The entire show has been about Tony’s spiritual evolution and it reached an epoch last night with his revelation in the desert. It’s all downhill from here! Hold on to your seatbelts!
The entire show has been about Tony’s spiritual evolution and it reached an epoch last night
Sounds …. well …. epochalyptic.
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Teak111
Well, I’m only up to and through the fourth episode but here at the office we are playing the “Hoe will it all end” game. Fireball that kills everyone, Tony retires to Florida while AJ takes over the business, Cleaver kills everyone. If you were a Sopranos writer, how would you end it? To me, Tony is a gangster and despite his spiritual awakening, a cat can’t change its stripes, Tony is gunned down by Phil in the thirteen round.
This season got off to a slow start, but these last two episodes have been insane.
How will it end? As someone over at the Slate roundtable noted, they’ve been doing a good job of floating a lot of sources for Tony’s demise — rival Phil Leotardo, jealous Paulie, weak Christofuh, fuckup son AJ, senile Uncle Junior, the FBI, etc. etc. — and thereby making his paranoia seem real and credible.
Last night was the high point of the roller coaster, and it’s going to get really interesting with the final three episodes.
IIRC, David Chase is on-record saying it’s not going to be wrapped-up nice and tidy, because life is never that way. so, i’m thinking it’s going to end with all of us left hanging, wishing Chase was a different kind of writer.
The entire show has been about Tony’s spiritual evolution…
but he really hasn’t change much. he has these mini-epiphanies but he ends up quickly falling right back into the same old behaviors. so, i suspect it’s going to end with Tony doing the same stuff he’s always done.
My prediction: AJ, already in way over his head, gets nabbed for something and becomes the leverage the Feds use on Tony.
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Eric S
Tom Hilton: My prediction: AJ, already in way over his head, gets nabbed for something and becomes the leverage the Feds use on Tony.
I came to the same basic conclusion last week.
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Redhand
The entire show has been about Tony’s spiritual evolution
Ah, not really, if you equate “evolution” with growth. He’s been regressing the last few seasons in point of fact, and is never gonna change whatever “insights” he acquires. What’s really interesting is how little he’s learned. The only “revelation” I think he got staring into the sun high on peyote buttons was why Christopher liked drugs so much. And Dr. Melfi is just in it for the $$ now; has been for some time, IMHO.
David Chase is on-record saying it’s not going to be wrapped-up nice and tidy, because life is never that way. so, i’m thinking it’s going to end with all of us left hanging, wishing Chase was a different kind of writer.
Probably. Besides there was some talk of doing Sopranos feature length films after the HBO season was finished.
The series was too vast for it to end tidily anyway. But I do think Tony will be either killed or indicted with charges that will stick. The only one I see getting out intact is Meadow.
Sarah Shahi is one beautiful woman. Glad she’s an American girl, and not hidden by a Burka!
Tom Hilton: My prediction: AJ, already in way over his head, gets nabbed for something and becomes the leverage the Feds use on Tony.
Not a bad call. I could see Tony whacking AJ for the greater good of the family. He already offed Christofuh — a nephew who was like a son to him — so why not just do it to the real deal?
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Far North
I suspect that AJ’s therapist is an undercover federal agent. He’s just trying to make AJ confortable enough to answer any question he’s asked.
But, who knows. What a great series the Sopranos has been.
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Demdude
My prediction is AJ is killed and that sends Carmela into a frenzy that has her turning in Tony.
She ends up in Florida in witness protection and Tony’s crime family is absorbed by Loetardo.
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zmulls
I agree Carmella is going to be the key to the end.
I’ve been expecting them to find Adrianna’s body in the trunk any week now. I also thought they were really driving home the idea that Carmella’s spec house was made of rotten materials in places and was dangerous.
My personal prediction (not really a prediction, just where I’d take the series from here if I were asked my opinion) is that the roof on the spec house collapses, killing the baby, and the couple sues Carmella and her father for millions; *and* Adrianna is discovered, making Carmella face the fact that Tony was involved in killing her.
At that point, feeling incredible guilt for everything she has let slide so that she could have a sweet lifestyle, horror at Tony’s capacity for evil, fear over a multi-million dollar lawsuit that will probably stick…..at that point the idea of going to the Feds becomes almost inevitable for Carmella.
The question in the last episode or two becomes whether Tony has it in himself to whack her, or whether Sil feels he has to whack her for him, whether she actually makes it to Witness Protection…….and so on.
I haven’t read any spoilers anywhere, but one way or another I feel that Carmella — who I think has been the key to the show’s success — is the linchpin of whatever happens at the end.
Shabbazz
The entire show has been about Tony’s spiritual evolution and it reached an epoch last night with his revelation in the desert. It’s all downhill from here! Hold on to your seatbelts!
ThymeZone
Sounds …. well …. epochalyptic.
