Sopranos Ending

After watching 86 some odd episodes to get to this point I was hoping for some closure. Its sort of like waiting for Bush to get impeached and the war to end and everything to go back to the way it used to be, bad as that was.

Bottom Line I keep wishing for more Gore.

Maybe there is a better explanation, but then I say that every time the Democrats cave on a vote. All I can say is I'm hoping some kind soul will explain this to be so I can understand it.

Earlier today I commented on how the series seemed to me so far

The Sopranos are about a lot more than the characters and the plotline. The phenomenological transference requires you to ask yourself what am I seeing, what am I hearing (the music is part of the talking in anagrams)and then interpret that as you might a dream.

By way of illustration, in the Sopranos season three we get a long leadup to the Pines Barrens episode which begins with Tony picking up a newspaper which is black and white and red all over.

Then there is an insert of Tony watching, "White Heat", a black and white movie in which Cagney's "Top of the World Ma" line is delivered on top of a spherical oil tank which blows up.

The thread then moves on to the Russians, the price of oil, the effect on the stock market, dirty cops warrentless surveilance, Tony's concern that his mother will rat him out to the feds and then even though she dies and he's relieved the panic that there are still problems to be solved

In that seasons first episode #27, there is the wiretaping of Tony's basement to the accompanyment of Mustang Sally. In episode 31 Meadow inadvertantly neutralizes the wiretap and we have the character Mustang Sally introduced. Toward the end there is a scene where he is shooting up on the kitchen table.

I missed that in this episode. It seemed like there was something going on in the way of continuity, same old same old, but then it just came to an end. My favorite episodes were season three

episode 32

One day Tony's sitting in the Bada Bing when one of the dancers approaches him. Her name's Tracee and she's baked him a loaf of date bread, a thank you for some advice he gave her about her son. Taken aback, Tony explains - gently but firmly - that her gift is inappropriate. "What we have is an employer/employee relationship," he tells her Silvio, intervening, is more direct. "Let's go, Betty Crocker," he says as he shoos Tracee away from the Boss....Tracee borrows three G's from Silvio - for braces, of all things. "Usually it's fake tits they want," Silvio shrugs

I loved the complexity of that kind of writing, I'll miss it but I'm hoping the example has been set and we'll see more of it in other shows.

Betty Crocker making bread for the bada bing was a reference to small caps investors getting screwed by wall street and taking a beating in the Reagan recession not to mention the investigations thereof, the arms race, the cold war, the challenger disaster.

Later we have a scene where Tracee is working with Ralphie backing her up as a cop complains about her service. The image of the hooker wiretaping the cop with her new braces was forshadowed by a sign in the previous episode reading "all roses 50% off" which is an anagram for "less % oral 5O off.

In the end Tracee gets beaten to death which ultimately leads to a loss of confidence and  Ralphies demise.

In Episode 33 Dr Kennedy is introduced and this eventually leads to the Kennedy on the brink scene with Furio presenting him the bomb tied up in red tape.

Every one of the eighty six episodes was as self referentially tied together by the Shakespearean talking in anagrams as by the Dickensian weaving of characters and plot into the context of the historical set and setting.