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Sopranos' finale: Fade to black
Jamesgandolfini_sopranos_240_002This is what I'm taking away
from the finale of The Sopranos, which no matter what you think
about how it ended is one of the great achievements in
television history:  Those psychologists who did the study on
the talking cure vis-a-vis sociopaths were right. Because for
all that's happened to Tony Soprano in the time we've known him,
at his core he hasn't really changed that much. This entire
final run of episodes, to me, has been about showing that Tony
can't escape who he is or where he's come from, and further, he
may not want to all that much.  Life for him is always going to
be like that final scene (and we'll get to that here shortly).
Even when he's surrounded by the people he loves, and for whom
he presumably does what he does, at least in part, he's always
going to be on edge, nervous about what's coming through the
door next.  And that's why the finale, which followed the show