Teak111
Well, I’m only up to and through the fourth episode but here at the office we are playing the “Hoe will it all end” game. Fireball that kills everyone, Tony retires to Florida while AJ takes over the business, Cleaver kills everyone. If you were a Sopranos writer, how would you end it? To me, Tony is a gangster and despite his spiritual awakening, a cat can’t change its stripes, Tony is gunned down by Phil in the thirteen round.
annie's granny
Next week: A coyote sends Tony on a spirit quest to whack his soul mate.
Otto Man
This season got off to a slow start, but these last two episodes have been insane.
How will it end? As someone over at the Slate roundtable noted, they’ve been doing a good job of floating a lot of sources for Tony’s demise — rival Phil Leotardo, jealous Paulie, weak Christofuh, fuckup son AJ, senile Uncle Junior, the FBI, etc. etc. — and thereby making his paranoia seem real and credible.
Last night was the high point of the roller coaster, and it’s going to get really interesting with the final three episodes.
jg
Who played the stripper Tony hooked up with in Vegas? I didn’t catch her name.
Meadow is gong to kill all of them. It’s always the quiet ones.
Jimmmm
Michael Imperioli should be tapped to play Joe Namath, quick, before he gets too old to cast as an athlete.
Randy Paul
JG,
Sarah Shahi. She’s of Iranian ancestry and from Texas. Drop dead gorgeous and always playing Latinas.
cleek
IIRC, David Chase is on-record saying it’s not going to be wrapped-up nice and tidy, because life is never that way. so, i’m thinking it’s going to end with all of us left hanging, wishing Chase was a different kind of writer.
but he really hasn’t change much. he has these mini-epiphanies but he ends up quickly falling right back into the same old behaviors. so, i suspect it’s going to end with Tony doing the same stuff he’s always done.
jg
I think I’m going to stop by Best Buy and buy every episode of ‘The L Word’ they have for sale.
Lee
That is why TiVo is dabomb. I’m putting her on my wish list tonight and will record everything she is on.
Lee
I think it is going to be the asbestos.
War with Phil over it and Tony either turns states evidence or gets dead or pinched.
Tom Hilton
My prediction: AJ, already in way over his head, gets nabbed for something and becomes the leverage the Feds use on Tony.
Eric S
Tom Hilton: My prediction: AJ, already in way over his head, gets nabbed for something and becomes the leverage the Feds use on Tony.
I came to the same basic conclusion last week.
Redhand
Ah, not really, if you equate “evolution” with growth. He’s been regressing the last few seasons in point of fact, and is never gonna change whatever “insights” he acquires. What’s really interesting is how little he’s learned. The only “revelation” I think he got staring into the sun high on peyote buttons was why Christopher liked drugs so much. And Dr. Melfi is just in it for the $$ now; has been for some time, IMHO.
Probably. Besides there was some talk of doing Sopranos feature length films after the HBO season was finished.
The series was too vast for it to end tidily anyway. But I do think Tony will be either killed or indicted with charges that will stick. The only one I see getting out intact is Meadow.
Sarah Shahi is one beautiful woman. Glad she’s an American girl, and not hidden by a Burka!
Otto Man
Not a bad call. I could see Tony whacking AJ for the greater good of the family. He already offed Christofuh — a nephew who was like a son to him — so why not just do it to the real deal?
Far North
I suspect that AJ’s therapist is an undercover federal agent. He’s just trying to make AJ confortable enough to answer any question he’s asked.
But, who knows. What a great series the Sopranos has been.
Demdude
My prediction is AJ is killed and that sends Carmela into a frenzy that has her turning in Tony.
She ends up in Florida in witness protection and Tony’s crime family is absorbed by Loetardo.
zmulls
I agree Carmella is going to be the key to the end.
I’ve been expecting them to find Adrianna’s body in the trunk any week now. I also thought they were really driving home the idea that Carmella’s spec house was made of rotten materials in places and was dangerous.
My personal prediction (not really a prediction, just where I’d take the series from here if I were asked my opinion) is that the roof on the spec house collapses, killing the baby, and the couple sues Carmella and her father for millions; *and* Adrianna is discovered, making Carmella face the fact that Tony was involved in killing her.
At that point, feeling incredible guilt for everything she has let slide so that she could have a sweet lifestyle, horror at Tony’s capacity for evil, fear over a multi-million dollar lawsuit that will probably stick…..at that point the idea of going to the Feds becomes almost inevitable for Carmella.
The question in the last episode or two becomes whether Tony has it in himself to whack her, or whether Sil feels he has to whack her for him, whether she actually makes it to Witness Protection…….and so on.
I haven’t read any spoilers anywhere, but one way or another I feel that Carmella — who I think has been the key to the show’s success — is the linchpin of whatever happens at the end.
Randy Paul
jg
Just get Season 2 of The L Word. She was’nt in the others.