I'd swap the final face with the opening shot of the last episode with Tony waking up in a coffin.

Actually, the lucky fuckers get to watch it with one level of appreciation now and then see whole whopping new levels of meaning and insight when they're older. I say this as someone who's watched thousands of movies, most of the noted classics and just about every concluded TV show I might have an interest in. It's…

Yeah, it's a world of infinite media choices; give them a few decades to catch up with the classics.

Who will sadly never see an ending to the story he's in, black or otherwise.

Tony isn't dead, nor is he alive. He's fictional. Remember Tony's conversation with AJ after his pathetic, botched attempt to go stabby on Uncle Junior - the one where AJ actually references the Godfather scene where Michael Corleone retrieves the gun from the bathroom? "It's just a movie. You gotta grow up."

Was The Sopranos shot on film? Back when film was a thing, a "cut to black" meant they had to literally add black slug, so while it wasn't done in camera, it was "a shot" in the editing sense - the physical product of movie making itself being a spliced collection of strips of celluloid.

It's kind of like something Dan Savage said recently. When you ask someone, "Are you gay?" and they refuse to answer, it pretty much means the answer is yes. Straight people will almost always answer no, so no answer is an answer.

That can't be right though. People creating a show are on the other side of the screen. They don't think about "cable boxes"; they think about coverage, performance, sets, budgets, rewrites, deadlines. David Chase isn't Andy Kaufman; he's trying to finish his story for good or bad. If anybody considered the…

I wouldn't necessarily assume that Chase would be aware of it though. Creating a tv show is an inhuman amount of work, and doesn't leave you a whole lot of time to surf the internet. You're barely aware of what's going on in your own life.

Such as?

Richard Dysart of L.A. Law also passed yesterday. A sweet, sweet man. I hope he gets an obit.

The AV Club presents a list of four blockbusters, seven Oscar winners, 14 barely-released movies you meant to see but skipped because the blockbusters were closer and 25 films you've never heard of and probably never will again (not until 2020's list anyway).

Everyone responding to this post is completely wrong!

The Lucille Ball on I Love Lucy has this sculptor… making… slapstick, uhhh… DAMMIT!

And…… Scene!

No, sure, you said druggie and I said druggie and then….

Yeah, I did that with the whole "beer" thing. You're not paying very close attention, are you?

Passing judgment on the means people choose to alter their consciousness.

See how easy that is?

Keep pouring them down your throat, druggie.