Letters to the Editor
Sazerac
Published Letters: 2
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Face oils? No problem.
[Read the article: iPhone doomsters: Cracked screen, broken keyboard?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When the screen on my black 5th gen 80GB iPod Video gets smudgy, I flick the lock switch so I don't inadvertently pause or reset it, give it a quick fog of breath, a quick wipe on my shirt and it's good as new. And completely unscratched, I might add. I've had it for months and there's still not a single scratch on the face, which I can't say for the previous generations of iPods I've had.
Oh, and why is John Dvorak still allowed to have a column? Probably for the same reason FOX "News" allows Bill O'Reilly on the air.
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Tony is dead
[Read the article: "The Sopranos" goes dark]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Second, and you put this out there, made me think about it differently, and then walked away from it, is the ending. I think Tony is dead. I think the guy in the bathroom killed him.
mattwa33186, I think you're absolutely right, and I knew that Tony was dead once someone who has a much better memory for details and minor characters than I do pointed out that the guy at the counter who was staring at them, then approached them menacingly, then went to the bathroom ... was Phil Leotardo's nephew Nikki. He was seen as a minor character in sit-down scenes with Phil in the beginning of Season 6.
All the entrances into the restaurant were shot the same way too -- we see Tony eating, then we hear the door open. Tony looks up, then we cut to Tony's POV of who's coming in. This is done several times during that astonishing final scene, perhaps the most tense and suspenseful sequence I've ever seen on television. ("The suspense is terrible. I hope it lasts." -- Willy Wonka)
The last time this happens, after Meadow's agonizingly long parallel parking/suspense-building sequence ... we see Tony eating. We hear the door open (it's Meadow this time). Tony looks up, and instead of cutting to his POV of Meadow coming in, it cuts to black, abruptly, and stays in black and silence for several seconds. That's because this IS Tony's POV, because Nikki Leotardo came out of the bathroom and shot Tony in the back of the head, in front of his family ... just like Phil was shot in front of his family. Neither of them heard or saw it coming, just as Bobby foreshadowed. (Ironically, this didn't apply to Bobby's own death.) And for Nikki, this wasn't business (he wasn't involved in the cease-fire arrangement); this was strictly personal.
Just because David Chase didn't show it explicitly doesn't mean it didn't happen, and he left just enough clues as to what DID happen for people who are truly paying attention.
That's my theory, anyway. Then again, unless Chase sings, we'll never really know, will we?