T lives on!!!!

Tony is dead! Don’t you remember that they have been talking about “the end”.?? They kept saying when it happens, you don’t even know. Everything goes dark. The last thing you see is Tony looking at his daughter……then black. Tony was wacked and it was a BRILLIANT ending…

Well me and my boyfriend thought there was a bomb in the resturant, and it blew up as Meadow walks in. Thats why the screen went black and there was no sound.

What was that!? Just cut to black? I was expecting the greatest ending in television history. I feel so let down!!!!!

We all were moved to a climax that never happened. We sat and watched the last 5 minutes waiting for a car to exploid, a gun to be pulled- we all were paranoid!. My feeling is that the finale put us in Tony's shoes for the last time. The restraunt scene was intense- everybody in the place was a killer in our minds. We lived Tony's life in those last 5 minutes of the Finale. I think the ending was a masterpiece!

Or maybe that didn't happen-that's why the screen went black. An artistic end to
a well-produced series.

What about the cat and Paullie? What did that mean?

the cat was Adrianne reincarnated!

To me, the end was that there WAS no end. It kept in total spirit with the series. In a In a word.... Brilliant.

what a bullshit ending !

very, very weak. i see what he did - it was stupid. he wants us to not know for sure what happened yet does the whole gun stuck in the bathroom schtick from the godfather. the guini that was looking at him walks into the bathroom and the show stops on a dime. Fucking douchebag alludes to his being killed without telling us.

By far the worst episode of the season. Chase is so full of himself that he just wants people to talk about the episode and let the debate go on over what happened for years to come. What an egomaniac. There are so many ways he could have made it an incredible ending.

and to have that awful song on at the end...just terrible.

The guy that went into the bathroom is going to come out to kill Tony. Only, while he is in the bathroom, Meadow, who is running late, sits down in the empty spot beside Tony. And the guy comes out and kills Meadow instead.

Duh!

Real life never ends so The Sopranos had no ending. How can people who have watched a series for so long not understand that? Tony, however, could be dead, thus the fade to black as he was shot and killed.

The cat was Adrianna.

The finale was TERRIBLE - the worst.

I will never pay money for anything involving David Chase.

A cheap hollywood b.s. trick.

Disappointing, boring episode. A leave-it-to-your imagination ending after a boring episode made a dull episode worse. Wish I hadn't wasted my time.

I'm filing my disconnection notice with HBO as we speak ...

that episode sucked !!!

Worst episode of the season. Too many 2 second scenes, jumping from character to character
and point to point, which was extremely annoying. The ending was also annoying and bad.
Chase is too full of himself. We get the point, okay? Loose ends aren't always tied up. Things
go on. Bad guys are not always punished and continue on to breathe another day. Or, maybe
the real point is, were there any onion rings left for Meadow by the time she got her car
parked? That's reality, too, right?

Interesting message with the SUV. SUV's are killing our children due to emissions... So naturally have the SUV with the kids run over its owners head.

PU This episode was terrible. What a let down. Never again am I being pulled in by David Chase or the Sopranos

Yeah, I agree with "bill". Remember at the end of the previous episode when tony thinks back to a conversation he had with Bobby. They were talking about how when it happens [that is, when you get whacked] you probably don't even know it. everything just goes black.

that is what happened at the end. we witness tony get whacked from tony's point of view. if he got a bullet straight in his head, then he would probably have no idea what happened. he would probably never know what hit him. and consequently, he would never know ANYTHING after that.

So the ending created a sense of what its like to get whacked. BAM! End of story.

brilliant ending, but what happens to paulie?, uncle junior?, sil?

I liked the show, I just want to know what exactly happened....I waited this long, and I just want to know!!! Stressful!!! However, Phil got what he deserved!!!

I think that Tony was killed and thus the blackout. However, the episode ends in a way that any other ending is possible. David Chase still owns the Sopranos and he can do whatever he wants with it.

So Someone what you are saying is the audience got whacked. We never saw it coming and then the screen went blank. It still was horrible

It was staged to get people wondering, speculating about what happened,
looking for clues - and it worked. The Sopranos lives on.
It was also a way to keep the door open for , yes folks Sopranos, the
movie which of coarse would answer those questions and pick up where this
'last' episode left off.

So did Peter Petrelli kill Sylar, or did he get away into the manhole??

I feel like I was hustled and we are going to cancel HBO tomorrow!!

I finally get Darth Vader was Luke's father.

Initially I was completely disapointed and shocked at how terrible the episode was. Most of it was spent on the meaningless AJ and his meaningless life. Who cares about his SUV, or his girlfriend, or his future?

Also, why did we need to watch Meadow park her car for 5 mins at the absolute end of our beloved show? How ridiculous.

However, after reading a post above I swayed my hate, but only a bit. The poster claimed that the last 5-10 mins was like living in Tony's shoes for those minutes. I think this is an excellent observation!

But all in all, it was a bad episode, that left it's cult like following pissed off!

