Yes folks its one of these threads. This doesn't necessarily have to do with games (hence the OTD location) but can. I want to know what you think the arguably best ending to a TV Series, movie or game (series or one-shot) is and why.
My personal one is the Sopranos. It ended in such a way I spent years after the fact trying to come to grips with it and understand it. I even think its still better than the Breaking Bad ending though that does come in at a very close second.
So what's your best ending?
My personal one is the Sopranos. It ended in such a way I spent years after the fact trying to come to grips with it and understand it. I even think its still better than the Breaking Bad ending though that does come in at a very close second.
The final scene is in a diner with Tony Soprano meeting up with his family for dinner. There are many cuts that seem to be a POV shot from Tony's point of view, watching for his family and studying the folk who come into the diner. He has seemingly put things right with the NY crime families and passed the danger zone into a relative comfortable place, though many of his friends have died recently due to hits. The song "Don't Stop Believing" from Journey is playing over the scene. And right as things seem to be going well, the screen blanks, the music stops and we get credit rolls over silence and blackness. I feel that after much reflection Tony met his end at that moment, and the series ends there with him. There's a lot of foreshadowing about "never hearing it coming" in previous episodes and the final episode. And while folk do think there are plot holes throughout the series and this is the biggest one culminated as a "fuck you" to the audience or maybe a "choose your own ending" I don't agree. Things in life don't always get resolved, or tied up neatly. And when the end comes for us we have no guarantee we'll know what hit us. As the series started with Tony it also ends with his perception. It also breaks the normal cinematic tradition of showing us the aftermath of a major character's demise, which I find to be refreshing. I also have read David Chase's subsequent interviews where he clearly states the evidence is there for us to definitively know the end. And from what I gathered it is definitively Tony's last moments.
So what's your best ending?
