Am I really to believe that the Sopranos series needed another season to end like this?

Based on the reviews it was a love it or hate it ending. I didn't love it.... I would be more forgiving if it would have ended last year. To drag out ten episodes to leave it like this? That is not to say that there were some memorable moments to this season, but why drag the series out like this?

Everything we were lead to believe about needing another season to complete the story was a lot of talk. Loose ends are left everywhere you turn.

The finale is summed up as, Tony waits for the hit that never comes, he reaches out to Phil's crew for a sit down. They agree that Phil has lost control, as if anyone ever really has it long in this show. All the bad things that has happened to the family are all neatly polished up for a feel good end, Meadow looks to be getting married and has a lucrative job offer from a prominent law office. Anthony Jr. quickly comes out of depression now that he has a new girl friend and new job working on a movie, that Tony is financing. Carm is planning her next house... and Paulie is, just being as goofy as ever. The down side is that it looks like Tony is going to be facing some jail time in the near future. In the final scenes, the family agrees to meet a  restaurant (that I don't remember them ever eating at) and as the family members assemble one by one. First Tony, then Carm, Anthony Jr, and still parking the car....Meadow...We watch in great anticipation as "others" come into the restaurant slowly as if a hit is about to be carried out, and as Meadow finally heads to the door.... the screen goes black!

As another person wrote in their review, "I was left fumbling with my tivo remote thinking that something had happened to my receiver"

I laugh, because I did the same, the only difference is, I was also reduced to yelling "What the F...?" (What can I say... I was watching the Sopranos!)

In the end I blame it on bad writing! Call it artistic. Call it what you want. I call it sucking more money out of the series, and not knowing how to end.
Anyone who's review says it ended perfect, hasn't been listening to all the hype! We were teased by the trailers, each week that things would really heating up! But in the end, it appears that the season finale is a choose your own ending!

So the ending I choose...
Paulie becomes so freaked out by the cat, he gets up and runs from his chair into the road and gets hit by an oncoming vehicle.
Tony goes to prison for 15 years.
Silvo dies after being removed from life support.
Anthony Jr. becomes an "earner" to support Carm's "honest" lifestyle, turning homes.
Meadow studies law for a couple of years, is bitter by the trumped up charges on her father, and starts controlling the family business from the shadows, (through Tony in prison), and eventually becomes the Boss.
Carm, becomes a basket case after; the feds take the house, she learns that Silvio killed Adriana, can't forgive Tony for not putting away any money for her, and the fact her kids are mixed up in the family business, and supporting her. Finally she ends up in where she loathes the most, in counseling!

Lastly I choose, NO MOVIE!  Please! I can't take anymore...

What do you choose....?