Finally finished The Sopranos
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Has the tide changed or do people still hate the ending?
Years later and the ending still sticks out to me as crude, imperfect but effective and poignant. Breaking Bad ended a few years ago but while the ending was universally praised, I'm already over it. It was so neat and tidy that I don't ever want to revisit. The Sopranos ending is still something I reflect back on. It resonates with me unlike many endings to great shows. I always felt that people would eventually come around to it but maybe it's destined to always be divisive.
Years later and the ending still sticks out to me as crude, imperfect but effective and poignant. Breaking Bad ended a few years ago but while the ending was universally praised, I'm already over it. It was so neat and tidy that I don't ever want to revisit. The Sopranos ending is still something I reflect back on. It resonates with me unlike many endings to great shows. I always felt that people would eventually come around to it but maybe it's destined to always be divisive.
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Shiva
Avatāra. Annihilator. Gone To The 5th Dimension.
Nah I actually liked the ending and I knew that it was going to be anticlimactic. Most of the series used anticlimax so I wasn't expecting a gunfight or anything. It was still perplexing though
Kill Dat Noize
Banned
very well said.
we know how breaking bad ends, so we revisit those episodes knowing the true fates of all the characters. but in a way sopranos never really "ended".
and yet at the same time, it never really went away.
GOAT show.
Figaro
Superstar
I went through withdrawals after i finished that show
Journey had me feeling like i was part of the fam at bada bing
Journey had me feeling like i was part of the fam at bada bing
I went through withdrawals after i finished that show
Journey had me feeling like i was part of the fam at bada bing
They don't like yall or want you in the fam
spencerforhire
All Star
After all these years, still haven’t seen a single episode. I have HBO go which streams past classics like the Sopranos. Gonna start binge watching this soon in this cold as weather.
Im hoping for some good ol fukkery
Im hoping for some good ol fukkery
M.C. LOGIC
Rookie
I just finished watching over the summer. I started watching when it first came on but I stopped checking it out in the middle of season 3 so I just started from the beginning of that season. I heard about the ending years ago when the finale aired but I wanted to check it out and see everything that lead up to it.I mean...I get the ending but I can see how so many people were disappointed, though. It does kinda feel like there's no real ending since we don't see what happened but I don't know how I would've felt seeing Tony get shot. The show was violent but it wasn't about the violence. It was about Tony. It was a character study of a flawed man that had little redeeming qualities but you rooted for him, regardless. There have been many anti-heroes that we've rooted for but we got to really know Tony through the therapy sessions. He wanted to be a good person, husband, father, son but we saw that because of his upbringing, he just didn't have the tools to be that man. Because we got to know him, I think that seeing him get shot would've been kinda 
for the audience even though the show is violent.
I'm not sure how i would've felt about the ending if I had kept up with the show and watched it when it aired but I after reading some articles breaking it down, I can appreciate it.
Sidenote: Was the finale the beginning of the "Don't Stop Believing" phase we were in for a while. I swear from the mid 2000's til a couple of years ago, I heard that damn Journey song in every commercial, at the stadium, at happy hour, even at some hip hop shows. LOL!
for the audience even though the show is violent. I'm not sure how i would've felt about the ending if I had kept up with the show and watched it when it aired but I after reading some articles breaking it down, I can appreciate it.
Sidenote: Was the finale the beginning of the "Don't Stop Believing" phase we were in for a while. I swear from the mid 2000's til a couple of years ago, I heard that damn Journey song in every commercial, at the stadium, at happy hour, even at some hip hop shows. LOL!
NoGutsNoGLory
Superstar
Remember one thing breh, this show really isnt a drama but more of a comedy and a character study. People hear its about the mob and want one thing but its something completely different.After all these years, still haven’t seen a single episode. I have HBO go which streams past classics like the Sopranos. Gonna start binge watching this soon in this cold as weather.
Im hoping for some good ol fukkery
Life goes on in the end.
Alot of people dont talk about it but to me the most interesting character change was Paulie.. He was woke.. saw the Virgin Mary at the bing.. told Tony that the Capo position filled by Vito, Ralph and GiGi was cursed cause they all died
If he had it any other way he would give up the life and retire.. but He's in it till the end
Sil was loyal to the end, Tony was surrounded by scumbags who gave him stress everyday but knew Sil was the best partner he could ever have, along with Bobby
I fukkin hated AJ from season 1 till the end.. everything about him.. his personality, his face, his voice, I wish his suicide happened
Alot of people dont talk about it but to me the most interesting character change was Paulie.. He was woke.. saw the Virgin Mary at the bing.. told Tony that the Capo position filled by Vito, Ralph and GiGi was cursed cause they all died
If he had it any other way he would give up the life and retire.. but He's in it till the end
Sil was loyal to the end, Tony was surrounded by scumbags who gave him stress everyday but knew Sil was the best partner he could ever have, along with Bobby
I fukkin hated AJ from season 1 till the end.. everything about him.. his personality, his face, his voice, I wish his suicide happened
M.C. LOGIC
Rookie
Yeah, I didn't like AJ or Meadow. Both needed some James Evans type of discipline.
Meadow was more tolerable being that she was a young girl and I wanted to fukk her brains out, AJ was a whiny little p*ssy disrespectful fakkit
