How will the Sopranos end?

[Kurtis9]

<p>I've been thinking about this for a while, and not that it matters much, or anyone even cares maybe, but how are they gonna end this show, or when will it end?</p><p>I think the only way it can really end is Tony and most of the crew getting whacked.</p><p>Any spoilers or speculations?</p>

[Furtherman]

I suspect it will end up similarly to Goodfellas.&nbsp;

[Tall_James]

<p>At the rate they're producing new episodes I'd imagine they'd all die of old age.</p>

[Judge Smails]

<p>Turns out that none of them ever really existed.&nbsp; They were all just imagined by the retarded Bada Bing bartender, Georgie.</p><p><img src="http://www.franksantorelli.net/assets/bing2.jpg" border="0" /></p>

[MadMatt]

<strong>Judge Smails</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Turns out that none of them ever really existed.&nbsp; They were all just imagined by the retarded Bada Bing bartender, Georgie.</p><p><img src="http://www.franksantorelli.net/assets/bing2.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><font size="2">You S.O.B., you beat me to it!&nbsp; I read the thread title and made a mad dash for the St. Elsewhere reference...</font></p><p><font size="2">Good one!&nbsp; <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/lol.gif" border="0" /></font></p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>If they want to be realistic there will be two choices. Dead or in prison. </p><p>If they want to get ethnic, it'll end with a big sunday dinner. &nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Bulldogcakes on 11-2-06 @ 6:51 PM</span>

[cougarjake13]

<p>i heard a rumor, not sure how true it is</p><p>spoiler below</p><p><font color="#ffffff">listening to cowhead one morning they were talking about a planned trip to vegas, they spoke to a dealer who was in the tampa area visiting family and heard the show that morning talking about the sopranos</font></p><p><font color="#ffffff">he said they filmed a scene in his casino where paulie walnuts turns on tony and kills meadow</font></p><p>could be real or maybe the guy was just lying</p><p>just throwin it out there</p>

[Reephdweller]

<strong>Judge Smails</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Turns out that none of them ever really existed.&nbsp; They were all just imagined by the retarded Bada Bing bartender, Georgie.</p><p><img src="http://www.franksantorelli.net/assets/bing2.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>I wouldn't be surprised if it went out like this.</p>

[badorties]

<strong>cougarjake13</strong> wrote:<br /><p>i heard a rumor, not sure how true it is</p><p>spoiler below</p><p><font color="#ffffff">listening to cowhead one morning they were talking about a planned trip to vegas, they spoke to a dealer who was in the tampa area visiting family and heard the show that morning talking about the sopranos</font></p><p><font color="#ffffff">he said they filmed a scene in his casino where paulie walnuts turns on tony and kills meadow</font></p><p>could be real or maybe the guy was just lying</p><p>just throwin it out there</p><p>that seems a little too over the top ...</p><p>more than like the show will end with a poignant song to the final episode and credits -- and a lot of unanswered questions and plot points</p>

[Lumber]

Who gives a shit

[reillyluck]

it will end with Tony in the fridge asking who ate all the gabagule?

[reillyluck]

<p>best madtv skit</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m43o5IhAcec</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>reillyluck</strong> wrote:<br />it will end with Tony in the fridge asking who ate all the <strong>gabagule</strong>? <p>&nbsp;</p><p>God, are you Irish. &nbsp;</p><blockquote /><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Gvac]

<strong>Tall_James</strong> wrote:<br /><p>At the rate they're producing new episodes I'd imagine they'd all die of old age.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That gave me an unusually hearty chuckle. </p><p>Bless you Tall_James.&nbsp;</p>

[NickyL0885]

I say Tony dies and his Son takes over. I think Furio comes back and kills him. It would make sense.<br />

[Fezticle98]

Dissapointingly.

