Love the foreshadowing in the beginning .... directs the film of your life from start to death, the secret name is the title of your film (bobby playing with his trains, in the ep he died was called blue comet the train he was buying when he got shot) than they show meadow- guardian angel(when tony wakes from the comma he see meadow first n she saved him, and at the end he looks up it goes black while she walks in, she wasnt there to save tony at the end, so much more foreshadowing.. BEST SHOW!
awesome show i still watch tv edited repeats everday. a masterstroke opening for final season tho woulda been cooler if it was 7th season(s)...since using the 7 souls poem.
I love Bobby's face with that train and whith that hat! Then there's Meadow's sexy dance, and AJ being an idoit. LOL My dad had the same phone two cell phones ago, 4 years ago! Despite that fact that he's moved to two different phonesw we still have the sam one as AJ in our house! I like the rest of it too with Carm and Aid!
listen to the words and look at who is on, it all matches, like..."second soul, and second to leave the ship",,,its Jean the hitter.."energy, power, light, the director gives the order, secom pushes the right buttons. tony gives order, Jean pushes the button..hes a button man, soldier, and he went after Ray the cooporating wittness.."Ba" trturous, with the fbi remember? AJ, is KA the reliable one, he tried to get uncle june,, Carm is Seku.remaines= I guess he goes at the end, she lives listen.
david chase said in an interview that i have a link to somewhere that the clues to what happened to tony are in what booby said to him on the boat (all goes black) and what happened to silvio in the restaurant (you dont even hear it before it happens) david chase wanted to show that crime does pay, by the last thing you seeing being tony, but also if you look depper tony dies therefore it also does not pay
i love the intro to the 6th season, the song, william s burroughs' narration it's gold. i also love the intro to season 2 of the sopranos. must check it out.
Season six had an amazing beginning. I loved the first 4 episodes. It was too bad they changed the main focus into Vito being gay but it's still the best show on TV.
@WickedLiquid The focus on Vito was a necessary story arc. Vito's life & death ties in perfectly with scenes in prior episodes when Soprano family discusses the novel Billy Bud, and AJ's paper on the anit-gay themes in that book.
The sopranos is over because david chase ha said everything that needs to be said about these characters. Don't you agree? I love the sopranos, I want more aswell.
Well, since Tony didn't die at the series finale, the Sopranos could still be continued. But I doubt it. Although, it would be cool to see Paulie on the big screen.
If you don't want to argue with me, why are you arguing with me? Tony didn't die. Who would have killed him? Paulie? Phil was dead. No one hated him enough to kill him, at least no one alive.
I think it doesn't matter wether Tony dies or not, simply there's no sure indication to assume one thing or the other, and the rest is our own imagination of what could've happened. In fact, there's other things in the finale more interesting, since my point of view
It's funny seeing people arguing whether Tony died or not. Since in the Season 6B commentary it's already said that the reason for the ending was to keep Tony's fate undetermined. So NOBODY is right or wrong, till or if the story continues.
What? He's a fictional character. If Chase wanted to kill him, and have him return as a zombie, he could. Then he'd be both dead and alive. No, he's not either or. They put in some things to suggest this, and they put in some things to suggest that.
What part of that you didn't understand? He might have gotten shot and died. Or nothing happened to Tony at all. Either could have happened to him. That's all I'm saying. I said OR, not AND. What do you mean he's not dead or alive? Of course, he's either dead or alive.
"Either could have happened to him. That's all I'm saying."
No, that would have been okay, but that's not all you said. You added "someone has to be right," implying that there is a real answer to the question "Is Tony dead or alive?"
Either COULD have happened - yes - but there's no real way in which you can assert that there is a right answer. It was crafted specifically to avoid knowledge of Tony's fate.
There is a real answer to the question "Is Tony dead or alive?". The problem is that no one will ever know the answer. There is just no way to know. There are two sides: one side saying Tony died and the other side saying he lived. One of these sides is right. But there is no way to know which side is right. That is my point.
