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Breaking his silence months after the HBO mob drama The Sopranos ended its run, creator David Chase is speaking about that final blackout at the restaurant. He strongly suggests that, no, Tony Soprano didn't get whacked moments later as he munched onion rings with his family. And mostly Chase wonders why so many viewers got so worked up over the ending.

"There was a war going on that week ...," he says. "But these people were talking about onion rings."

In the interview, included in The Sopranos: The Complete Book, published this week, Chase defends the bleak, seemingly inconclusive ending as appropriate - and even a little hopeful. And he insists it wasn't meant as a prank. "Why would we entertain people for eight years only to give them the finger?"

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