Riverdale's Ending Did Fans Dirty in 5 Big Ways, According to Reddit
These complaints are the biggest.
August 23 marked the end of six years of bizarre, surreal insanity called Riverdale. Starting off as a moody mystery drama in the vein of Twin Peaks, the teen show quickly went off the rails and into a madcap tapestry of all sorts of genres and tropes.
If you liked the recently released finale, good for you. But it looks like most fans believe that Riverdale's finale, and the entire Season 7 for that matter, didn't do justice to the characters and storylines developed in the show's previous six installments. Here are five reasons why, according to fans on Reddit.
5. No connection to the main story
'The original story [was] completely disregarded and treated as minuscule details of their lives,' one Redditor complained.
In Season 7, the characters were moved back to the 1950s and all the storylines concerning the original timeline were left behind. The finale did not provide a resolution to the mysteries set up in the previous installments, so of course, viewers felt cheated and dissatisfied.
4. The core four didn't end up with each other
Okay, so Archie, Betty, Jughead, and Veronica spent their senior year in a polyamorous polycule. This might have looked like an amusing arrangement on paper, but in reality, it just felt like the writers were never able to decide who should stay with whom. In the end, all four characters went their separate ways, leaving the audience heartbroken.
3. Archie's ending is questionable
'If Archie had a wife whom he loved so much, why would he be spending eternity with his high school friends?' the same Redditor wondered.
That question really sums up the point. While the finale clearly suggests that the characters have their whole lives ahead of them, why did Archie have to stay with his teenage friends in the afterlife and not with his beloved?
2. The killer truck trope
Killing off a major character in a story is always a tricky business. And when a character is written out via a car accident, even off-screen, it may indicate either animosity between the producers and the actor, or laziness on the writers' part.
It turns out that Fangs was involved in a fatal car accident while on tour, and fans are not sold on this death.
'Sorry Fangs, I deleted your kid and killed you at 18, NO VARIANCE ALLOWED!' another fan ironized. Seriously, even Tabitha couldn't fix that?
1. They remained in the 1950s
Ultimately, the fandom's main complaint is that the characters remained in the 20th century. While the 1950s setting was more in line with the Archie Comics aesthetic, people were not invested in the new timeline since it only lasted one season.
Source: Reddit.