#actually does anyone without an agenda legit care about most of them outside of b/a?

[thetaoofbetty]

It’s the ships that get all the angst and drama and trials and separations etc that make it in the end, they’re the ones that get the investment and payoff. These filler ships are not getting that.

they're really not.

there's no real conflict and the emotional stakes are near the floor. and people can say whatever but in fiction, those are things that keep the story interesting and keep people invested. the biggest emotional stakes we saw from them were: betty's pregnancy scare which amounted to a pretty serious discussion they never finished (but it's okay, archie is going to propose anyway even tho they still haven't talked about where betty's head is—but i'm sure that means nothing), tabitha knowing jughead had to die in the "battle" to win and doing...nothing? to change it outside of looking sort of sad and accepting it, and toni marrying fangs to keep custody of their baby which ended up not being a problem anyway.

the most communicative couple ended up being veggie and that was because they needed them to break up.

idc what anyone says, none of those couples has the same i would die/kill for you energy the OGs has and that's been an absolute bore to watch. apathetic acceptance and outright avoidance is not what true love is made from. i saw so many posts from b/as about the musical and their insistence that archie would go into overprotective mode and be her shadow 24/7. he sort of drifted in and out of the story as needed. they want him to be like jughead was in high school, punching people for even putting her name in their mouths in a way he doesn't like.

that's not who any of these people are to each other. archie is not the guy who calls betty to warn her and risk the universe. tabitha is not the girl who can't live in a world without jughead. reggie isn't the guy who is always going to respect veronica. and tbh, i don't even feel like the show is writing them like they want me to be invested in them for a payoff. something is definitely missing from all of them.