I know what your point is, and have thoroughly refuted it. If someone made a documentary about a 100 year old disappearance case (of say, Steve), but no one knew what happened, then it would make sense to say Steve was either killed or not. Steve was a real, living, breathing human being. Tony is a fictional CHARACTER, whose fate David Chase designed to remain unknown, which means probably even he doesn't really know what happened.
Man, some people really have problems with ambiguity.
Yes, I know his fate will remain unknown. But fans still like to argue about whether he lived or died. The fact that he is fictional is irrelevant. To the fans, Tony is as "real" as any other person. That means he can be killed like any other person. Personally, I will always believe that David Chase knows what happened to Tony. And he will never tell anyone what he knows.
We're on the same wavelength now, and we can agree to disagree. I'm beginning my second year of studying creative writing in a couple of weeks, and I personally would never make anything ambiguous if it weren't ambigious in my own mind. Consider David Lynch: It's not important what happens - what's important is the mood and the feel of it. I tend to get that same feeling from reading interviews with Chase (also a fan of Lynch), but you are right that we will never know.
That might be what you do. But you (or I) have no idea what David Chase would do in his writings. I don't watch David Lynch's work. But I understand your point. But what mood could you get from the Sopranos finale? A lot of fans just felt frustrated or annoyed.
We don't know, but Chase has said several things that make me think his storytelling philosophy is anti-closure ("There are just people who want this closure and I don't have that"), and he consistently dropped plotlines (the suspected terrorists, the mercenary).
I can understand those who felt frustrated, but personally I liked it. A relentless build-up of tension, and then an anti-climax made ambiguous by the Torciano hit, and Bobby and Tony's conversation. Paranoia. Unknowable future. Life.
Mercenary? What Mercenary? Why would anyone want to be anti-closure? Personally, I liked Season 5 best. Now that was a relentless build-up of tension. And it even had a twist ending. I like twist endings more than anti-climatic endings.
"They shot a guy. Who knows where he went? Who cares about some Russian? This is what Hollywood has done to America. Do you have to have closure on every little thing? Isn't there any mystery in the world? It's a murky world out there. It's a murky life these guys lead. And by the way, I do know where the Russian is. But I'll never say because so many people got so pissy about it."
(I assume the last part is a taunt - but we'll never know about that either.)
I know that this is a quote from s Sopranos producer but I'm not sure which one. Was it the guy who made Mad Men? What is wrong with closure on everything? Mystery is nice but what they did to Tony was a little bit annoying. Tony wasn't some random Russian. He was the Don of Jersey. And no one even knows if he's alive!! I have to admit that last part is funny. I think you're right. It's just a taunt.
"In life, you don't get an ending to every story. You can't tie a little ribbon on everything and say it's over. And yeah, I know... 'The Sopranos isn't life.' But it's based on it!"
We're not talking about life. We're talking about a television show. Shows usually have an ending. But I guess the Sopranos is no ordinary show. So, it isn't going to have an ordinary ending.
I'm not calling it life - that's David Chase himself (not Matt "Mad Men" Weiner; a writer on the show, not a producer) saying the show is supposed to be like that. No closure. No real answer.
I just checked Matt's wiki page. It said Matt was a producer during the 4th, 5th, and 6th seasons. Okay, I get your point. Life is open-ended. So is the show. Life is mysterious. So is the show. I only have one questions: Why is closure a bad thing?
"If you're raised on a steady diet of Hollywood movies and network television, you start to think, Obviously there's going to be some moral accounting here. That's not the way the world works."
All of the paragraphs in quotation marks are quotes by Chase himself, chosen to illustrate his storytelling philosophy, and why I think there's no answer to the question of Tony's survival.
Maybe. I have to admit though in some ways, it's a perfect ending. There was a sense of foreboding. It's completely original. And it keeps the fans interested.
By the way, this is not actually a poem it is the title track of the album Seven Souls by a band called Material which features readings by William S. Burroughs from his novel The Western Lands.