The series finale SUCKED big time. This was the worse series finale ever. The only good part was that Phil got whacked. Everything else was a waste of time. And as for the question about loose ends, H*** No it did not tie up any loose ends. What were the writers thinking??? This episode was really bad. I give it 2 thumbs down!!!! HATED IT!!!!!

Pure crap. HBO has become pretentious garbage. It's like a "Twin Peaks" virus has infected their entire schedule. Not going to even bother with their new shows. Time to find a network that isn't so full of itself.

I 'get it', and still thought that was crap. Good riddance that this show is finally
over, has sucked for the last few seasons anyway.

This says how I feel best. It was posted on the HBO board by Vincent12:

"I hate those make up your own ending finales. BOOOO!!!!

I won't see a Sopranos movie. I'll wait til it's on bootleg DVD.

Now if Paulie were to make a movie with that cat...maybe."

This is the thing. If ALL the seasons were filled with some great writing, nail bitting
episodes. Then the whole fade to black crap at the end would have been SWEET a
masterpeice. But the show has fallen short since the last season. This season was good
but WTF it wasnt THAT good. ...

terrible. pretentious. lame.

Absolutely, the worst series's finale EVER,...and I mean EVER,...And yes, as other mentioned, I have called to cancel HBO. Nothing but meaninless scenes about AJ, Meadow and malarky...JUST HORRIBLE!

Anyone notice who the guy in the hat was in the final scene? it was the guy who owned that sports department store who owed all that money to Tony after sitting in that poker game. His life ruined by tony.

I can understand the whole black thing being Tony's lights going out but I can't forget the song. Journey,"Don't Stop Believing". I think there is something that we are supposed to hang on to. Like the Russian guy who for the longest time is supposed to show up one day and never does after disappearing into the woods. I guess I don't want to let go...Or...stop believing

awesome

Chase is Briliant although I first felt a bit of disappointment I soon realized that his ending is realyy just open ended. Tony's fate is neither defined or discredited. It leave the great possibilty of T returning once again to either our living rooms or the big Theater.

I will the Sunday night ritual of watching the mob family and their sometimes nomal lifes but I also hold hope to once again hear that infamous theme song and T driving into his driveway as I wait anxiously for the next tapestry mob ville.

The ending to me was expected and unexpected in the same breathe. I should have known better then to think david chase or the writers of the series would leave us with a tidy ending. I noticed the whole thing about thinking he was just going to get whacked, but in retrospect I don't think any of that occured. Its a nice writing trick by chase. He obviously has people debating about the ultimate ending to the whole ordeal. But true fans and followers of the show should know that life just went on. As we know Tony probably just had dinner with his kids and the suspicious guy was just some druggie who went into the bathroom. Because if he was to be hit the guy would have just done it and not waited. i've never seen a hit go down on this show that had the guy waiting around letting people profile him if needed be. Anyway take what you want from the ending. Some people will be pissed off obviously. But take it in stride because the fact of the matter is that chase was never going to give us all that we wanted to see. Afterall we are only privy to certain things while other things aren't shown thus the constant questioning occurs. And for years they will be talking about what really happened after that abrupt ending and it just jumped to black. That was just them telling us time is up this is the end of this chapter. And the book may not be finished but for this set of chapters, and set of stories we will just have to create the rest for ourselves. Afterall isn't that half the fun in stories?

Tony was whacked at the end. End of story it makes perfect sence. The show was centered around tony, everything happend through his eyes. So at the end he got a bulllet to the head, and thats it. There would be nothing more to tell because tony was the soul of the sopranos.

Brilliant?!?!? Artistic?!?!? What a DISAPPOINTMENT. This is a show about mobsters. There's nothing "deep" or "artistic" about any of the characters. The ending should have been absolute. I dont want to imagine the ending, I wanna see it. Just like the crowd at the Bing watched Syl get gunned down, just like the strangers at the gas station watched Johnny Sack get his head crushed. There is only two options: 1) this is the worst ending in television history, or 2) theres a kick-ass movie on the way.

I really hope for the latter option.....

the cavs should of won that was horrible

deeply unsatisfying. but i think all went black because T. got whacked. The black screen, the music cut off.. instant death.

If you guys remember in last weeks episode Tony thinks back to him and Bobby in the boat fishing. If you rememner they were talking about grting shot and Bobby says "you probaly don't even hear it when it happens" So the balck screen and the silence, IMO ment tony got whacked.

It was kinda erie, the way it ended. Especiallysince there was no music.

man, they got my so hyped up about it at the last moments.
then cut out.
i checked my cable to make sure it didnt cut out.
i thought it could have been better
but it really was a brilliant ending.

I live literally around the corner from Holsten's . . . on Broad Street in Bloomfield. I don't know about the onion rings, but it IS an ice cream parlor, after all . . . the sundae's are great!! And yes, it IS impossible to parallel park on Broad Street. ;)