LAME.
Okay, is it just me, or was The Sopranos ending completely pathetic?
Or, am I pathetic for taking so long to finally watch it? It’s been very difficult to bypass all the press on it, especially since I work in broadcast media, and need to listen to the shows that talk about this kind of stuff on a fairly regular basis.
I’ll tell ya, though… I was swearing at my 30″ Dell monitor early this morning when I watched it while trying to finally fall asleep. I guess it was symbolism for the viewer being ‘whacked’?
Stupid.
[place eye roll here]
What do you think? (I know, this is old news to most people)
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Oh come on! I told you it was a nuclear explosion that leveled the entire city… just as she was running in.
A nuclear explosion’s energy moves at the speed of light… much faster than a brain could process that anything bad was about to occur…. hence.. the “inactivity” for 10 seconds.
Everyone is sooo confused about the end of this series, and yet… its sooo simple.
Nuclear explosion.
You’re right. The ending was pathetic. I do not believe Tony died. There is no factual basis on it. View my comments at this place to see my proof: http://patterico.com/2007/06/18/the-best-sopranos-finale-analysis-ever/#comment-268668
Also, here is my last post, which totally debunks Bob Harris’ claims:
I watched the final scene again last night (for the third time) and frame by frame.
Bob Harris overstates what he says are “clues†to Tony dieing. First of all, the colors in the diner are not subdued or filtered out. There are light colors there. May be Bob Harris has a crappy TV.
Secondly, not everyone at the table is wearing black. AJ is wearing gray and Tony is wearing a combination of both gray and black.
Thirdly, Bob Harris repeatedly shows screen shots to illustrate the Members Only Jacket guy was constantly staring at Tony. In reality there are only two occasions where he looks over his shoulder. Bob Harris makes it seem like more than that.
Fourthly, the screen goes to black for about 12 to 13 seconds — not 10, based on my count, which debunks the “magic bullet†theory (i.e., the commercial playing in Silvio’s hospital room was a foreshadowing of Tony’s death. This was not a Bob Harris theory but should be debunked nonetheless.)
Fifthly, Bob Harris, and others, describe that whenever someone comes through the door, the viewer is shown Tony’s face then we look at the door through Tony’s eyes, or his point-of-view. They use this to explain that when the screen goes black, we’re looking through Tony’s P-O-V, so when it goes black, it’s as if Tony dies. But rewatch the final scene. When the door opens on some occasions, you see a side view of Tony’s face, not the dead on camera shot straight in Tony’s mug as you see when Meadow is presumably walking in the door before the cut to black.
Lastly, look at Tony’s face right before the screen cuts to black. There is an honest look of terror on his face. I looked at it frame by frame. Before Meadow (we think) walks in, Tony looks like he’s about to put more money in the jukebox and change the song, but then someone comes through the door and there’s this honest look of surprise on his face before we cut to black. Can someone forward some of those screenshots to Mr. Bob Harris? Let’s see if he has the guts to post that?
After reading the last post… I have changed my mind. I now believe that it was a neutron explosion. A flash of light (a single frame) would have been the give away.
So…
Neutron explosion.
We’ll have to wait another six month before its shown here.