Maybe the ending of “The Sopranos” wasn’t so vague after all. In an interview with New Jersey’s Star-Ledger this week, series creator David Chase said “It’s all there” when talking about what the instantly-famous blackout ending means. It could be that Tony was killed, and that we “went to black” with him. And this Reuters article has good reasoning to back that up:
The biggest hint, according to a consensus taking shape on the Web, is a scene from an earlier episode in which Tony and his brother-in-law, Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri, muse about what it feels like to die.
“At the end, you probably don’t hear anything, everything just goes black,” Bobby says while they sit fishing in a small boat on a lake.
AdvertisementThat scene is recalled briefly in a flashback played at the end of the penultimate “Sopranos” episode, as Tony is lying in the darkened room of a safehouse clutching a machine gun to his chest in the midst of a mob war.
“I think that is one of the most legitimate things to look at,” (HBO spokesman Quentin) Schaffer said when asked about theories that the Bobby Bacala flashback was meant to foreshadow Tony’s death.
Could this be the “Paul is Dead” of our generation? With the exception, of course, that Paul McCartney is A. Alive and B. Not a fictional character.