Was he a sociopath or just stupid?

He's you. And David Chase.

He wasn’t just stupid, he was profoundly stupid. If I ever had a kid this dumb idk what I would do with myself

He was right about everything.

The only flaw in the show for me besides Vito's gun when he kills Jackie Jr is the trajectory of AJ as a character, there's no way you can tell me AJ doesnt kill himself immediately after the events of the finale. He's a loser with nothing.

>>213351194
>AJ doesnt kill himself immediately after the events of the finale.
Probably not.
>He's a loser with nothing.
He consistently pulls hot girls and by the end of the show he's going down the showbiz path Chris tried and failed to be on.
AJ is going to be fine.

>>213351194
He has a rich family, don't be corny.

>>213351126 (OP)
he was DEPRESSED

>>213351194
>events of the finale.
Why? Nothing bad happened. They were having a nice family meal. Surely if you have some evidence something terrible happened you'll post it. inb4 "never see it coming."

>>213351310
he was supposed to go around looking for piles of leaves

>>213351326
it was a succulent chinese meal

>>213351370

Why did he do it?

>>213351126 (OP)
Stupid.

He was, intentionally, a retard kid that was supposed to show the audience that Tony was also a retard who couldn't make it in life so he had to resort to the mob for success.

He's a foil of Tony who doesn't have the organized crime connections Tony had when he was a kid.

>>213352071
This kid was going around killing pets, bullying a disabled girl and vandalizing cemeteries
He would have been the perfect wiseguy

>>213351126 (OP)
Spoiled, left wing, east coast, metro sexual, pampered, liberal piece of shit.

>>213352071
He was sending a message

>>213351126 (OP)
AJ is the only major character whose moral compass is properly oriented. He actually matures from a spoiled little fat fuck to someone who genuinely cares deeply about the world and sees what a sick hypocritical joke his family is. He just doesn’t know what the fuck to do to act on his beliefs and he’s not especially intelligent.

>>213352646
In the last episode he's driving a Mercedes his dad bought him and going to work for his dad's friend's porn studio which is connected to the Mob.

>>213351126 (OP)
Neither, he's actually one of the only people in the show with a moral bone in their body. Sure he's kind of stupid but lots of us were when we were young. I hope things turned out okay for AJ

AJ and Meadow are both primed to be mob-adjacent in ways that will make them wildly wealthy but without any of the real risk, and they wouldn't be considered disposable civilians the same someone like Davey, either

>>213351126 (OP)
Sheltered immature self-hating middle class fuckup meant to contrast his retarded ignorant spiteful working class background boomer dad