lmao this is where i lost it. and that rocket liked like it was a life-sized toy. did he mean escape the world by dying tho? if that's so, the rocket would've worked lol
I stopped watching after season one and yesterday I randomly found out that Chad Michael Murray was the cult leader! That's the part that I couldn't stop laughing about.
sounds about right and makes 0 sense. it's funny because the chilling adventures of sabrina takes place in the same universe as riverdale, yet the cast of sabrina all look and act their age lmao
that's one of the problems i have with this show. they're literally in high school but because of all the drama or shit they go through, they literally seem like grown ass adults. plus, they're all super sexualized
Almost every show that has high schoolers in it has this issue. I forget the show but there is some old high school drama (I think) that holds the record for the oldest actor to play a teenager, and she was like 30.
As far as I know, when you’re buying drugs in an alley you give your money to the kid and he points you to the much bigger dude with the drugs who’s around the corner afterwards.
Yeah you're right. Still i think all i would have to do is order an oz and when he shows up i yell "look out cops" while inpoint behind him. When he turns around i just punch him in the back of the head a lot take the deugs and run.
I havent done coke in like 5 years, and i never stole it, but in this totally fake scenario im robbing this kid blind and beating some sense into him.
I honestly feel like people are watching it wrong. It's supposed to be a campy mess. I would get drunk with my partner and watch this shit all night. We wouldn't stop laughing. Then there was even a season where they cross over with Sabrina the Teenage Witch I think it was and there's like stupid magic bullshit and it's even funnier lol
Bro whaaaat. That's unreal lmao. Imagine someone wrote that line and they looked at it and read it outloud and still thought, yeah that works. Im dying
ahaha it's actually real lmao. i think this youtube comment says it best "The guy who dropped out in fourth grade to sell drugs probably sold some of the drugs to the Riverdale writers too."
Holy fuck I thought those two lines were just completely separate lines he picked out because of how dumb they are individually. Didn't even occur to me they were right after each other.
Also those men are at least 20, easily could be a few years older than that. They're supposed to be high schoolers?
I can't even begin to conceive of the target audience for this horse shit. I hope it doesn't exist. I hope it's just fucking AI and bots watching that crap. For fuck's sake. I feel slightly deader than before, having subjected myself to it.
It's mind boggling. The 40+ year olds who might have some fondness for Archie wouldn't want a shitty mystery show. The children watching CW don't know what the fuck an Archie is. Who thought this was a marriage of concepts made in heaven?
Same episodes had the cheerleaders, who are meant to be 16, perform a striptease out the front of juvie and have the boys in juvie panting like dogs and jumping the wire.
Honestly, there are some lines of Riverdale I want to frame and put up on my wall. Calling it bad dialogue doesn't do these lines justice; they become a kind of pristine diamond of terrible writing.
In case you haven’t noticed, I'm weird. I’m a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird"
Almost the same for me. I figured that that was just one bad line. Then Dark Betty was a thing. "There's a darkness inside me" then proceeds to wear a wig and be a cam girl
Actually though, this is a direct quote from the Archie comic books by Jughead. It was a pretty memorable arc for him as we learned a lot about him (in the comics) and it finally gave him substance beyond "the goofy kid that eats a lot". The hat is his security blanket, it made him feel invincible to the bad things of the world.
Old. I was a voracious Archie reader during the early 2000s and really loved the story lines that gave us more than just the Veronica vs Betty or Archie and Reggie trying to one up each other. Simpler times man.
Also, Jughead taught me the "Seymour. Seymour Ass?" joke and I'll always love him for that. When I watched Futurama and they opened the series with the pizza delivery "I. C. Weiner" at the Cryogenic Lab, I immediately made the connection and was hooked.
The difference is, in the comics, his hat was literally a crown. So it was obviously weird. In the show it's just a beanie. It has some fringe that VAGUELY looks like a crown, but not really. It's like saying you're weird for wearing a wristband or you're quirky because you wear long socks.
True, I was just pointing out that the dialog itself isn't terrible, just the context/way it's delivered. In the comics it was incredibly heartfelt, and poignant for Jughead's character. I haven't seen Riverdale and don't plan to, it just makes me sad they can ruin something that was actually meaningful.