Meadow <3
DjRysioo 1 month ago
In love with Adriana fading away at the end. Beautiful.
TheSopranosMusic 1 month ago
This opening lifts this show beyond people and mobsters
JDELUX237 1 month ago
All you youtube fucks don't know the man speaking in this clip - William Burroughs
TheShiteMaster 4 months ago
Does any of this make sense: Egyptians and 7 souls. What exactly does it mean? I barely understand it with this song and THAT VOICE!
jiveturkey25 5 months ago
I know who killed Tony...it was the Russian interior decorator that got away!
ogrenumber1 7 months ago 4
@ogrenumber1 his house looked like shit
MrBlackhawk2010 7 months ago
@ogrenumber1 Tony didn't die; Meadow did.
thelonedissenter 5 months ago
@ogrenumber1 furio came back to kill tony. hes having sex with carmella right now in his house
soonermagic24 5 months ago
@ogrenumber1 Good one. lol
AlwaysLearningTech 3 months ago
Half way to China!
tomaSchlosser 7 months ago
Why did Meadow go out with Fido Dido?
dander337 8 months ago
Bobby and his trains.. "When you die that's where ren comes in" . Poor Bobby, just wanted to share his trains with his son.
BassHeadsProduction 8 months ago
this is the greatest thing ever filmed
qwerty158 9 months ago
Everyone talks about Meadow so much in this.. what about Janice's breast feeding?!? mmmm hahahahahrofl I JOKE i joke
Skyhighblu 10 months ago
Love the foreshadowing in the beginning .... directs the film of your life from start to death, the secret name is the title of your film (bobby playing with his trains, in the ep he died was called blue comet the train he was buying when he got shot) than they show meadow- guardian angel(when tony wakes from the comma he see meadow first n she saved him, and at the end he looks up it goes black while she walks in, she wasnt there to save tony at the end, so much more foreshadowing.. BEST SHOW!
TheMoneymaker662 10 months ago 6
awesome show i still watch tv edited repeats everday. a masterstroke opening for final season tho woulda been cooler if it was 7th season(s)...since using the 7 souls poem.
1WhoMee1 10 months ago
I really missed the quote made by the FBI agent :
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the american public"
ghana25 11 months ago
halfway to china
whatsgoingon07 1 year ago
MEADOW.... that is all.
mahavishnuxc 1 year ago
wtf
Whyrweherereally 1 year ago
best sequence in the entire damn series.
msa1985 1 year ago 3
What a superb montage... one of the best I've ever seen... note the obsession with death and loss, a sign of what's to come!
jarvryan 1 year ago 2
dam i love Jamie Lynn Sigler (Meadow Soprano) she is so fine
reyfuego360 2 years ago 3
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kamorasandra 2 years ago
si c possible d'avoir le titre de la music car elle deboite tout cette music
thedonenzo 2 years ago
"Seven souls"- William s. burrough. je me suis repassé la scene plusieurs fois tellement j'etais traumatisé.
pragma94 2 years ago
God what I would give for Jamie Lynn to give me a dance or two :)
AngryDeuce 2 years ago
gotta love meadow's camel toe...its a friggin' moose knuckle!
GruppeB 2 years ago 17
@GruppeB lol best youtube comment ever
Joefonzgoldenarms 1 year ago
@GruppeB wat? im so lost??
Whyrweherereally 1 year ago
@GruppeB Now, that's just gross. Grow up.
jmeredith44 5 months ago
"I'm worried, Ade."
AdArmand 2 years ago
I love Bobby's face with that train and whith that hat! Then there's Meadow's sexy dance, and AJ being an idoit. LOL My dad had the same phone two cell phones ago, 4 years ago! Despite that fact that he's moved to two different phonesw we still have the sam one as AJ in our house! I like the rest of it too with Carm and Aid!
mizkex 2 years ago
listen to the words and look at who is on, it all matches, like..."second soul, and second to leave the ship",,,its Jean the hitter.."energy, power, light, the director gives the order, secom pushes the right buttons. tony gives order, Jean pushes the button..hes a button man, soldier, and he went after Ray the cooporating wittness.."Ba" trturous, with the fbi remember? AJ, is KA the reliable one, he tried to get uncle june,, Carm is Seku.remaines= I guess he goes at the end, she lives listen.
stox500 2 years ago
*bobby not booby!
