>>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/15/television.sopranos.reut/index.html
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>Interesting. It could certainly mean that at the moment it all went black and quiet Tony's life ended.( and thus the series ends - even Tony wouldn't know what happened after that ) But I think Chase made it deliberately ambiguous, and thereby made it poetry rather than narrative.
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>The more i think about that ending the more I like it.


Which one, the ambiguous one we thought we watched the other night or the theoretical one that Tony was whacked?

The new theory is an intriguing one. A problem I have with it is Tony was not an omniscient character, i.e. not everything on the show was told from his POV. Even if he got killed the world would not "fade to black" for everyone else.

Chase has given one interview since the show aired, with his pet reporter at the Newark Star-Ledger, and in it hinted that he deliberately left it ambiguous. He added that he has no intention of clarifying anything -- everything he intended to say is in the show.