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The ending was bullshit. No amount of I-think-this-is-what-he-meant fantasizing will change the fact that the Sopranos just fell completely flat.
Everyone has been talking about how brilliant David Chase is that he builds up all this tension and suspense and then nothing happens. Sure, this might be brilliant in the middle of the series, but if he's that brilliant, then he realizes that when you string people along like that for such a long period of time, you give them a catharsis at the end.
This ending was lazy, presumptuous, and insulting. This show took a nosedive somewhere around the middle of season 6A and never recovered. What's sad is that so many fans stuck around thinking that there would be a huge payoff for our patience. There wasn't. It turns out the show just got that stale.
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