[S]alvatore
Master Don Juan
I'm over at the HBO forums, and people are going apesh!t over the ending. At first I thought that the cable company had fu<ked up, then I saw it go to the credits and was like WHAAAT?. Who else watched it?
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
The Sopranos - *Contains spoilers*
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"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
mahon83050
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Yea saw it and was disapointed like everyone else. I thought Meadow was going to accidentally get shot in the final scene. I think they left it open so they could make a movie if they wanted.[S]alvatore said:I'm over at the HBO forums, and people are going apesh!t over the ending. At first I thought that the cable company had fu<ked up, then I saw it go to the credits and was like WHAAAT?. Who else watched it?
WhitePimp
Master Don Juan
I hated it at first but really like it now. It symbolizes Tony's death the most cryptic way possible and still leaves it open for interpretation afterwards. Remember the scene on the boat with Bobby in the first episode of the season? "when you die, eveything just goes black"...they did a flashback to that scene when Bobby was killed, probably to foreshadow that occuring in the finale.
backbreaker
Master Don Juan
damn, watching the sopranos is harder than writing a term paper on the book I read in 12th grade English
backbreaker
Master Don Juan
what doesn't make sense thought, is I thought they backed up off of him. What was the point of killing him then?
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
theunflushables
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Here's my theory on it. Tony lives. The clues are in the music.
1. Journey "Don't Stop Believin'" Very upbeat for the last moment.
2. Music always symbolizes something in Sopranos. Tony sang "Aqualung" (about a man w/ lung cancer) Johnny Sack dies of lung cancer later. Tony sings "Comfortably Numb" The car accident where Tony kills Chris, "Comfortably Numb" is playing. AJ and his girl are listening to Bob Dylan's "Its ok ma, I'm only bleeding" (or something like that) in the finale.
I see then ending as very metaphorical. Sometimes in life there is no closure and what better way to end a show that was about the unexpected than to give a big F You to what everyone was expecting.
1. Journey "Don't Stop Believin'" Very upbeat for the last moment.
2. Music always symbolizes something in Sopranos. Tony sang "Aqualung" (about a man w/ lung cancer) Johnny Sack dies of lung cancer later. Tony sings "Comfortably Numb" The car accident where Tony kills Chris, "Comfortably Numb" is playing. AJ and his girl are listening to Bob Dylan's "Its ok ma, I'm only bleeding" (or something like that) in the finale.
I see then ending as very metaphorical. Sometimes in life there is no closure and what better way to end a show that was about the unexpected than to give a big F You to what everyone was expecting.
TheRide
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David Chase doesn't give a rat's @** about what people think of the finale. Personally though, I thought it could have been better.
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.