#rdpost

[indigosfindings]

also i love when tv shows signify that a new scene is immediately post-sex by cutting to a shot of two characters falling face-up into bed next to each other. it always makes me imagine that for them, sex must have taken the form of levitating supine above the mattress shoulder-to-shoulder, staring at the ceiling & not touching or acknowledging each other

[indigosfindings]

every episode of riverdale has a scene where a teen with too much hairstyle confronts a diabolical adult like "listen up bozo, i know you think youre all tough and comfortable running the show & calling the shots. but here's a newsflash for you, you goddamn monster: we're sick and tired of you using our town as your personal junk pool. i will hunt you down and stomp on your world. arrivederci, you bastard" & all throughout this the adult looks completely disarmed, scared shitless, terrified for their life, then two scenes later the adult will walk up to the teen & shoot them in the head point blank with a pump action shotgun. that's the cliffhanger, & the next episode opens with the teen in the hospital recovering from a mild contusion

[indigosfindings]

[indigosfindings]

"im becoming heavier, denser. Also invulnerable" is such a powerful line youd think it was from riverdale, but actually it's the text inscribed on every human's inner eyelids

[indigosfindings]

the RiverdaleVerse also has a recurring play (as early as the first minutes of episode one!) where a straight girl character's Gay Best Friend will see her straight guy love interest and start raving about how he's Soo Hot & whatnot. & like, half the time he just isnt. it feels almost deceptive. like you cant fool me katy keene, your caricaturish gay character cannot manufacture consent for thinking that horribly styled man is attractive

[indigosfindings]

i like how netflix episode summaries are like "john experiences mounting difficulties. rebecca reveals shocking information. marybeth issues a challenge." like what does this tell me, what do i now know about this episode. if i was looking for a specific episode i dont think "hubert learns new information" would really help. might as well say "various humans breathe & stand in this epsiode"

[indigosfindings]

theres this really funny thing riverdale & both its spinoffs do where they make active efforts to like, sexualize male characters while pointedly avoiding sexualizing female ones. & it strikes me as a mix of like, trying to appeal to the expected audience and trying to cultivate a reputation for like Respecting Women & Being Progressive. but then part of the way they try to look Progressive is by depicting women as like, owning their sexuality & being sexually empowered & whatnot. which leads to some strange moments (betty's pole dance scene where her lacy lingerie is like, dark, formless, & unrevealing, and the camera has no interest whatsoever in anything below her shoulders) but also produces this recurring thing where with minimal exception gay man relationships are characterized as like, heated, hyperpassionate, almost animalistic, two guys unable to pry themselves apart, while lesbian ones are comparatively super chaste & restrained & delicate, even sex scenes having the detached & dispassionate air of like, porcelain dolls. Which Brings Its Own Set Of Issues,

[indigosfindings]

im still thinking about the plot point in chilling adventures of sabrina where the EvilGuy is planning to show The Anti-Pope his new planned doctrine for the coven ("women should not have rights") & the conflict/tension is that sabrina has to show her counter-doctrine ("women should have rights") to The Anti-Pope. & she has to race to show it to him first, because if the EvilGuy gets there first then It's All Over. im so amused by imagining the kind of personality that The Anti-Pope would need to have for this to make sense