BrownBearJenkins 2 years ago
david chase said in an interview that i have a link to somewhere that the clues to what happened to tony are in what booby said to him on the boat (all goes black) and what happened to silvio in the restaurant (you dont even hear it before it happens) david chase wanted to show that crime does pay, by the last thing you seeing being tony, but also if you look depper tony dies therefore it also does not pay
BrownBearJenkins 2 years ago
Did anyone ever hear a convincing theory why Chase started the season with Seven Souls? I haven't even heard a good theory.
sedeyus 2 years ago
Because it sounds cool? Stop looking for clues where there are none! Chase isn't Jodorowsky!
sosiopat 2 years ago
Lol, digs half a foot:
"im halfway to China"
Kampex 2 years ago 2
man i remember watching this on hbo and being so excited cuz this was their first ep back in like 2 years....fuck i miss this show
cs00024 2 years ago 2
yeah, and that was a great intro.
protztom 2 years ago
Thanks for posting - my favourite 3 minutes of the series. Then again, I am The Secret Name, so I'm biased.
tehren99 2 years ago
i love the intro to the 6th season, the song, william s burroughs' narration it's gold. i also love the intro to season 2 of the sopranos. must check it out.
miles2057 3 years ago 2
i hate gino and his flordia thing.
tallica14 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Season 6 was shit.
maddingo12 3 years ago
lol @ fin letting her go what a retard
thundertower 3 years ago
The scene between Aid and Carmela is chilling and sad at the same time.
groffo12345 3 years ago 3
Meadow is hot
jackhos 3 years ago
"im halfway to china" lol
quevao 3 years ago
meadow is so hot
Koenonator 3 years ago 3
she really got hot towards the end of the series! She wasnt very good looking the first 2 seasons but after the third she was smoking hot!!!
wolffootball37 3 years ago
Season six had an amazing beginning. I loved the first 4 episodes. It was too bad they changed the main focus into Vito being gay but it's still the best show on TV.
WickedLiquid 3 years ago 22
@WickedLiquid The focus on Vito was a necessary story arc. Vito's life & death ties in perfectly with scenes in prior episodes when Soprano family discusses the novel Billy Bud, and AJ's paper on the anit-gay themes in that book.
ShawnsterVideos 10 months ago
@ShawnsterVideos Exxactly, great post. Also, it showed what it is to be a man (through Tonys eyes)
STFCstoneroses 9 months ago in playlist The Sopranos Soundtrack Complete
classic intro - a Sopranos Movie is needed
smellykipper8 3 years ago
A movie wouldn't work. The Sopranos is good because of how things develops through each season. A movie wouldn't be as complex.
heyeverybodyshappy 3 years ago
What if it was a series of movies?
augment96 3 years ago
The sopranos is over because david chase ha said everything that needs to be said about these characters. Don't you agree? I love the sopranos, I want more aswell.
heyeverybodyshappy 3 years ago 2
Well, since Tony didn't die at the series finale, the Sopranos could still be continued. But I doubt it. Although, it would be cool to see Paulie on the big screen.
augment96 3 years ago
Tony did die. If you disagree I have no interest in arguing with you, just watch it all again and you will see a pattern emerge.
heyeverybodyshappy 3 years ago
If you don't want to argue with me, why are you arguing with me? Tony didn't die. Who would have killed him? Paulie? Phil was dead. No one hated him enough to kill him, at least no one alive.
