[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?
"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.
The Sopranos - *Contains spoilers*
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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?
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I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
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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.
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You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.