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>NickyL0885</strong> wrote:<br />I say Tony dies and his Son takes over. I think Furio comes back and kills him. It would make sense.<br /><p><strong><font size="4">FURIO! FURIO! FURIO!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/img/cast/character/furio_giunta.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>It will end with a threesome, Furio, Carmela, and Meadow...</p>

[OGC]

<strong>fezticle98</strong> wrote:<br />Dissapointingly. <p><font face="times new roman,times,serif" size="3">I agree. I suspect that when the final credits run on the final episode, I'll be sitting there saying &quot;huh, is that all there is ?&quot; </font></p><p><font face="times new roman,times,serif" size="3">Just like almost every last episode of every season so far.</font></p>

[pennington]

<strong>badorties</strong> wrote:<br /><p>the show will end with a poignant song to the final episode and credits -- and a lot of unanswered questions and plot points</p><p>I agree.</p><p>David Chase has said in a Star-Ledger interview earlier this year that although he has no plans to bring The Sopranos back in the future as a motion picture, he's open to it if can come up with a compelling story.&nbsp; </p><p>That being said, I'm sure there'll be some major characters dying&nbsp;such as&nbsp;Uncle Junior, Christopher,&nbsp;Pauly Walnuts or even A.J.&nbsp; But Tony won't die.&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe he'll wind up in prison where he could always get out on an appeal in the future.</p>

[Don Stugots]

to me it has to end with prison time or a mob war.&nbsp; since everytime they get close to the war thing and it never happens, i doubt we will see it now.&nbsp; same goes for prison.&nbsp; it will end lame with another sunday dinner or a holiday dinner with everyone sitting around the table laughing and stuffing the fat fucking faces.&nbsp; the real tragedy here will be us sitting around watching this and then talking about it.&nbsp; <br />

[Kurtis9]

<p>I don't know if anyone here liked Six Feet Under, but the series finale of that show was the best I had ever seen. No loose ends at all, and everything got an ending. The last 10 minutes of that show was unbelieveable. I think the Sopranos should take a page from that book. </p><p>A mob war, a return of Furio (they totally ruined his character), a few deaths. I don't think it would take a genius or a perfectionist to tie this series up tight.</p>

[realmenhatelife]

<p>too late</p><p><br /></p><strong>fezticle98</strong> wrote:<br />Dissapointingly.<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[TheMojoPin]

<strong>Kurtis9</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I don't know if anyone here liked Six Feet Under, but the series finale of that show was the best I had ever seen. No loose ends at all, and everything got an ending. The last 10 minutes of that show was unbelieveable. I think the Sopranos should take a page from that book. </p><p>A mob war, a return of Furio (they totally ruined his character), a few deaths. I don't think it would take a genius or a perfectionist to tie this series up tight.</p><p>I think that was one of the cheesiest, most emotionally manipulative endings of all time.&nbsp; &quot;Ooooooh, look how they die!&nbsp; And with sad, pretty muzak!&quot;&nbsp; And that means WHAT, exactly?&nbsp; It was just there to make people sniffle and tear up.&nbsp; It served zero purpose in the scope of a show that got absurdly aimless after season 2.</p>

[A.J.]

The Russian emerges from hiding in the Pineys and wipes everyone out.

[cupcakelove]

<strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br />The Russian emerges from hiding in the Pineys and wipes everyone out.<p>Damnit, I was going to say the same thing.&nbsp; For some reason, not knowing what happened with that Russian has driven me crazy.&nbsp; I don't care what else gets answered, I want to know what happened to that damn Rusky.</p><p>But here's another guess.&nbsp; Johnny Cakes comes back for revenge and takes everyone out Gayman style.&nbsp;</p>

[TheMojoPin]

At this point, bringing back the Russian would be a cheat.&nbsp; There's no way the Russian mob sits on that info for years not doing anything about it and, I'm assuming, still doing business with Tony's crew.&nbsp; He's gotta just be dead, as annoying as that is.

[FUNKMAN]

<p><strong><font size="1">How will the Sopranos end?</font></strong> </p><p>with credits</p>

[Furtherman]

I am psyched for the last shows. An early review has me looking very forward to a satisfying conclusion to one of the best shows ever. Of course, according to this review, this means that most people will be disappointed because it doesn't seem like one shot will be fired, and they'll all come crying "Nothing happened!"

For those of us who appreciate the Sopranos for what it is, you'll enjoy this review. No worries, no spoilers here.