augment96 3 years ago
I think it doesn't matter wether Tony dies or not, simply there's no sure indication to assume one thing or the other, and the rest is our own imagination of what could've happened. In fact, there's other things in the finale more interesting, since my point of view
Kobyorx 3 years ago
It's fun arguing whether Tony is dead or not. Well, watching that asshole, Phil, die was pretty entertaining.
augment96 2 years ago 4
It's funny seeing people arguing whether Tony died or not. Since in the Season 6B commentary it's already said that the reason for the ending was to keep Tony's fate undetermined. So NOBODY is right or wrong, till or if the story continues.
groffo12345 2 years ago
He either is dead or alive. So, someone has to be right. The problem is there's no way to prove if you're right or wrong.
augment96 2 years ago
Yes there is. The Sopranos movie will prove he is alive. :)
groffo12345 2 years ago
If there's a movie. And that's a big if.
augment96 2 years ago
"He either is dead or alive."
What? He's a fictional character. If Chase wanted to kill him, and have him return as a zombie, he could. Then he'd be both dead and alive. No, he's not either or. They put in some things to suggest this, and they put in some things to suggest that.
sosiopat 2 years ago
What part of that you didn't understand? He might have gotten shot and died. Or nothing happened to Tony at all. Either could have happened to him. That's all I'm saying. I said OR, not AND. What do you mean he's not dead or alive? Of course, he's either dead or alive.
augment96 2 years ago
"Either could have happened to him. That's all I'm saying."
No, that would have been okay, but that's not all you said. You added "someone has to be right," implying that there is a real answer to the question "Is Tony dead or alive?"
Either COULD have happened - yes - but there's no real way in which you can assert that there is a right answer. It was crafted specifically to avoid knowledge of Tony's fate.
You can only be agnostic about Tony's survival!
sosiopat 2 years ago
There is a real answer to the question "Is Tony dead or alive?". The problem is that no one will ever know the answer. There is just no way to know. There are two sides: one side saying Tony died and the other side saying he lived. One of these sides is right. But there is no way to know which side is right. That is my point.
augment96 2 years ago
I know what your point is, and have thoroughly refuted it. If someone made a documentary about a 100 year old disappearance case (of say, Steve), but no one knew what happened, then it would make sense to say Steve was either killed or not. Steve was a real, living, breathing human being. Tony is a fictional CHARACTER, whose fate David Chase designed to remain unknown, which means probably even he doesn't really know what happened.
Man, some people really have problems with ambiguity.
sosiopat 2 years ago
Yes, I know his fate will remain unknown. But fans still like to argue about whether he lived or died. The fact that he is fictional is irrelevant. To the fans, Tony is as "real" as any other person. That means he can be killed like any other person. Personally, I will always believe that David Chase knows what happened to Tony. And he will never tell anyone what he knows.
augment96 2 years ago
We're on the same wavelength now, and we can agree to disagree. I'm beginning my second year of studying creative writing in a couple of weeks, and I personally would never make anything ambiguous if it weren't ambigious in my own mind. Consider David Lynch: It's not important what happens - what's important is the mood and the feel of it. I tend to get that same feeling from reading interviews with Chase (also a fan of Lynch), but you are right that we will never know.
sosiopat 2 years ago
That might be what you do. But you (or I) have no idea what David Chase would do in his writings. I don't watch David Lynch's work. But I understand your point. But what mood could you get from the Sopranos finale? A lot of fans just felt frustrated or annoyed.
augment96 2 years ago
We don't know, but Chase has said several things that make me think his storytelling philosophy is anti-closure ("There are just people who want this closure and I don't have that"), and he consistently dropped plotlines (the suspected terrorists, the mercenary).
