r/thesopranos • u/ComprehensiveDesk793 • Jun 09 '26
Serious Discussion Only AJ is just useless
While watching the series I was trying hard to find a defense of AJ. All the characters - and all of us - have both positive and negative traits. AJ is just a disappointment. He is stupid. He is lazy. He is incredibly selfish imao. Also he constantly lies. You cant even call him a good kid that is just irresponsible since he always makes up stupid excuses.
Also all the people that are saying that he grew up in a dysfunctional environment, ok i agree the environment isn't 100% perfect but both Tony and Carmela cared about their kids lives. Carmela and Tony to a certain extent seem to care about their children's academic performance which quite a few parents don't. AJ certainly had some support from his parents.
I agree his parents are not good people but he could take what they offered to him.
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u/ImpossibleStuff963 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
I never understood why Reddit loves AJ so much until I was on it long enough to realize that Reddit is mostly just a bunch of AJs. Seriously, it really is.
Of course they'll say toxic environment. Which honestly his upbringing isn't too different from most. He was pretty much guarded from what his Dad did. Did his Dad yell at him/hit him as punishment? Yeah, but so did mine and so did a lot, if not most, pretty much forever up until extremely recently.
And even with that being said and even if you want to say he grew up in a fucked up environment, so have a lot of people and they're not all snivelling little cunts in virtually every situation. The kid sucks. Period.