At first I was let down. But then I was thinking, did I really want to see Tony get shot in the head , or worse did I really want to see the family get slaughtered? No. After thinking about it, I think it was a brilliant ending also, because so many things could have happened, those mentioned before or others----Tony's family sees him get killed, the whole family gets killed, Meadow watches her family get killed, --were those people really there to whack them or maybe they were not and nothing happened. And no music at the end--did the silence mean something--Tony's dead? THey placed so much importance on choosing the music for each episode--I think they even did an HBO special on it.