I can understand those who felt frustrated, but personally I liked it. A relentless build-up of tension, and then an anti-climax made ambiguous by the Torciano hit, and Bobby and Tony's conversation. Paranoia. Unknowable future. Life.
sosiopat 2 years ago
Mercenary? What Mercenary? Why would anyone want to be anti-closure? Personally, I liked Season 5 best. Now that was a relentless build-up of tension. And it even had a twist ending. I like twist endings more than anti-climatic endings.
augment96 2 years ago
"They shot a guy. Who knows where he went? Who cares about some Russian? This is what Hollywood has done to America. Do you have to have closure on every little thing? Isn't there any mystery in the world? It's a murky world out there. It's a murky life these guys lead. And by the way, I do know where the Russian is. But I'll never say because so many people got so pissy about it."
(I assume the last part is a taunt - but we'll never know about that either.)
sosiopat 2 years ago
I know that this is a quote from s Sopranos producer but I'm not sure which one. Was it the guy who made Mad Men? What is wrong with closure on everything? Mystery is nice but what they did to Tony was a little bit annoying. Tony wasn't some random Russian. He was the Don of Jersey. And no one even knows if he's alive!! I have to admit that last part is funny. I think you're right. It's just a taunt.
augment96 2 years ago
"In life, you don't get an ending to every story. You can't tie a little ribbon on everything and say it's over. And yeah, I know... 'The Sopranos isn't life.' But it's based on it!"
sosiopat 2 years ago
We're not talking about life. We're talking about a television show. Shows usually have an ending. But I guess the Sopranos is no ordinary show. So, it isn't going to have an ordinary ending.
augment96 2 years ago
I'm not calling it life - that's David Chase himself (not Matt "Mad Men" Weiner; a writer on the show, not a producer) saying the show is supposed to be like that. No closure. No real answer.
sosiopat 2 years ago
I just checked Matt's wiki page. It said Matt was a producer during the 4th, 5th, and 6th seasons. Okay, I get your point. Life is open-ended. So is the show. Life is mysterious. So is the show. I only have one questions: Why is closure a bad thing?
augment96 2 years ago
"If you're raised on a steady diet of Hollywood movies and network television, you start to think, Obviously there's going to be some moral accounting here. That's not the way the world works."
sosiopat 2 years ago
Why can't the world work like that? What's wrong with assuming that evil people get punished and good people get rewarded?
augment96 2 years ago
All of the paragraphs in quotation marks are quotes by Chase himself, chosen to illustrate his storytelling philosophy, and why I think there's no answer to the question of Tony's survival.
sosiopat 2 years ago
Tony's fate is unknown because David Chase wanted to add some mystery to the show?
augment96 2 years ago
No. He kept it mysterious because that's the honest, realistic solution to the show.
sosiopat 2 years ago
Maybe. I have to admit though in some ways, it's a perfect ending. There was a sense of foreboding. It's completely original. And it keeps the fans interested.
augment96 2 years ago 10
stunning
batman444 3 years ago
damn i wish you would have kept that part in when janice says how's uncle june? tony says he's knucklehead smith, thats how he's doin .. lmao
420check420 3 years ago
this was an especially good episode.. TWO dead rats
420check420 3 years ago
the best sopranos intro ever!
m1ln3r87 3 years ago 4
seconded. was just about to comment similarly.
okstereohead 3 years ago
Spanking. Love how so far Bobby's got two comments and Meadow's got only one.
tehren99 3 years ago
i love the opening Bobby & his trains lol that's y bobby is awesome
bobbyzRd23456 4 years ago
He is like an enormous mobster kid
Pejake 4 years ago 3
Hmmm... Meadow!
GeorgePedrosa 4 years ago
Brilliant season opening.
Is there any meaning for the poem being though? Some of what was said made sense with what was on screne...
MJNSEIFER 4 years ago
I think it has to do with what happens at the end of this episode and Tony's journey afterwards...
Don't wanna spoil it, but you all know what happens.
WickedLiquid 4 years ago
By the way, this is not actually a poem it is the title track of the album Seven Souls by a band called Material which features readings by William S. Burroughs from his novel The Western Lands.
okstereohead 3 years ago
That is one of David Chase's biggest talents: His choosing of great music and his editing and mixing of it with the pictures are exquisite.
okstereohead 3 years ago 2