Sopranos Season Finale

[Bense468]

I can't wait. What do you think is going to go down? Lets see who is right. I have been watching from day one and seen every episode for 5 seasons. There are a lot of different ways they can take it. I am interested in what you guys have to say.
I think Johnny and Tony's families go to war. Some soldiers get whacked along with a captain or two. Johnny takes one...and the Feds swoop...Tony and the rest alive hit the can, leaving Carm with everything.
ThatÂ’s just a guess. They kind of left it wide open...so we will see tonight.

[Cole Sanger]

I think fat tony is going to get it, he wants out of the show anyway. Then the new tony can go to war and fill his cousins shoes and the show can continue.

[LASERRAY]

Originally posted by Cole Sanger
I think fat tony is going to get it, he wants out of the show anyway. Then the new tony can go to war and fill his cousins shoes and the show can continue. I'm thinking the same thing. He said that this season would be his last, but we'll see.;)

[Bense468]

That won't happen. From my understanding this is the last show ever. So its going to go out in a lot bigger style then that. Little tony is just a fill in and he wouldn't have what it takes to lead the family anyway. There is no way Sil or Pauly would let Tony fill in. Sil would be next in line (unless he dies of coarse). Its going to go out huge.
Sopranos is just not the sopranos without big tony.

[LASERRAY]

Originally posted by Bense468
From my understanding this is the last show ever No, There are ten episodes left in the Soprano saga. There will be a sixth and final season according to EVERYBODY. That is well known by now. But, how shocking would it be if tonight was the final one ever inspite of the reports.;)

[Bense468]

So why are they doing only 10. When a season consists of 13. I am just curious.

[LASERRAY]

Originally posted by Bense468
So why are they doing only 10. When a season consists of 13. I am just curious. I don't know why they settled on ten. It's just what I've read all over the place. I'm sure it's a contractual thing.:cool:

[LASERRAY]

15 minutes till the show! I'm going to watch the east coast feed, then come on here and spill the beans for you nine-o-clockers!:D
J/K. ;)

[Bense468]

I am watching the game. Drinking some beers. BBQ some asada, then watching the 9er show. Wilderthen U and others are over

[JetBoatRich]

Taping the east coast show now and watching the Lakers :D

[LASERRAY]

Just finished watching the season finale.
I'm not telling.;)

[Boozer]

Kinda dissapointing. Ending was sort of how I thought it would go down but not nearly as dramatic as I had hoped. I am pretty dissapointed with the whole season. Looks like there's definitely going to be another 10 episodes. Hopefully the last 10 are going to be a lot better then this season was or it will be a shitty way to end one of the best series on television ever.

[angry dad]

Originally posted by Boozer
Kinda dissapointing. Ending was sort of how I thought it would go down but not nearly as dramatic as I had hoped. I am pretty dissapointed with the whole season. Looks like there's definitely going to be another 10 episodes. Hopefully the last 10 are going to be a lot better then this season was or it will be a shitty way to end one of the best series on television ever. that sums up how i feel:confused: could have been much better!!!

[LASERRAY]

Ok, I didn't want to blow-it for the 9:00pm peeps but yes, a very disapointing finale. With the exception of when Tony showed-up with the 12 guage. Deadwood was alot better tonight. :cool:

[Rubths]

Totally sucked:mad: I cant believe how slow it was for the last one of the season. Ended with a twist with the boss getting taken down by the Feds, I got the impression that Tony will be taking top boss honors next season.

[LASERRAY]

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[LASERRAY]

It's 10:00 PM. PST. - Here come more reviews.....................................

