What the absolute fuck? Can anyone confirm if my sky q box went on the blink? I watched the final episode last night. Is this how it all ends?

Yep. I remember being really underwhelmed with it at the time - quite a lot of people were. The director explains it all in an interview he did afterwards where it makes a lot of sense, but it certainly divided a lot of opinion

Have already started on the fucking vast array of articles and theories, dutch! Must find the directors view on it. Very interested to read that…

….its a fucking sham of an ending, that’s what it is, and even fucking Chase himself can’t convince me otherwise.

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    Unbroken1

    Certainly not what i was expecting, mate! Reading some of the articles and theories you can understand the ambiguity of it, leaving people to make their own minds up, and referencing the subtle nods during the final episodes towards death, if you want to take it down that route. They also seemed to stick to their guns right until the end, in terms of veering away from any of the expected mafia cliched endings but fuck me, i was hoping for something more final than that, for fuck sake!

        Yeah think it was a shame that pretty much everyone agrees it’s up there with the best TV shows ever made but the ending really goes out with a whimper

        I never had a problem with it. The show and Tony’s character became so big and popular that it seems like they were on a hiding to nothing with writing the ending, impossible to please everyone. Leaving it open to interpretation worked well for me in that sense. For me, Tony is still out there chewing Paulie out and eating those tasty looking sambos from Satriales.

        Old-Dutch

        “It was a moment that, in 2007, had millions of viewers across America genuinely convinced that their HBO had cut out or their TV sets were broken.”

        Lol, 14 years later and this still applies to those of us who have only just watched it!

          -si- …yeah, I get that, if the style of the show was ethereal, Twin Peaks-style viewer interpretation… its a brilliant show in so many ways, but it was never that IMO

          It just veered too far away from the language of the show for my liking… struck me it was a way that Chase could easily deliver something that would cause a massive hoo-ha, but v little satisfaction.

            I never had an issue with the ending either. The fact that people are still talking about it nearly 15 years later. The ending is open to interpretation and there are clues all the way thru the final season to suggest that he was killed as Meadow walked in the door or nothing happened and they continued having dinner. The point is that it could happen anywhere at anytime and not Tony nor the viewer would see it coming. It would be over before he/you knew it.

            “Perhaps the best way to look at it is that we the viewers get whacked, not Tony.”

            Out of interest what would have been a good ending in your opinion?

              Smallman1

              Eddie, that sums you up on here, buddy. Everyone else is debating one of the greatest shows in tv history and you muster a lol at an embarrassingly unfunny post. You and dave make some beautiful music together on here. You are 100% N SYNC as a pairing.

                  SM001 Out of interest what would have been a good ending in your opinion?

                  I have no idea, shane. I genuinely thought the way the final series was headed that tony was going get whacked. Or something bad would happen to one of the family. I suppose he may well have done, you have basically reworded what i posted above already about the ending. Just thought it was a bit meh! On reading the articles i have so far, i can see how it works in terms of an ending. Always leave them wanting more…

                    -si- You and dave make some beautiful music together on here. You are 100% N SYNC as a pairing.

                    What’ve I done? Other than recommend some good TV?