Just when I was getting intrigued over the mystery they were spinning (and the whole Archie comics gimmick was a mere incidental) they dampen their growing power with what is mostly a filler episode.
Yes, there is lots going on throughout this that is relevant to the over-arching story but that sort of makes it annoyingly difficult to skip.
This self contained narrative of evil jocks sort of comes from nowhere and doesn't seem to have any real baring on anything we've seen so far.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure why it's that big of a deal. They don't give the impression that anything happens that's worse than getting your likeness desecrated and some kiss-and-telling. That's pretty annoying I guess and it's not like I was rooting for the jocks at all but still, I feel insulted that they padded the seasons total runtime so early in the show.
I suppose it was supposed to be a mile stone in Betty and Veronica's relationship. A bonding experience as well as examining how they are merging together which would be a fascinating idea but like so much of this show, feels all wrong against its gimmick of pretending that it's using the Archie Comics characters instead of crude doppelgangers.
That is SO not Jughead.
I suppose they're the characters AFTER they have developed a little beyond their classic form but surely the development FROM that INTO this is the story we should be being told?
Also: why were at least two members of the Josie and the Pussycats replaced? I feel annoyed at this informed attribute that they're supposed to be so brilliant when their music is pretty generic ("Sugar" was a hit from the Archies, not J&Ps) and I don't care for them telling me they had to "claw their way up" and expecting me to just believe them without further evidence.
No way is that why they are named that, don't be insulting.
Yes, there is lots going on throughout this that is relevant to the over-arching story but that sort of makes it annoyingly difficult to skip.
This self contained narrative of evil jocks sort of comes from nowhere and doesn't seem to have any real baring on anything we've seen so far.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure why it's that big of a deal. They don't give the impression that anything happens that's worse than getting your likeness desecrated and some kiss-and-telling. That's pretty annoying I guess and it's not like I was rooting for the jocks at all but still, I feel insulted that they padded the seasons total runtime so early in the show.
I suppose it was supposed to be a mile stone in Betty and Veronica's relationship. A bonding experience as well as examining how they are merging together which would be a fascinating idea but like so much of this show, feels all wrong against its gimmick of pretending that it's using the Archie Comics characters instead of crude doppelgangers.
That is SO not Jughead.
I suppose they're the characters AFTER they have developed a little beyond their classic form but surely the development FROM that INTO this is the story we should be being told?
Also: why were at least two members of the Josie and the Pussycats replaced? I feel annoyed at this informed attribute that they're supposed to be so brilliant when their music is pretty generic ("Sugar" was a hit from the Archies, not J&Ps) and I don't care for them telling me they had to "claw their way up" and expecting me to just believe them without further evidence.
No way is that why they are named that, don't be insulting.