It's the Beginning of the End for The Sopranos (http://blogs.mediavillage.com/ed_martin/archives/2007/04/its_the_beginni.html#more)

The episode that opens the remainder of the sixth and final season of HBO's The Sopranos this Sunday could with just a little additional exposition stand on its own as a riveting stage production. It is essentially an explosive character study about four people who experience one of those unfortunate evenings when past and present resentments slowly and irreversibly come to a boil, fueled by alcohol and the kind of boozy, endless, all-night conversation that inevitably leads to emotionally devastating confrontations in classic theatrical dramas. And it all happens over a game of Monopoly! Family ties are tested, hateful words are exchanged and people are hurt with such ferocity that viewers won't be able to look away, but they'll welcome the opportunity to get out of the room.

The four people involved are temperamental Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini, fearsome as ever), his conflicted wife Carmela (Edie Falco, still a prime Emmy contender), his emotionally volatile sister Janice (Aida Turturro, never better) and her husband Bobby (Steven Schirripa, unexpectedly intense). Most of the story takes place at Janice and Bobby's lakefront home in the Adirondacks, where Tony and Carmela have retreated for what should be a restful weekend. The serene setting at first recalls On Golden Pond, but the alcohol-induced psychodrama that follows approaches that of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (only worse). It's humorous one minute, harrowing the next, played out in a homey family environment most viewers will identify with, at least until the fireworks begin. By the time the weekend is over, at least one of these characters will never be the same.

[mdumont]

Furio returns; kills Tony & whisks Carmela away.

The bear finally eats Tony.

Melfi finally admits her love for Tony & they go into witness protection together.

Christopher is definitely getting whacked for being back on the horse.

Or, everybody dies & Meadow becomes new boss.

Knowing Chase, it will end and tie up no loose ends.

[ChimneyFish]

Big Pussy walks out of the shower.



It was all just a dream.:smoke:

[Snacks]

I have so many thoughts on how it will end.

1) It will all be a dream that tony had like the wizard of oz and all the people in the dream will just be his normal friends and co workers but not connected. Just everyday folks.

2) He gets arrested and the whole crew gets taken down.

3) He gets killed and his fat little son or nephew try to take over.

4) He owns a candy store (last scene filmed) and at the end they show him working in it and he was daydreaming b/c he puts himself in the place of someone else, a local mob guy and thinks how like would be if it were his life.

5) He becomes a rat and goes into protective custody (I doubt this most)

I have a few more but something tells me it has to end with the shrink and something else we never seen coming?

I havent really enjoyed the past few seasons but cant wait for this show to end just to know the ending and for everything to be completed.

[Freakshow]

Right now I'm leaning towards killing spree.

But Scooby Doo wouldn't suprise me either.

[PapaBear]

Furio returns; kills Tony & whisks Carmela away.

I like that idea.

[TheMojoPin]

I like the idea that Tony loses everything, but not with him actually dying or going to jail. Things happen where his crew all get killed or jailed or defect to other bosses, Carmella leaves him for good, Dr. Melfi refuses to see him...his mom is dead, Junior is dead...Meadow abandons her wreck of a family for a new life, AJ tried his hand in the family business and ends up whacked...imagine the series ending yet again with a meal, except it's Tony in his big house, all alone in every sense of the word, as the camera pulls back with no sounds except of him eating and that damned heavy breathing...and then cut to black.

Fuckin' epic.

[ChimneyFish]

I like the idea that Tony loses everything, but not with him actually dying or going to jail. Things happen where his crew all get killed or jailed or defect to other bosses, Carmella leaves him for good, Dr. Melfi refuses to see him...his mom is dead, Junior is dead...Meadow abandons her wreck of a family for a new life, AJ tried his hand in the family business and ends up whacked...imagine the series ending yet again with a meal, except it's Tony in his big house, all alone in every sense of the word, as the camera pulls back with no sounds except of him eating and that damned heavy breathing...and then cut to black.

Fuckin' epic.



Fucking Wow, Mojo.

You almost made me tear up a little.

