some little typewriter eh I'm going to write my name all over this town with in big letters hey stop him somebody get out of my way Johnny I'm going to spit so little known fact I'm actually a big Sopranos fan I mean it should have been obvious by now but what can you expect from a bunch of Gamers they don't even know what gutters are what gutters on a roof where on the edge the things that collect the water I don't know what you mean don't get smart with with me I don't know the drain pipes for
the rain also those little Fallout videos you like so much yeah actually those were just stepping stones mere tests on my path to create the ultimate Sopranos fan Theory though to be fair it was between this and The Sopranos analog horror video can you shut the door Lela can you pleas shut the door in all seriousness this is going to be a weird video for the channel but it's another stretch late in theory so it kind of checks out it's also my late tribute to fellow video game conspiracist Matt
Pat who just announced his retirement from YouTube this January it's an end of something that helped inspire me to reach these levels I'm at right now and just like I can't thank you guys enough for it I can't think him enough as well so I hope this video will do with all that said in the good old goofy Spirit of game theory in April Fool's Day here's a theory of my own that Tony Soprano beloved protagonist of the HBO classic The Sopranos is suffering in Hell In The Soprano's Universe there exis
ts the supernatural ghosts miracles and visions of Hell itself are all things characters in the show experience at some point or another surprisingly it's easy to forget these are all just really small happenings in a show that spans 78 hours and what isn't overshadowed by the soprano crime family's hinks is often outright rationalized and explained Away by characters that was a dream forget about it however Le's explanations though logical are ultimately wrong in the 2021 prequel film The Many
Saints of nework we learned that hell and the afterlife are very much the real deal in fact hell is we're one of the members of the soprano crew Christopher malasan narrates the movie from that's the guy my Uncle Tony the guy I went to hell for basically if Christopher's and in Hell things don't fear all that well for Tony because for all of his sins Chrissy is no Tony Soprano Christopher who's killed people killed a dog cheats on his loving fiance Adriana beats Adriana ratted out Adriana broken
at least seven of God's ten commandments and committed many more sins than that isn't nearly as wicked as Tony is Tony kills people beats people ruins lives breaks people down gleefully corrupts LS around him kills family shows No Remorse for it and just generally becomes irredeemably evil by the end of the six season show Even if you love Tony do you honestly see him winding up in heaven even when he says he will we're soldiers you know soldiers don't go to hell we know this is wrong because o
f Chris but if hell is real in the soprano know that raises another question what's it like what torment awaits one of TV's favorite sociopaths well remember how I talked about the characters in the show who see the supernatural in their lives but somehow or another dismiss it they miss the meaning of what they witness well maybe we're not all that different after all maybe we are seeing Tony's hell and we just don't realize is it let's go on a weird tangent for a second but it's going to make s
ense I promise there's this other show called American Horror Story my mom recorded it back when cable was a thing and I'd catch glimpses of it here and there to be honest I barely remember anything about it other than there was a season about witches that had a talking head and Stevie Nicks was in it but there was this one thing that really did stick with me about the show and that was its depiction of hell because rather than being this fiery Place filled with demons hell an American Horror St
ory is what the hell you're papaa you live in a Chicken Shack no darling it's not the hell it's your hell this was the worst time of your life waiting on people who treated you like the piece of trash you thought you were no power no respect and no future that you could see just grease in your hair and the smell of loud in your nose this was my first exposure to an idea of hell outside the fiery one hell being this infinite Loop of your worst memory replayed again and again for all eternity and
again it stuck with me enough that I noticed the AMC Show preacher basically had the same idea this is another show that I barely remember anything about to be honest there was an Irish vampire Bor Shack was in it but what do I remember the most the depiction of Hell the Eternal Loop of your worst memory the absolute worst part of your life on repeat for Infinity years go by and finally I get to watch a show worth remembering The Sopranos it's fantastic the acting the writing it's depressing and
moving and funny like really funny and then there's the time Chrissy gets shot and has a near-death experience I crossed over to the other side and he talks about what hell is like I saw my father in hell and the bouncer said that I'd be there too when my time comes what B the emerald Piper that's our hell it's an Irish bar where it's St Patrick's Day every day forever Mikey pomi and Brandon Fon were there too they're friends now they were playing dice with two Roman soldiers and a bunch of the
Irish guys doesn't make sense and the Irish they were winning every role my father said he loses every hand of cards he plays and every night at midnight they Whack Him the same way he was whacked in life and it's painful night after night and suddenly The ugab Booga part of my brain goes hey that's like the hell Loop in American Horror Story with Stevie Nicks but seriously these are the clues we get of what hell is and what Tony's hell will ultimately be it has personalized settings there's lo
