# The Sopranos - Series Finale: Make Your Predictions Here **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079 "2007-06-07T02:26:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/41 "2007-06-08T18:59:30Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] I figure the last episode will have an epic gun battle, with the main guys either getting whacked or arrested. Fade to black. Then “Twenty Years Later” - it’s the town where Vito went into hiding - still quaint as can be. There’s a little pizza joint on Main Street. Thru the window, we see an old man at the register, doing a crossword puzzle, pausing to smooth his snow-white pompadour. Pull back to the sign “Sil’s Authentic Italine Cuisine” Cue credits. [/QUOTE] Ah, hell, let’s make it complete, with malaproprisms and all. The sign says: “Sil’s Auspicious Italine Cuisine.” ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/42 "2007-06-08T19:03:52Z")
I really do know how to spell _Italian_. I blame a faulty keyboard… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/43 "2007-06-08T19:09:42Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Thanks for the apology, but I change the channel at the _end of the show_ so I won’t see what’s in _the preview for next week’s show_. Are you talking about the recap at the beginning of the show? Your post be can be fixed by clicking on the post number of another poster’s entry and asking that your post, # \_\_\_\_, have a spoiler added. [/QUOTE] You’re not kidding that you don’t what anything to be spoiled! I have to watch the previews at the end. I’m desperate for just a little more. It’s like licking the bottom of the ice cream bowl to get those final drops of decadence. I put in a mod request. Again my apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/44 "2007-06-08T19:16:09Z")
I forgot to put in my prediction: Tony will do something so selfish and disgusting that no one will look to him as a hero afterwards. It may have something to do with sacrificing his family for his own survival, or something like that. This will be Chase’s “payment” to the Italian-Americans that were offended by the series’ glorification of organized crime. I think that with one hour left, it’s too late to allow for any meaningful character redemption. The series will end with Tony looking uglier than he’s ever looked. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/45 "2007-06-08T19:25:02Z")
[QUOTE=erie774] You’re not kidding that you don’t what anything to be spoiled! I have to watch the previews at the end. I’m desperate for just a little more. It’s like licking the bottom of the ice cream bowl to get those final drops of decadence. I put in a mod request. Again my apologies. [/QUOTE] I like stories to wash over me new. That’s why I don’t flip ahead when I read books. It’s also why I have a few favorite movie critics I rely on who can tell you why they liked or disliked without revealing too much but still piquing my interest in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/46 "2007-06-09T01:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut] I think that with one hour left, it’s too late to allow for any meaningful character redemption. The series will end with Tony looking uglier than he’s ever looked. [/QUOTE] I think one issue that has to be addressed is Tony’s contempt and disgust with A.J. And given the trajectory Tony’s been on, I don’t think he’ll choose the path of forgiveness and understanding. That could be what irrevocably poisons Tony for the audience. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/47 "2007-06-09T02:03:29Z")
Phil Leotardo dies. At the very end, Tony dies. And as Tony lies dying, there’s a flashback to every single murder done over the course of the series. That’s how **I’d** do it, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/48 "2007-06-09T02:26:13Z")
Tony goes into the Witness Relocation Program, changes his name to John and moves to Cincinnati. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/49 "2007-06-09T07:11:57Z")
I finally saw last week’s episode this evening (talk about a relief… but a sad one). Reading some comments from that thread, I think it’s impossible that Tony flips. With so many important people dead, there’s really nobody he can provide worthwhile information about. I don’t think he knows anything about Phil that the feds investigating Phil wouldn’t already know. I think Tony dies. It would be hard to leave an ambiguous ending to a war that’s already killed Bobby and left Sil comatose, and everyone else on the mattresses. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/50 "2007-06-09T13:20:03Z")
A friend and I were talking at work last night. He heard on NPR that Tony Sirico had put in his contract that Paulie would never be a rat. There goes that slim possibility. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/51 "2007-06-09T16:00:25Z")
Haven’t read the other replies. Tony goes into witness protection. Saves his family and can get back at Phil Leotardo. Might be too much of a Goodfellas copout though. AJ joins the military. Paulie’s a wildcard. Not sure about him. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079/52 "2007-06-10T23:44:13Z")
Somebody told me Tony was wearing white shoes when he was draining the pool. Anyone notice? That would be a huge hint. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sopranos-series-finale-make-your-predictions-here/407079.md?page=2)