Show over.Ĭhase decided to end his magnum opus with that sudden cut to black, and then allowed that blackness to linger for 10 agonizing seconds, he convinced millions of HBO subscribers across the continent that their TV sets had committed electronic hara-kiri, or else their signal had cut out at the worst possible moment. Just as Meadow reaches the diner’s door and pushes it open, Tony looks up and… blackness. Meadow’s a bit late, and seems to be having trouble parking her car. One by one, the other members of his immediate family arrive – except for Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) – and they start to eat onion rings and indulge in small talk. Let’s just remind ourselves how – to use street parlance – the final scene of The Sopranos “went down”: Tony (James Gandolfini) arrives at Holsten’s diner in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and selects Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” from the jukebox console at his table. Why then did Chase and the show ultimately present Tony’s death in such an ambiguous fashion? That requires further analysis. At the beginning of every show, he came from New York into New Jersey, and the last scene could be him coming from New Jersey back into New York for a meeting at which he was going to be killed.” I had a scene in which Tony comes back from a meeting in New York in his car. Sopranos creator and guiding force David Chase has intimated as much throughout the years before all but confirming it to The Hollywood Reporter in 2021, saying “Because the scene I had in my mind was not that scene. Yes, to get the most important bit out of the way: Tony Soprano is dead. It begs the question, though: if a mafia boss falls in a diner, and no one is around to see it – or even hear it – does it make him dead? He’s Dead? Really? Now that, my friends, is the definition of a perfect mafia hit. Over a million witnesses to a murder, and not one of them could give a credible statement or offer reliable testimony. Do you know why? Because hardly anyone – myself included – even knew that it had happened. Hardly anyone flinched, raged, gasped, or wept for the terminated mafioso. The strange thing is that little of the raw emotion stirred up by the finale was connected with the actual assassination of Tony Soprano. Recall is easier in the case of Tony, as every single witness was doing exactly the same thing at the time of his assassination: getting ready to kick their TVs into a million pieces.
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