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Article: Why Tony Soprano must die.(the Tube)
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- The American Enterprise
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Television ... that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night--Ray Bradbury
Tony Soprano must die. There's really no other way the brilliant HBO series can end. Consider the options:
1) He goes into the Witness Protection Program, gets a new life as an insurance salesman in North Dakota. How you doin'. You got enough term insurance? 'Cause things, I dunno, they have a way of happenin'. After six months he'd snap, and beat a waiter to death at the Olive Garden for passing off rigatoni as mostaciolli. Not that the guy had it coming. But, you know, things had been buildin' up.
It wouldn't be dramatically satisfying for Tony to ...