ops and most importantly Chrissy is the key to all this the nature of Hell itself is revealed through him so we'll keep talking about him for a little bit Christopher is a member of the soprano crime family he's a soldier for the mob so his hell involves being surrounded by soldiers on the losing side of an eternal card game he also learns that his father Dicky moltisanti is stuck suffering in a loop what seems to be implied here is that not only is Hell personalized for each sinner it targets o
ne's greatest sin Christopher's biggest sin is his pride which gets revealed a couple of times in the show one of which is another episode in season 2 called deir and while there's a lot to remember about that episode one of them is that this is where Christopher chooses his Destiny rather than following his dreams of becoming part of the film industry here he fully Embraces Tony Soprano but it's wholly out of Pride he's not really doing this for Tony nor is he picking his crew out of any real l
ove or loyalty for them Tony had already told Christopher to knock it off with the screenwriter stuff forget howlywood screenplay forget those distractions and yet in this episode he goes ahead and exposes true crime stories to the director of Iron Man when Christopher makes his decision to choose Tony it's out of his own wounded Pride for getting outplayed in Hollywood he Retreats fully into an underworld where there's no threat to his self-esteem and remember Christopher almost turns entirely
against that underworld when he learns Adriana is an FBI informant in season 5 what snaps him out of it his pride right before he goes through with running off he sees his future in this man he sees a man drained tired tied down by life a regular existence Christopher can't handle it so he lets his pride win as a result Chrissy's hell is that same Pride being wounded for all eternity losing to enemies watching his father fear his own death waiting to watch them die and that's just what we learn
in the show in the movie we get a Christopher fully in Hell spending the movie narating over the life of his father dicki but we also get to witness more than just his father's life KY has to see the rise of a young Tony he has to see what's supposed to be the golden years of the mob and how it's really not all that great and worst of all he has to watch his father's rival humiliate him and succeed I'm certain Soprano's Creator David Chase who co-wrote the many Saints meant for it to be a decons
truction of that glorious Mafia past but I do agree with fans that it is a bit underwhelming especially compared to the TV show The Magic of the show is largely missing from the movie and honestly they botched Sil Mo Maron he looks terrible funnily enough that actually helps this Theory a bit it's like the many Saints really is Chrissy's hell watching his father fail and die forced to see this mystified age be nothing more than a dull mess and his murderer get an okay origin story an eternal att
ack against his pride that's Christopher's hell and it gives us the tools we need to finally learn what Tony's hell is if hell in The Sopranos is personalized to your greatest sin Loop like like and even that's you see into the lives of others is Tony's hell The Sopranos is Tony's hell just him watching the entire show over and over again you know Quasimoto predicted all this the way I see it Tony's hell Loop is watching the destruction of his life we see things from his direct point of view wit
nessing his world slowly darken and worse over time his failures the betrayals from those in his life his own betrayals just plainly seeing what he was too selfish to realize all along the same way Chris's hell is to watch the life of Dicky and his associates seeing what he was too prideful to realize all along Christopher's great sin was his pride Tony's great sin was his selfishness his disregard for the lives around him now in hell he can't disregard anyone anymore people's lives permanently
intertwined with his own life Loop and he's forced to watch not only his own suffering forever but the suffering of others he once ignored that being said this is going to be a huge stretch since he does have a runin with what seems to be a very specific personal help like Christopher Tony has a near-death experience of his own in season 6 when Tony gets shot by his dementia ridden Uncle junr Tony becomes Kevin finery a businessman diagnosed with Alzheimer's and invited to aery family reunion hi
s memory issues caused him not to be able to recognize his own cousin Tony blundetto who he just killed in season 5 his cousin who is now trying to lead him inside a White House excuse me is this the infinity reunion hello there they're waiting for you me of course has Kevin finity arrived we don't talk like that here what what do you mean your family's in sight what family they're here to welcome you I don't understand you're going home I am everyone's in there you can't bring business in there
I uh I lost my real briefcase set my whole life was in it what is that briefcases aren't allowed oh a voice please let me take that from you looks like it weighs a ton I don't want to well you need to you need to let go we love you daddy don't leave us for some reason uh I'm scared well there's nothing to be scared of you can let it go just come say hello hi Daddy it's a very unnerving scene and it does raise the question why wouldn't this White House be Tony's hell again upon his death especia
lly when what seems to torment Tony during the show is fear of a family home the thing he has a nightmare over most likely due to the abuse suffered at the hands of his mother Livia who he sees a silhouette of in both his nightmare and the White House Plus guess what we see in the final scene which people speculate is a followup to Tony's death well you got to remember that Chris didn't have the same hell as his near-death experience of it so why should Tony for all we know the coma hell is symb