[cougarjake13]

I like the idea that Tony loses everything, but not with him actually dying or going to jail. Things happen where his crew all get killed or jailed or defect to other bosses, Carmella leaves him for good, Dr. Melfi refuses to see him...his mom is dead, Junior is dead...Meadow abandons her wreck of a family for a new life, AJ tried his hand in the family business and ends up whacked...imagine the series ending yet again with a meal, except it's Tony in his big house, all alone in every sense of the word, as the camera pulls back with no sounds except of him eating and that damned heavy breathing...and then cut to black.

Fuckin' epic.

i love it

sign mojo up for that new reality series
who wnats to be a filmmaker

[lleeder]

I agree with Stugots. It will end with everyone eating at a table and some shitty music playing.

[patsopinion]

am i the only one that sees a spin off coming up with Anthony's kid?

[BoondockSaint]

Tony will look in to the camera and say, "And that's the end of my show. DONK!"

[Kevin]

Tony will look in to the camera and say, "And that's the end of my show. DONK!"

Best ending in the history of endings.

[Snacks]

i love it

sign mojo up for that new reality series
who wnats to be a filmmaker

There actually is a new reality show like this. Its called "On The Lot" it will air on fox (I think) in a few weeks.

[Bulldogcakes]

It will end with everyone eating at a table and some shitty music playing.

I don't think they'll do a non-ending end. Many great TV shows have done that and were almost universally panned for doing so. This show has been bloody, just like many Italian operas. I think it will end the same as most of the classics, in a trail of blood leading to the main character. If you're going to stick with mob stories from current events (which the show has done very often) there's really only 3 options. Tony Dies, Tony ends up in prison for life, or Tony flips and goes witness protection, which I cant imagine. Although I do think that Tony will contemplate a flip when an FBI agent informs him that NY is after him. But he wont do it.

From the 2 shows that were pre-released, it seems that the problems from New York are coming to a head. Thats bad for Tony. He can't fight New York, he doesn't have the muscle or the influence. He runs a small crew in New Jersey, NY has a hundred crews his size. If a new regime takes over, guys loyal to the old one (or who have beefs with the new boss) often get clipped. If Frank Vincent (Philly Leotardo) takes over, Tony's in trouble despite last year's kiss and make up. Philly's an old school Sicilian, he never forgets a beef. Especially one involving his own brother. After his being shot last year, Tony doesn't have the will to fight like he used to. He's the aging, reluctant lion being pulled into one last fight. And if you've ever watched any National Geographic you know how that ends.

Another thing leaked from the 2 opening shows is Tony starts obsessing about his legacy and succession. That could end up planting the seeds for his own demise. The person he taps to succeed him is likely to cause division among the ranks (whoever it is) but especially if its Christopher. Now the older guys charge nepotism and rebel. New York catches wind of it, offers some of the disgruntled guys a promotion and now Tony cant trust his own crew. Tony will sniff out the first traitor, and clip him before anything happens. But there will be another.

My prediction is Tony gets clipped, and its by someone very close to him. The last person in the world who you think would do it to him. It has to be, because Tony's too smart. I think that means Christopher, who then takes over as boss with New York's backing.

[epo]

AJ gets made. The corruption of Michael Corleone continues.

[TheMojoPin]

I don't think they'll do a non-ending end. Many great TV shows have done that and were almost universally panned for doing so. This show has been bloody, just like many Italian operas. I think it will end the same as most of the classics, in a trail of blood leading to the main character. If you're going to stick with mob stories from current events (which the show has done very often) there's really only 3 options. Tony Dies, Tony ends up in prison for life, or Tony flips and goes witness protection, which I cant imagine. Although I do think that Tony will contemplate a flip when an FBI agent informs him that NY is after him. But he wont do it.

Any of those 3 options are what everyone expects, and honestly, if they do any one of them I'll be let down. They're not the only options for this very great show to have a very great ending.

[Judge Smails]

It's been so long, maybe you're like me and you need a reminder as to what's happened.

"Previously, on The Sopranos" (http://www.break.com/index/the_sopranos_in_seven_minutes.html)

[Bulldogcakes]

Any of those 3 options are what everyone expects, and honestly, if they do any one of them I'll be let down. They're not the only options for this very great show to have a very great ending.

