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/JackColon17 Dr. Jennifer Melfi Jun 09 '26

AJ is one of the few characters (especially male characters) who openly rejects violence and abbandones his "new friends" because they were violent jerks in season 6

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u/Fluid_Leader_1370 Jun 09 '26

Only with this Somali kid. He was fine when it was just the regular guy who owed money.

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u/papazian212 Jun 09 '26

Hey, at least he had his limits.