I keep seeing screenshots of this. Knowing nothing about the show, I need to know, are the audience meant to take this seriously!? Are they meant to be sympathetic to him? Is it meant to be ironic? Are the other characters and audience meant to hate him because of it? I know the story behind how the dialogue got written but not how exactly it's meant to be recieved. I have neurological issues though so it might just be me not getting it, especially because I've not seen the context.
Unfortunately, my last ex LOVED this show so I had to watch a ton. Jughead is actually one of the fan favorites in the show. This is a genuine line and is perfectly in character for him.
I wish the show followed the Archie mystery comics :( i was hoping for some crime mystery with some fun slice of life episodes in-between like the standard non-mystery plot in the comics.
I honestly enjoyed the first season. It's cheesy but fun. After that though it went on a roller coaster ride to so bad it's not even fun to watch. I stayed around a little bit here and there, but that underage strip tease to 'Mad World'? Holy fuck I bailed around then.
Yeah, it's a thing that happened. It was not good was an understatement. Basically, no matter how bat shit crazy something sounds, if someone says it happened on Riverdale it may honestly have happened. That show is a shining example of every way not to write a show.
It's like they plot it out episode to episode rather than a whole story arch for a season, get high and try to out-do each other with the most ridiculous thing they could think of next
This is exactly how me and my friend described it. S1 at least felt like it had an outline, but after that, the seasons just got too long and the writers stopped giving any shits about storytelling.
I don't mind cheesy, campy, so bad it's good TV, but it has to be at least somewhat intentional.
One of the main characters (who is 16 in the Riverdale universe) does a strip tease/pole dance in a bar to be initiated into the local biker gang. Some of the crowd includes her mom and her boyfriend's dad.
You forgot to mention the mom and boyfriend’s dad are in an on again off again relationship which started in high school and reignited after her dad was found out to be a serial killer.
Oh, that wasn't even the worst part. The worst part was that it was in a bar full of old dudes her dad's age and they frame the shots in such a way it made it look like her bf's dad was really into the entire thing.
I don't know why they thought anything of that scene was a good idea to make, but they did.
I actually kinda enjoyed binging the first season with my GF but had a real hard time staying invested in the second. I stopped an episode or two after that striptease.
I'll never get how people are so into shows where half the plot is "sexy teenagers."
Given how they wrote the show it honestly felt more like they were writing college students or older. Which, honestly, if they had been it would still have been stupid but at least acceptable. Apparently the most recent season had them do a time skip so now they're all adults, so at least the super creepy shit is now legal aged.
That's how I generally treat anime set in high schools. Ive never seen high schoolers live like 90% of anime kids, but at least college students could reasonably live on their own or skip town for a few days without anyone calling a search and rescue team.
Ive never seen high schoolers live like 90% of anime kids
Or look or act like that. Meanwhile, the adults/parents don't look a day above 20, except the dads sometimes.
An example that I find particularly funny is Tokyo Revengers, only the MC, his girlfriend, his starter friends and the gang boss look close to their age. And when the MC goes back to the future, all of them look the same, except for their hairstyles and clothes.
But no one acts their age either, they be having flashbacks of their youth (where they look like kids) like they are from decades ago, then you realize that it's only 2-3 years ago chronologically. It's all the more ridiculous when it's revealed, with 100% seriousness, that the main villain formulated his plan when he was a toddler and saw that his crush liked a misbehaving kid, so he decided to become the biggest crime boss in all of Japan to one-up him and ask his crush out.
It's almost like the author got told to make the characters middle-schoolers because of the target demographic, but didn't bother to change anything else.
Because at least half the intended audience is teenagers. They want to sell the vicarious fantasy that is shown in things like Riverdale or Teen Wolf and it works well. I honestly think that half the reason thet cast adults to play teenagers is because they want the kids at home watching to covet the show even more; to be the hot girl/guy and get the hot girl/guy.
I don't think the actors are what's bad; they're given some really shit writing to work with. Also it's weird how they sexualize Archie (other characters too, but mainly Archie) so much.
The extreme sexual stuff with teenagers really turned me off the show. Like, it’s not sexy for a kid to strip herself and dance in front of the adult biker gang as part of an initiation ritual. Blech.
There's "hey, you shouldn't do this," and "I'm an adult stepping in to tell that this isn't happening kid." The adults in Betty's life really failed her so many times in so many ways.
