Riverdale
oh Boy, you know just when you think you got a show figured out you think it's going right
and it does like hard left just right off a cliff. I mean like what is even happening anymore? Riverdale now
it's just like:"teen drama fever dream fan fiction the show" over the last few episodes there have been like several
branching story paths but the two that really just butter my biscuit, whatever the heck that means, are Cheryl and Betty.
I mean you got the whole like Archie, Veronica, Jughead plot thread thing, but basically
it's just the Beatles and Yoko
Ono So like there's that I guess and we get the scene of Jughead, you know, chaining himself to Southside High School, to stop Veronica's dad
from demolishing it, and Archie shows up, in like pajamas or something, and, under order from Veronica's dad, cuts the chains in a symbolic
representation of his friendship with him and Jughead and boy you think there could be any more
Heavy-handed with the metaphors here? And then like Veronica decides to run for student body president, which is, you know it's fine?
But then she and Josie sing a song from like School House Rock like what is this?
*Bad Music*
But anyway, just when you thought Cheryl's story couldn't get any more bizarre
guess what happens. Now if I could just give a little credit here,
you know I try and find some kind of positive somewhere,
they could have just brought Cheryl's dad back from the dead. If you've ever seen like a teen drama
you know that people just come back to life all the time, just zombies everywhere.
But you know, if they've done that, like if the door just opened one day and "surprise dad's still alive"
I mean this show would have been over, just any shred of credibility gone, so they went with the next best thing, a
Long-lost secret twin that no one knew about until literally right now. "I'm your uncle Claudius,
twin to your father" "Twin? But daddy never said anything about having a brother"
No one had ever heard of this guy no one knew he existed especially not the writers of the show you know what
i'm saying and he just magically shows up one day "tada hello long-lost family,
you must be wondering why I'm here" "is it because no one knew what to do whith cheryls storyline
and we just had to, kind of, pull something out our *whistle* in a desperate attempt at a plot twist?"
Oh, so it's so so you do know why I'm here
Well now what am I supposed to do? Hey? Do I still get free doughnuts for showing up? Seriously,
this is actually worse than the whole like FBI agent
debacle or like whatever it was. You know it's one thing to take a character away and say that it's all a lie or like
a trick or whatever, but introducing a character that shouldn't even exist in the first place
You know just cause like why not?
Now in a way, this kind of sort of flows into the whole like Chic storyline just a little bit
But you see with Chic it was different because we learned that Betty had a long-lost brother or like whatever at the end of season
one "the homecoming, when your father and I were crowned king and queen, I had just told your father that I was pregnant.
And we disagreed on how best to handle
things. And the next day I went away..." "...To the sisters of quit mercy."
"Yeah."
"And five months later your brother was born.
The sisters arranged for a quiet adoption." They gave it to us
and they gave us time to kind of stew and ruminate about it,
you know, make some fan theories, "Chic is actually Betty and Jughead son from the future"
You know actually at this point, like realtalk, this would be a way better show
but like whatever, anyway, the seed was planted in our minds and given time to grow. Cheryl's dad's long-lost twin
just like shows up one day and exists because yeah.
But the real magic, the real moments that just make you go "what am I watching and why am I watching
this?" is of course Betty and Chic. Now Betty gets it in her head that Chic might not actually be who he says he is
and gets his DNA tested and the result is that we learn something that's actually
really important to the whole character development between Betty and her mom and Chic and like their whole relationship, the thing is this scene, where
we learn all this, is just like an afterthought. The whole scene lasts, maybe like what, 30 seconds.
"Mom." "Betty listen,
Chics DNA doesn't match"
because Hal isn't his father." "then who is Chics father?" Chic's my son...
...and whoever the father is is not going to be a part of our lives,
so there's no reason to open old wounds that have healed many times over."
Now later Betty sneaks into Chics room and holds a lighter over his face?
What? Chic wakes up, and would you believe, not really too thrilled about the whole thing. And then Betty says:"You think you're the only
one who can scare people?
You may have fooled my mother, but not me
I'm gonna bring you down
because I catch Bad men. I caught Clifford blossom, I caught the sugar man,
I caught the black hood, and you know what they all have in common?
They're dead!"
Betty, what the heck is wrong with you? You know having Betty go down,, like a dark path,
embracing her wig and bra persona or like whatever, like in and of itself could be fine,
but there's like no reason why any of this is happening. Betty's character
just like flips through different personalities at any given time
I mean, maybe that's the point right she's supposed to be like mentally fragmented or like whatever
But if that's the case they're doing a really sloppy job of portraying this with any sliver of like sympathy
Or accuracy like she's supposed to be all dark and brooding and edgy, but she's just weird
She's just trying to be like super edgy because you know stuff, but my favorite part
Maybe of the whole show so far is, how Chic gets revenge on her for the whole like lighter in the face thing.
"Is it true that you snuck into your brother's room last night to torment him with a Zippo lighter?
And what exactly is this for?" "She wears it when she has sex with Jughead" "is that true Elizabeth?"
"I..."
"Betty wha...
is it, is it true? are you...
are you and jughead ?"
"Yeah mom, we are!"
Yeah, this is a real scene
that's
really in this show can we just play back the scene for a second? "Betty threatened me with a lighter" "is that true?" "and she
has a black hood mask, that she wears when she and Jughead do Satan's Mambo"
"Is that true?" "well I mean don't knock it till you try it" "Are you and Jughead...
doing it?" Are you serious?
That's what you took away from this whole conversation Betty threatens Chic with a lighter in the middle of the night
She has a black hood mask that she didn't deny wearing while doing the devil's tango with a guy who let's be honest probably
cries afterwards, but like whatever, no judgment, and your question is "did you two really get past third base?"?
What are you 12?
But besides the fact that this is just like the most bizarre conversation
It also doesn't make any sense within the context of the show itself
I mean Betty and her mom have basically already had this conversation
Way back in the first episode of season two "so what did you and your friends do after the Jubilee?" "we went to Pop's
And then Jughead and I went back to FPs trailer."
"Oh, Betty, if that Beanie wearing CAD defiled you, at least,
please tell me that you were safe." "What?" So first
It was like:"if you and Jughead are getting all *weird nonsense sex noise*
you better be safe.", and now suddenly. She's like:"you and Jughead?
Oh NO
save me somebody ah what is the world coming to." what back?
You know I said this way back in part one
But the one thing maybe the only thing that remains constant in this show is all the kids act like they're 25
Mature dark and doing all kinds of you know things and stuff and all the adults are just complete idiots
I probably said this like a million times, but from scsne to secene not even just between episodes
But like within the same episode every character completely
changes their
Personality their way of thinking their motive like how can anyone follow this show now don't get me wrong if you like Riverdale
That's totally fine like what you like follow your dreams wear your seat belt whatever, but I mean just what happened Riverdale. What happened
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