It's the flimsiest possible foundation to ground an episode upon. Silvio happens upon the issue because Bobby Bacala read about it in the newspaper. Meadow loves nothing more than showcasing her sophistication in front of her parents (see her fight with Carmela over whether there are gay themes in Billy Budd). It'd be one thing if the group happened upon the topic organically - if, say, Meadow Soprano had picked a fight with her father on the topic, and then he decided to make a big deal out of it. The dialogue sounds like it was written by an eighth-grader assigned by his history teacher to write up Columbus's pros and cons And for no apparent reason at all, Silvio Dante - who has previously demonstrated no interest in politics or history or really anything other than the operations of the Bada Bing - decides to devote substantial DiMeo crime family manpower to preventing the protest. A Native American group is planning to protest the parade, because genocide.
The plot of the episode - titled "Christopher" and written by Michael Imperioli, the actor who played Christopher Moltisanti on the show - is silly on just about every dimension. (Warning: the following contains extensive Sopranos spoilers, but really, it's been seven years since it ended. It's the most trivial of offenses in light of the rest of his rap sheet, but the fact remains that Christopher Columbus led directly to the worst ever episode of The Sopranos.
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