Web buzzes with clues that Tony Soprano is dead
Steve Safran June 15th, 2007
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.
That 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.
7 Comments Add your own
1. baker | June 15th, 2007 at 10:44 am
oye…but who’s “you” in: “at the end, you probably don’t hear anything, everything just goes black…”? you the viewer? you Tony? and it also happened at “the end” of the Sopranos series, so is “you” the series?
it’s all a ponderous tease.
2. tim | June 15th, 2007 at 10:46 am
The theories are out in force and well documented at tonyisdead.com
3. digitalContent | June 15th, 2007 at 11:42 am
HBO is a business. Content is created to generate revenue. They left the door open to bring some form of something back, even if it is to see Tony really get clipped on the screen.
If HBO subs drop 50% in the next month, something will be back.
4. Safran | June 15th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Baker: ever the existentialist.
5. Mrs. B | June 15th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I sure hope HBO doesn’t intend for John from Cincy to fill the Soprano void. We’ve watched the first two episodes and can’t believe how bad it is.
6. Tony Soprano | June 16th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
It was those two moolies that hit me. At least they’ll blame it on them, even if they didn’t do it.
7. David White | June 25th, 2007 at 11:38 am
That “everything just goes black!” line certainly never
happened in the boat scene.
The actual words spoken were:
Bobby said to Tony: You probably don’t even hear it when
it happens…right?
Tony’s answer: Ask your friend in there,on the wall.
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