TV ranting
Jan. 12th, 2018 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyI need someone who watches and keeps up with Riverdale to come sit next to me (not in person because the coughing would annoy you, so sorry) and either explain to me wtf happened in the mid-season finale and how that makes any goddamn sense, or to commiserate with me about how many times WTF fell outta yer face.
So the first season ended with Fred Andrews being shot and Season 2 has basically focused on the Black Hood - the guy who shot Fred and then went on a killing spree around town. Only not because the only people he managed to kill were "Ms. Grundy" and the Sugarman who was basically introduced and killed off in maybe two episodes. And also I'd completely forgotten they actually killed him even though I watched that episode without splitting my attention on anything else.
But he totally shot Midge and Moose and we were teased with them being dead for a week so that counts, right? Mmm...maybe but not really.
So we had nine episodes (plus a summer) of who is the black hood? Why is he killing, what led him to the sorta murder spree, and after awhile we wondered why, oh why, he was obsessed with Betty.
They introduce Svenson, the janitor, and set him up as an obvious red herring. Turns out he has a ~tragic~ backstory involving the murder of his family and then he may or may not have blamed the wrong man who was promptly murdered. Only Archie, who has an excellent memory of what the Hood's eyes looked like, looked dead into Svenson's eyes and knew, without a doubt, it wasn't him.
They didn't even introduce Svenson until like, episode 7 or 8. We get a close up and know he's NOT THE KILLER. But nooooooooo. The finale says he is. I kept waiting for the Hood to kind of appear in some way after the sherriff shot and killed Svenson, even if it was just a shadowy movement but no. And apparently the show runner is claiming that yep, this storyline is over.
No. See, I will totally buy the actual Black Hood made Svenson pretend to be him and attempt to kill Archie and possibly Betty, but I will not buy Svenson as the BH. It doesn't fit with anything they've shown before and it doesn't feel like it was what they were building to, unlike last season's murder mystery. Having Jason's death be at his father's hands over drugs and Jason not wanting to be apart of that actually felt right, despite the fact that I'm not sure we ever actually saw Jason do much apart from give super VC Andrews-y vibes with Cheryl. Show, I will forgive all manner of insanity because you can be entertaining, but when it comes to a murder mystery where you zoom in on the killer's eyes eleventy billion times an episode, no. No I will not accept this BS. You were clearly building to some other resolution and I don't understand why this is the out you've chosen?
In other Riverdale natterings, while you're here: why can't they figure out what to do with Veronica? How have they managed to make the Lodges, probably the most defined of all the adults and definitely the parents (well, Hiram anyway) boring and bland and just... why. I get that Cheryl is busy chewing up all the scenery in town but still, there should be more to Veronica than making out with Archie and occasionally singing with Archie or the Pussycats just whenever. She's Veronica freakin' Lodge. You don't just have her do nothing on a regular basis. She's better than that. And if you can't figure out what to do with her other than have her suck face with Archie or wait around for Betty to be available, then have Betty be available, dammit.
Jughead the Southside Serpent is just a weird thing that my brain freezes and needs to reboot anytime I remember this is Jughead. If nothing else, it does tend to entertain me, though the roping in of Betty isn't necessarily something I like. Or maybe I just think her strip tease at Jughead's father's retirement party, while her mother was there, was just absolutely nuts and not in a fun Cheryl way. But in an "Elizabeth Cooper, I will drag your skanky ass all the way home by your fucking earlobe and then douse you with enough soap that we will all be washed down the Greendale!" is what mama Cooper really would've done and the fact that she didn't and that Betty thought that was the night to strip was just... are you kidding me? Jesus, show. You can tell that there's no one in the writer's room pointing out little things like "maybe don't have the underage character strip in front of parents, particularly her own or her boyfriend's father? Because no?"
But I did snort-cackle-laugh when someone called Betty Sweet Valley High. I'm easily amused.
Speaking of easily amused, I might've caved and bought this Daria shirt. In my defense, my other Daria shirt is stupidly comfy so I'm hoping this one will be as well. Oh, and I also got this sweater though I'm not entirely sure that wasn't the cold medicine doing the shopping. Both were on a better sale when I snagged them because you never pay full price. Never. I do wish they'd share the accessories more between HT and Torrid. Like most of the Sailormoon clothes were and are kind of awful (to me) but I liked the accessories. Naturally, as soon as I bought the sweater the cold weather stopped abruptly and now it's 70 degrees.
Ugh. My cold is finally seeming to move on, but that means I'm at the stage where everytime I cough or blow my nose it's gross. So gross.
My nails have lasted all week, though since I called out last night maybe I shouldn't be praising them quite so much. Still, they're pretty and I did get complimented on them the other night in the midst of all the registers being a complete pain in the arse and not working properly.
Ooh, which reminds me: we're getting all kinds of new makeup at work! They're obviously going to do the cos wall reset soon and it looks like we'll be getting elf cosmetics finally. I've already eyed a couple of things I waaaaaaaaant. I do not like the new Covergirl packaging. It's black and white and boring and even the elf packaging (also black and white) is more interesting. Covergirl... you don't want people looking at your packaging and thinking it looks like it should be in the dollar store. Not when your stuff is creeping up in prices, k? Then again, with Revlon and Almay both having new foundations (that look pretty much identical, down to the sponge tip applicators attached to both) that are just under $20... maybe CG isn't that expensive.
