sopranos ending..
i gotta admit i was pissed when i saw the end.
but now that i think about it...it was perfect. no matter who david chase killed off, or whatever resolutions he made there was no way ANYONE would be happy with the way the series ended.
i loved leotardo getting whacked.
didn't really care what happened to AJ, or meadow for that manner.
but there was one interesting little tidbit no one has mentioned yet.
earlier in the episode tony visits with carmella and we see AJ and his girlfriend leave the house. anywhoo, tony and carmella are chatting in the kitchen and tony is peeling an orange.
david chase once mentioned how the film "goodfellas" is his bible. he originally wanted to cast lorraine bracco as carmela sopranos, but she had already played the mobsters wife role in Goodfellas and was eventually cast as Dr. Jennifer Melfi. Oddly enough, Ray Liotta was the top choice to play Tony Soprano.
Anyways, back to the oranges. in the end of season 1 we see tony buying orange juice before the attempt on his life. in the godfather, marlon brando buys oranges before he's shot, there is also an orange in his mouth when he dies. at the end of the godfather part 3, when michael corleone dies, an orange drops from his hand.
food for thought i suppose. oh, and as squid mentioned, we see the guy that followed AJ into the restaurant head into the bathroom just before the fade to black. in the godfather, Michael Corleone retrieves a gun from the bathroom before he murders the men responsible for attempting to kill his father.
