Maremy's Blog

... my favorite show, The Sopranos, ended. I still remember watching that final scene in the diner thinking the entire family was going to get it. I can't hear "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey without thinking of the last four minutes of the show. Regarding the ongoing debate about Tony's fate, the two theories go:

Theory No. 1: Chase is using the final scene to place the viewer into Tony's mindset. This is how he sees the world: every open door, every person walking past him could be coming to kill him, or arrest him, or otherwise harm him or his family. This is his life, even though the paranoia's rarely justified. We end without knowing what Tony's looking at because he never knows what's coming next.

Theory No. 2: In the scene on the boat in "Soprano Home Movies," repeated again last week, Bobby Bacala suggests that when you get killed, you don't see it coming. Certainly, our man in the Members Only jacket could have gone to the men's room to prepare for killing Tony (shades of the first "Godfather"), and the picture and sound cut out because Tony's life just did. (Or because we, as viewers, got whacked from our life with the show.)

Theory #2 summed up my thoughts perfectly at the time, and still does. Someone wrote a massive article that is apparently a 'definitive explanation' of the end. This person seems to agree that Tony did, indeed, get shot (thus, black and silence followed by the silent credits).

Anyway, just thought I'd commemorate the anniversary!