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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5291707, member: 833"] I flagged the plot hole about the teenage son early, and wondered why they didn’t just kill him. Maeve having ordered it, apparently with Conrad’s blessing, was explained about halfway through the season. It wasn’t much of a reveal so I don’t know why it was held back, but it was explained. Read about many of the mob bosses throughout history, and they are more Conrad Harrigan, lunatic who rules through terror and force of personality more than brains, than Tony Soprano, 130 IQ corporate executive who moves seemlessly between golf clubs and complicated white collar scams when he isn’t executing his friends. I actually liked that the Conrad character was not that smart because it made the plot more interesting. I really liked the last few episodes of the Sopranos, but was there any question that Tony would win? He was so much smarter than Phil that it would have been silly if he didn’t win. Conrad on the other hand, kept screwing up. Brosnan did a great job with the character, because playing a not-that-bright but still credible as a leader character is not easy. Black Mass is Johnny Depp’s last good movie, and it is a very accurate portrayal of Whitey Bulger. I knew a family member of one of Bulger’s victims whose murder was covered up by Boston FBI agents. Bulger was a lot more Conrad Harrigan than Tony Soprano. [/QUOTE]