Anticlimax

What a downer. I wait all of this time. All of this complicated back and forth between senators, warriors, and townspeople, and THIS is what I get? There was an army at the walls of Rome for God's sake! And what do we get? A momma's boy falls to the women of his life after being so stalwart as to deny even his closest, oldest friends. Aufidius was even a weakling about it. This play is too long and too complex to leave so much open-ended: the tribunes, the lack of a battle for Rome. It seems to me that Shakespeare actually managed to write himself into a corner and in order to finish had to create a situation that would allow Coriolanus to simply stop and turn around. At the same time, it's history and i suppose that has a bearing on it. But there's one death in the entire play, the only lesson you can gather is that Corilanus died because he turned against his people, after they had turned against him.
I think that it's ridiculous that they didn't kill the tribunes. All of the plotting, all of the backroom politics ended in simply a condemnation from Menenius and that's more or less the last scene we have in Rome. I guess that they represent a more populist viewpoint, but no matter how big of an ass that Coriolanus is to the people, they need him in order to pprotect them, and as a result I've grown to see the tribunes as the biggest villians in the whole play.