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No, chase ended like that so we can debate it forever .
Tony didn’t get whacked, but jimmy did. RIP
Tony didn’t get whacked, but jimmy did. RIP
I like to think the onion rings triggered intestinal inflammation and a massive gallbladder attack. The ensuing commotion certainly waylaid anyone intent on a nefarious act.
However, while being rushed to Hackensack UMC, the ambulance was T-boned by a Shop Rite Truck full of London Broil - killing all aboard and delaying that week's $1.99 per lb special..........
However, while being rushed to Hackensack UMC, the ambulance was T-boned by a Shop Rite Truck full of London Broil - killing all aboard and delaying that week's $1.99 per lb special..........
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I think he got whacked. In an earlier episode Bobby Baccala said when you get whacked everything just goes black. That's how the show ended.
I vote whacked. Thought going black symbolized not only the end of the show but the end of Tony.
Plum Street has it right. Intentionally ambiguous. Left the door open for a return, perhaps in the form of a full length movie. That idea of course died when Gandolfini did.
My impression after watching the last episode was that Chase left it open whether Tony got whacked in that scene.
If the series was to be restarted some time later the open ending could have justified bringing Tony back for another series of future episodes/seasons.
Unfortunately Gandolfini met with his untimely death in Italy in 2013. IMO there can never be another Tony Soprano after Gandolfini. May he RIP.
If the series was to be restarted some time later the open ending could have justified bringing Tony back for another series of future episodes/seasons.
Unfortunately Gandolfini met with his untimely death in Italy in 2013. IMO there can never be another Tony Soprano after Gandolfini. May he RIP.
Wasn't one of our posters a long time friend of James Gandolfini? Anyone remember if he ever gave an (inside) opinion.
Holsten’s diner in Bloomfield is where the final scene took place.
He would have been transported to Clara Maass medical center
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Definitely killed by the guy in the jacket. No doubt in my mind.
The more interesting question.... Who arranged the hit?
The more interesting question.... Who arranged the hit?
There is no question that he was killed.
If you look at the final scene in the diner, it is constantly shifting back and forth between Tony's point of view (first person) and the scene in general (third person). The series ends on Tony's point of view by going black. The "going to black" moment is extended, I believe, to make it clear that Tony is dead. He's killed by the man coming out of the bathroom, who had been looking over at him.
There was a good article on this a while back. The sequence of the shots indicates he got wacked. The shots follow a pattern and with a certain shot always being from Tony's perspective. The next shot should be from Tony's perspective. But instead we get black and silence....
Wasn't a good friend but I played flag football against him at RU. His friends called him Buck. A teammate of mine roomed with him one year. I'll see if he has any inside info, but not likely.
I thought a feature movie was coming, regardless of what Tony’s outcome was.
No character on that show was in line to replace Tony, Christopher would have been logical, but his drug and emotional problems featured in the last year would have discounted him IMO.
No character on that show was in line to replace Tony, Christopher would have been logical, but his drug and emotional problems featured in the last year would have discounted him IMO.
And the fact that tony killed him zap....
Wasn’t the only one left at the end Pauly? Sylvio was in a coma, Bobby dead, Chris dead, ***** dead, April’s both of them dead. Ralphie dead. Steve buscsmis character dead. Jonny saks dead, and the guy who got whacked at the gas station who had the hit out on tony (forgot the characters name he played billy bats also died last year)
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What's even more amazing is how they make Holsteins appear bigger than it is that place is tiny...even crazier they were there for 2 days filming that 30 second sequence
Think they are still running soprano bus tours there as well.. I don't think he got whacked think they were setting up for a major money maker down the line
Think they are still running soprano bus tours there as well.. I don't think he got whacked think they were setting up for a major money maker down the line
Zap, how does someone with SoCal in their name have better local info than you?? And isn't Hackensack UMC Mountainside your local hospital?
Clara Maass is ten minutes past UMC from Holsten's.
https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=969e...807995~-74.194479&lvl=14&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
It was a botched hit and he hired Jim Rockford to find out who put the hit on him.
Then Rocky gets kidnapped and Angel goes undercover as a pimp to find out where Rocky is being held.
Carl Kolchak of the INS hears about it and realized it's a gang of vampires holding Rocky and Pauly and what's left of the crew kills the vamps.
Unfortunately Joey Bacala sat on Kolchak's camera and destroyed all the evidence that this happened.
Then Rocky gets kidnapped and Angel goes undercover as a pimp to find out where Rocky is being held.
Carl Kolchak of the INS hears about it and realized it's a gang of vampires holding Rocky and Pauly and what's left of the crew kills the vamps.
Unfortunately Joey Bacala sat on Kolchak's camera and destroyed all the evidence that this happened.
Lol
My kids were born at Mountainside, it’s five minutes from where I live.
I don’t know anything about it being called Hackensack General.
I thought Clara Maass might have been closer from Holsten’s
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Definitely the guy in the Member's Only jacket after he came out of the bathroom. I suspect this is a Godfather nod to the scene where Michael Corleone went into the bathroom to retrieve the gun to shoot Sollozzo and McClusky in the Italian restaurant.
It’s quite possible Altrev spoke to James about that scene.
Tony got whacked by the guy in the Members Only jacket coming out of the bathroom (to Tony's right).....I think it was in the Sepinwall article that it was discussed that there was a debate regarding after going to black if there should be credits.....I think David Chase wanted to just go to black for several minutes but was then convinced to put up the credits (of course with no music).
The last place you want to go to for a whacking injury is Mountainside...better chance at Clara Maas
Mountainside is closer and both my kids born there as well. Great hospital for chikd birth but not for a trauma situation
Stable traumas go to the nearest trauma center. Trauma codes go to the nearest hospital. GSW to the head would be the latter.