"I dropped out of school in the second grade, to sell drugs to support my nana"
"Then you've never experienced the epic triumphs and defeats, highs and lows of high school football"
My wife watched this scene yesterday, I kept glancing up from a book and asking what the actual fuck. It went from that to evil nuns drugging kids or something in like one episode
The first season was campy and fun. It didn't take itself too seriously. Then the showrunners tried to make it serious and edgy without first questioning whether they knew how to do that.
OMG it's so bad. And there are more of these compilations. They just keep going. I thought the "I dropped out ..." quote was some kind of exaggeration. Nope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzgJcKmoBvk
I dropped out of school in the second grade, to sell drugs
Who the fuck is buying drugs from a 7 year old? Who the fuck is trusting a 7 year old to sell their drugs? Like, you know if that was actually a thing, the first thing that would happen is that kid gets punched out and robbed.
To be fair in some neighborhoods they legitimately have young kids in the drug game. Usually not actually selling but lookouts, fetching the drugs etc. Look up the story of a kid named "Yummy". A gangster disciple from Chicago in the 90s who they had do a hit then they murdered him when they realized yeah probably not a good idea to trust the reliability of a 10 year old to commit a murder.
I used to sell weed in 4th grade. Like, legitimate amounts. Usually around an oz a week. Hard drug whole sellers care even less about how old you are than weed wholesale guys when you've got cash on hand.
Alot of drug dealers does this. Kid is just doing the transfer of dope and money. Gets caught and dont rly Get a harsh punishment. While the real drug dealer goes free
Eh. It used to be big in the 90’s...not as much now. Kids without families sometimes were recruited into gangs this way so that they could provide for themselves and have some semblance of safety. The police also weren’t as concerned with kids cases in some boroughs then.
Source is anecdotal from the Bronx. I’m not saying that this was extremely common. It wasn’t. But it DID happen.
Honestly, writing genre can be so freeing because you can always be toeing the line between honesty and parody. I wouldn't be surprised if they go to sleep giggling, thinking about that line too.
Veronica’s dad creating a game just to get rid of Archie lol dude’s practically loaded and could’ve just hired an assassin. Then again, going through great lengths to kill a high schooler is a bit of a stretch.
My dad and I used to watch the show together and our running joke was that absolutely anyone living in Riverdale would do better as a crime lord than Mr. Lodge. He's so dumb and ineffective, and he's been caught before. And then there's kids who are committing murder and solving crime and never getting caught. Mr. Lodge: the least dangerous character in the show
…do none of you follow politics? Once you’ve got enough money and a position of political power, it’s very difficult to remove you if you’re determined to stay where you are.
If anything, it’s been real life that felt like badly written fiction lately.
I wouldn't suggest solving real life problems with a gun, but it's pretty easy to do it as a writer. I've killed off crucial characters because they annoyed me. All you have to do is make their death significant to the survivors.
He's so useless that at one point his own teenage daughter outwits him by inventing maple syrup rum, which (a) sounds hideous, (b) is illegal for an 18 year old to sell, and (c) seriously?
The whole show is laughably silly. In the end I had to stop watching it because everyone in it is an idiot. Even Jughead, who's meant to be a genius, regularly makes incredibly stupid decisions whenever. Like... Archie, 1950s small-town wholesome comic-book character, is in fact not a confused teenager but is instead some sort of gangster-hunting badass? Okay then.
You just described my problems with Karate Kid 3. Rich guy fights elderly man and child with elaborate ruse yo avenge his still living buddy. Great Lengths to Kill Highschoolers: the movie.
voldemort failed for similar idiocy. why would you put horcruxes in personally significant places rather than burying them in the woods or tossing them in a ravine?
and he never hired a professional assassin either. he had his death eaters, but harry's homes were warded against magicals. the fool could have hired a muggle to break in or throw a molotov through the window at any time
I'm pretty sure the Fidelius charm worked on Muggles too, since even the most basic wards that let all Wizards in are basically imperceptible to Muggles.
There's also the whole 'he was a Wizard supremacist who thought all Muggles were inferior to him and hated and disrespected them'. Why in almighty fuck would the greatest Dark Wizard to ever live need the help of a MUGGLE to kill a baby? That kinda goes against his whole Thing.
you can hate and disrespect people and still make use of them. i don't know the details of harry's protection magic but muggles certainly knew where he lived and were able to enter the dursley house without his permission.