olic of the true hell waiting for Tony who tries to live as someone he's not a tough gangster but always winds up coming home returning to the childhood house in his heart unable to escape with the cycle of violence until in the series finale of The Sopranos made in America Tony dies he enters a restaurant called holston's to have a family dinner waiting on his daughter Meadow for a non-el eternity only for there to be a sudden cut to black Tony is shot dead and I know it's left ambiguous I know
people will say the cut to Black could mean a couple of three things and he could have just as easily lived but there's so much evidence to support Tony dying compared to living the most significant being a message Christopher got in hell to bring to Tony 3:00 and in the last scene when this Sinister guy eyes Tony and walks past him to the bathroom where is he the exact right side of Tony his 3:00 like I said before Chrissy is the key to all this also for what it's worth Tony would have a reaso
n to get whacked in front of his family even if it's against Mafia code it's the same code Tony broke whacking Phil in the last episode the New York crime families aren't going to be happy so be it New York or somebody else Tony gets shot in the head and the worst part of his life Loops again his descent as a human being starting in Dr Mel's office faced with the woman's statue towering over him like his domineering mother and then faced with Dr mie herself who on some subconscious level reminds
Tony of his mother an unwinable reminder of his weakness the loop has just begun let's return back to the holen scene though Tony doesn't have the choice and I don't either because there's a lot more to this scene it's actually in researching people's interpretations of the ending where I found out I wasn't alone in thinking Tony's in Hell except whereas I think that's what the whole show is his hell a lot of people seem to believe it's just a final scene at holston's the darkness the tension t
he White House making another appearance dividing Tony from his family like his death is about to the background characters some of which resemble those from Tony's life as if this is some hellish mockery of his existence a sick subversion of your life flashing before your eyes one of these characters includes the member's only jacket guy that ends up killing Tony except he looks a lot like the character Eugene who was part of the soprano crew died in the first episode of season 6 due to Tony se
lfishness and who also wore a memb only jacket right before he went into a restaurant to and he's deliberately named in the credits because they wanted us to pay attention to this it's a pretty blatant setup and payoff however what stood out to me the most about the scene was how Tony walks in and sees himself this is Tony's POV he walks in he sees an empty seat POV shot here's Tony looking annoyed and then here's Tony's POV again watching himself to me this is when we the audience and Tony merg
es one right at the end right before his death the final clue we need to solve the puzzle if Tony's hell is his point of view then this is Tony in that hell this is a face of a man man who seen everything we have countless times now about to watch another death another loop it's also been noted that these first POV shots are very reminiscent of the ending scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey where a main character continuously sees aged versions of himself in a strange Loop then he's reborn as an obser
ver figure who's ascended life and death at the cost of their Humanity likewise Tony is stuck watching himself get increasingly older since time passes with every hell Loop he becomes an observer who's overcome his death but at a cost and ultimately He Still Remains the Same Manchild that got him into hell in the first place while this might sound like a colossal stretch David chase is on record saying he was trying to capture the feeling of 2001's ending with his own ending making it so that th
roughout the series finale whenever Tony arrived someplace he would see himself simply put made in America was an intentional homage to 2001 after all this was one of David Chase's favorite films in part due to its ambiguity which he wanted in his own work one of my favorite movies is 2001 I don't know who that baby in the bubble is right but you like that but I like it I don't like to have every question in mhm I like there to be possibilities for me to think that's why it's not like some kind
of snotty attitude like oh well you know I have temp for the audience that's the kind of movies I like to go to see not surprisingly even 25 years later people are still talking about The Sopranos a show that respects his audience enough to let us think about what it's showing instead of blatantly just saying it is still discussed and debated about to this day I won't even be surprised if people really disagree with my idea on Tony's fate maybe we'll get some good rebuttal and learn he has a sho
t in purgatory after all hell is hot that's never been disputed by anybody you didn't go to hell but one way or another the path Tony sets himself on is one I wouldn't wish upon anybody where he's constantly at risk of betrayal or death without any chance of Escaping The Mob Life where the further he falls because of it the more he loses his soul and his loved ones where he can see what he needs to do to become a better man trying and trying but just failing again and again even if you don't bel
ieve in this Theory or an afterlife for that matter perhaps we can agree to one thing that Tony really is in Hell April fools
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