That's the life of a gangster. Very few die of old age in Florida. The problem I had with your scenario is that its pretty much more of the same. Tony being miserable is every other episode. He's been "condemned" since day 1. I think it has to hit a crescendo, and to me that means constant danger, blood and something happening with NY and the Feds. I know that ignores alot of the character development, but this is the end. We know all we need to know about the characters. Its time for the grand finale. Say what you want but Tony getting killed will be very hard to watch, given how the show has completely revolved around him and how the audience is attached to him with all his inner turmoil and conflict. But he lives in a brutal, unforgiving world. There's no easy way out for him.

But I think you'll like the first episode with the vacation and monopoly game for the multi layered writing the show is famous for.

And for what its worth, I'm batting about .050 predicting what will happen on this show.

[reillyluck]

It will end where tony will wake up in a dirty apartment and realize it was all a dream. he's really a janitor for the new york knicks.

[TheMojoPin]

That's the life of a gangster. Very few die of old age in Florida. The problem I had with your scenario is that its pretty much more of the same. Tony being miserable is every other episode. He's been "condemned" since day 1.

But the difference is, he's always had either world in his life to fall back on when one gets too crazy. With my ending, he's got nothing left in either part of his life...we've never seen him even close to THAT miserable.

I think it has to hit a crescendo, and to me that means constant danger, blood and something happening with NY and the Feds. I know that ignores alot of the character development, but this is the end. We know all we need to know about the characters. Its time for the grand finale.

Which you can still have by destroying everyone around him in various ways. Tony doesn't have to die or even go to jail for it to be a grand finale. Another way to end it is his family falling apart and his crew being battered and beaten down enough that what's left gets absorbed by a larger New York family...Tony is still in "the life," but he's basically become and even more pathetic version of his uncle...he had the power and lost it all.

Say what you want but Tony getting killed will be very hard to watch, given how the show has completely revolved around him and how the audience is attached to him with all his inner turmoil and conflict. But he lives in a brutal, unforgiving world. There's no easy way out for him.

And a death could, given the shit we've seen him go through, be the easy way out. I prefer to see Tony in a very special kind of hell.

Bottom line, if they kill Tony, I want it to be done very creatively and "special"...killing him just to kill him because he's a mobster is such a cop out.

[Snacks]

I have another scenerio (sp?) He wakes up from a dream or daydream and he is a US Attorney prosecuting a NJ mob boss or/family. He has been dreaming all the time b/c growing up Italian in NJ he knew a lot of people like that. And although his job and lifes work has been to put those type of people away he always liked the lifestyle and fantasized what it would be like to be on the other side of the law.

[TheMojoPin]

I'm sorry, but any kind of dream/coma/whatever scenario is just too hack-y for words. That shit was dorky even when it was new. Even a series as brilliant as St. Elsewhere is tainted by ultimately being just all made up in some retarded kid's imagination.

[Snacks]

I'm sorry, but any kind of dream/coma/whatever scenario is just too hack-y for words. That shit was dorky even when it was new. Even a series as brilliant as St. Elsewhere is tainted by ultimately being just all made up in some retarded kid's imagination.

OK Hater!!!:annoyed:

[MikeB]

<p>Turns out that none of them ever really existed.&nbsp; They were all just imagined by the retarded Bada Bing bartender, Georgie.</p><p><img src="http://www.franksantorelli.net/assets/bing2.jpg" border="0" /></p>

greatest post ever.

He is done though right? Has not been seen since tony beat him up that latest time after janice got in trouble.

[MikeB]

Sil and Dr. Melfi die. Dr Melfis death will symbolize the end of the tony soprano we have all known and the return or begining of a new one. As we all true sopranos fans know the show is about Tony seeing Melfi not mobsters killing each other.


Also I think something about ducks and meat will be in there

[Bulldogcakes]

I'm sorry, but any kind of dream/coma/whatever scenario is just too hack-y for words. That shit was dorky even when it was new. Even a series as brilliant as St. Elsewhere is tainted by ultimately being just all made up in some retarded kid's imagination.

We agree on that. Plus, they already did that last season when Tony was in a coma.

[Bulldogcakes]

But the difference is, he's always had either world in his life to fall back on when one gets too crazy. With my ending, he's got nothing left in either part of his life...we've never seen him even close to THAT miserable.