So the first season ended with Fred Andrews being shot and Season 2 has basically focused on the Black Hood - the guy who shot Fred and then went on a killing spree around town. Only not because the only people he managed to kill were "Ms. Grundy" and the Sugarman who was basically introduced and killed off in maybe two episodes. And also I'd completely forgotten they actually killed him even though I watched that episode without splitting my attention on anything else.
But he totally shot Midge and Moose and we were teased with them being dead for a week so that counts, right? Mmm...maybe but not really.
So we had nine episodes (plus a summer) of who is the black hood? Why is he killing, what led him to the sorta murder spree, and after awhile we wondered why, oh why, he was obsessed with Betty.
They introduce Svenson, the janitor, and set him up as an obvious red herring. Turns out he has a ~tragic~ backstory involving the murder of his family and then he may or may not have blamed the wrong man who was promptly murdered. Only Archie, who has an excellent memory of what the Hood's eyes looked like, looked dead into Svenson's eyes and knew, without a doubt, it wasn't him.
They didn't even introduce Svenson until like, episode 7 or 8. We get a close up and know he's NOT THE KILLER. But nooooooooo. The finale says he is. I kept waiting for the Hood to kind of appear in some way after the sherriff shot and killed Svenson, even if it was just a shadowy movement but no. And apparently the show runner is claiming that yep, this storyline is over.
No. See, I will totally buy the actual Black Hood made Svenson pretend to be him and attempt to kill Archie and possibly Betty, but I will not buy Svenson as the BH. It doesn't fit with anything they've shown before and it doesn't feel like it was what they were building to, unlike last season's murder mystery. Having Jason's death be at his father's hands over drugs and Jason not wanting to be apart of that actually felt right, despite the fact that I'm not sure we ever actually saw Jason do much apart from give super VC Andrews-y vibes with Cheryl. Show, I will forgive all manner of insanity because you can be entertaining, but when it comes to a murder mystery where you zoom in on the killer's eyes eleventy billion times an episode, no. No I will not accept this BS. You were clearly building to some other resolution and I don't understand why this is the out you've chosen?
In other Riverdale natterings, while you're here: why can't they figure out what to do with Veronica? How have they managed to make the Lodges, probably the most defined of all the adults and definitely the parents (well, Hiram anyway) boring and bland and just... why. I get that Cheryl is busy chewing up all the scenery in town but still, there should be more to Veronica than making out with Archie and occasionally singing with Archie or the Pussycats just whenever. She's Veronica freakin' Lodge. You don't just have her do nothing on a regular basis. She's better than that. And if you can't figure out what to do with her other than have her suck face with Archie or wait around for Betty to be available, then have Betty be available, dammit.
Jughead the Southside Serpent is just a weird thing that my brain freezes and needs to reboot anytime I remember this is Jughead. If nothing else, it does tend to entertain me, though the roping in of Betty isn't necessarily something I like. Or maybe I just think her strip tease at Jughead's father's retirement party, while her mother was there, was just absolutely nuts and not in a fun Cheryl way. But in an "Elizabeth Cooper, I will drag your skanky ass all the way home by your fucking earlobe and then douse you with enough soap that we will all be washed down the Greendale!" is what mama Cooper really would've done and the fact that she didn't and that Betty thought that was the night to strip was just... are you kidding me? Jesus, show. You can tell that there's no one in the writer's room pointing out little things like "maybe don't have the underage character strip in front of parents, particularly her own or her boyfriend's father? Because no?"
But I did snort-cackle-laugh when someone called Betty Sweet Valley High. I'm easily amused.
Speaking of easily amused, I might've caved and bought this Daria shirt. In my defense, my other Daria shirt is stupidly comfy so I'm hoping this one will be as well. Oh, and I also got this sweater though I'm not entirely sure that wasn't the cold medicine doing the shopping. Both were on a better sale when I snagged them because you never pay full price. Never. I do wish they'd share the accessories more between HT and Torrid. Like most of the Sailormoon clothes were and are kind of awful (to me) but I liked the accessories. Naturally, as soon as I bought the sweater the cold weather stopped abruptly and now it's 70 degrees.
Ugh. My cold is finally seeming to move on, but that means I'm at the stage where everytime I cough or blow my nose it's gross. So gross.
My nails have lasted all week, though since I called out last night maybe I shouldn't be praising them quite so much. Still, they're pretty and I did get complimented on them the other night in the midst of all the registers being a complete pain in the arse and not working properly.
Ooh, which reminds me: we're getting all kinds of new makeup at work! They're obviously going to do the cos wall reset soon and it looks like we'll be getting elf cosmetics finally. I've already eyed a couple of things I waaaaaaaaant. I do not like the new Covergirl packaging. It's black and white and boring and even the elf packaging (also black and white) is more interesting. Covergirl... you don't want people looking at your packaging and thinking it looks like it should be in the dollar store. Not when your stuff is creeping up in prices, k? Then again, with Revlon and Almay both having new foundations (that look pretty much identical, down to the sponge tip applicators attached to both) that are just under $20... maybe CG isn't that expensive.