The final episode of The Sopranos was great... until the end. Junior Soprano continued his descent into delirium... Terrorist threats were kept alive... Phil got whacked, and his carcass got run over by his grandkids in an SUV.There was tremendous suspense, since everyone knew this was the last episode. How was it going to end? Was Tony going to get whacked? Who would whack him? Would he flip and give up "the family" to the FBI? Would everyone die at the hands of terrorists by way of a dirty bomb? Theories were a dime a dozen on the Internet, but nobody saw this ending coming. Nobody thought the show would just... end.
Who would have thought Tony, Carmela, Meadow and A.J. would sit down to a family dinner at a restaurant, and the cameras would just stop rolling? Not me, and not you! Why would we? It's ridiculous! The final scene was so tense, as the cameras focused on two shady characters more than once. You just assumed these guys were going to pull out guns and start blasting. But nothing happened. A.J. didn't even choke to death on an onion ring! I feel so cheated that I almost can't remember the entertainment that the episode provided... like Paulie unzipping his pants at dinner.
To paraphrase a quote from my good friend, Scott, "This is the biggest case of TV blue balls in the history of television."
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