I'm telling you this Slick is no joke.

Does anyone have any idea where the fuck any of these guys are?

Yeah, and they cut the stuff with Vincent being a coke head which also would have flipped the genre conventions (I couldn't possibly imagine a control freak like Neil touching drugs).

Who was the guy who played Waingro? He was incredible.

From what I understand, AJ's travails throughout the final season were very personal to David Chase himself, who suffered through serious depression at that age as well.

Ralph loved "Gladiator."

He definitely loved his mother/aunt. Just go watch "Mayhem" if you don't believe that.

"No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one may be true."

I knew this whole project was turning into shit when they cast a 22 year old baby face for Pennywise in hopes of attracting a "younger audience".

Awesome post. Great interpretation. Some people are projecting their anti-corporation dogma onto their interpretation of the ending as "cynical." The guy went back to work to a job he's great at and made one of the best commercials in tv history. There's nothing wrong with that. He didn't kill anyone.

Fixed again! I love you guys…….

And one of the earliest quotes from Chase before he got all P.C. on the subject. Here he basically calls the American public stupid for not getting the implied (Tony died) but not explicitly spelled out (i.e. see Tony bloody and shot) ending. Just like in Planet of Apes where Charlton Heston doesn't actually scream…

And perhaps the most important quote to make the point. Chase says he will never give the answer thereby suggesting that there IS an answer to the question. But at the same time completely suggests that Tony died right there, not some time in the distant future.

And more from Chase here. Does it sound like to you that Tony just MAY have died that night or that he did, in fact, take that bullet to the head:

I have to find it. I read it somewhere but it had to be google translated. It was from an interview from Europe I believe.

More from Chase, indicating that for him there is a clear answer but that he doesn't want to have to explain it:

Wrong answer. Chase isn't saying that the answer is "He could die here that night or some other time". He is saying that he refuses to give the explicit answer because the answer isn't the whole philosophical point behind the scene. And if you want to quote Chase I could pull other quotes from Chase which suggest…

"Now he has to live like this,"

Weiner actually talks about the finale for a few minutes at the AMC site "behind the episode" video.
When discussing Don he quotes Anna Draper's line (while never stating that it was Anna Draper that said it) at the end of Season 2 to Don: "the only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are…

Fixed. Thank you….