were milenials in 2006 really so stupid that they didn'tget the Sopranos ending and harrased david chase over it? It was understandable and clearly set up in my opinion.

Now imagine you weren't told what to think. What would your opinion be then?

This was 2007 you fucking retarded bitch

They all fucking die. Especially the kids.

What's not to understand?
It's just a really disappointing unsatisfying ending.

>>212587288
"I think I will go on the internet and find out what my opinion is supposed to be".

>>212587305
How do you get through 6 seasons of this show staunchly refusing to give a shit about continuity, character arcs and resolving narrative tension and then get disappointed when the ending is consistent with that?

>>212587257 (OP)
Millenials were still children or teens at the time, Gen X and Boomers were the Sopranos audience while it was airing

>>212587301
Every fucking person in that place; the waitress, the people at the bar, whoever is in the restroom, the kitchen, that Dutch lesbian looking thing across from them in OP's pic. Dead.

>>212587376
Who cares about consistency?
I just want a satisfying ending where things have proper buildup and payoff.

Imagine if the ending actually showed Tony getting shot but then just abruptly end like the actual ending. Would you be out here defending this crap without the pretentious cut to black shit?

>>212587257 (OP)
I was 16 my parents didn’t have hbo.

It's the same thing as Lost where people who hadn't watched the show for years, or possibly ever, suddenly tuned back in for the finale and didn't get any of the context leading up to it

>>212587471
The payoff worked for me. The tension in that scene is crazy and there are so many details that telegraph what's about to happen. Gonna go out on a limb and say you got filtered.

>>212587549
You're talking about tension in the scene.
I'm talking about the narrative build up, a good ending completes a dramatic story arc, Sopranos' ending doesn't.

>>212587396
Makes Bonnie and Clyde look like Sonny & Cher, there's so much blood. . . in comparison.

>>212587658
You thought it was one way. But it's the other way.

>>212587893
stop saying that

>>212587967
no

>>212587893
Why are you quoting a superior show with an actual good and satisfying ending?

You have to understand, TV was better then. We weren't so used to being rugpulled/bait'n'switched/hornswoggled by the TV shows we were watching. The writers had less contempt for us as an audience, that didn't really start happening until the mid 10s.

>>212588029
The Wire had a dumb, cliché ending. Did you want the Sopranos to end with smiling face shots and subtitles telling you that Paulie died surfing at 90? You're so fucking dumb.

Stupid ending and the last 3 seasons sucked. If Paulie isn't on screen I'm not watching.

>>212588029
Shows can be good in different ways! I personally prefer the wire but I'm glad Sopranos exists and the narrative subversion of which the ending is an integral part is essential to why it's so good. Like I said I don't know how you watch 6 seasons of this show without picking up on that.

>>212588191
>muh subverting expectations
Fuck off, Rian.

>>212587658
the "narrative buildup" of the episode is everything cuts to black before you know you've even been shot.

>>212587301
There was a bomb in the lasagna.

>entire show is about the end of organized crime
>last episode is how it'll all be over before you realize it

the reality is the ending was so controversial and divisive because they didn't have a dream sequence with another therapy session with melfi where they explain what happened to the audience. the harsher reality is the show was only as big as it was because of the therapy sessions that existed solely to explain what was happening and what it meant to the audience.

>>212587658
The previous episode ends with a flashback (the only time this happens in the entire series) to a scene from the first episode of the season where Tony tells Bobby that the only way life ends for him is either in jail or getting shot and Bobby saying "You probably don't even hear it when you get shot"

And in case that wasn't enough there's another scene mid-season where Silvio and some guy are having dinner and an assassin comes in and shoots the guy before Silvio even knows what's happening, which Silvio then specifically comments on to Tony.

It's not subtle what the intent was at all unless you didn't watch the rest of the season or weren't paying attention.

>>212587257 (OP)
Millennials weren't the ones upset about it you dumb fucking zoomer

>>212588629
wow two small scenes, what amazing build up for the finale of a six season show

Did Junior order the final hit on Tony? If you paid attention to the episode its pretty clear Junior is faking his dementia. I think he's still the Boss and was playing Tony the entire time.

>>212588567
>lol what if I make my show end abruptly just how life goes sometimes
WOAH 2deep4me

Gonna make a show about how terrible life is and make it terrible on purpose. All the plebs will get filtered by it.

It did its job. Here people are still discussing it years later. And like Chase said it's the end of the line either way. He either goes to jail or gets killed. Carlo flipped and shit was coming down anyway. What did you wanna see him go on the run or die of a ripe old age? His story has to end somewhere. And by the end there's only two real options. In either case Tony is fucked.

The show ends when tony gets to the diner. Everything after is a fever dream thats why he sees himself sitting down in that weird cut

>>212587658
The whole show builds up to how pointless and violent Tony's life is, with many characters dying the same way as Tony. All of Tony's persistence and bloodspilling finally catches up to him at the exact moment he's having the first proper family moment. How is this not an appropriate pay-off? There was no better way to end the show, except maybe Tony's losing his family and being alone in the end, but that'd be a repeat from The Godfather and wouldn't be any more true to the story than what we got.

>>212588764
it was one of the hits ordered by phil