I've never watched a single episode of The Sopranos, but in case you missed the ending, it appeared on YouTube briefly today. I had it here as well and hope you were able to catch it before it was yanked (don't know why--there are many clips of the show on YouTube, but I guess this was far too recent for HBO or something).
I do know a lot about the storylines of the show and found this to be a very strange way to end a series, yet it definitely will be one that people will discuss for a long time. Not wrapping things up neatly is one way to keep folks talking, I suppose.
It's interesting to read people's reactions about the last episode. Does Tony really see himself seated across the restaurant (recall the opening when he comes into the restaurant)? Maybe he's already died and is in Mafia Purgatory, forever in a restaurant with some tough-looking guy walking to the men's room a la Michael Corleone to retrieve a hidden gun? Or maybe it was just poor writing. Or a set-up for a movie? And what about the controversy that there were actually two slightly different endings, one shown on the East Coast and one on the West?
But I guess my whole take on it is: it's over. My book has a Mafia scene in it, by the way, but it shows how a couple of people in my family were terrorized by them.
I think that was more of the norm among families in the time period I'm working with.
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