How Will The Sopranos End?
Ross Douthat has a good post up:
Killing Meadow off is way too much of a Godfather III rip-off, and killing A.J. off just feels like a waste of time at this point. So I’m going to join Goldberg in suggesting that the finale will end with the Soprano nuclear family still intact and even with Tony back on top, in some limited sense at least; if any mob boss gets capped in the final hour, I’m betting that it will be Phil Leotardo. The show isn’t about the life and death of Tony Soprano, in the end; it’s about his soul, and the audience’s (increasingly-vain) hope that a criminal they liked might be able to escape his pathologies and find redemption. The end of Tony’s therapy, which closed off this possibility once and for all - with Melfi closing the door on him, in a scene that echoed the closing door at the end of the original Godfather - is the only ending that story needs. Killing him would be superfluous.
Sadly, we’re a bit behind the US here in the Netherlands, so I will know how it ends before I am actually able to watch it myself.
This is how Sopranos ends - true facts:
Tony gets all his family with janice together to go underground. Carmela goes to her car and bang it blows up in front of tony, aj and meadow. Tony send Meadow to go with Janice. Tony goes to see a mob boss whom we have never seen before. Aj and benny join tony to go for revenge. Tony hesitated and then is ok for aj to join. Paulie gets inside info on Phil’s location. Aj and benny get there and benny kills phil and the rest of the crew. agent harris tells tony that the hit on him was called off at the end. Aj comes out with a gun pointing towards tony - yelling that he killed mon, christopher, adriana and his life. Before aj could shoot tony, agent harris steps in and shoots AJ. Last scene - aj dying in the arm of Tony.
Pranoop: we will see whether that is indeed how it ends. If it ends like that, i’ll you a beer
What about the scene at the ice cream parlour that everyone is talking about?