It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

All things must end, and as most people predicted, The Sopranos ending left us with more questions than answers. The Montclair, NJ bar buzz in is that there will be a more "final" ending in an upcoming movie.I give Chase more credit than that. Not that he cares, but I'm satisfied with the ending. My sister gave me a laugh when she called at 10:14pm to ask "Why did they show Meadow taking so long to park outside?" The answer is simply, "because David Chase can."

I've mentioned before I live only blocks away from the real Soprano house. My roommate's curiosity lead her to drive by on Sunday and she saw that fans had left bouquets of roses on the driveway entrance. Interesting.

I won't sit here and try to tear apart every symbol of the finale. And this is where I insert that no series ending will EVER match that of "Six Feet Under" but I will note some thoughts that are still haunting me 24 hours later. The more I think about the final episode, the more I fine tune my theory that he could have shot that in any sequence, so that the actors would not know how it ended either. Sort of Woody Allen style where one character wouldn't know how another character acted in a previous scene. Just a thought.

But what I found to be the strongest point was the development of Tony's son. We witnessed beautiful writing depicting young ears first hearing musical genius -  how appropriate that AJ begins his climatic "turning point" after he's introduced to the words of Bob Dylan.

The young Soprano's political passions that ruled the season were soon thereafter smothered by his parents' blanket of wealth and selfishness to keep him safe. Their fear of his military wishes are paralleled with the fact he almost killed himself in an earlier scene by recklessly parking his hot cadilic converter on a pile of leaves. No need to mention the suicide attempt three weeks ago. I noted the Dylan song they played, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" contains the perfect lyrics to summarize the second, and almost stronger meaning of the episode's title: "Made in America."