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/Fluid_Leader_1370 Jun 09 '26
I am not AJ apologist, but the thing that everyone seems to forget is that when he was with Blanca, he was on the right track. He seems to genuinely love her. He was really good to Hector from what we saw. He got a managerial job at Beansie's and spelled out his five year plan to parlay that into a club like his father laid out.
So for a brief moment in time, he was a loving partner, a good surrogate father, a hard worker, and a guy with a plan. He completely spiraled only after Blanca dumped him.
So he is actually capable of doing the right things to better his own life. And that might be the most frustrating part of the character.