Exactly. In one sentence you described the whole interview and Weiner's intentions behind the ending. Yet we'll still get a million comments here that it's still "ambiguous." You should have a million up votes sir.

I ranted about this below. The same people who are in denial about this are the same people who think Tony Soprano is still alive. Most people need to just stick to Game of Thrones and Empire. We are regressing as a nation.

Actually Chase is on record as praising the Master of Sopranos essay.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not turn the ending of Mad Men into yet another example of how Americans look stupid and are incapable of understanding what isn't explicitly laid out in front of them! Yes!, Don Draper did the Coke commercial, it's incredibly obvious based on any close reading of that episode and Weiner…

I think Patriot fans are the new OJ jurors of the 21st century with their ridiculous denial. Brady's been cheating for years and yet another Patriots Super Bowl title has an asterisk. The sheer balls and arrogance of Brady and Belichick is becoming a big stain on the league. I'm still waiting for the leagues "rule…

And I don't even think we know if he has a house. He could live in an apartment in Staten Island (I know I did for many years before moving to Manhattan).

I laughing my ass off when Rapaport was using his patrol car microphone to tell Louie to stop bothering little kids.

He was fine on Justified and incredible in this Louie episode. The guy is a really good actor. I think because he mostly plays douches people project that into disliking him as an actor.

Fair enough. But let me ask this question:
I think you would agree that the scene is cut short before its natural conclusion. That the cut to black and sudden loss of sound is basically an interruption as if your cable went out. I think you would agree that it was not a "fade" to credits. You obviously know the…

I'm not arguing with you on your last point. Whether you think the discussion is "pointless" and even irrelevant to Chase has nothing to do whether the scene does or does not suggest Tony's death. I'm just saying that Chase has been adamant about not giving an explicit answer to that question. His avoidance to…

That's a completely ridiculous jump and assertion. Chase has explained many times the importance of POV In the final scene. He could simply mean that its' not a shot in the traditional sense (i.e. a filmed scene). He says he didn't "consider" the black a shot (not that it ISN'T a shot). He also says "we see black"…

Exactly, he all but gave away there that the final shot is Tony's final POV. The other thing is the avoidance of giving the answer also suggests Tony died because he's alive the last time we see him. If Chase felt Tony was alive, all he has to say is "You idiots, did you SEE him die?". On the other hand, if you…

Chase has never said "Tony is neither alive nor dead" (what a strange interpretation that would be!). What he's consistently said is that he will not explicitly give an answer while at the same time (in now over DOZENS of quotes and interviews) suggesting over and over (and over again) that Tony died in the final…

You had me up until the end. It's nothing but fan fiction speculation that Carm and AJ were killed too. I don't think Chase would even go that dark. I do think Meadow not being there has very important significance. Chase decided to cut to black before Tony ever saw Meadow (and a second before he would see Meadow…

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Chase is talking about the little moments which are probably the most important: just being with the people you love. You do realize Tony loves his children? His point was his death will keep him from those moments ever again but at the same time was the consequences of the choices in his life. I don't think Chase…

Yup. Just like the hitman who shot Gerry the Hairdo in front of about a hundred witnesses inside a crowded restaurant. Or the two hit-men who shot Silvio in front of hundreds of witnesses in a crowded parking lot adjacent to a highway. Or the guys who shot Bacala in a toy train shop with cameras and witnesses. Or…

This is getting WAY to technical for me. I don't know.

If it makes you understand it better or to describe it another way: it's not technically a POV "shot" because the person (i.e. Tony) with the POV is no longer there. (dead people don't have POV). This is set up with the bell ringing Tony POV sequence except the last time we don't cut to Tony's POV when expected,…

He doesn't have to admit it. We see Tony do it when MOG goes to the bathroom.