#Anti Riverdale

[cantpickonefandoms]

Also this seems like a perfect time to get this off my chest: The trend of ‘let’s take this goofy piece of media and make it DaRK and eDGy’ NEEDS TO DIE!

[immortalarizona]

listen. I have never watched Riverdale and never will. but that doesn’t mean I’m not sO FUCKING PISSED at the polycule ending.

I’m not mad about the polyamory (I would like to stress this point for anyone who wants to come after me for this post), I’m mad that Jughead Jones, one of, like, the two aroace characters in media people have actually maybe heard of (the other being Yelena Belova) is part of this romantic, sexual relationship.

he’s ace!!!

he’s aro!!!

and it fucking stings that the writers thought it was okay to erase that aroace rep when there’s next to none for us to begin with.

fuck your amatonormativity and fuck your queer erasure. we aspecs deserve better.

[ellisdelanceys]

Barbie (2023) is like Riverdale: Aesthetically very pleasing, but a total fucking insult to the characters, the brand, and the true fans.

And the stans are just as stupid, boosting about OOC garbage! "Barbie is much happier with Glo*a than with Ken UWU" That's because she's been written out of character, Sierra, you haven't won valid brownie points here! ����

[i-am-loco]

Can we PLEASE stop having highschoolers be naked and be sexualized on tv shows please for the love of god just make them college students or literally anything else stop making shows about naked teenagers

[whatohitsonfirewelp]

Since it’s pride month, here’s your yearly reminder that Jughead Jones is aroace and the show erased that 😊😊😊😊

So let me make sure you all remember

JUGHEAD JONES IS AROACE

[ozs-twink-boytoy]

"Riverdale ended on a polycule. Isn't that progressive??" Jughead aroaceness got erased for that to happen. You truly eat anything up, don't you?

[mdlucy]

Terrible finale for a terrible show and such a shame how people try say oh it was campy or oh Roberto subverted a regular teen drama and didn't give you end games even tho he did for three freaking couples like I swear please bugheads varchie and choni hell even people from them other ships write some good story's don't let show we love end as a tragedy #r

[shewhohangsoutincemeteries]

absolute dream job: sitting in the corner of the writer’s rooms of cw shows, hucking tennis balls at everyone with stupid ideas

[fuzzychildchopshop]

X-Men Evolution was the best X-Men cartoon

it’s Riverdale done right

[giibh]

My favorite scene now after yesterday's episode

[shymeg]

Honestly, if any character deserves to die not in another parallel universe, possibly in the 50s, and never came back to life. Everyone forgot about him including the bear would be Archie.

The writers get their heroic ending. The hero, in their eyes, is dead. The other characters rejoice because he is the worst, and they must keep making him feel good afraid to bruise his ego. Now they can drop the act breathe, and get back to normal, for Archiekins is dead.

The girls are happy because whatever potion he bought from Cheryl to be the Stepford wives around him is broken, but Cheryl will say it was her Momsy.

Uncle Frank, god, he can die too. I don't count him as a main, though. If anything, it will be Midge dying in childbirth from having Fangs baby, so Toni and Fangs decide to raise it.

I'd say let it be Alice and Archie, either one, but knowing these writers, we can't bet on that.

I'd say Jughead he'd always sacrifice himself for his friends, but you know what? He deserves to live to thrive, and he's done it enough, but if he needs to, he will, and he'll be okay with never coming back, no matter the time frame. However, if he finally finds love and it works, and they kill him or his lover, that's just cruel. Would the writers do this to Jughead? Absolutely.

[cantpickonefandoms]

Do you ever notice that these dark and edgy remakes that are trying be more serious than the original source material always end up with dialogue that’s way more goofy and ridiculous?

[gothicbarbie]

I freaking loved Bughead so much 😢 Same with Varchie. I mean “technically” they all ended up together but still lol

never watched the final season but hated how it ended lmao

[mariedemedicis]

"The idiom "jumping the shark" or "jump the shark" is a pejorative that is used to argue that a creative work or entity has reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with, or an over-exaggeration of, its original purpose. (source)

i'm guessing this has been done before but i'm bored and curious.

[outlawssweetheart]

I’ll probably get yelled at for this (even though these are simply facts), but oh well. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I’ve realized that Warner Bros. productions can’t keep a purely evil (or just purely mean, in Cheryl’s case) woman purely evil (or purely mean) to save their lives!

First Harley Quinn (which is a DC problem in general now), then Cheryl Blossom, and now Alicent Hightower. No, now they must become a Poor Sad Baby™, usually a Victim of Evil Men™.

Is this supposed to be empowering? Because it’s just pathetic and completely warps the characters, often making other characters look bad in the process. (The Joker and Otto were always bad, obviously. But Clifford & Penelope? 🤨 Viserys? 🤨 Fuck that bullshit!)

[shewhotellsstories]

I’m late but it’s aggravating to find out that Riverdale talked about Emmett Till without ever examining the gross implications of having Cheryl frame Chuck for stalking without any real consequences and all the implications of that. Or why it was gross to frame Betty nearly killing Chuck as a girl power moment. You can’t do right by the Black characters you’ve brutalized for your lame ass plots but think you have the bandwidth to discuss a lynching!?!?!?!