[LASERRAY]

Ok, here's what happened:
The somber fifth-season finale of "The Sopranos" aired Sunday night on HBO. Much of the episode, co-written by "Sopranos" creator David Chase, found crisis-beset Tony Soprano increasingly helpless as his life's work, and his life, unraveled.
Titled "All Due Respect," the finale repeats Monday at 10 p.m. EDT on HBO2, then will leave fans hanging for at least 18 months until the series returns for its last 10 episodes. But for now, surprise! Tony is sitting pretty - with the emphasis on "surprise."
Some of the "highlights" included Tony Blundetto taking a shotgun blast to the head from Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), despite numerous pledges of loyalty to his wayward cousin, and Tony gaining a new lease on life - just in time.
His New Jersey gang seemed close to an uprising over his perceived weak leadership. Then his biggest adversary - New York mob boss Johnny Sack - was busted by the Feds right before Tony's eyes.
He had stuck his neck out too far for his cousin Tony B. (Steve Buscemi), whose grudge execution of a Sack family member brought that gang's wrath crashing down on the Soprano mob.
Tony's men were growing restless at his failure to take care of the problem by serving up his cousin.
"You got some unhappy people out there," consigliere Silvio (Steve Van Zandt) informed Tony.
Meanwhile, Christopher (Michael Imperioli) was mourning the loss of Adriana, whom he had previously conspired with Tony and Silvio to kill after she confessed that she had been forced to serve as an FBI informant.
"She was willing to rat me out because she couldn't do five (doggone) years," Christopher lamented in his usual sniveling style. "I thought she loved me!"
Thus it was in vain that viewers, who never actually saw Adriana felled by Silvio's bullets, had hoped that a plot twist might reveal her still alive.
Almost as remote was the prospect that Tony's like-a-son nephew Christopher might get whacked, a rumor nurtured by Imperioli in a recent interview. Christopher lives to whine another season.
Not so lucky is Tony B., plugged unceremoniously by Tony S. in an extreme gesture to appease Johnny Sack (Vince Curatola).
"Didn't solve a thing," Sack growled when he got the news. He wanted his men to do the honors.
As the hour wound down, Tony, knowing his cousin had to die either quick or slow, seemed near a breakdown. Never had he felt so keenly the loneliness of leadership - or been so willing to express it.
"I've painted myself into a corner here, and I don't see a way out," he told Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese), himself too addled from Alzheimer's disease to give Tony any counsel.
And he confided to his shrink, Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), "I'm very confused. All my choices were wrong."
A man brought low this season, Tony seemed pathetic even as he scored his last-minute reprieve. In Johnny Sack's snow-covered yard, where he had come to negotiate a peace, their meeting was cut short by an FBI raid. Off Tony bolted, a fat man in an overcoat slipping and puffing across the icy terrain, frantic to escape the agents.
But he needn't have worried. Only Sack's mob was named in the indictment. Not only had the Feds ignored the Soprano family, but also whisked away a major threat to the Sopranos - at taxpayers' expense.
Blessed by this somewhat-too-pat plot resolution, Tony at the fade-out was back in his home with his wife Carmela (Edie Falco), with whom he recently reconciled. That warm domestic scene struck quite a contrast to the fourth-season finale, when, after a pitched battle, Carmela threw Tony out of the house.
So during the coming "Sopranos" dry spell, fans can cling to the finale's parting message - Tony always bounces back! - and take comfort from it.
In Season Six, fate will surely prove otherwise.
:cool:

[Bense468]

WEAK

[Essex502]

Subdued ending but not that bad in my opinion. This season was definitely better than last season - the one that meandered aimlessly until the final coupla' episodes.
Can't wait till the final season... 18 friggin' months?

[Mr.Havasu]

Those guys get more time off then any other show in history (I think).
Most take the summer off, they take 1 1/2 years off. What a gig!
I missed last night's finale, But I'll catch it tonight.

[Brady Bunch]

Not that thrilled with that ending! This season sucked. More than half of the episodes this year really went nowhere!

[Bense468]

You got that right Brady... They could take it so many ways and it seems like they have been taking it nowhere. Nobody cares about medow (unless she is naked) nobody cares about AJ. I don't give a shit about medow's bf. Move on with the good shit. Sil should of got adriana naked then blasted her.

[JetBoatRich]

just finished watching the final show:( what was that:confused:

[JetBoatRich]

they got beat down:yuk: :yuk: :yuk: