HERE IS THE ENDING,...   Like most, I felt totally unsatisfied by the ending... BUT...
theN   I got this email that theorizes the ending. If this is
what David Chase had in mind -- genius.
Here goes...

Tony was killed....

in fact, the ending was genius if you've paid attention to the show or
are just a fan of well developed well thought out plots that all tie
together and have the memory of a champ to remember it all the ending
was simple, he got killed, but let me tell yall why and explain in
detail... There was 3 people in the room total who had a reason to
kill
tony.....

the two black guys, they were paid before to kill tony but he was only
shot in the ear, this was in one of the earlier seasons, also in the
earlier seasons, the trucker who was sitting at the bar stool, who the
camera kept focusing in on, is Nikki leotardo, Phil Leotardos nephew,
he
was in one of the early season episodes where Phil and Tony have a sit
down....

heres where the genius comes in....

When tonys walking in the diner,you see the camera focus on him, then
it
switches to his perspective, and you see him looking @ the booth hes
gonna sit at...

then the camera switches back to tonys face, then it once again
switches
to his perspective, and it shows him looking @ the door and looking @
the people come in..... Everytime the door opens the Chimes
sound.......

Carmela walks in, Chimes, AJ walks in Chimes, this when Meadows
parallel
parking, still trying to get inside the restaurant.. ..

at this point the camera switches back to the trucker who goes in the
bathroom.... ..

Then it goes to a scene where meadow finally parks and starts running
in
the diner....

the doors about to open, Tony looks up....

and No Chimes...... ......... .......

no Music....... .....

everything just goes black....... ........

in one of the early episodes of the sopranos, tonys talking with bobby
bout what it must feel like to die..

Bobby says "at the end, you probably dont hear anything, everything
just
goes black"

part of that was revisited in the second to last episode during the
last
seconds of it, when tonys about to go to sleep and he flashes back to
the memory of him and bobby on the boat... "You probably dont hear
anything everything just goes black"

so in the end, the Journey song was playing, the chimes on the door
sounded but when meadow came in, the guy in the trucker hat came out
and
killed tony...

its the reason you aint hear, or see sh!t when he died.... it was from
his perspective. ... and everything went black, then the credits
rolled.