YOU DID THIS, people who don't understand smart things on tv!

The final episode of "The Sopranos" was on tonight. If for some reason you didn't see it and you don't want me to spoil anything, stop reading.

Within 2 minutes of the credits rolling, the internet was full of messages of hate.

"WHAT THE FUCK!"
"THIS SUX!"
"STUPEDIST SHIT EVRR!"
"SKRUE U DAVED CHEAS"

As time went by, both the messages and the spelling proceeded to get worse and worse. People couldn't take it. They couldn't handle it. How dare they end the show like that?

In case you don't know, the final scene was the family out to dinner, tension in the air. Tony keeps seeing people who could potentially whack him. There's no way to know. It feels like something bad is going to happen as Journey blasts out of the jukebox. Then, we cut to black. Not fade. CUT. And we stay there for a while.


The final 10 seconds...
A lot of folks didn't seem to like this. I can only imagine that these are same people as the "American Movie Patrons" that The Cuban Missile wrote about in April. Is it not enough for them to demand shitty crap in my theatres but now they want it on my TV?! "The Sopranos" has never been "Goodfellas." Yeah, there's been whacking and mob stuff and all that, but is that what the show was about? Did you forget all the "artsy" things that have happened along the way? You expected this all to turn into a giant bloodbath, didn't you? Perhaps you wanted this to all wrap-up nicely?

I hate to break it to you, but "The Sopranos" is a show with things like metaphors and symbols. A show in which things aren't clear cut. In this world, things aren't like that. This is a show that demands you think about it afterwards. But perhaps asking you children to think is giving you all way too much credit. Tell me what you were honestly expecting the show's ending to be! It left us in the same place that Tony will be in for the rest of his life.

That's right. Tony is alive. Don't think you can escape, people who liked the ending but think Tony dies. You are just as slow as the haters. In some ways, you are even more annoying. You pretend to like the smart ending but you don't even know why it was smart. The blackout was not Tony getting shot. The final shot that blacked out WASN'T EVEN FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW! If anything it was you, the viewer getting shot by David Chase. That's it for you. You don't deserve any more.

Smart people around the country feel very satisfied from this show we've loved for years. Idiots are whiny babies. Go watch your Tivoed Geico commercials to make sure you're all caught-up on the big important plot-points before CAVEMEN debuts in the fall...

Goodnight, Sopranos. Your replacements shall only remind us of how great you were. And how great you ended...