I still haven't decided how I feel about it. I do think that the point of it was that nothing changes, that these characters will keep on doing what they're doing whetehr we are watching or not, that whatever it looks like Tony is not learning anything and AJ probably isn't either and Meadow may be just as weirdly stick as they are and who knows what the hell goes on in Carmela's head, anyway? Someday Tony will end up like Junior, or Sil, or Phil Leotardo, or Johnny Sack, and does it matter which? It's all bad and it's all his bed and they are all stuck in the same grooves they've made.
Unless the guy who went into the bathroom came back out and shot Tony in the head.
I spent most of Phil's death scene trying to climb through the back of my sofa with my fingers in front of my eyes yelling at the TV "Don't show it, for god' sake don't show me that". I'm usually more considerate of my neighbors, but all that anticipation just killed me.
Coincidentally, Don't Stop Believing was a local high school's graduation theme song. is Journey making a resurgence?