Comments on: More Comments About The Sopranos Series Finale

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:48:57 +0000

Fugghedaboutit

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:59:31 +0000

Interesting – communion hosts. I haven’t heard that one yet. Though if you assume that the 5 seconds of black silence after Tony looks up is the family getting shot up in the booth, then you can also assume that the onion-ring-as-communion-wafer could be a symbolic final atonement for their sins.

You could expand this further by saying that since Meadow never really got deeply involved in anything negative, she was excluded from the final atonement before the family was shot up.

Another way of thinking about this is that the Sopranos are really an Americanized, non-traditional mob family. So the end of the series isn’t a family gathering over manicotti and spaghetti with some meatballs, rather it’s at a low-rent diner in Bloomfield, New Jersey over a plate of onion rings. This would further the idea that we are completely “Americanized” – even to the point where our communion wafers are onion rings!

Nice theory – I like it. Though I honestly still subscribe to the idea that Tony and the family had a nice dinner and went home afterwards to live another boring, mundane day in New Jersey mob life.

By: kaye

kaye — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:50:05 +0000

what do the onion rings mean? It looked like me that they all were receiving communion hosts, the way they put the entire thing in their mouth.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:44:48 +0000

Ha ha ha! I like it, chickpea. I tend to agree – I think the Sopranos enjoyed a nice dinner at the diner and then went home.

Don’t stop believing, right?

By: chickpea

chickpea — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:42:08 +0000

I loved the ending, all its flaws and all. I’m going with the POV that Meadow runs in and the family enjoys a nice dinner together at a Jersey diner.

My boyfriend thinks otherwise, but he’s not from Jersey so he doesn’t get it!