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I was one of those people who was p.o'd with the final scene. Frank and I were watching and we thought something was wrong with our tv when the screen suddenly faded to black. I stared at the tv literally with my mouth open. It was one of those "you decide for yourself" type of endings. It was so dissatisfying. After 13 years of silence and not telling us Tony Soprano's fate, now we know.
The Sopranos creator David Chase accidentally reveals what really happened to Tony Soprano in the series' final sceneThe Sopranos creator David Chase may have revealed the true ending to the series 13 years after the final scene sparked heated debate among fans.
In a leaked interview revealed by The Independent, the show’s creator lets slip a phrase that appears to finally answer the audience’s questions about whether main character Tony Soprano is killed or not.
The show ended in 2007 but left fans clamoring for more when it ended on the ultimate cliffhanger.
In the episode entitled ‘Made in America,’ Tony Soprano, played by the late James Gandolfini, is seen in the final scene eating in a diner with his family.
The New Jersey mafia boss is in the midst of a turf war with the New York mafia and a possible hitman lies in wait for him at the restaurant.
But before the audience sees if this is the end of Tony Soprano, the screen fades to black while Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ plays.
The ending infuriated some viewers who wanted to know if it symbolized his death.
Whether the mob boss gets whacked had been left up in the air until Chase’s slip.
The spoiler came in an interview with authors Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz, who co-wrote ‘The Soprano Sessions’ with Chase about the hit HBO show.
‘When you said there was an end point, you don’t mean Tony at Holsten’s, you just meant, “I think I have two more years’ worth of stories left in me,”’ Sepinwall said.
Chase answered, immediately letting the epic spoiler slip, by stating: ‘Yes, I think I had that death scene around two years before the end…
‘Tony was going to get called to a meeting with Johnny Sack in Manhattan, and he was going to go back through the Lincoln Tunnel for this meeting, and it was going to go black there and you never saw him again as he was heading back, the theory being that something bad happens to him at the meeting. But we didn’t do that,’ he continued.
Coauthor Zoller Seitz instantly highlight the slip saying, ‘You realize, of course, that you just referred to that as a death scene’.
‘F*** you guys’, Chase answered.
According to The Independent, Chase continues to leave Tony’s fate up in the air for the rest of the interview, but the 'death scene' reveal gives more for eager fans to chew over.
Later in ‘The Soprano Sessions’ Chase notes, '[The point was] that he could have been whacked in the diner. We all could be whacked in a diner. That was the point of the scene'.
The ending of the series has been much debated in the past 13 years, including theories by the cast themselves.
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