The Sopranos finale...

Tony sits down in a diner... Tony plays the rather ironic so bad it's funny now Journey song on the jukebox... Carmela comes in stressed out/ slightly upset about something we never will know... Kinda Italian looking guy in ugly 1982 blue Member's Only Jacket sits down at the counter and acts kinda creepy, maybe he is just weird... A.J. comes in and sits down... A couple of blacks kids come in... The waitress brings a fresh basket of onion rings for the table... Meadow has the most dramatic parallel parking sequence in movie/television history. Will Meadow park her Lexus in time? Or will she be too late? Or is it better if she is too late?... The creepy Member's Only Jacket guy goes into the restroom to either piss, masturbate, or pull a large gun out his jacket, we can't tell... Meadow hurriedly starts to enter the diner and......... they pull the plug on The Sopranos.

Any comments? Insight? Am I missing something? Just a perverse anti-TV ending? A piss-off to the audience? Life never ends but TV series do...?

... a dinner is just a dinner, life goes on and maybe next week Tony gets arrested by the feds or whatever, or not. Maybe that Member's Only guy had a big gun stuffed in his Member's Only jacket and he burst out of the bathroom and shot Tony, spraying his blood all over his family in revenge for having Phil whacked in front of his grandkids and wife. Or not... maybe it's just dinner, and Tony gets even more powerful than even but goes to jail in 10-12 years... or not.

If they had just ended getting Tony arrested without knowing whether he goes to jail or not, at least it would have brought the series full circle sort of.

bad reactions = yet another example of idiot Americans not being able to "get" anything but a nicely tied-up package. Not exactly something that hasn't been done in FILMS for the last 50 years.

bottom line: bomb america.

What did you make of this?

"...and without giving anything away, did you notice the cat in the second last scene staring at Paulie…read into it what you like."

can you imagine a seppo trying to cope with the last episodes of The Prisoner or Blake's 7.

Not really mad, enjoy the perversity of it all. And it is perverse. The end of the last run had them sitting down for X-mas as a family, total anti-climatic, then now Chase builds up the tension for the finale then mostly has a low key last show (Phil said he was going to "decapitate" the Sopranos Family and got his ironic end under his own wheel, classic)... then they build up the suspense absurdly for a dinner with a deliberate no ending except that Meadow needs to practice her parallel parking if she is going to be a lawyer to prosecute/defend her father.

The Member's Only guy going into the bathroom was a Godfather reference. The Member's Only jacket itself a reference to being "part of the family"? The reincarnation of his nephew as the cat? Tony was going on about some nonsense about reincarnation i think. The onion rings represent a tasty snack, and Italian Mobsters tend to be fat, according to the show. Its full of meaning, but nothing really means anything anyway, so it goes.

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: bad reactions = yet another example of idiot Americans not being able to "get" anything but a nicely tied-up package. Not exactly something that hasn't been done in FILMS for the last 50 years.

bottom line: bomb america.

Ooh It's called Love and it's soo Uncool. Class Churchy. Media is Full of themselves- wondering what we're goin to do w/ ourselves. Between Critiques of Everything Fades to Black and lulling about in the Re- Runs. Think somehow, The Sopranos gave TV some Credibility again.

i haven't been able to get journey out of my head for a while

isn't the Chase considering a movie?