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#i'm just tired of scattered plots and nonsense
thetaoofbetty · 4 years
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I'm nervous about the confirmed time jump. I wish I was more excited about it bc I'm glad the characters won't be confined by the high school setting anymore, but I just don't trust this show to handle the passage of years gracefully.
Hello beautiful! 
I hope this doesn’t come out wrong but why are you trusting this show at all? 
It’s not been trustworthy since the start of s2. It’s the way it is. If anything, the only thing I can count on is that the writers aren’t in it for the characters. Maybe since RAS seems to be doing, uh, nothing else right now, and bringing in Ted seems to have blown up in all of their faces, he can focus on it again and make it more coherent. 
Really, let’s not pretend this show doesn’t know that bughead is carrying it. Even if you’re someone who thinks the writers hate bughead (I disagree), no one is stupid enough not to know where their demographics are coming from and what they’re coming for. 
I know people really only focus on what they’re interested in (that’s fine! we all do it) but our biggest complaint (before 4x17) was that bughead spent a lot of time on separate storylines. Which is a failing of the writers in general. This isn’t to say that they should make it the bughead hour (I would watch that tho), it’s that they don’t know what to do with the other characters so they’re all regulated to glorified background noise, even when they should be mains (Veronica). 
I watched the last few episodes closely. One because I wanted to get a grasp on the Archie hate boners since I had stopped paying attention to him completely and two, because I had nothing else to do. They give far, far better material to bughead (not saying much, I know) than varchie. There were entire scenes where Archie and Veronica, who are dating, didn’t even acknowledge each other. That’s not including the whole “song/let’s hook up/Veronica who?” route he went for 4x18. If they were trying to show them as drifting apart, they did a bang up job. If they just forgot they’re supposed to be in love, well, I wouldn’t be surprised. 
Is the purpose of that to do some sort of Archie pining for Betty thing? I don’t know. I do know that it wasn’t well done. It could have been well done. They had the perfect season to stick Archie and Betty in a room together all of the time but they didn’t. They decided to be as sexist as possible at every turn (Ted, I’m guessing?) while making sure all the women got hung out to dry. And if they didn’t get that treatment, they got nothing at all. Or they got stereotyped into obscurity. 
So, I mean, would I trust this show? No. But does that I mean I think bughead isn’t endgame? Also no. Of course I do. I think varchie is too, tbh. I think it’s fair to expect a satisfying journey because we want the best for bughead but honestly the most I’m expecting is a satisfying end for them. 
Riverdale is like a hook-up you know better than to commit to but you do it anyway. This isn’t a show that gets loyalty because of the writing and the top notch acting of every cast member, this is a show that’s hanging around based on loyalty to the characters (and for some, loyalty to the actors that play them). They are not a critical darling series, this is a show that tops lists with titles like: “Terrible TV Shows We Still Watch And Don’t Know Why.” 
I’m sure I helped you not at all and for that, I’m sorry, love. I think if anything, we can, at minimum, count on bughead getting a better storyline than the other relationships. I’m at the point where I’ve decided that bughead deserves better than Riverdale and so do we. 
But you know, thanks for the ask? God, I wish I could tell you I felt strongly about the writing but I don’t want to lie to you. Until there are more diverse (and female) voices in the writers room, we’re going to be at the mercy of men who decide what women want by asking other men their opinions. 
💜💜💜💜
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