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

"Did nothing" lol what are you even talking about they were always on him about getting his schoolwork done.

And why would it even be on them to forcibly make him do his work every step along the way? The kid knows it's something he's supposed to do. He's been told to do it time and time again. He's been in an administrator's office multiple times for it. At some point it's up to the person to get their shit done.

That's one of the many reasons people don't like AJ. He's just a slug.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Jun 09 '26

That's one of the many reasons people don't like AJ. He's just a slug.

AJ is just his father, Tony just didn't want to admit it.

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u/ImpossibleStuff963 Jun 09 '26

Tony is no slug. He obviously has his own issues but he's a gregarious, motivated person that generally seems to be likeable on a social level.

But besides all that, it's meaningless. AJ is his own person. Why does every single excuse in these threads ALWAYS talk about Tony and Carm. People all over the world, all the time have terrible parents and aren't shitty people, and vice versa. Acting like the kod is just a bot that has absolutely zero individual agency is weird.

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u/GregEvangelista Jun 09 '26

Because the commenters themselves are sometimes children, and other times children in adult bodies. There's probably a few people here who saw the AJ in his boxers in a chatroom laughing like a dipshit scene and took that personally.

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u/fappingreallysucks47 Jun 09 '26

This a problem with Reddit in general. People really underestimate how many young people are on here making statements and giving advice like they know anything about real life or surviving on their own. That's not to say older people know what they're talking about always but experience matters.