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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some posters are being too superficial.  I highly recommend this in-depth analysis of what happened by Mike Cole http://mikecole.org/the-sopranos-ending-made-in-america/

To summarize the ending:

"However, The Sopranos is first and foremost a work of fiction. And as such, it is likely subject to all the plot development devices commonly employed by authors of fiction including: dramatic irony, symbolism, and meaningful scene sequencing. Using an understanding of these techniques to glean clues from the final two episodes, we can clearly conclude the following:

Tony was indeed "whacked"
Carmela and AJ also were killed
Meadow lived
Patsy Parisi betrayed Tony
AJ inadvertently facilitated the murders
Rhiannon was an unwitting accomplice for the murders"

Definitely worth your time if you are a Sopranos fan!
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It’s fiction but it lives in Tony’s world.  It is not fantasy.  A dragon did not come and burn them.  A hit on a mafia boss requires the unanimous approval of the Commission in advance.  If not everyone involved will be killed.  Story does not lay the groundwork for that.  Also never would the hit include family.  If Tony was to be hit, a close friend would have picked him up somewhere to do something and killed him.  One of his own people.

Fiction but you are still stuck in the world you live in.  If you don’t do that then the show is crap, not realistic and foolishness.   [/quote]

Did you read the analysis?[/quote]

I don't know who Mike Cole and a quick glance at the links shows someone who is not a show creator or writer. Just a random person.

The PP is correct. The writers were operating by the plausible behaviors of the organized mafia families. The one thing that is absent throughout the entire Sopranos series is Tony worrying about the safety of his wife and children. He's aware that he himself is a hit target sooner or later. But he never worries about Carmela or the kids. Because he knows the rules of the mafia world he moves in. He's more worried about making sure they have enough money should he be hit. As the linked article to the Canadian hit made clear, mafia spouses and children are really not targets. That the killer of the woman in Montreal was quickly found by the police tells you it wasn't your ordered mafia hit but something else, even if the killer was part of organized crime.

Ask yourself very carefully: why would another family take out Carmela and AJ? Why would they risk violating a sacred rule? Assume you're a mafia don of another family and you want to take out Tony. You know if you tell the hitman to also take out the rest of the Soprano family, you'd just substantially increased the odds that the same will happen to your own wife and children sooner or later. And you'd have a struggle on your hands with your own people because *you just don't take out the wife and kids* and there will be no respect for you from the underlings. The other families, watching what'd happened, would be more likely to take you out just to make sure you don't do the same to their own families. Because they know they can't do business with you anymore.

This is what happened: hitman walks quickly in and shoots Tony and walks right out. All in seconds. Carmela is hysterical, AJ is stunned. But when it comes to the police, all they'll remember is a blur, someone in black. Then, one way or another, word will get to Carmela that as long as she can't remember anything else about the face, she'll be ok and there will always be money. And that's it. She will teach herself to forget anything she saw, bury Tony and get on with life.

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