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#god I love Betty she is SO INTERESTING albeit sometimes in a frustrating way (it's all the Calvinism)
arsenicpanda
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Someone needs to write the essay on Betty Cooper, the sins of the father, generational cycles, serial killer genes, and Calvinism
#Riverdale
#Betty Cooper
#not me obviously
#because I don't know enough about Calvinism to go into depth on it
#I just know enough to recognize that Betty's worries about whether or not she is evil
#and how those worries are based on her father and her serial killer genes much more than on her actions
#and how they are wrapped up in some idea of fundamental goodness and 'good' as something you either have always been or have never been
#are very Calvinist concepts
#scholars specializing in Calvinism and its influences on America and American society where are you
#god I love Betty she is SO INTERESTING albeit sometimes in a frustrating way (it's all the Calvinism)
#has she--like the rest of the core four--been flattened as a character? yes obviously
#is the Calvinism getting old? again yes obviously
#but is she still complex and interesting? yes OBVIOUSLY
#I have Betty Cooper brainrot
#she lives in my head rent-free because I do not quite understand her but I want to SO BAD
#I thought I did before but apparently I was wrong and I especially don't post-time skip
#and I just want to pick her apart and put her back together
#in the end Riverdale's success as a show and as a commentary on Archir Comics and America and Americana
#and the darkness under the societal ideal of normality
#rests on where they go with Betty and how they handle her and what her arc ultimately is
#and if they stick the landing on her relationship with societal pressures and norms and boxes
#and the archetype of the perfect girl nextdoor
#my thoughts on Riverdale let me show you them
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