So Tony really did get whacked, Sopranos theorists say upon further review

In a story filed by the Reuters News Service, a Home Box Office spokesman hinted that there's a legitimate way to view the last episode of The Sopranos.

And that view is that Tony Soprano, the head of the family, got murdered with his wife and son sitting at a restaurant table with him and his daughter entering the eating establishment.

The biggest hint, according to a consensus taking shape on the Web, is a scene from an earlier episode in which Tony and his brother-in-law, Bobby Bacala, muse about what it feels like to die.
"At the end, you probably don't hear anything, everything just goes black," Bobby says while they sit fishing in a small boat on a lake.
That scene is recalled briefly in a flashback played at the end of the penultimate Sopranos episode, as Tony is lying in the darkened room of a safehouse clutching a machine gun to his chest in the midst of a mob war.
"I think that is one of the most legitimate things to look at," (the HBO spokesman) said when asked about theories that the Bobby Bacala flashback was meant to foreshadow Tony's death.
Moreover, he said the man in the "Members Only" jacket could be interpreted as a symbolic reference to mob membership. "Members Only" also was the title of the episode in which Tony's demented Uncle Junior shoots him.

My guess would be David Chase probably doesn't like HBO or its spokespeople lending creedence to any particular view.

But what're you gonna do?
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