Monday, June 11, 2007

Was It True Genius?

I am on vacation right now, but had to post this Sopranos e-mail forwarded to me by a friend. I admit, I watched the episode on the DVR after midnight as I had been out all weekend long. I was tired and having trouble following it.

So the point would have been that life continues and we may never know the end of the Sopranos. But if you pay attention to the history, you will find that all the answers lie in the characters in the restaurant. So here is what has been found out.

The guy at the bar is also credited as Nikki Leotardo. The same actor played him in the first part of season 6 during a brief sit down concerning the future of Vito. That wasn't that long ago. Apparently, he is the nephew of Phil. Phil's brother Nikki Senior was killed in 1976 in a car accident. Absolutely Genius!!!!

David Chase is truly rewarding the true fans who pay attention to detail.

The trucker was the brother of the guy who was robbed by Christopher in Season 2. Remember the DVD players? The trucker had to identify the body.

The cub scouts were in the train store.

The black guys at the end were the ones who tried to kill Tony and only clipped him in the ear.

Here's where the genius comes in: When Tony's walking in the diner, you see the camera focus on him, then it switches to his perspective, and you see him looking at the booth he's gonna sit at ... Then the camera switches back to Tony's face, then it once again switches to his perspective, and it shows him looking at the door and looking at the people come in.....

Every time the door opens the Chimes sound.......

Carmela walks in, Chimes, AJ walks in, Chimes, this while Meadows tries to parallel park, still trying to get inside the restaurant....

At this point the camera switches back to the trucker who goes in the bathroom......

Then it goes to a scene where Meadow finally parks and starts running in the diner....

The doors about to open, Tony looks up....

And No Chimes......................

No Music............

Everything just goes black...............

In one of the early episodes of the Sopranos, Tony's talking with Bobby about what it must feel like to die. Bobby says "at the end, you probably don't hear anything, everything just goes black"Part of that was revisited in the second to last episode during the last seconds of it, when Tony's about to go to sleep and he flashes back to the memory of him and Bobby on the boat ... "You probably don't hear anything everything just goes black"

So in the end, the Journey song was playing, the chimes on the door sounded but when Meadow came in, the guy in the trucker hat came out and killed Tony.

It's the reason you don't hear, or see anything when he died....

It was from his perspective.... and everything went black, then the credits rolled.

True Genius.

Okay - but I heard chimes when Meadow walked in ... did you? Unless the author was talking about a chime when the door opens ... and a chime when it closes. There was only one short chime - then fade to black.

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