I can understand that they wanted to “explore” ba this season, and I can even understand that they wrote themselves into a corner and went “fuck it, 50s high school reset it is.” (It’s inexcusable for a bunch of people who are doing this professionally, but it’s not like this hasn’t happened before.)
What I CANNOT for the life of me comprehend is why they wrote ba as a series of red flags? Like, the most consistent thread in that relationship all season was them repeatedly bumping up against the fact that they explicitly didn’t want the same things in life, and then ignoring those signs that the relationship isn’t going to work, instead of making any attempt to resolve the differences. Then Archie proposes after the anvil that is his mother saying “yeah we got divorced bc we didn’t want the same things”? And Betty (rightly) tells him he’s not in the right head space, and then turns around and changes her mind 5 minutes later because…she didn’t want a promotion?
Like they could have easily just written a ba relationship that…worked. instead they chose to lobotomize Betty and repeatedly emphasize the fact that they’re incompatible. To what fucking end!?
ETA: i just want to clarify a little bit that i’m not questioning why they flattened out Betty’s character to make the ship happen. i’m questioning why they made explicit - as in, made the characters themselves state out loud! - the very fundamental cracks in the relationship only to continue forcing it to progress without ever addressing how the two of them might bridge those gaps.
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