Sure, but it kinda undersells "Wizards are superior to Muggles and should be the ones on top of the heap" when you have to hire a muggle to kill a baby. Kinda makes you look like a bitch-ass punk instead of the Greatest Dark Wizard of all time.
The Dursley home was not under a Fidelius Charm, is why muggles could enter it. The protection there was that Lily's sacrifice protected Harry from Voldemort, and by the 'bond of blood' it extended to any place he could call 'home' where his mother's blood still dwells. He was protected from Voldemort there because of his aunt Petunia, not because of a Fidelius Charm.
That's because Voldemort was a raging narcissist. He believed his soul couldnt be stashed in an object or place of insignificance and he also believed killing without a wand was beneath any magic user.
Yeah, just load them up with some kind of drug and let them choke on their own vomit while they seize and the life is strangled from them by their own body. Or get them in a car crash. I knew a guy who got high and blew his jaw off with a pistol right in front of his girlfriend, mere weeks after high school graduation.
Thanks. You’re definitely right about that. I saw a video once where a security camera was aimed at the street, and a mother was walking her infant in a stroller. Everything was fine, just another day for those two. Then, in an instant, the suicide jumper who had leapt from a nearby roof landed on the stroller. The mother stood there for a moment in shock, stared at the dead jumper for a few seconds, and then glanced at her deceased child in the wreck of the stroller before walking over to it and falling to her knees. The real world is a cold, cruel place, full of every brand of despair and misery one could hope to think of. Stranger than fiction indeed.
For a mob boss, or whatever the fuck he was, absolutely. Get one of your underlings to cap Archie and be done with it. The Irishman did it for years working for the east coast mob.
My fiance, back like 15ish yrs ago, did go to a Juvie where the guards would use group punishment, use physical exercise as punishment (they made kids run til they puked), housed 17 yr old with 13 yr olds (in JUVIE- most of these are bad kids, they shouldn't be housed with someone way bigger and older than them), etc.
There was even worse one that they threatened to send the kids to, and would make good on their threats. The worse one did get shut down about 20 or so yrs ago.
ETA: fiance never went to worse one, but met kids who had been there
My fiance, back like 15ish yrs ago, did go to a Juvie where the guards would use group punishment, use physical exercise as punishment (they made kids run til they puked), housed 17 yr old with 13 yr olds (in JUVIE- most of these are bad kids, they shouldn't be housed with someone way bigger and older than them), etc.
Yeah lol except these are children ages 12-17 and they're not there by choice. Granted, most of them are bad kids. Fiance was scared being around kids stabbing other kids and he was just there for trying to leave his house grounded/after curfew and wrestling with his dad over it (no injuries to either of them, no punching or anything) at age like.. 13, 15?
Yeah I’ve been to both Juvie and prison, and juvie is sooo much worse, no bs idk if it’s cuz of lawsuits or what for regular ACI’s but Juvie is straight lawlessness it’s insane the shit that goes on
Honestly, my favorite absurd plot on Riverdale was when Veronica, a sixteen-year-old girl, owns and operates a speakeasy in the basement of a soda shop. It violated so many fucking laws I can't even begin to think about the number. And the fact that she owes it is barely even a plot point. The kind of just hand wave the whole thing
Honestly "high school drama where everything is turned up to 11" sounds dope as hell. The problem is that the writing is bad.
And it isn't even bad in a good way, where the "bad* writing is carefully crafted in a way that shows the writers have deep knowledge of bad high school dramas as a genre. It's just kind of lazy and not fun.
Well, perhaps the biggest crime of Riverdale is that nobody on that show actually has any sort of character. No real growth happens because there are no characters on the show. Everyone is a slave to what will make the most titillating teaser for next week's episode. They constantly do things that make no fucking sense because it'll look good in a commercial.
I love riverdale because of this. It’s terrible but damn good fun. That whole prison storyline was amazing cause he does that, escapes, becomes an international fugitive, literally fights a bear, and gets back to school where the SAT is coming up and acts like that’s the most daunting thing he’s ever faced. It was hilarious
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