[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?
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
The Sopranos - *Contains spoilers*
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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
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?
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
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.
"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.