I liked the Sopranos ending

I thought it was great!! It was artistic yet simple, provocative yet mundane, and powerful yet boring. I have never been so intense while watching a family gather in a diner to eat onion rings! And they were listening to Journey! I'm an 80s child but that song has lost its cool value long ago. Now all of the sudden it is stuck in my head and it is the coolest song ever! When the screen went to black I jumped off the couch and cursed the satellite company only to feel completely pathetic when the credits rolled and I slowly realized what had just happened. Like it or loathe it, this has to be the most memorable conclusion to a t.v. series ever, with perhaps the exception of MASH--but I think it even tops MASH. The show makes you laugh when you aren't supposed to. Take when they killed Phil at the gas station and the SUV rolled over his head. That is a horrible scene but I laughed hysterically (and ashamedly) when they showed the two babies in the car seats shift when the wheel rolled over Phil's head. That is the beauty of the Sopranos....it is a whole bunch of contradictions and oxymoronic juxtapositions. Like when the crew (sons of Italian-American immigrants) went down to the Columbus statue to beat up Native Americans because they were protesting Columbus Day. The fact that Carmella (and much of the crew) supports President Bush. The idea that Tony plays on the same side as the FBI agent when it comes to terrorism.

I will miss it. I do not think there will be a movie. I do not think Tony died at the end. I think Meadow came into the diner and they all had their onion rings and talked about her 170,000 dollar job. It was a brilliant manipulation of the audience: how many people in America thought their t.v. went out when the screen went black? How many people have ever felt that much tension while watching people eat onion rings in a diner? I thought it was the most interesting thing that I have ever seen on t.v. I hope they do not make a film about because it will ruin the ending for me.