Letters to the Editor
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Sunday will be here soon enough.
That was pretty entertaining. But why, oh why, did you ask someone to participate who has never seen an episode of the show? And to put that last? I can't for the life of me figure that out.
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C'mon, Lemony Snicket's comment was hilarious!
And opera isn't such a bad model, either. The Sopranos may very well end up like a good tragic opera: everyone dies! (Although they won't go down singing.)
But my favorite is Berke Breathed's cartoon: Tony Soprano smothered by Bill the Cat at poolside. What ending could possibly be more appropriate than death by feline?
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Final episode? I don't get it.
Please. Someone explain. I'm not a TV watcher. For MONTHS Salon has been devoting space to a supposed Sopranos "final" episode. WHY IS THIS??? Is there more than one final episode? What gives?
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Ending
The episode will end with Tony pleading with Carmela that they have to go back to the island and should never have left.
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It's only a movie
Opening scene: Tony is shot by... who cares, somebody. The camera pulls back to reveal the set, we hear "cut!" and revealed is Peter Bogdanovich, sitting in a directors chair.
"That's a wrap!"
Covered in fake blood, Gandolfini and the rest of the cast do lots of palling around.
The rest of the hour is the best failed-director-making-a mafia-film-while-being-shadowed-by-actual-mafioso tv episode we've ever seen.
Oh, and Bogdonovich gets whacked at the end.
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Tony will survive...
...the mini-war with Phil, but Vito Spatafore, Jr. will return from the "rehabilitation" camp that Tony arranged for him and whack him. That's my wild-ass guess, anyway. :)
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Re: Daniel Handler
Snob.
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Dear God,
Please make the predictions stop. Please? I can't take it anymore. I am prepared to unplug my life in all directions.
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final episode
Furio Giunta will return, kill Tony, and take up with Carmella. AJ will become Furio's button man after Furio tells him that the only thing that you can control is yourself. Dr. Melfi will kill Dr. Elliot Kupferberg and become Furio's comàre. Kupferberg's daughter, Saskia, will become lovers with Meadow. Paulie will hook up with, then kill Janice. Hesh will be offed by the great-grandson of some R&B one-hit-wonder that Hesh ripped off in the 50's. Artie Bucco will finally tire of his Charmaine's contant verbal castration and cut off her head and use it to make a light summer soup.
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Xena lives!
Regina Barreca takes it: The ladies, probably the only ones still alive after the carnage, take charge, and not a moment too soon.
And it allows the series to live on: The Sopranos Part II: Hear Them Roar.
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My Sopranos finale prediction
Tony's world comes crashing down as Carmela dumps him for Artie Bucco. Paulie Walnuts and Meadow share a torrid night of passionate sex in a Motel 6 and decide to elope. AJ becomes a waiter at the Bing. Thoroughly disheartened, Tony hangs it all up and moves to Jeaneau, AK, where he ends up becoming the captain of a fishing boat.
-Sharat C
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Tony is a Federal informant
It's axiomatic.
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It's all about the snow globes
Somehow, even though I know people will just plotz for it...I can't help but imagine David Chase totally blowing all predictions out of the water with a classic TV ending. soemthing that just stops, and winks at the camera, and says, "you do realize all this fuss and bother is over a TV show right?"
Maybe David Chase takes himself too seriously for this, or the Sopranos means too much to him to end on a joke, but I got to think no matter what he does millions of internet discussion boards will be filled with "how he blew it last night" come monday morning. So why not just turn it right back on the audience and have him wake up next to Suzane Plaschett (or however her name is spelled).
So was it all a dream? Does it end in Ron Howard's Office with AJ pitching a series? Maybe it's a novel Tony, I mean Kevin Finerty is writing now that he's gotten out of the Solar Cell Game. Maybe Tony never came out of his Coma, and this has all been his punishment in Hell, to awaken, and lose it all, over and over again.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men....not me.
I just hope Carey winds up with Mr. Big.
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The Final Survivor Will Be...
I predict Heather Havrilesky will shoot TomReedToon and take over the mob.
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Tony's Revelation in the Desert
When Tony was tripping on peyote with the hottie in the desert, I think his revelation was, "kill them before they kill you". So when he got word from the FBI man about Phil's plan, Tony put his own into action. That is, Tony will kill everyone close to him and use Phil as the scapegoat.
How can he do this? Well for one I'll bet he has already killed Phil. Last weeks episode covered about four or five days in Soprano time, and no one has seen Phil for that amount of time. Plus the hit attempt we saw on Phil that went wrong was so stupid, it had to be diversion tactic by Tony. Phil would have never answered the door at night by a DHL delivery man with an Italian accent. A plan like that just wouldn't work.
Why do I think all of this? Tony's Mother and Uncle tried to kill him early in the series. To me, that opened the door for Tony to kill anyone close to him. I mean if your mother and uncle conspire to kill you, that will turn you into an even colder blooded killer than you were before.
Overall, I think Tony dying or living are both too easy an answer. The final outcome will be somewhere in between the two. That is; The hero lives but the audience's love for him dies. So Tony will live, but in the end he'll do something so awful (killing his capos & maybe his own son), we won't love him anymore. That would be an epic finish to a great series.
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Jeanette
Maybe he's last because he represents the billions of people on the planet who have never seen nor will ever see the show and whose eyes will glaze over when you start to tell them about it. Maybe it's somebody's idea of putting everything in perspective and saying "life do go on. It really do."