AS I ANSWERED LISA4USC'S QUESTION

I am re-posting this here in case lisa4usc has to delete my answer because I kinda took up alot of space in her comment's area.

I had been debating myself (I do that often) about whether to write a piece concerning what I thought the true ending of  The Soprano's was without seeing the ending everyone is upset about. Because, to be honest, I did not envision how it could end any better than it did, when I thought it ended. (I didn't know how many shows remained)

The show, which appeared to me a great ending, left me a bit depressed and wishing I hadn't seen it as I wandered off to slumber.

Following is the, what I thought would be short, answer I left at lisa4usc's blog(In case I have over partaken my share of commentland):

lisa4usc..I've been dyin over here...Post a piece on Sopranos or not? So I have the answer. At least it satisified me.
OK..Remember the "Final Johnny Carson Show? Well to me the FINAL show was the next to last show. The previous night's show with Bette Midler just knockin' the world out with her song to Johnny. I saw her when he first brought her on from the baths of NYC. That was the final show for me. Not the "Tuxedo" show night following.
Now...I don't have HBO. I've been watching this last season (I own all the others) on Comcast On Demand after it airs on HBO.
OK..3 shows back and the accident happens with Tony and Christopher, Tony, fed up with Chris's F-up's squeezes his nostrils and the life of the first, central longtime/character is gone. At the end (I had no idea how many more shows remained) I thought oh S***. It's starting. Then there was another show where the set up is created that now Johny Sach is dead "whatisface", insults Tony in front of his group and says , more or less, "no more deals" and we see a hardline now. No more NY and NJ. Seperate camps and hostility foaming from the NY camp.
Next to last show: Dr Melfi is publicly emabarassed and to wit goes on to demean Tony and abandon him contradicting all she was because of this new "study" (which is real). Then Whatisface gives the OK for the take out of the top 3 Soprano's group based on personal reasons ie; They don't "make" member's the right way, etc. And he orders this hit WITHOUT, what I have come to learn, "permission" or sitdown with other "family members".  You then see FBI guy give Tony the word he's marked. You see a scramble, Tony trying to keep it all calm but AJ is shown to be just plain ignorant, stupid and selfish. You see ole Bobby get hit buying a train set for himself not the kids. Then you see "The Dude", Silvio and that su####ious sob get hit but the sob gets away and , from what you saw yourself and what Paulie Walnut's says the doctor reported, Ya know Silvio is gone too. Then ya see Tony and a small group of g uys snake into the night to a beat up old house and lock theirselves in , more or less, the scene ending with Tony laying down on a rickety old bed holding a cannon across his body ...waiting...THAT was the end. (or shoulda been) I haven't seen the last show but I read some on it and they all sound like your feeling's. "cheated" or "no-go." NOW...Think of that show I just mentioned and see if it doesn't "settle" better in your mind. That Tony, lying back on the bed, armed with that cannon in a rustic old bed, all the high times, the good life, the good food, the friends everything, all WE shared with him...is gone. And he waits.  For what?.......(Music up) Woke up this morning got yoursel####un. Momma said you'de be the chosen one. That your one in a million you were born to shine to bad about bein born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eye ..now sing the song
(I went to bed thinking."I wish I hadn't seen that") Depressing and ,I believe, the real ending.

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