I don't think I've ever heard the full song. That's where it ends, for me.

No one ever seems to mention the quote from Bobby when he and Tony were fishing at the cabin in one of the final episodes. They're talking about death, and Bobby says something along the lines of "What do you think happens when you die? Does it all just cut to black?"

On the flip side though, I took the ending to mean that Tony lived, but has to live with the constant fear and suspicion that we felt while watching that final scene. I remember reading somewhere that Chase originally wrote the final scene in the 2nd-last episode - where it fades out with Tony sitting on the end of the bed, staring at the closed bedroom door with an assault rifle in his hand - intending for it to be the final scene in the series finale. That tells me David Chase meant to convey the feeling that Tony is doomed to spend the rest of his days on guard.

eh, you're not missing much. it goes on and on and on and on

Having said that, I really disliked the Kevin Finnerty nonsense. At best it was filler, at worst it was artistic masturbation allowing David Chase to show us just how brilliant he thinks he is.

I liked the Finnerty stuff somewhat, however I really didn't understand the point of the whole part of the lawsuit the monastery had against "him". They spent a fair amount of time on that.

I'm also surprised how deeply they went into Vito's attempt at a gay lifestyle up in New England. But, I don't know, maybe when they were doing like a full 20 episodes for 'one season' for the first time in the run, there was going to be some filler.

A totally different element from the final episode I've often wondered about, how realistic the behavior of the FBI Agent Harris was. Like I wonder if anything like that would come even close to happening in the real world, that a particular agent who's cultivated a relationship (for lack of a better word) with a mob boss under investigation for years, that he'd actually be sorta rooting for that guy to survive a mob war with another family, like how he reacts when he hears from the other agent that Leotardo was just killed. But, maybe it was simply put in there for a bit of absurdist comedy.

A totally different element from the final episode I've often wondered about, how realistic the behavior of the FBI Agent Harris was. Like I wonder if anything like that would come even close to happening in the real world, that a particular agent who's cultivated a relationship (for lack of a better word) with a mob boss under investigation for years, that he'd actually be sorta rooting for that guy to survive a mob war with another family, like how he reacts when he hears from the other agent that Leotardo was just killed. But, maybe it was simply put in there for a bit of absurdist comedy.

A totally different element from the final episode I've often wondered about, how realistic the behavior of the FBI Agent Harris was. Like I wonder if anything like that would come even close to happening in the real world

Specifically, the line "Damn! We're gonna win this thing!", spoken in the episode by the character Dwight Harris after being informed of the death of Phil Leotardo, alludes to former FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio. DeVecchio famously uttered the line after being told that Lorenzo "Larry" Lampasi had been shot to death in front of his Brooklyn home and was later charged for informing the Mafia on various accounts, another parallel to Tony Soprano and Dwight Harris.

While i didnt care for her as a character, that might have been by design, i started to think later on that Janice was not going to be a major player in the series.. I think she took on a lot of the "tormenting tony" characteristics that were probably planned for his mother.

So sometimes in the morning when the kids at day care and I have some errands to run, Ill watch the A&E version of the Sopranos.
Today I was watching the episode of the funeral of tonys mother and thought again about this theory that I posted a couple years ago now.






so while i was thinking about this, and obviously hammered/stoned Christopter gives this little speech

"whose to say there isnt another mrs soprano out there, or will be. maybe not with the same paranoia and fears, but the same..." and peters out.
Janice is the next to appear on screen as she says "Thank you christopher"