#so I guess it's less about moby dick than about literary analysis in general. but I take it especially personally bc I love moby dick

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Could you elaborate on jughead and his bad Moby Dick takes?

he's basically representing the most boring and smug "what you see is what you get, authorial intent is the only way to interpret a story, and also the author is ALWAYS upfront about their intent with the public" angle on literary analysis when he argues that it's pointless to try to read subtext into the book. famously a crummy way to read moby dick and a crummy way to read riverdale and all the context around it as an archie comics adaptation. no metaphorical readings allowed unless the original creator says it's OK??! OK!!

it's a viewpoint he explicitly grows out of in season seven. the jughead of the more character-optimistic s7 reboot becomes very invested in metaphor and subtext and the idea that someone could write about a milkman murderer but make him something else to skirt censorship and then deny the connection publicly. (and also veronica critiques the unintentional incel undertones of his writing and he needed that ❤️)

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Season 3: 1st impressions

I try not to be too picky but also I’m not the best w/ change and i'n aware it’s good to change+ it might be better but this is mostly first thoughts and stuff rather than real Anaylsis

Slippery Slope: -Um Fernald and Sunny interactions were adorable. -also the Violet and Quigley scene and the interactions are just nice as well as sunny in general -also the highlighting the big picture is good for the media esp. B/c of how it’s gone down the past 2 seasons so the V.F.D. Stuff feels more relavent -A little but disappointed that Violet didn’t invent the Sumac knot. - b/c for the sake of giving sunny development a lot of the decisions and choices are downplayed/ made for Violet and Klaus already like w/ Esme big a problem just noticed it -but still it feels like too much like V.F.D. machinations on the part of their parents rather than their own actions/ special interests like earlier i mean it’s prob. B/c of that ‘passing the torch’ theme but idk -not a lot of kit and poe which was good b/c of the plot drive and everything

-but also dumb lesbian brain says kit is pretty cool and also at least it seems like it’s getting the depth better than i expected tho my Expectations were low b/c of that interview Grim Grotto: (these are mostly reactions b/c i’m getting bitter as i keep watching) -does the plot just happen b/c of Klaus’s interest in fiona :/ (im saying that like directly w: the scene) -so crap she’s pretty and the accent -oooh the sub’s cool+ Esme!! Also Olaf’s false identity is peak -they gave fiona Violet’s skill :/ i know it’s for plot purposes but that doesn’t men have to be happy about it -also they gave Violet Fiona’s line -This is :/ like it’s just Klaus sticking around b/c of Fiona and not listening to Violet despite literally the entire series like they always argued at high stress points but the lack of Caption Widdershins is really knee capping this experience -aw Ferdinald made a chef’s saled - I don’t like the putting Violet and Fiona against each other like it’s clear Violet’s being rational but like it’s trying to make her sympathetic but it feels like she’s just rushing in w/o good motivations b/c she does’s literary Analysis on Moby Dick so why wouldn’t she just research? B/c her key traits aren’t the special interest and being forced to follow her step-father’s orders and like change is fine it just isn’t make her that sympathetic for at least the first half of part one b/c of she’s just pushing Klaus around and arguing w/ vi -aw sunny’s wink -Fiona’s better b/c it’s starting the make her seem more lost i guess and highlighting the ambiguity of her character b/c it’s b/c of the lack of control she has to the point where all she knows it to follow her dad’s orders b/c of how he demeans her thoughts/ puts them aside like i think she’s written to be more of a character than a plot vehicle but idk if it’s like good? B/c it’s melding two characters when one is directly the result of the other Like i have the enjoy that’s she’s quick and making the best of her situation and clearly lost on where to go as well as getting more of her the the latter half of the book b/c she does mention how her father told her that some things were too dangerous to know and asking for guidance but it def. makes her less compelling i guess w/o seeing her in the sub as a crew member which drives her actions for this idk how part 2 will go down though. I mean it gets the volatility right idk if it uses it to not detract from her tho b/c it makes Klaus seem really dumb -wait Quigley was sent there? What about his siblings? I mean it gets the Kit exploiting kid’s right and it’s using its assets it already has but :/ -Well the Baudelaires are written better at the beginning of GG 2/ end of GG 1 -also the Medusoid Meclium isn’t a mushroom :/ -i think i’m realizing that this is written more about Ferdald rather than Fiona as the focus of the book which makes sense b/c of the more episodes making more room for development i just really liked fiona ok so im midly distressed -oh crap fiona and violet working together made me feel very gay for a moment -why is the sub so stocked w/ wasbai b/c the mushroom was quarantined? -more disappointed w/ fiona’s writing b/c she helping now? Prob b/c of the mention of her brother but still not like my fav. Set-up w/ her character. But hey the sad look at the Baudelaires was nice b/c the turn looks like it’ll work at least - Fedanald’s monologue was great - at least why she turns makes sense -anyway the show doesn’t mention the food code so why does Fiona use the same line w/ the kiss? -anyway idk if it was me being distracted about how Fiona was written differently and how it personally didn’t click. for me and everything but idk i think i had way to high expectations b/c idk it lacked the crying/ emotional stuff that the book had like sure i was tying a bit but Vi’s b-day felt like it lasted for a moment idk o guess Fiona just disrupted the baudelaire’s moment when they were originally written as crying over the situation and everything but Sunny and the fungus got that really well it’s the just the fast pace detracts from the whole letting the kids’ express sadness towards things idk