Wife agrees with you ( I post on her behest)
I think honestly, in the long run, this is the best ending for the show. Spoon feed everything to everyone, and you what you get is pablum. This was some meat. Chase leaves threads hanging, regardless of what may or may not come in the future.
Not every movie/mini-series, etc has a happy, solid ending, why should this?
What? No ducks?
Same here. No pissed, but it was a…strange…ending. I thought for sure there was going to be some whackage in the final moments, and that Meadow would witness it.
Oh bullshit. the country was ont he edge of their seat because we expected some sort of payoff.
“Oh SHIT! The cable just went out in the last few minutes of the Sopranos! Is it just HBO or is it all out? Wha? Credits? WTF?!” is not directorial genius.
Tony getting whacked to Journey music?
Come on, that’s not Chase, that was a big joke.
There were ducks in the background when Tony was outside looking pleased and relived…
I thought it was a great ending. But then, I liked the Seinfeld finale as well.
A bloodbath would have been too obvious and, I bet if you’re really honest, not that satisfying.
I heard it was going to be controversial. I heard right. 
I’m still a little too amped up to know if I have a problem with it. My mother hated it, that’s for sure- she called from Boston just to share.
Seems to me they encouraged the viewers to decide what happened. I was sure the trucker was going to shoot Tony, and he still could have gone to the bathroom to get his piece. Tony’s got an indictment coming down and we don’t know what’s coming from New York. That’s not to say this is automatically a great ending, but I don’t hate it yet either.
There were ducks - Tony heard them by the pool, but didn’t see them.
Someone should probably put this in a spoiler box.
Well, I liked the way it ended. It was totally unexpected and tied it up as a family show. I was glad to see AJ upbeat and Meadow not get into a car accident, and everything just be ok with them having dinner.
I went in wanting Tony to get killed.
It’s natural for people to want closure. After all, some of us have invested 8 years watching this show, and we have an interest in what happens. Hell, I originally sprung for HBO because of this show. As much as I appreciate the non-ending as a way of saying, “Life goes on for these characters after the show ends,” I still feel a little… unfulfilled. Eh, I’ll get over it.
ETA: I also briefly panicked, thinking my power had gone out when the screen went blank. My fiance jokingly wished that would happen so I’d miss the ending, so it was a bit of a WTF moment.
Hah!
I’ve been telling Pepper Mill that this was deliberate for the past several minutes. She was convinced that somebody pushed the wrong buton or something, because they COULDN’T End it THAt way. But it was pretty clearly deliberate. I had her check what other people from around the country had to say on the SDMB to convince her.
“Either they couldn’t figure out how to end it, or they wanted to be artsy and ambiguous,” I opined.
“It’s STUPID!” She objected.
She’s cooling off in the shower now. She says through the door that she’s over it, but I think I’m going to hear about this for the rest of the night.
Me? Doesn’t bother me. It’s just a TV show.
That’s exactly what I thought. It would have been perfectly fine to conclude with a “life goes on” type scene but making people wonder if there cable cut out is total bullshit.
Isn’t that what we all need? 
I wondered if the cable went out for a second. Then I realized the song cut out at the words “Don’t stop.”
I do hate Journey, however.
Yes it is. It put your emotions and nerves on a ride.
Couldn’t it be both?
They couldn’t figure out how to end it, so they said “let’s do nothing and call it artsy and ambiguous.”
And I’m a little ticked as someone who’s never watched the show before. If I had invested 8 years in it I would have had an aneurism.
Any episode that reinforces that opinion is a good one by default.
If you understand the show you know Chase isn’t the type to “let’s do nothing and call it artsy and ambiguous.” Like all good directors, he has a reason for including everything that goes into each episode.