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Certainly an interesting point re: the door. And yes, if I were Chase I'd go around telling everybody, no matter their interpretation, "Why yes, you are right. And I thought of all of that, on my own."

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Todd, I must say I really like your connecting the trees, and how they connect characters, to the "great wind" quote. It kind of levels the playing field (again, echoing the loss of identity when you die, a fate no one can escape, be it you're a Mafia kingpin or a at the bottom the totem pole), showing everyone here

For shits and giggles, and because I need any excuse to procrastinate (when you're cutting a shitty TV show, you need any reason to talk "Sopranos"), the white lasts eight seconds. Or, if you want to count from the first frame it fades in to the last frame (when it's just kind of a "glow"), it's about twenty seconds.

I sort of disagree. Yes, most things in the show had a reason to be there. But that reason wasn't always plot — sometimes it was to reveal character or theme. Or, sometimes (maybe even most times?) there were multiple reasons.

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"Other gems from Chase, who actually smiled a few times:

Entirely possible. Several years went by between writing that pilot and going to series, he could have come back to it with fresh eyes (and a nice education from the School of Chase).

Yeah, I think he would just go head on. Simple and fast. As we'd seen with many mob hits on the show, people don't stand up and try and take down the guy with the gun. You get in, do your job, and get out.

Yeah, and there's a whole lot of talk about "legacy" and "how will I be remembered?" When you're gone, it's like all those around you have left are their memories of your actions, and they can kind of turn you into whoever they want (Johnny Boy is a "saint" now that he's gone, Mikey Palmice's wife "forgets" he called

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This might be a stretch. There are countless other POV scenes throughout the series, and many other scenes with Tony looking up at the trees (the final scene in "Long Term Parking," for one). If anything, I took his looking up during the raking scene as a final reminder those goddamn ducks are gone.

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That's how I read it, yes. I've never read the show as all that Catholic, compared to others. Tony is Catholic in name, but it barely goes skin deep (I mean, he's an adulterous murderer). All that Catholic guilt is just that — guilt. Enter panic attacks.

Exactly. Add the fact that it's very heavily implied that's his mother in there…

A whole lot of entitlement amongst this crew, to say the least.

This is fairly common for a repressed person though. I mean, he also had a wife (with whom he had kids), and a mistress on the side.

You could call it that. Or, like virtually every character on this show, he could be in complete denial about who he really is.