Honestly that’s why I think degrassi’s lessons (at least in the early seasons) really worked well compared to other teen shows. Every bad choice had some sort of consequence, whether it was from a parent, a teacher, or just a natural consequence of the situation. And when Ashley took ecstasy at the slumber party it didn’t end with her parents finding out and grounding her like you’d expect it would, it ended with her embarrassing herself in front of all of her friends which is so much more terrifying as a teenager
And when Ashley took ecstasy at the slumber party it didn’t end with her parents finding out and grounding her like you’d expect it would, it ended with her embarrassing herself in front of all of her friends which is so much more terrifying as a teenager
Hmmp. Back in my day she'd have been found dead in a ditch after smoking one reefer. Or comatose, depending on the needs of the plot.
It's basically just the names of the characters you know and love without characters matching their descriptions. There's like four different gangs, five serial killers drug epidemics and Veronica calling her father Daddykins even when he's threatening to kill her.
I didn’t make it all the way through, but I did like how they did their best to somewhat normalize the girl with HIV.
But the couple who picked up the poor pretty boy and dressed him up while the girl would sleep with either of them… yeah, that was getting into some fetish shit (cuckolding, voyeurism, and it looked like it was working into a threesome when I quit watching it) that is way more developed than a teen would have gotten into.
In the latest season everyone is grown up, and this made things better for me, but the show was cut mid season I think due to covid. But the season 5 feels more fun.
Apparently this is not the creators first time doing this. He made a play a while ago that heavily sexualized the characters and if I'm remembering correctly the creator of the Archie comics had to send a cease and desist to get him to stop
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that. I watched a YouTube video a while back that mentioned how he had a play about Archie and them that was disgustingly sexualizing the teenagers. He's a creep.
(Disclaimer - I haven’t watched it, just a few parts on yt) But I cannot fucking stand how openly lgbtphobic they are! They made an asexual character VERY heterosexual!!! Like for fuck’s sake we never get any representation and then popular shows just straight-wash people, I’m SO mad that I refuse to watch it even though the story (at least from comics) sounds very interesting. /rant
Yep. Outside the high school murder mystery, I can't stand the shallow, juvenile, first world drama. Also Archie is the biggest goddamn Mary Stu I've ever seen.
I was really into the show for the first 2-3 seasons and then kinda fell off. But let’s be honest, we aren’t watching that show for the plot if you know what I mean
The show treats different storylines with the same gravity. Archie losing a high-school football game is treated with the same gravity as Betty’s mum marrying a cult leader and leaving her daughter alone despite her dad being a serial killer on the loose because she’s secretly undercover for the FBI.
I think part of the appeal is the cheese. It's like a big plate of melted fake cheese. You get all messy, fat and bloated at the end and you hate yourself and wonder why did I just subject myself to that?
The fact they made a drama out of Archie comics - Archie is not made to be serious. It's made to be silly and cheesy. I'm sure even the Archie VS The Predator comics aren't half as serious as Riverdale.
I found it works better if you treat it like a dry comedy. Like the writing isn't meant to be serious but all the actors treat it like it is anyway
One season was based off the Chick Tract for Dungeons and Dragons. Not the game itself, but all the satanic panic surrounding it, and when everyone plays it with a straight face that's kinda funny
Second one I've seen. That show is pretty niche, not super popular. Maybe I'm just understanding "super popular" as something on the level of Friends or Game of Thrones tho
I think the main problem with Riverdale is that they took the drama and chaos of Glee, but instead of making it a joke to point out how ridiculous it is they took themselves WAAYYY too seriously and now it’s just... I hate to say it, but cringe-worthy. I don’t doubt the actors are talented, but the plot and the script itself just.. isn’t good?
Oh I can explain this quite easily... There's a hot girl for all your kinks. Red head? Check. Latina? Check. MILF? Check check. Aryan superwoman who's so fucking white it seems like she was literally born from a Nazi breeding programme?? Check! Comes with actual German surname too!!! Black girl??? Check! Gay?? Super check as well!
Part of me enjoyed the show visually, and had fun seeing Archie Betty and Veronica in live action.... But if you pay any attention to the plot or lack of logic it's so cringe.
The only way this is connected back to the original comics is that a few of the characters have the same name. This TV show is in league with Avatar the Last Airbender the movie and the Percy Jackson movie in terms of being faithful to the source material. None of the characters even remotely resemble their counterparts in the comics.
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u/acidweeb69 28d ago
Riverdale. I mean it’s a common opinion that it’s a bad show but it’s still insanely popular
The actors are soooooo cheesy