I agree about women bosses, although we had the Italian female boss Annalisa and Lorraine Calluzzo, Lorraine didn't pan out as well as we hoped,(kinda odd how almost as soon as she's introduced she gets whacked, as if to say women aren't mobsters, especially considering how she begged for her life, twice.) There have been plenty of notorious female criminals in real life such as Griselda Blanca and Madame Queen and while I am not sexist I doubt a female would become appointed boss even of the fledgling Soprano/DiMeo family without being a capo first. And as far as the choices mentioned, Carm would do better than Janice and Meadow. Rosalie Aprile was tough but she probably knew nothing about running a crime family. Angie Bonpensero is probably the best female candidate since she's connected but c'mon huh, as Phil said about Tony being a "boss" in Jersey.
Patsy is an interesting choice but Chris barely respected him and eventually passed over Patsy as captain of Paulie's crew. Larry technically was a snitch even though he only ratted the late Jackie Sr. Also he already had the feds on his back as a captain, I figure he would decline if asked to be the boss.
Paulie was around since Johnny Boy was boss and wasn't upped to capo until season 2 when Furio came to America and New York knew he wasn't in the top three and was correct, poor Paulie."heh-heh". And Benny is too young and took way too many beatings to ever become boss.
I think that leaves Alley Boy Barese. I am surprised that no one mentioned him, but not that surprised. While he seemed respectable and insightful judging from his conversation with Richie April and when talked to Silver and Patsy about Ralph being"missing" he kinda sounded like a dumbass with how he repeated everything Richie said during their convo.
In my opinion, I bet a different New York family Whacked Tony for killing a Boss to send a message about killing bosses and I would bet that the Lupertazzi family would choose the next boss even if it was a New Yorker, or a Jersey capo they know they can control.
I think this is evidence that the Soprano family sucked. Ray And Eugene died without anyone ever knowing they were rats and the top two earners, Ralph and Vito had to keep their sex lives a secret for different reasons.
Even Sil wasn't exactly a good boss and Tony told him that a season or two before Silvio as acting boss that he couldn't handle being boss. And he was correct.
Now I see why everyone is suggesting females lmao.
Of the non-snitch dead characters , maybe Bobby, Gigi, or Philly Spoons Parisi who technically was boss between seasons 1 and 2. But never Chris, Mikey Palmice, or Vito. Whew, sorry for dragging that out.
Either one of those possibilities or Furio comes back now that Tony is gone.
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