Okay, so I've been told that it's obvious everyone dies at the end of Angel, and even though Joss says the comics are canon, that doesn't mean they didn't all die. And the whole entire point of the episode is that everyone dies.

So...what happened at the end of The Sopranos?

askye,

I have traveled with meds in a plastic bag. no lie. apparently my method is not recommended (based on the comments above), but fuck, it made things really easy. vitamins meds everything in the same bag!

dogs and cats living together!

isn't it the point of ending a show the way "Angel" ended...that the true fate of the characters is unknown?

It's worth discussion of course, and there may be creator intent, but I thought that it was equally valid that they all lived, some died, all died.

I always thought meds were only an issue if you were travelling internationally.

ita,

the LA weekly article you linked. are you sure that poster isn't the creator of TV tropes?

And the whole entire point of the episode is that everyone dies.

No, the whole point is that they keep fighting. Always. Because if nothing you do matters, all that matters is what you do.

Nobody dies onscreen, ergo those people who say everyone dies are wrong. Even without the comics I'd say that's pretty clear.

Jesse, where are you watching the game shows? Are they online?

So...what happened at the end of The Sopranos?

Everyone dies. There's no comics, so it's obvious.

Lady or the Tiger, people arguing with ita !! It's a literary thing, not telling the ending definitively. Device. Maneuver? Thing.

Was the Pyramid always so snappy or has it been edited for syndication? In my memory it seems pretty snappy, especially compared to the bits of Who wWants to Be a Millionaire I've randomly caught that seem to be all ticking down time before that final answer is given.

I thought that it was equally valid that they all lived, some died, all died.

This is pretty much what I thought. I guess some writers might be all "BUT I PUT ALL THE CLUES RIGHT THERE" but that's not a trademark of Jossian writing. The not knowing? He's all over that shit. As far as I took away--the whole point is that they were *fighting*. No matter the odds.

And, given that Joss extended the canon and explicitly said what happened to everyone--don't you have to just say that's the read you prefer?

are you sure that poster isn't the creator of TV tropes?

I am not even going to get that twisty...