I don't think the crew or his family are something to "fall back on". I think they're both a source of constant aggravation for him. They're both something he just "has" to do at this point. Remember, Tony was fine when Carmella left him.

Which you can still have by destroying everyone around him in various ways. Tony doesn't have to die or even go to jail for it to be a grand finale. Another way to end it is his family falling apart and his crew being battered and beaten down enough that what's left gets absorbed by a larger New York family...Tony is still in "the life," but he's basically become and even more pathetic version of his uncle...he had the power and lost it all.

That ending is basically the same as Godfather 3, which was a movie that most people who were fans of the first two hated. It also incorporates a certain sense of justice, and Tony's world is much more primal than that. But it might work (for me) if they tied in the neurosis and put him in a mental hospital.

And a death could, given the shit we've seen him go through, be the easy way out. I prefer to see Tony in a very special kind of hell.

Bottom line, if they kill Tony, I want it to be done very creatively and "special"...killing him just to kill him because he's a mobster is such a cop out.

If they do kill him, I would imagine it would be very first person for Tony. And if his life flashes before him that could be a good way to wrap up the series.

I do want to try to go into these last 9 however WITHOUT any preconceived notions of how it should end. Because if I do, I'm sure if whatever they do varies from what I wanted, then I'll be disappointed.

[pennington]

I still think David Chase will keep his options open just in case he decides to do a Soprano's movie somewhere down the line. Then again, in just about every interview of him I've read, he keeps changing his mind and doesn't know what the hell he wants to do.

Tony won't die. He's the only one that matters, he can always get re-married, put a new crew together, have new enemies, whatever. Everybody else can be machine gun fodder.

But please, please kill Janice quickly so I don't have to see her in every episode.

[MikeB]

I still think David Chase will keep his options open just in case he decides to do a Soprano's movie somewhere down the line. Then again, in just about every interview of him I've read, he keeps changing his mind and doesn't know what the hell he wants to do.

Tony won't die. He's the only one that matters, he can always get re-married, put a new crew together, have new enemies, whatever. Everybody else can be machine gun fodder.

But please, please kill Janice quickly so I don't have to see her in every episode.

I mean this with no malice but I do not think you get the show.
A sopranos movie would make no sense and there is no way chase would do it. The whole new crew and fam thing makes the sopranos sounds insane.

I don't think janice will die if Chase goes for an almost redemption story as we were brought into Tonys world due to his visits to Dr. Melfi which were due to his up bringing. Janice is now the only one left from Tonys childhood family (Junior is making hand turkeys for christmas) so ya could go with Tony finally realizes he should not look upon his family as a source of pain for him.

[pennington]

I mean this with no malice but I do not think you get the show.
A sopranos movie would make no sense and there is no way chase would do it. The whole new crew and fam thing makes the sopranos sounds insane.

Chase himself mentioned a possible movie if he could come up with the right story in a Star-Ledger interview last year. I was just saying anyone else but Tony is expendable, not to re-do EVERYTHING.

[MikeB]

Did not know he ever said that.
The only way he could possibly get away with a film is if it was about one of the supporting characters going somewhere else or something.

[pennington]

Did not know he ever said that.
The only way he could possibly get away with a film is if it was about one of the supporting characters going somewhere else or something.

It wouldn't be for years, if ever, anyway. He seems burnt out on this. But for the right price, you never know...

[Drunky McBetidont]

i was living in southern california when this show premiered and the billboards got me to order hbo. i haven't missed an episode yet and i love them all. that being said...

aj gets shot dead by ny crew.
melfi finally fucks tony, then tells him never to come back
all of tony's assets are frozen by feds and his house gets taken away
adriana's body is found and silvio goes to prison
bada bing burns to ground for insurance $
carmella goes to italy to find furio, she never returns
christopher's movie "mobster" script finally gets picked up by miramax and he moves to LA, then dies of heroin overdose
meadow gets pregnant and fin splits
tony and a very pregnant meadow are seen eating dinner in juniors old house, end series

[Drunky McBetidont]

anyone up for a watching thread tonight? entourage premiers right after too!!!
sundays are back, baby!