’…If something appeared that really made a good ‘Sopranos’ movie and you could invest in it and everybody else wanted to do it, I would do it.”

[4nik8]

as long as the reasonable answers contradict themselves, i'm good!