What do you think? Will Phil bite the dust? I'm guessing Tony won't. And Paulie's acting awfully itchy - I'm wondering if he warned Phil to get out of town. Also, there was a very odd shot in last week's episode. After Tony kicked Rhiannon (yet another character artificially introduced strictly as a "plot device") out of A.J.'s room, Paulie looks out the window and sees the two of them talking in the driveway. Something's up with that and it will play out in the final episode.

This is one show that defies my ability to predict. Needless to say, it should be an interesting hour of television.

In addition to the points mentioned above, I'll be interested to know if Melfi has second thoughts about having so callously dumped her besieged patient in his hour of need. If not, they're are sure to be a lot pf pissed off shrinks out there come Monday morning.

I'll bet it'll be better than the sorry excuse for The Shield season finale that aired Tuesday

I thought the last episode was awfull. I couldn't believe the scene where Bobby gets ambushed in the hobby/train store, the shot of the locomotive plummeting off the tracks was like something from a Saturday Night Live "Leonard Pith Garnell presents Pretentious Theater" sketch. And AJ (who's never been my favorite character) is really coming off as an obnoxious putz this season, ditto for Melfi, Bobby, Meadow, the Buccos,some of which were well drawn characters before this season started.

I hope the last episode doesn't suck, but based on the rest of the final season my hopes are low. Maybe they'll reveal that everything that's happened since the end of season three was all just a bad dream.

The door bell rings Its the pizza being delivered to the safe house. But wait. The delivery is made by the NY gang! They enter guns ablazing, even killing Paulie, who was playing both sides.

Tony was no fool. Thats why he allowed them to order the pizza. To draw NY into his trap and expose the rat. Tony's AR-10 rains fire and death from the top of the stairs. Up from the basement come Furio and 10 heavy hitters from the old country. In minutes, it's over.

Now the NJ/hybrid crew go for Phill. His location was given to Uncle Junior by the other NY familes and the hit was sanctioned. No room in the mob for a crazy like Phill, and mob income is threatened by the attention he draws. Tony's crew finds Phill and Butchie in a gay bath house and they are killed in gruesome fashion.

Too late for Carm and AJ, though. Tony comes home to find Phill had them butchered. Tony walks out and sits by the now empty pool. The ducks will never come back. They are gone, like his family. Fade to black as Tony puts a S&W to his head.

After credits roll, a wedding song. Meadow and Patrick, some future time. The next generation...

IMO This show has always been about family. I will be so sad for the end. The best television show I have ever seen. Thank you HBO, David Chase and the awsome cast!

Uncle Jr. Shows up in a clean shiny caddy and says he knows the way to earth.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/07/tv.jamesgandolfini.ap/index.html

A few choice Sopranos malaprops:

"Create a little dysentery among the ranks." - Christopher Moltisanti

"You're at the precipice of an enormous crossroads." - Little Carmine

"There's no stigmata connected to going to a shrink." - Little Carmine

"I was prostate with grief." - Tony Soprano

"She's an albacore around my neck." - Johnny Soprano

"A guy like that is going out with a woman, he could technically not have penissary contact with her Volvo." - Tony Soprano

"You're very observant. The sacred and the propane." - Little Carmine

"Quasimodo predicted alla this." - Bobby Bacala

86 episodes in ten years.
Can we even call that a series?
:lol:

I'll bet it'll be better than the sorry excuse for The Shield season finale that aired Tuesday

The Shield, like The Sopranos, peaked about Season 3 imho. I quit watching about the time Lem burned the loot from The Money Train.

Like I say. There oughta' be a law. 3 seasons and that's it!

Series (noun)

(a) A succession of usually continuously numbered issues or volumes of a publication, published with related authors or subjects and similar formats.
(b) A succession of regularly aired television programs, each one of which is complete in and of itself.

I think it clearly qualifies as a series. As Mr. Marlowe points out, it is easy to just quit watching. But then, you wouldn't know if it were a good or bad series if you quit watching!

Only 24 hours until the last episode in the series. I'm sure I won't be the only one watching. Will you be watching too, John?